Professor Arey and Iowa aviation notes
The article honors Prof. M. F. Arey of State Teachers College Cedar Falls for planting diverse Iowa native trees and specimens on campus. It cites a US Commerce report: 154 airplanes in Iowa, 112 licensed, 42 unapproved. 229 licensed pilots and 138 licensed mechanics. It also mentions airplane tournaments, per pound passenger pricing, and farm paper publishers offering tattoo devices to identify chickens by indelible ink to curb chicken stealing.
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M. F. Arey
State Teachers College At
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Arey
United States Department of Commerce
Department
The Sabbath Rest and God’s Creative Word
A devotional reflection on Genesis 1 and 2 praising God’s six days of creation and the seventh day of rest. The author, J. Gritter, urges readers to contemplate the sacredness of Sabbath rest and its lasting blessing for humanity. The piece invites prayer for divine blessing on these sketches about the Sabbath.
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Ior
J, Gritter
Long Lived English Poet Laureates Ride Prosy Tide
English poet laureates have tended to long lives with modest poetic esteem. Among the office holders Alfred Austin Colley Cibber Ben Jonson and Dryden are noted, with Cibber’s 87 years the record. King Edward disliked Austin’s poetry and questioned renewing his appointment amid a note to Lord Salisbury about trash in the laureate’s verses.
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England
Bridges
Taco
Alfred Austin
Eipyson
Wordsworth
Hiure
Ben Jonson
Dryden
Colley Cibber
Colley
Cibber
Edward
Alfred—Austin
Austin
Lord Salisbury
Salisbury
Sir Sidney Lee
Paper shower idea for welcoming guests at height
The St Louis Glebe Democrat promotes the skyscraper paper shower as a festive pageantry. It suggests pioneers of the gesture and envisions rose leaf simulacra of paper in crimson pink and yellow with silver and gold stars to celebrate heroes and joyful guests.
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St. Louis Glebe-Democrat
Proof of Friendship ends in charity patient accusation
A mysterious caller to a sanitarium superintendent accuses a charity patient of fraud, claiming the man has $400 in one bank and $600 in another plus a bungalow in Waukegan, and warns to hide his clothes before billing him. The superintendent probes the caller’s identity as a close friend of the accused.
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Chiqueried
Waukegan
Chicago Evening Post
Boots That Last A Week Prompt Shopping Feat
A comic scene shows an Irish husband and wife shopping for boots. Misled by Sige Pat the Irishman agrees to accompany his wife to a boot shop. The wife spots a “Last Seven Days” card and proposes buying, while the husband frets that the boots may not outlast a week.
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Sige Pat
Jamesy
Pat
Martha
London
Legends of New Brunswick and Gluskap Hero Tales
New Brunswick, Canada’s maritime province, figures in early French settlement stories and Evangeline era history. Indigenous legends recount Gluskap’s rise as a hunter who defeated a giant beaver threatening the land, earning him tribal leadership.
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New Brunswick
Canada
Maritime
Evangeline
Gluskap
Uoen
Truce Talk at Anzac Marred by Mocking Call
In Gallipoli Memories Compton Mackenzie recounts a clash during a high level discussion between British and Turkish officers over an eight hour truce to bury dead. A tent on Anzac beach was suddenly opened and a New Zealander or Australian batman shouted a crude question about a stolen kettle.
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Compton Mackenzie
Gallipol
Anzac
Batman
Rock Valley posts beauty boom and pheasant pull
In Rock Valley a surge of local women and girls shows enhanced appearances from the new Rock Valley Beauty Shop run by Miss Hensing. Hunters anticipate a hot Saturday as pheasants face a tough season with calls for stronger ammo and local joke stories circulate about birds and hawks.
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Rock Valley
Marcelles
Hensing
Rock V Alley
Smallpox Cases Rising in Iowa Counties
The Iowa state health bulletin reports a rising smallpox problem across numerous counties. In the first eight months of 1930 there were 2,813 cases, prompting officials to urge vaccination as a simple painless preventive, with emphasis on vaccinating every one year old and revaccinating at school entry.
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Iowa
Iowa State Department of
Health
State Department
Indian blood stirs football at Iowa Ames Drake relays
Indian perseverance heats up football as two major teams Iowa City and Ames face players of mixed heritage. The Oklahoma Aggies and Kansas Agricultural College teams include mixed blood athletes, and Drake relays see Oklahoma sprinters who are partly Indian.
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Iowa City
Ames
Oklahoma
Ags
Kansas Agricultural College
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