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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1930
Page
4
Market quotations from local dealers at eight oclock this morning list Corn No 2 shelled at 86 Oats No 3 white at 31 Butter Creamery at 88 Eggs No 1 at 21 Eggs No 2 at 12 Heavy Hens over 4 lbs at 16 Light and Leghorn Hens and Cocks prices not given Local dealers will not buy poultry that is exceptionally thin diseased or full crop Poultry delivered prices noted.
Slater honors Oleg Nelson by naming the city park Nelson Park on his 86th birthday. The town council confirmed the action, paying tribute to Slater’s “Grand Old Man” in a community ceremony.
Des Moines announces a free 100 acre camp on the Iowa State Fair grounds to serve visitors during the State Fair and Exposition. The site opens August 18, offers electric lights city water and modern sanitary facilities for guests from forty states expected to exceed 35,000 visitors.
The 1890 Iowa State Fair features a $20,000 harness and running race series with over 300 horses. The affair opens Saturday August 23 and runs through Thursday August 28 on the Des Moines track. Two days of national championship automobile racing are also scheduled for Friday August 22 and Friday August 29.
A young girl, eager for a baby, tells her mother she wants one and discovers a neighbor claim of a baby for a dollar down and a dollar a week. The tale ends with the father ready to respond as he weighs the odd scheme and the moral behind it.
A Los Angeles Times excerpt critiques a professor's claim that men share more house duties. It argues instead that wives have reduced domestic labor by eating out or living in multiple apartments, with automation turning housework into a mere button push.
Dane Hans Christian Oersted helped lay foundations for electric telegraphy. He and others explored galvanic effects on magnets, with Laplace, Ampere, Schilling and more advancing telegraphic applications. The first electric telegraph patent was issued in 1837 to Wheatstone and Cooke.
In 1909 Lord Lonsdale created a belt system to elevate boxing bouts. He donated a $2,500 leather and enamel belt per weight, awarded to fighters who win the title three times. By 1924 eleven belts had been won outright and eight were still contested.
Governor general Raphael Antonetti said medical advances prevented a population wipeout from sleeping sickness in French Equatorial Africa. He noted births remained steady while deaths due to disease still outpaced them until 1921 when authorities intensified action against sleeping sickness and tropical infections.
The tower of Habel at Ur in Mesopotamia Valley has vanished. The base measured 300 by 400 feet and it rose 300 feet to a shrine at the top. A smaller Zigsuret tower at Ur, sister to the Babel tower, measured 15 by 180 feet at the base and exceeded 150 feet in height.
Kidnapped Jack H. Smith of Los Angeles declares his stance in the new thought arena. He says many men would remain bachelors if their wives did not resist the idea of lifelong partnership.
Gregory, a writer staying at a mountain cabin, befriends Kate Taylor known as the best sister. Their quiet days include coffee, lunch, and work, ending with Gregory proposing marriage as Kate reveals she feels the same.
A Hillsboro News-Herald item describes a dog that hides behind a tree and darts out at passing cars. The dog then chases a block before returning to repeat the routine, showcasing its seemingly smart but dangerous game.
Australia has less than 9,000 miles of coastline, about three-fourths that of Norway, despite its land area being nearly twenty-five times larger.
Edna Boddy and Wilbur R. Thorson wed August 6 at 2:30 pm in Iowa Falls family home setting. Edna Boddy, daughter of R. J. Boddy, graduated from Iowa Falls and Hillsdale colleges. Wilbur Thorson, son of T. S. Thorson, holds degrees from Iowa Falls and Iowa State, now state line district electrical supervisor for Consumers Power in Hudson, Minnesota. After a three week honeymoon to Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, and Denver, they will reside in Hudson.
A brief notice invites readers to telephone or mail news items to the Record, providing the city desk extension 104 for submissions.
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