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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
4
Local dealers quote eight o clock market prices for corn No 2 oats No 3 white butter creamery and farmers eggs No 1 and No 2 varieties. Poultry prices include springs over and under 4 pounds leghorn heavy and light hens old roosters ducks and geese. Dealers will not buy excessively thin or overfed poultry.
The McCallsburg column reports on student elections for 1929-30 class officers, sponsor assignments, and new enrollees. It covers a September 12 birthday party for Floyd Christian, a September 18 class meeting, and a practice football game at Nevada High where M Olson and C Imsland starred. The upcoming Hubbard game on September 27 is highlighted, along with the Parent-Teacher Association meeting details.
The Jamestown ruin near a wire fence preserves an 1685 brick tower once part of a large church built where Capt. John Smith’s wooden structure stood. Pocahontas wed John Rolf in 1614 at the prior church. Bacon’s Rebellion left the town and church burned, leaving only the tower visited by thousands yearly.
The article traces the long quest to craft fine Chinese porcelain and the many steps once needed. It notes 25 operations and four weeks to make basic wares, the value of skilled labor, and that Boettger in 1709 discovered the process. By the late 18th century German potteries multiplied, while Oriental and East Indian firms broadened access to porcelain.
The article notes leprosy spread across western Europe with about 19 000 leper houses, including sites in Britain and Canterbury to Highgate. It says disease decline came rapidly in the western century, aided by segregation and possibly the 1849 Black Death, though the cause remains partly mysterious.
Edwin W Teale notes in Popular Science Monthly that Leonardo da Vinci, famed painter of the fifteenth century, was also a trailblazing inventor. He cites his wheelbarrow wind driven smokestack and flexible roller chain as early innovations that echo in modern daily life.
A defense attorney cross examines a handwriting expert by asking where the dog is. The witness asks what dog. The attorney replies that the dog is the judge who would not bang on the evidence at the last term.
A returned traveler who spent months in Nyasaland says white visitors view local rituals with curiosity and dismiss their significance. This leads to an impenetrable veil of secrecy around most ceremonies.
The quote states cheerful people possess the greatest courage and meet misfortune with a smile. It credits cheerful resilience to successful individuals and presents optimism as a defining trait in facing adversity.
The Beaver Dam Maryland quarry supplied pure white marble used for the Washington monument in Baltimore and for early National Capitol columns. Architects demanded white stone and removed colored overburden to get the pure material. Today the quarry’s whitish gravel supports Detroit construction, while the site’s large waste pile fueled new building in Michigan.
A Papuan tribesman negotiates marriage by presenting his father-in-law with a pig or a dog before taking a bride to his hut. After marriage the wife tends the hut while the husband hunts and fights. They eat yams and diverse foods with a grub as a favorite treat. They hold two spirits per person and practice varying burial rites including later exhumation and bone exchange.
Agnes Sturson of Roland and Leora Johnson of Story City visits as second graders present talks on crafts and items they made. Merne Hove brings a bird house made by Indians and Melburn Henderson demonstrates a homemade cane while teachers publish lower price booklets. A sand table scene featuring Little Red Riding Hood uses evergreen branches for forest.
The Roland Rockets announce Constance Frederickson as replacement for Grace Weaver. The 1929-30 basketball schedule lists nine games with five home fixtures, plus student activities include a glee club selection and a junior class play to fund the banquet. Supt. F. A. Gorton urges fewer interruptions and parental involvement at school.
The Goths divided into Visigoths and Ostrogoths with distinct homelands on the Carpathians and Black Sea coasts. Conflicts with Constantine and Valens preceded Hun incursions that crushed their empire, leaving the Visigoths to blend with Latin peoples in Spain and Languedoc while Ostrogoths merged with the Tartars.
In Pittsburgh Wall Street, a widow timidly handed a cashier a paper asking its worth. The stock certificate for radio shares was valued at 355 dollars by the broker quotations, bringing her joy as she had found it among her husband’s effects and hoped there were twenty more at home.
Henry VIII refined the English home by adding Italian iron grill work, ornate ceilings, and French hangings, creating a rare blend of dignity beauty and charm. Henry VII laid the groundwork, Norman exteriors rising with Gothic windows and paneled walls, shaping a英国 manor that noblemen soon followed to enhance residence style.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s father secured free admission for his son to the military school of Brienne in Paris. The elder Bonaparte, not a lawyer, had resisted French forces in Corsica but did not gain influence with local interests. Napoleon was sixteen when his father died.
A six penny pamphlet on How Sin Came Into the World by Doctor Lewis is described. A friend, noted for heterodox views, urged adding a chapter on how to remove sin from the world to create a ghill ing pamphlet and make it worth a sixpence.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed and qualified Administrator of the estate of Askel Sampson deceased of Story County Iowa. All persons indebted to the estate must pay and those with claims must present them to the administrator for allowance or file with the Clerk of the District Court. L. E. Davisson Clerk Nevada Iowa August 29 1929.
The note urges parents to visit the school and consult teachers at least once per year to identify and address a pupil’s difficulties. It warns that waiting until midyear makes intervention harder and emphasizes preventing failure and fostering success with cooperative effort. Supt. I A Gorton.
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