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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1931
Page
2
Rod Publishing Co lists subscription terms with Arthur J. Rod as editor. Rates include $1.50 yearly in advance, 15 cents monthly for under a year, and higher charges for outside counties and foreign deliveries.
A Fairmont Minnesota Sentinel commentary laments 1931 radio programs mimicking medicine shows with constant sales pitches. Announcers hype peanut butter, tank heaters, stoves, and toneless “special electrical transcriptions” between records as musicians perform. The piece condemns how nationwide chains turn concerts into buy this and buy that shows.
A dark dusty roving band of five autos visited Main Street last Tuesday noon. No deaths or injuries are reported among them. Children streamed from the cars, and the women briefly visited local shops seeking fortunes as drivers kept engines running.
A Livermore Gazette aside notes children trading for a penny and a missing purse clouding a playful scene. A mother explains roasting chickens and a boy asks about hard birds, highlighting small town humor and family chatter.
Iowa figures show a five cent per pound oleomargarine tax effective July 4 cuts sales. Stamp sales total 41459.55 covering 829191 pounds. annual consumption projected near five million pounds vs prior ten to fifteen million. U.S. production for six months drops 29.5 percent to 112,351,926 pounds. Tax is linked to about 20 percent of the decline with butter price effects accounting for the rest.
The Story No 2 Cow Testing association posted August results for 406 cows with 65 dry cows averaging 531 pounds milk and 20.3 pounds fat. Way End Dairy's 17 Guernseys averaged 655 pounds milk and 26.8 fat, while Fred Logsdon 41 Guernseys and Mark Ford 11 Holsteins averaged 590 and 665 pounds milk with 25.5 fat. Among 341 milking cows, Speck the Holstein produced 1886 pounds milk and 51.1 fat. No 7 the Guernsey produced 1101 pounds milk and 52.8 fat. Feed included alfalfa, corn silage, green corn fodder, ground grains, and high protein supplements. seven cows were sold for beef, one died, and five were purchased.
Figures by Robby Winfrey of the Iowa State College station show 1930 car operation costs at 291,488,000 dollars. Iowa produced about 430 million bushels of corn valued at roughly 255,000,000 dollars, with autos consuming fuel and related costs dominating state spending.
The Iowa engineering experiment bulletin estimates total costs at 291.49 million with depreciation 54.66 and license 73.02. garage 80.72 and interest 21.20. insurance 14.53, gas and oil 23 percent. Operating costs range 4.9 to 15.76 cents per mile by car size at 17000 miles. at 18000 miles cost per mile drops from 6.51 to 5.52 cents.
The first graders are making wigwams and head bands while Miss Hougen hosted Mon day guest Vivian Hougen of McCallsburg. Absentees in the Junior high were Marjorie Fincher on Wednesday and Richard and James Matters on Monday. The seventh and eighth grades focus on Arithmetic Improvement tests this week. Dorothy Kimble of Nevada visited Friday. The Milford Parent-Teacher Association meets Friday the eleventh and asks each woman to bring cake for her own family. The faculty formed a Faculty Club to meet biweekly. High school class officers include Freshmen Robert Lawson and Elmer Watson. Sophomores Leland Black and Lucile Larson. Juniors Doris Sorenson and Amil Tweet. Seniors Sylvia Paulson and Jeffrey Rasmussen. Baseball practice began under Coach Levi with four to five fall games planned.
The McCallsburg paper reports a 6 to 5 baseball win over Buckeye with Maynard Olson finishing the game after starter Obed Olson left in the fourth. Other items include Nevada sanitarium patient escape and recapture, Sunday school picnics and roller skating, a Labor Day car crash near Slater, local club meetings and church activities across Bethany and Zion Lutheran congregations, and upcoming school and PTA events.
Rural school notes document August start with grades eight through second, listing pupils such as Ozelle Ose Anna Johnson Myrtle Henryson Melbourne Henderson and June Frette. Activities include posters window decorations attendance and spelling charts and a new sand table while second graders make ABC booklets and 18 new story books were purchased with State Aid funds.
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