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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1929
Page
10
A vintage advertisement extols Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a universal sweetener that helps children with acid stomachs and bad breath. It claims the product neutralizes acidity better than harsher remedies and emphasizes its medical endorsement and long trademark history since 1876.
An old column extols wholesome meals, praising rice as delectable when well cooked. It details Chocolate Rice pudding with milk, cocoa, sugar and vanilla baked in a dish. Rice with lemon juice and figs. Rica Fluff with milk sugar vanilla and egg white. Rice Surprise with fruit and jelly. and a New Cabbage Salad dressed with sweet cream and vinegar, served cold.
A reader decries an American heiress who publicly bonds with a dissipated Spanish prince, detailing long interviews, marriages, money talks, and tensions with his family. The writer argues for privacy, condemns the public airing of personal affairs, and calls for legal limits on such disclosures. The letter defends a woman's right to pursue happiness but condemns the sensational public display.
The control bar used by pilots to move ailerons and flippers is named joystick after its inventor Joyce, an English aeronautical engineer, dating to the pioneer days of aviation per Popular Meubinnles Magazine.
A poetic meditation on the meaning of a day. The speaker contrasts the fleeting nature of time with the idea that each person lives only in their present day. It suggests that greatness is measured by today rather than by years or past deeds.
Harving King explains a common superstition that rooster crowing signals company or a traveler approaching. He traces origins to ancient myth where the cock symbolized vigilance and Mercury, and notes how modern farmers retain the superstition without the explanation.
A reader chronicles a journey from Ohio to Memphis, noting Indiana Missouri and Arkansas along the way. Paring gas prices and souvenir spoons at a movie, plus a state fairgrounds horse track, frame a traveler’s day while Fred Barton copies the moment.
Azwas the giant six-foot ape weighing 400 pounds, once exhibited in a Rochester park, died after refusing food as his daily banana intake plummeted. Owner Meyer Aaron valued him at $20,000. authorities say he was neither gorilla nor chimpanzee, yet the lone example of his kind ever captured.
Potential water power in Ozark streams of south Missouri is estimated at 600000 horsepower.
A fragment quotes a stranger in Paris about language barriers and a crowd of youths. The speaker likens the scene to a noisy house with people exchanging a clever but unclear quip. The passage also hints at distrust of a quack doctor and skepticism about spending money.
Mr. R F Myers of 711 Rosedale Street Baltimore says a physician advised Najol a simple way to clean poisons from the system and since using it his business has jumped fifty percent. The product is described as harmless lubrication not a medicine and is sold in sealed packages at drug stores.
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