Rockwell City Fair Opens with Air Show and Racing
Preparations are nearly complete for the seventeenth Rockwell City Fair opening Tuesday July 31 for four days. Big plans include an airplane program on Friday August 3 with tail spins loops wing walking and parachute jumps, plus a nightly vaudeville lineup and a full racing program each afternoon. Poultry exhibits will be under Calhoun County Poultry Association supervision as entries pour in.
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Rockwell City Fair
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Calhoun’ County Poultry Association
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Turn out the farmers prompt anti bootleg drive
A Wrightstown Quaker mayor deputized fifty local farmers as special constables with ten gauge shotguns to mop up bootleggers after a failed government threat. The plan dispersed bootleggers quickly, though enforcement remains timid. The piece contrasts rural action with French fashion debates on bathing suits and ends with hometown pride.
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Atlantic Ocean
Loranger Stock Company Opens Six Nights In Rolfe
Loranger's Stock Company performs six consecutive nights under a waterproof tent in Rolfe next week starting Monday July 30. The venue is the Johnson lots east of the State Savings Bank. Open ing night offers one lady free with an adult paid admission. Vaudeville between acts and popular pricing mark the show.
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Loranger’s
Rolfe
Johnson Lots
State Savings Bank
Loranger Stock Company
America
Federal budget surplus touted by General Lord sparks tax cut hope
Gen. H. M. Lord announces a federal surplus on June 30 of 310 million dollars. The message frames the gain as a potential reduction in taxation. The remark is presented with a light conversational tone and a humorous aside about stimulus to avoid being teased.
Parlor Bolsheviks as Enemies of the Government
A speaker denounces wealthy elites who host drawing room meetings for Bolshevik ideas. He claims colleges promote collectivism and that fashionable parlor gatherings enable agents of Russia to threaten democracy. He calls the parlor bolshevik a Satanic and traitorous force against the republic.
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Russia
Ciites
Satan
Humorous Snippets and Jokes From a Small Town Page
A collage of light humor and scenes from daily life includes a classroom quip about an average, a coach and ranch hand exchange, jokes about dental visits and “one in a million,” a captain’s shipboard mishap with a flapper, gag hints about gum and powder, a punny old Mother Hubbard verse, and a traveler at a baseball game awaiting the next 24 hour train.
Humorous Vignettes and Remarkable One Liners
The piece presents a collage of comic quips and anecdotes. A home team pitcher is mocked, a convict thanks officials before gallows, an insurance scene prompts questions, and a barbered poet laments. A soldier of satire ends with a line about German money and wood pulp value.
Finding a Happy Medium in Aging and Union
A reflection on aging as a motivator to start anew and on marital harmony when couples fail to recognize a balanced middle ground. It suggests that acknowledging a shared middle path can sustain relationships and personal growth over time.
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Mr. Tuff
Germany
Goodyear
Rolfe Auto Company
Rolfe, Iowa
Rolfe Pop Factory
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