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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1930
Page
5
Riverside resident Roy G. Miller reports a mother cat at the Earl Marshal place has added two baby rabbits to her litter. The cats nurse four kittens while caring for the rabbits in a manger in the Marshal barn. The unusual family appears content and growing rapidly with no discord.
W E Nelson of Town State College reports tests on white rats comparing butter to substitutes. Rats given basic ration with butter weighed 149 grams, while those fed substitutes weighed 55 grams. A control group on basic ration with no fat weighed 61 grams.
A Fayette County examination notes marl as a crumbly clay and calcium carbonate fertilizer. A new marl bed opened on Charles Billmeyer timber tract near Eldorado. County Agent Lodiwick reports a test showing 87.5 percent purity and notes its use to improve legume growth through calcium carbonate content.
Local timetable lists through Rock Valley routes for Fastwardee Passenger No 4 to Spencer Des Moines Mason City Marquette Savannah Clinton Sioux Flyer No 22 Daly A186 to Sheldon Spencer Des Moines Mason City Madison Milwaukee Chicago Westward Sioux Fleet No 71 daily Canton Sioux Falls Mitchell North Black Hills Passenger No 3 daily to Mitchell Paints north 7124 PM OMT No emissions for Sioux Falls. Train No 4 east tickets, baggage handling, and sleeping car reservations advised. W Jacobs, Agent. Phone 15.
Local blacksmith John Kersberger invites customers to bring their week’s work for repair and fitting services. He offers general smithing, harnessing, and related metalwork at his shop, promising prompt, reliable service.
An old Rothschild display of maxims lists rules for ambitious youths. The sayings advise detailing work, promptness, careful judgment, integrity, patience, courage, and avoiding vice while cultivating virtue, decorum, and self control.
Passing Show describes an antique inn in Walnighem radiating old world charm. The narrator imagines highwaymen and duels as swords hang over a grand mantel while lifeless wind-swayed skeletons in the garden haunt the scene. A woman dismissed stockings from the line as a door slammed.
Bullfrog like Ranadsfersa mice eater arrives at the London 200 from South Africa where it swallows small animals. An archeologist notes many caves in England remain unexplored with promising finds. Derbyshire has newly examined caves yielding bones of cave bears and elk antlers from a tall giant elk.
ACME DRAY Line DRAYING AND TEAM work Sand and Gravel Delivered JOHN VANDER POEL Prep. DR. C. J. SCHROEDER DENTIST Rock Valley, Iowa. Phone '53 We have considerable private money to loan. If in need of a farm T can come in and see us.-D. J. Scan lan & Son. I will pay spot cash for any live oak lost or injured while only auk-Earl Hayden.
A girl at Bordeans suffers inverted facial responses causing laughter amid tears and tears amid laughter. Doctors deem the condition incurable though she remains otherwise normal. Her expressions betray contrasting emotions, with smiling masking sadness and tearful amusement showing the opposite.
The Sphere reproduces a picture of the Spiral nebula in Ursa Major known as The Plough. Astronomers reduce vast distances to light rears a unit of six million million miles. The Plough lies about 2,000,000 light rears away, meaning the observed light left the nebula two million years ago.
Eastern tourists visiting Somerset Wisconsin discuss road quality with a Swede proudly noting fine roads in Jefferson and Lincoln counties while ranking Roosevelt and the Frenchman De Tour as having the worst roads seen.
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