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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1929
Page
2
The Roland Record publishes subscription terms: $1.50 per year in advance, 15 cents per month for under one year, $2.00 per year for outside Hamilton and Hardin Counties, and $2.50 for foreign subscriptions, with editions published weekly each Thursday.
The Hubbard Review cites printer errors that alter names and phrases from poems sermons and notices, from roses to roars and battlescars to bottle scars. It notes editors correcting misreads while warning about risky credit as the County Credit Board lists overdue debts.
A report from the Montreal Star notes Ancient Ur has been unearthed after 6090 years and chronicles Father Abraham Wiss departing with wives and daughters amid hair nets seen as extravagant. The piece, cited by the Washington Post, asserts Abraham’s choice to move on and acknowledges the broader dispersal of the tribes and the enduring pioneer spirit.
A Detroit News writer highlights Rome’s 2nd century B C bridges from the Forum to the Tiber and Trastevere and the enduring endurance of the Appian Way viaduct. These ancient spans, built to withstand floods and heavy use, still impress engineers after two millennia.
The text tracks naval rations from 1794 to 1887 noting daily bread meat beans or peas cheese and spirits in 1794 and later meals centered on bread salt beef or pork peas or beans potatoes cheese and hot beverages. It also outlines a modern breakfast and dinner aboard a up-to-date man of war with grapefruit French toast eggs soup roast vegetables salad pie and coffee.
W A Jackson, superintendent of telegraph for the Michigan Central railroad, warned employees that speaking from more than half an inch from the transmitter distance reduces intelligibility. He advised talking directly into the mouthpiece with a clear moderate tone to avoid listener loss.
The Kansas City Times passage ponders death’s randomness and how quickly lives end through sword, drowning, falls, fire, pestilence, or robbery. It questions who will remember or pray after death, underscoring life's fragility and fame’s fleeting nature.
Health Hint notes insurers spend millions to promote health education and individuals to learn personal hygiene rules and practices.
A farm girl Loraine climbs a granary to gather seven eggs from a stray nest. She hides the haul in a makeshift carrier and flees as a grain buyer helps her avoid a mess. A stranger later helps her down and remains intrigued, amid a state fair backdrop where Burton grain and a blue ribbon winlarines highlight the tale.
Iowa crop values for 1929 total 575,463,000 based on December 1 estimates, up from 562,799,000 in 1928 and the highest since 1919. C D Reed of the Weather and Crop Bureau notes gains across hay potato oats and pasture, with red clover seed acreage more than triple 1928.
A concise notice tracking newly reported events and developments in the area. Names of local figures, institutions, dates, and places are included as they appear, preserving the tone of a regional paper.
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