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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1930
Page
2
A fragment from a writing attributed to Walter Trumbull Y notes a moral about consequences. The text mentions a young person who goes astray and hints at eventual reckoning returning after delays. The readable portion is incomplete.
A collage recounts a Penn halfback Carlsten demotion and quitting, a detective aided ex-convicts who reformed into a manufacturing leader, a Guardsman who earned DSC and Croix de Guerre yet sought belonging, and Balchen on thrills versus duty. Hydrated lime used against cabbage clubroot.
Edmond Du Pont, heir of the Wilmington Du Ponts, is learning the oil and gas business from the bottom up. He is employed as a laborer in the Paola Kansas gas fields, while his father Francis J. Du Pont is noted as a stockholder in iron and chemical ventures.
The article highlights Alice McPherridge as a top beauty winner among participants at a Texas State Fair pageant. It then profiles a Du Pont relative who left Oxford after three years to join Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line in Paola, describing his onward entry into the gas field, his modesty about family name, and his aim to learn the natural gas pipe line business from the ground up.
Dean of Men at Hingis Univ laments open frankness in modern society. He cites public smoking and intimate grooming as declining manners, noting women smoke and groom in public, chapel, trains, and restaurants. An audit shows Wisconsin farms earned $85,584 in 1929.
The record notes that a young Du Pont plans a possible three to four month stay before following his employers’ directions. Since arriving at Yuola he retires to his room after supper, spends evenings reading and in correspondence, does not go out at night, and is punctual for work each morning.
The Philippines, distant U S possession, holds 7082 islands with over 2000 named. Its area rivals Arizona and population tops ten million. Civilization and sanitation after American control have boosted commerce and trade in recent years.
Dr D W Morehouse president of Drake University and astronomy professor says publicity around planetariums is boosting popular interest in astronomy. He notes many mistaken beliefs about stars and meteors, and cites growing newspaper use of science stories and a large astronomy class as signs of popularity.
Wartime reminiscences recount Lieut Morrell Tomlin of the 124th field artillery seeking combat in 1918 and his friend Capt Casey, plus a June 4 1918 Atlantic City parade interrupting lifeboat rescue drama after the torpedoing of the New York and Porto Rico liner Carolina. An incident in Belgium and Russia relief work is also noted by Lieut Carleton G Bowden of the American intelligence service.
France's finest musical museum at the national conservatory draws only 50 visitors last year, making it unprofitable to charge admission or hire ticket sellers.
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