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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1923
Page
6
The piece argues temper is concentrated energy like lightning, useful when controlled but destructive if unleashed. It urges harnessing anger to fuel work, noting lazy people avoid energy while bursts can ruin judgment and friendships and even lead to poverty.
A humorous sketch contrasts marital ideals with parish duties. The piece, credited to McClure Newspaper Syndicate, lampoons tensions between domestic life and church community responsibilities using playful satire.
Twelve months ago a horse fell with its rider near Blanchview Queensland and the rider fractured the left thigh. Recently the same horse fell at the same spot and the rider again fractured the same thigh.
A reflective note explains a zigzag road used to ease ascent up a steep hill. The author reasons the switchback design reduces steepness, preserving traveler footing and enabling ascent that a straight climb would not.
The article promotes honey as a natural sweet used in varied recipes. It describes Honey and Sour Milk Ginger Bread, Baked Apples with honey, ham cured in a honey brine, Oatmeal Honey Bread, and notes honey’s health appeal for children. It also cites Mrs Maeterninck and praises honey preserves and Quinces with whipped cream.
A baby health fair will be held in Plover on August 10 and 11 with registrations at local stores or by phone. The Epworth League serves ice cream and cake on Friday evening. Numerous local clubs report activities including pig weighing, M Y B picnic at Silver Lake with bathing and horse shoe games, and a large fried chicken supper. Visitors from nearby towns are mentioned alongside regular county and club events.
The report lists visits and movements of residents in the Humboldt Rolfe and surrounding area. Highlights include Bradgate visitors J. L. VanHorne and daughter Ella, Pederson business in Rolfe, Hamand family and Rev. Hamand from Lake City, Fort Dodge shopping trips, drug stock purchase by Seren Erickson, and funeral attendance for Kinseth in Bede plus Osage weekend trip by Schoonover family.
Oliver DeGroote D Myles Dan Devree and Mr Herrick of Humboldt were callers in town Monday. Mrs Glenn Wallace left Friday evening to visit her parents at Ellsworth Town. Mr and Mrs Theo Benjamin spent Sunday at Lake Okoboji. Workmen repair machinery at Quaker Oats Co and Farmers Elevator Co plants and a new brick storage tank is built for Farmers Elevator Co. Bradgate days open Thursday. Ticket sales hindered by threshing but deficit not expected to be large. A splendid program is booked and everyone should attend.
The secretary of agriculture approved new game protection rules in Alaska effective April 1, 1923. The changes remove protections on several southeastern islands where deer hunting was previously banned, while Kruzof Island remains a deer preserve. Mountain sheep and mountain goats are prohibited east of the Kenai peninsula until April 1, 1825, and a deer close season remains west of longitude 141 degrees.
A radium atom in full activity appears on an English amateur microscope slide. The mineral pitch blends radium as seen under a strong lens, delivering ceaseless brilliant bombardment of particles that strike a screen, illustrating terrific energy.
A sixteen year old boy and a fifteen year old girl planned a 7 o clock show meeting. He was late and no sign appeared leading to a delayed reunion. The next day at school he teased her about the affair ending her first love.
A trowel inverted by a bricklayer is claimed to double brick output, triggering controversy over efficiency and technique. The assertion references a method dubbed risky innovation and has drawn attention from construction workers and safety observers.
Amid many hopefuls, voters see a crowded field but reject the notion of a single hat or candidate becoming president. The discourse centers on diverse ambitions and the desire for broader leadership than a lone figure.
A fragment reflects on appearances and risk with a line about justice being blind until tested, and a remark that great minds do not share the same path, suggesting limits of a single channel. The terse musings imply caution about inviting trouble and divergent thinking.
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