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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1931
Page
2
A farmer near Lake Mills Iowa shows how taxes rose from 1900 to 1980 using barter equivalents. In 1900 taxes cost 67.13 dollars worth of goods. by 1930 they reached 503.67 dollars. In 1980 the same tax burden required 2014 bushels of oats or 1007 of corn, 7631 pounds of hogs, 1526 pounds of butterfat, or 4578 dozens of eggs.
A Jewell teacher was terrified by a second floor window intruder last week. Des Moines bloodhounds aided the search but the prowler was not caught. Two masked men raided Louie Winter’s Buckeye area home on Good Friday injuring a daughter, with valuables untouched. Ames residents push to block a McLaughlin Construction camp for highway No. 15, fearing nuisance to children. Maxwell bank, Farmers State Bank, opens after absorbing State Bank of Maxwell and Peoples State Bank assets to resolve local banking issues.
The piece surveys theories behind the military phrase give quarter and spare life. It traces ideas from De Brieux about ransom quarters to the camp quartering concept and a peace meaning, noting Oxford dictionary cautions on anachronism.
A London Mail item notes Danish publishers push libraries to pay double price to lend books while most readers prefer borrowing. It cites the Duke of Somerset as history’s greatest borrower, who took all books from the London Guildhall library and never returned them, with a manuscript from the collection later found.
An Edinburgh Journal note recounts the North Water bridge over the North Esk near Montrose built around 1780. Eggs costing about one penny per dozen were added to mortar, with hundreds of dozens brought from Fettercairn and nearby areas to increase tenacity and durability of the bridge.
Pathfinder Magazine explains centers of population as the balance point of a population on a plane, assuming equal weight for each unit and a uniform U S map. It describes the center of gravity as the point where the plane would balance on a single support.
An interviewer asked J P Morgan whether his country estate life outweighed the travel to his New York office. He answered that country life pays dividends in rest and health, but its greatest asset is the people you don’t meet.
Mark Atkinson landlord of the Kirkstone inn issued deathbed instructions to cremate his body and bury it in the highest grave in England atop Kirkstone Pass at 2,500 feet, with his mountain pony Billie to do no more work after carrying the ashes to the grave.
Two businessmen meet on the street and chat about home life. One asks how things are at the other’s house and learns “she’s all right” as he walks away, in a casual urban exchange.
Claire and Jimmy Betts, theater children, pursue a film break in New York and Texas. A chance encounter with director Graham Fielder in a roadster leads to a six month contract, a stage wedlock on hold as they chase a studio breakthrough.
The district lists six weeks honor roll across first to eighth grades with many named students.Updates include dental honor roll additions in fourth grade and eighth grade review for county exams, plus notes on an English reply exchange with Roosevelt Mason City and a hospital stay for Willard Christianson. The Junior class staged "High Fliers" to a capacity crowd, praised as a credit to the class and sponsor.
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce states one station supports 72 cars with a total of 820 thousand filling stations nationwide.
The City of Los Angeles was founded by Spaniards in 1781 and named La Puebla de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles. The English rendering is The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels.
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