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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1930
Page
10
A town mayor highlights public virtue at home while concealing vices when away. The narrator recounts personal smoking habits and a school principal’s reaction, illustrating hypocrisy and the pressure to be seen as upright. A dance incident ends with police involvement after drinking.
A dean recounts a night disruption caused by students at the city campus. He admits attempting to quiet the group while Ike the police officer arrives. Allen shows little concern for the incident, focusing instead on keeping the affair out of darkness.
In Salinas California Miss Mickle, twenty, cut off her right arm to remove an offense she claimed to God. She was hospitalized after the act and offered no remorse describing it as a religious ecstasy and murderously impelled impulse. Her family cites a nervous breakdown as a possible cause.
A regular passenger air line between Tashkent and Moscow has begun operation linking at one end with the Tashkent Samarkand Kabu line and at the other with the Moscow Bar lin Paris route establishing a direct air connection between Europe and the near East over Russia and Soviet Turkestan.
Raja Shivaji, a Bhil robber chieftain in Khandesh, defies 750 police across three districts. He taxes villages, raids for property, and has killed a constable and publicly thrashed another. A 5,000 rupee reward remains unclaimed as he hides in Satpura’s forests.
In Greater New York there are 1,305,980 telephones handling about 8,000,000 calls daily. The piece notes how businesses, brokerage houses, hotels, stores, and social life rely on the phone, with people increasingly exchanging messages during the day. The author considers potential chaos if the system failed and cites anecdotes about stammering, darkness, and remarks on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
The column muses on Lindbergh’s fame causing train crowding, bats sensing danger, and a steamship practice that uses youths from inland towns as travel ambassadors. It notes North Carolina’s 198 public water systems serving 900000 people, about 30 percent of the state population.
Arson squids are organized across Oklahoma amid a campaign to cut incendiary fires and improve safety. Officials say coordinated efforts involve local agencies and community volunteers working to deter arson and respond quickly.
An advertisement urges parents to use California Vig Syrup to cleanse the bowels and improve energy in children from age three to twelve. It claims relief from constipation, biliousness, and illnesses, with testimonials from Mrs. Bu Mayer of Dallas praising its effects on her son Danny.
A fragmentary quote describes a man named Noyle reacting to an attempted kiss. The text appears as a casual, indeterminate conversation line without clear context or attribution. Further detail is needed to establish scope and source reliability.
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