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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1929
Page
4
Market Quotations from local dealers at eight o'clock this morning list No 2 shelled corn No 3 white oats and butter prices for creamery and farmers, poultry delivered prices for springs heavy hens young and old roosters ducks and geese. Dealers will not buy unusually thin or diseased poultry with full crops.
The Bergen Ladies Aid marks its fiftieth anniversary with a meeting invitation on August twenty ninth. Rev Smedal attends and speaks as the group honors its past while raising funds for a new organ and debt repayment through gifts from members and supporters.
A Story City concert at St. Petri Lutheran Church next Sunday August 25 at 7 45 p m features Professor Theodore Nickel organ and piano and Mrs Carolyn Jacobson Moe soprano and piano from Luther College Decorah Iowa Admission is free but a free will offering will be collected to support the performers Nickel a Leipzig conservatorium graduate is acclaimed on piano and organ Moe a Chicago Conservatory graduate is praised for her piano and soprano talents
Visitors may view the canning plant during daytime hours while evenings are avoided to prevent inconvenience. Marshall Canning Co is asking for cooperation, with J. J. Thompson, Superintendent, signaling the notice.
Margarete Steiff of Germany created a toy bear from leftover material for a child. Richard Steiff later saw commercial potential and moved bears to market. George Burgfeldt & Co. imported them in 1902. A Roosevelt hunting cartoon by Clifford Berryman sparked the nickname Teddy Bear, popularized as the mascot in Pathf finder Magazine.
The British post office officials are capable and obliging and if anyone should lose himself, he can go to the nearest post office and mail himself home. An express messenger is sometimes given charge of a person and asks him to his destination, where he obtains a receipt. The charges, based upon the distance traveled, are quite moderate. If you merely wish to prove that a bearer has been posted, there is no need to register it. The post office will supply you with a certificate of posting for a cent. If you miss the last collection, ring up the head post office of the district, dictate the letter, and it will be written and sent with the night mail. The charge is six cents for the first thirty words, two cents for every ten afterward, and the ordinary postage and telephone fee.
The Darwin theory explains the origin and perpetuation of new species. It holds that organisms vary in offspring and natural selection favors those best adapted to their environment, enabling the emergence of new species from common ancestors.
A reflection notes the world has not gone to the devil and will continue if individuals care for themselves. It cites E. W. Howe's Monthly and mentions a skull thousands of years old as a symbol of human worry about global doom.
Popular Mechanics reports a gas company used a magnetic compass to locate buried gas mains with unknown exact positions. By placing the compass on the surface, needle deflection guided engineers to the mains. The method works when pipes are buried up to two feet and for piping hidden in walls.
A wife buys many astronomy books after a remark on study, prompting a playful reply from her husband. He corrects himself, joking that they should study economy instead, revealing a lighthearted domestic misunderstanding.
A north side family member, Alice, enjoys cleaning while workers hang paper. A helper struggles to post strip 09 wallpaper on the ceiling, peeling and readjusting several times. Alice finally blurts out in disgust that he must be hard of seeing.
Grace Luttrell longs for the Students' Club dance as Jim Lattrell, the football hero, persuades her to attend. They share a night of dancing and a tense revelation about who truly has a claim on Grace, while her rivals observe and wonder. Grace questions how Jim fell for her and contemplates life’s sudden turns.
The Bergen Ladies Aid of Roland visited MecCallsburg to meet at the Lutheran parish on Main street with hostesses B J Riland Thor Highland A G Johnson Anna Johnson and Elizabeth Fagerland. Missionary society hosted Guest Day at the Craig home with Catherine Craig and W D Lauritzen leading the lessons and a midday lunch. Various local residents including Robert Maxwell Levi Halverson and Amos Hanson stopped by. many family visits from Chicago Story City Hubbard and Des Moines were noted, along with church group activities and a baby birth at the community.
A concise observation notes that many people claim openness until confronted with real world challenges, revealing limits of tolerance when solutions require compromises or difficult choices. The remark underscores the gap between ideal attitudes and applied behavior in everyday life.
Congresswoman Mary Norton argues household economy collapses when the burden falls on one side. A Jersey City man faces criticism for skipping expenses and his wife wonders if they can manage without a cook. He replies gloomily that they could eat out if needed.
Mr and Mrs Oliver Rasmusson and daughter Harriet from Chicago along with Mrs Ole Rasmusson of Leland and others returned home after visiting niece Mrs O T Olson and aunt Mrs Sarah Skartvedt. Several local families sent greetings and helped with threshing and care of new babies in August.
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