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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1931
Page
6
An advertisement touts Mercolized Wax as keeping skin young by curing defects and smoothing texture. It claims wrinkles can be removed with powdered Satellite dissolved in a half pint of liquid and notes drugstores stock the product.
A Boston Transcript note reports Timson has gone out of business and is living quietly on what he can collect from his creditors. The brief cites his remaining assets and resting on his overs, about 50 to speak.
Teething discomfort addressed by ensuring regular bowel movement using Castoria. The advertisement promotes Castoria as a pure vegetable remedy for babies and children, gentle for infants and effective for older kids, stressing it contains no harsh drugs or narcotics and urges buyers to obtain genuine Castoria with the name.
The article notes a shift toward economical long-wearing footwear as rural Italian poor seek wooden-soled clogs, a style more common in North European regions, highlighting material scarcity and economic strain. It also includes an advertisement for Cole's Carbolisalve claiming rapid relief for skin burns and itching.
In casual chatter two speakers discuss upgrading from an eight to a sixteen cylinder engine. The exchange highlights enthusiasm for more power and the value of a modern, high performance vehicle.
A reflective line notes how conscience and consequences shape behavior, suggesting fear or hesitation affects collective action and moral choices in society.
After meals many suffer sour stomachs from over-stimulated nerves and excess acid. The advised remedy is Phillips Milk of Magnesia, a tasteless dose that neutralizes acid and relieves indigestion quickly. It is prescribed by physicians and sold in drug stores at 50c per bottle.
The Gun Girl aided by highwaymen tried to rob a 1834 National Road stage near Piney Grove to Frostburg. Driver Samuel Luman feigned calm, lashed a robber with reins, and steered the coach to safety as passengers carried $60,000. Luman later pursued mail robbers and moved east for safety.
At the Algonquin a group of writers praised Harvard’s President Lawrence Lowell for his view that modern sport is too barbaric and not Greek in spirit. A playwright recalls his early poetry and Lowell’s parting advice that the waste basket is a student’s best friend.
Experts advise using artificial light to create a 13 to 14 hour day in fall and winter to maintain hens weight and egg production. Extending to 17 or 18 hours reduces production and weight. Morning lighting is more efficient and requires no dimming. a mixed morning and evening schedule works best for hens.
A 19th century glossary defines broiler as a young chicken under two pounds and spring as a young soft boned bird over two pounds. It also explains fowl as a female over one year or a pullet with excessive keel, stags as cockerels with bone hardness but not roosters, cnapons as castrated males, slips as incompletely castrated birds, and roosters as cock males over one year old.
North Dakota poultry raisers show high producing flocks earned more per dozen eggs last year due to strong output in September October December and January when egg prices were nearly double those in other months. Hens laid well in spring and summer making production increases during high price periods crucial.
The red mite operates unseen by day in cracks around perches and nests and feeds at night. Infestations rise with warm weather, and control methods include painting woodwork with oily penetrants such as Carbolineum creosote crude carbolic acid kerosene whitewash waste crank oil lime sulphur or nicotine sulphate.
A Southern Warmer writer notes in two South Dakota townships nearly all flocks were tuberculin tested and only 1 percent of pullets reacted while 83 percent of birds over two years did. The piece suggests culling all birds at end of first production year could greatly cut losses from the disease.
The guide stresses adequate protein and minerals in mash for baby chicks. It recommends four feet of hopper space per 100 chicks for the first two weeks, with feeding surfaces on both sides, then double that space thereafter. Ensure at least two-thirds of chicks can eat simultaneously.
Lesson 22 covers Paul appealing to Caesar after trials before Felix and Festus, and before Agrippa. It follows his voyage to Rome, shipwreck memories, and his ministry there expounding the kingdom of God to Romans and Jews. Paul’s faith, leadership, and safe voyage are highlighted, with key figures Felix Festus Agrippa Luke Aristarchus.
The text argues consecration is clear understanding not mere pious desire. It defines consecration as facing facts, denying self for others, giving and working with heart for God’s kingdom on earth.
A moral verse warning that pleasures are fleeting while unrepented sin carries everlasting consequences.
About 100 students entered a Waynesburg University theater crowd after a football win. The celebration stalled when the college president arrived and personally paid each student’s admission. An old proverb about being busy is noted at the end.
In this reflection on personal confinement and the urge for freedom the writer compares literary figures to illustrate how individuals confront restrictive environments. It notes women like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Jane Austen seeking escape through imagination or defiance, and references Old Pybus and Sorrell and Son to explore duty, sacrifice, and a gentleness enduring amid constraint.
An opaque glass pane is described that allows clear visibility from within a vehicle to the outside while appearing as a mirror from the outside looking in. This technology enables drivers to view exterior objects while preventing observers outside from seeing interior details.
The remark hints at a concluding piece titled Boomerang that suggests ideas will rebound. The line plays on fate and repetition, signaling a reflective end note.
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