Rock Valley Drops Opener at Le Mars 10 5
Rock Valley baseball opened the season with a 10 to 5 loss at Le Mars. Le Mars pitcher Jones and Danish issued eight walks, leading to five unearned runs. Key moments included Larson and Wittgen homers, and Rock Valley’s Joe Blair also homered, but the Orioles built a six run lead before holding on as Rock Valley rallied in spots.
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Rock Valley
LE Mars
le Mars Orioles
Jones
California
Wiligen
Honuald
Larson
Joe Blair
S. Bergsma
McNelly
Oriole
Faber
Wittgen
Reuter
Farnum Andelili
Grant
Glaze
Abate
Bud Danish
Achatz
Wessels
Cee Ge
Cou
Rock Valery
Orioles
Eigth
Honnard
Vander Wall
Burns
Jerror
Bob Faber
Iit
Algoma Brownie
Rock Valley Ab
Aly Po
ABOVA
Weather Notes and Small Town Life Reflections
A local weather report hints at light frosts and upcoming showers while residents share letters from distant places. A robin nests near a new school, workers and firemen respond to a false alarm at the park, and an old shepherd tale contrasts with the town’s reliable firefighters who stand ready for any real emergency.
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Weath
Dena Vander Sanden
San Bernardino
Calif
California
Cedar Street
San Bernardito
Ile
Eight years of growth and debt shadow the era
The Le Mars Sentinel notes a long eight year span from 1932 to 1940 marked by record spending, many projects, and rising taxes. It contrasts large infrastructure and employment gains with an unresolved national debt of 40,062,945.19 and year end deficit of 2,892,349,506.41.
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United States
le Mars Sentinel
Bright Son Young Oscar Office Boy Exam Jokes
A humorous note shows Oscar failing to recall the sun’s distance from Earth yet declaring it won’t interfere with his office boy duties. The anecdote ends with him landing the job. Also a quip from Telephone Topics about high costs of necessities in isolated parts and drinkability.
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Oscar
Unfortunate Plight at Charity Ball Negotiations
A humorous dialogue fragment features Betty seeking marriage prospects and a boy named George confirming his charity ball director role. Betty wonders about marriage and old maid status, then pleads for a ticket and a dress suit as relief, revealing social expectations and comic tension in a small community.
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Betty
Susan
George
Higher Mathematics Farmer Joke Card
A farmer quips that counting sheep to sleep backfired as he counted ten thousand and shipped them to market, realizing losses before dawn and then rising to milk the cows.
No Place for Him Excited Patient Captured in Dialogue
A patient urges to leave a hospital ward while a nurse and a doctor with a short temper try to calm or restrain him. The exchange reveals tension as the patient complains and seeks escape from the troubling environment.
Curving Silhouettes and the Art of Shadow Portraits
The piece traces silhouette history from Etienne de Silhouette in 1709 France to Edouart in 1826 naming the art. It notes earlier European use of black cut profiles on porcelain and England's rise to prominence with Edouart's portrait series.
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Etienne de Silhouette
France
Alice R. Rollins
Los Angeles Times
Edouart
Europe
Sevres
England
For Sale and Want Ads
White pigs six weeks old listed by Benny Brands twelve miles north of Rock Valley. Pop Corn Machine for sale in good condition by H Stehrenberg. Shoe polish at Ver Malm Shoe Shop with all kinds and colors. Wells driller repaired by The Alton Cement Works Your Water Merchant Alton. 528 Wolverine Shoes offer shoes at 2.75 and up. Wolverine Shoes advertised with low price.
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Benny Brands
Rock Valley
H. Stehrenberg
Alton Cement Works
Alton
Polo to the Sioux City Horse Show at Riverview Park
A Mongpial Day event in Sioux City features a horse show sponsored by Sioux City Saddle and Hunt. Committee chair M J on and members D W Versteren Helen Hannum Al Sack Roy Wanfield A C Cooper B F Schoeneman H A Jacobsen I D Benson completed plans. Entry anticipated from Nebraska South Dakota and Iowa with no entrance fee. Applications via A C Cooper Sioux Apartments Sioux City Iowa.
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Sioux Pole
Sioux City Saddle and Hunt Sub.a
M. J
D. W. Versteren
Helen Hannum
al Sack
Roy Wanfield
A. C. Cooper
B. F. Schoeneman
H. A. Jacobsen
I. D. Benson
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Tn A. C. Cooper
Sioux Apartments
Sioux City
Towa
Evert
Shrine White Horse Mounted Patrol Featured At Show
Lions City invites horses and enthusiasts to an afternoon show starting 1:30 P M with general admission. Entry classes include saddle horses for children and adults. a capacity crowd is expected with Milo McIntyre handling publicity.
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White Horse Mounted Patrol
Lions City
Milo McIntyre
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Ember Federal Deposit Insurance. Corporation
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W. B. Peterson
Riverview Park
Board of Direcors
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Ford
Ford Wynia & Dykstra
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Ployer
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