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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1935
Page
2
The great timber wolf that hunted hills south of Dedham Carroll county Iowa for seven years and killed livestock was killed by buckshot. Young Raymond Carpenter pursued on a fast horse and killed the 50 pound gray wolf with six buckshot charges after a two mile chase. It was the largest wolf ever killed in Carroll county.
An advertisement promises quick relief from tender stomach pains between meals caused by acidity indigestion and heartburn. It claims a money back refund and cites Dr. Ennis and H. H. Pember Drugstore as sourcing entities.
A loose newspaper fragment surveys persistent cloudiness and sun, then shifts to politics with a Senate vote on extending NRA ten months. Local anecdotes include a dog-owner warning, road conditions, a shoe mishap tale, and calls to use soldiers loan funds to boost circulation.
The piece discusses a spike in bank robberies including an 8500 theft at LeMars Savings Bank observed by 100 bystanders. It suggests public and government inaction and compares current woes to unrest a century ago with a letter from a French observer lamenting rapid change, high prices, and uncertain futures for his son in medicine and republics.
Frank Fitzloff of Spencer Iowa starts two frog farms using breeding stock from Louisiana. The swamp frogs weigh about three pounds when full grown and are aimed at meeting strong eastern market demand with good prices.
Marvin Vos 21 of Sibley told the sheriff he was fired upon while passing a parked large sedan near Sibley. He displayed a hat with a bullet hole and said others in the road fired three bullets, one through his hat and two through the car door. He recalled a similar crowding attempt a week earlier by a car on the same stretch.
M. M. Rickles, owner of a museum at Iowa Falls, Iowa, reports a shipment of a dozen poisoned arrows from the South Seas. The weapons, tipped with venom from a poisonous snake, came with warnings to handle carefully. The package also includes a bow and arrows from Zanzibar, whale bone gear from China, and a seven foot bow with a snake quiver from the South Seas.
Dean Sheridan Jones of Ellsworth junior college reports a feud among freshmen and sophomores at the Iowa campus. The main sidewalk was daubed with bright red paint bearing the message All freshmen are Sissies and the rest can't take it. The paint was removed but the culprit remains at large.
A quotation notes no man is wholly good and if perfectly bound by law his life would still merit ten changes. The aphorism reflects on human fallibility and the limits of strict moral code guiding action. The speaker emphasizes humility before judgment and the inevitability of reform.
C A Walhof attorney at law and L A Lock physician practice in Rock Valley Iowa list office contact numbers. John M Bobeldyk general blacksmithing plow work welding at the Kersbergen Shop is noted.
Peter Da Simei advertises a Fordson tractor with a 4 2 bottom plow and pulley for sale. Item appears in a local classifieds listing likely from May 11. Contact details not provided in the fragment.
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