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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1931
Page
2
A Kansas football memory from Jim Bausch at Kansas State University highlights a 96 yard first quarter kickoff return. The Kansas team unity is praised, stressing eleven players forming a single mind to clear the way for success on and off the field.
A Nation’s home town weekly is lauded as the greatest newspaper in America. It notes 11 500 editions published 52 times yearly in 11 000 offices across 8 000 towns driving progress through advertising and readership. Mark Twain family reminiscences describe church music as a riotous, discordant scene and a missionary collection.
A veteran retailer recounts how art dealers hide secrets of the trade. An old woman, ruined by life, identifies a portrait as her own past beauty, collapses, and reveals her true name and family history before dying in a hospital.
The Spenglerian theory of nations, arising from Oswald Spengler and his Decline of the West, portrays civilization as advancing toward a predetermined end. It argues history follows stages within a culture and highlights Western European and American cultures as currently in a phase of fulfillment. It also seeks to map the morphology of world history.
Max Plowman in the Adelphi, London, quotes Freud describing the world as a palace in a garden. The passage likens Freud to a creature on all fours sniffing about among the shrubbery as a metaphor for seeking hidden doors to beauty and truth.
Doris travels to a hotel with Jerry Emerson for a prom night. A found hotel room bag reveals a crisis as Doris realizes the bag is not hers, prompting Jerry to arrange a rapid plan including a marriage license to cover the unforeseen wedding rush. Loungers glimpse the bold scene in the lobby during their frantic apartment call to the store and phone booth.
Experiments at the Rothamstead experimental station near London show fungi that thrive at about 180 degrees Fahrenheit and can endure heat beyond what ordinary animals and plants can endure. These fungi assist in breaking down straw to a self enriching fertilizer similar to farmyard manure.
Anciently preserved worm fossils dating back tens of millions of years are on display in the Feld Museum in Chicago. Imbedded in shale rock, these now mummified specimens survived before backbone development and offer zoologists insight into prehistoric life.
In 1862 metallic currency left circulation in the United States leading to hoarding and a coin shortage. Private tokens emerged in Cincinnati then New York, including Lindenmueller and Knickerbocker issues. About 25 million tokens circulated until Congress halted them in 1864. collectors value them at about five cents today.
The piece notes Shakespeare did not originate many lines and often borrowed proverbs. It explains Hamlet’s line about a hawk from a handsaw is a misattributed quote, reworded from an older proverb about confusing a hawk with a heronshaw, a kind of heron.
A lengthy breakdown lists charges for a large New York wedding including invitations 5000 organist 850 to 1000 singer 150 to 1000 pews 4500 altar decor 7500 food 7000 orchestra 1900 bridal attire 5000 to 10000 bouquet and attendants 100 and 20 gifts to attendants plus minister fee 2560 church gift 500 and other minor items. Also notes Monhegan Island Maine offers a seasonal travel lure to mature lovers with landing access and a harbor protected by two islands.
The specific gravity of diamonds is 3.52, making a cubic inch weigh about 0.1278 pounds or roughly 283 carats. Notable larger stones include the Cullinan at 3,025 carats and the Tiffany at 969 carats.
Polo began in ancient Persia and spread to India China and Japan. It traveled west influencing Byzantine courtiers and later became popular among British officers in India. The game reached England in 1803 with regular matches at Hurlingham starting in 1874.
Visitors flock to Pisa to view the Leaning Tower and the cathedral baptistry and tower. Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni created masterpieces of Romanesque sculpture that have influenced artists for centuries.
Story County auditor records show a petition to establish Local Road Project W-1 for gravel surfacing on a two mile South stretch between sections 15 16 and 21 22 then one mile West between sections 21 28 in Warren township 85 22. District to include described real estate Lalallel.
Project H-1 runs along the corner of Section 22-85-23 and west 2 1/2 miles between Sections 16 and 21 17 and 20 and 18 and 19 to the north corner of Section 19-85-23 Howard Two. The roads will be surfaced with gravel.
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