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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1931
Page
1
The notice lists subscription prices: $1.50 per year in advance, 15 cents per month for under a year, and county rates at $2.00 per year. Foreign subscriptions are $2.50 yearly. Advertising rates include 10 cents per line for readers and card of thanks at 50 cents, with display rates on request.
The piece blends a Francis G. Blair tribute to Uncle Sam with a moral about local commerce and discouragement, illustrating a sales scene where a wedge-shaped tool named Discouragement is shown as the Devil’s price. It urges readers to support local businesses to prosper the town and avoid trading out of town. It ends with a report of B. K. Lund, 69, dying at Story City from heart trouble and diabetes, with funeral details and survivors.
A historical notice claims the Devil plans to go out of business. The fragment mentions a grand proclamation about the entity’s cessation of operations and hints at a dramatic shift in the spiritual market.
The RKO Orpheum in Des Moines reopens on Christmas Day with Peach O Reno starring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Dorothy Lee and Zelma O Neal join the duo as two bright young women. The plot follows Aggie and Joe Bruno on their silver anniversary trip to Reno and the girls effort to block the divorce. A New Year Midnight Show features Strictly Dishonorable and a stage lineup including The Whoot Owl Club and multiple variety acts.
The new dam at Alden on the Iowa river is finished and water runs over it. Red and blue lights beneath the dam shine through the water at night. The $8,000 structure was built for recreation and funded by voluntary subscriptions.
McCallsburg residents attend visits and services as a Christmas program fills Bethany Lutheran Church. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Clifford Piteht. Several local visits to Nevada Ames Roland and Marshalltown are noted along with Boy Scout and church activities and officers elected for the Bethany Ladies Aid.
Today's markets list grain and agricultural prices including corn No 8 shelled at 26, corn No 4 at 24, corn ear 70 lb at 21, oats No 8 white at 20, and various poultry prices for springs leghorn and hens with weight classes. Local dealers will not buy poultry unless not thin diseased or full crop.
By special execution issued from the Story County District Court in favor of L. A. Andrew Receiver of McCallsburg State Bank the North half of Section 21 Township 85 North Range 22 West is levied as Otis Heland owner. The sale will occur January 4 1982 at 2 15 PM at the Nevada Court House to satisfy a debt of 8841 11 plus costs 55 50 and 8 percent interest from November 28 1981.
State of Iowa Story County issues sheriff sale by court action from December 1 1931 to settle debt of Otis S Boyd and Olive Boyd. Property in Roland Iowa Lot ten and half of nine in Grindems Addition is levied with 2863.60 principal 68.64 attorney fee 34.95 costs 8 percent interest from 1931 and costs to be paid at public auction to the highest bidder for cash on January 4 1932 at 2:00 pm at the Story County Courthouse Nevada Iowa.
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