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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1931
Page
2
A nostalgic 1931 piece reflects on the Culver house once famed in the community now vacant with a To Rent sign. The author contrasts its elegant past with current neglect and notes the owner Grant’s shrewd business sense in improving goods before sale.
A parade of city vignettes from New York shows workers hoisting a steel girder while spectators gaze. anecdotes feature Charles Hanson Towne, A E Thomas, and others from Louisville and beyond, plus a tale of a girl misreading shipboard cries and a Town Hall club celebrating its tenth anniversary.
The piece features a sharp black and white street wear look with a flared bertha collar edged by a narrow ermine band. The detailing adds a fresh, distinctly new note to the outfit.
A small man with a big derby on a Detroit bus angers the driver by inserting a dime into the fare gadget. The conductor confronts him at the Link Bridge asking if he tried to short the fare. The man denies knowing who inserted the coin as tension rises aboard the crowded coach.
A speaker mentions studying coins and a dime dated 1802. The item is valued at about thirty dollars, and the speaker plans to keep it.
Seattle police paused their murder hunt when the county coroner said a human skull found in a yard by the county hospital was part of a doctor's display and dated fifteen years ago, while a rib nearby was from an animal.
In East Brookfield Massachusetts Podunk is described as a long standing local symbol of humor. The article notes Podunk's 265 year history tracing to a permanent Indian village during Massasoit’s era and its involvement in King Philip War. Population is about 200.
Sing Sing announces the opening of its school of penology inside the prison walls. The program trains about 200 keepers to be courteous in court and versatile like a major domo, aiming to improve conduct and procedure within the facility.
The article notes Francis Ouimet becoming president of the Boston Bruins amid humorous remarks on a drill by guards. It mentions Sergt. Fetsler teaching door security, medical staff lectures by Bleakley Coyne Champlin and Dr Sweet, Major Fitzgerald on gunnery, and Warden Lawes on conduct. Radios for Police Cars Oklahoma City plans to equip its police and fire cars with radios.
Deputy Commissioner Dr V Branham opened the school with a lecture on its purpose. The comprehensive course spans topics from etiquette to medicine and military arbitration, presented as a month long curriculum. In the cell blocks inmates reportedly reacted with loud guffaws at the unusual program.
A family doctor recommends Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to keep bowels open during colds. The remedy is described as non gripa and non sicken, with laxative herbs and para pepsin, aiding elimination of souring wastes.
Irving Bullard spoke at a Boston dinner about Wall Street decline. A forger narrates hard luck and the teller of a night club tale wonders how a slump can wipe out a signature. The story blends stock drama with comic asides from a Detroit Free Press ad and a Pathfinder Magazine joke about brains in science.
The butcher laments ongoing price hikes in meat, complaining about costs and nailing down a remedy with a call for a tieker to curb expenses.
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