This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1931
Page
2
The notice lists subscription prices: $1.60 per year in advance, 15 cents per month for under one year, and $2.00 per year in advance for outside Story, Hamilton and Hardin Counties. Foreign subscriptions are $2.50 per year. Advertising costs include 10 cents per line for readers and a 50 cent card of thanks. Display rates available on request.
Alden State Bank directors yielded management to the Iowa Banking Department after a clash over lending on chattel and farm mortgages to aid communities. The bank could pay a 40 percent cash dividend within 24 hours, and the controversy may shape future agricultur al lending and trigger legislative action. Eldora Herald notes the issue could improve rural financial conditions if decided in favor of the bank.
Mille Lacs County Times notes six Minneapolis job printing firms were consolidated, five broke. The cheap printers undercut country towns, harming home town printers. Roland Record offers extra copies at five cents each.
Reading list includes Conley, Marcia Egenes, Siauskins, Hauptly, Hegland and many others across grades one to eight. The note mentions dental honor roll additions, teacher visits, a senior play Sonny Jane, geography studies, bird projects, letters awarded for football and basketball, and upcoming May move to Ames.
A humorous exchange recalls a wedding custom where the groom kissed the bride after the ceremony, but the groom’s kiss came two years later, prompting amused questions about the tradition.
Grace Robinson reports in Liberty Magazine that the Izapotec Indians of Tehuantepec Mexico have women who lead daily life and authority. Women trade in markets and handle police and priestly duties while men stay home. The piece notes women's tall bearing from head carries and contrasts men as weaker.
The New York Sun describes a new role in hotels where a professional hospitality critic sleeps, eats, dances, and is shampooed at the hotel's expense to evaluate guest service. The critic must spend a year as a guest with a trained eye on hospitality, aiding the hotel with fresh ideas and services.
Garden City club held its annual business meeting last Thursday to discuss finances and elect officers for the year Amos Friest chaired the session and read the expense bill Ole T Olson was chosen manager and Amos Friest assistant manager The field captain selection will occur after team tryouts. City news notes visitors deaths and local events fill the remainder of the item.
Modern Mechanics Magazine notes ancient methods for telling time from the water clock and sundial to the hour glass and calendar stone. The first alarm clock emerged after gunpowder with a sundial directing sunlight to ignite a fuse. Differences hinge on using natural indications versus mechanical systems.
The text explains that color blindness usually affects both eyes with normal eye function and is often hereditary. It notes complete color blindness is mainly acquired through optic nerve atrophy, while congenital cases exist. It states color blindness cannot be corrected and usually confuses red and green, with other colors正常.
The text explains how telephone companies divide cities into sections each with thousands of subscribers and a named telephone city such as Columbia or Potomac. Local calls stay within the city central and long distance uses trunk lines to reach the proper city central before connecting to the subscriber.
Myth describes the Delphic Oracle with the priestess Pythia seated on a tripod over a rock crevice. Vapors believed to be Apollo's breath influenced her utterances, recorded by priests as verse. Delphi in Phocis Greece sits on Mount Parnassus’ southern slope.
The article describes Arab burial practices where a native’s body is placed in a cheap pine box and carried by friends through village streets to the burial ground. Processions form with repeated coffin bearers and little ceremony as the coffin is lowered into the grave amid chatter and greetings.
Two Scottish men decide to shun drink but keep one bottle of whisky for illness in the cupboard. After three days Sandy claims he is ill, only to be told by McGregor that he was ill the day before.
A classroom moment shows a teacher dismissing a student remark about evolution. Johnny claims descent from apes, but the teacher says private family matters are not of interest to the class.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.