10 Aug 1922
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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
1
Des Moines editor laments a fatal car dash near Rembrandt as speed laws are violated and urges enforcement. The column critiques a Yellowstone Lake dam proposal in Montana and warns about wildfires, forest management, and the rail labor strike.
The writer notes that in past wars a man required about a thousand rifle bullets to kill him. In the late war, even if all spent ammunition were reduced to rifle bullets, 50,000 would be needed to kill a single man. Millions of tons of metal for barrages and bombardments complicate the figure, but roughly three tons per fatality is implied.
The Gideon Society argues hotel rooms are the loneliest place for travelers. Commercial travelers spend about 60 percent of their time in hotel bedrooms away from home. Despite lavish surroundings, managers cannot replace family presence, prompting Bible placement in hotel rooms amid a field of roughly 700,000 salesmen and 3,000,000 hotel bedrooms.
Nomad in the Boston Transcript recalls Edward Ty erett Hale and his belief that Christ was a great human being and God. A Boston newspaper youth recounts Hale advising Leipsic study readers to favor Bancroft readings but to begin and end with a strict impartial New Testament course for American journalists.
Deputy attorney general Dale Stansbury was approached by a foreigner asking for the plum office and jobs. Stansbury directed the man to the custodian's office, noting the encounter in a brief odd exchange from the Indianapolis News. The piece ends with a remark about jazz in music provoking strong reactions.
A large crowd is assured for the Farm Bureau picnic to be held at Pocahontas on August 28. The program committee led by Wm Carey and I Linyon has arranged a full program of speakers including He Cunningham Iowa Farm Bureau Federation secretary and Mrs. Richardson of Pella. Frank J. Lund of Webster City, a former congressional candidate, plans to attend. Sports such as baseball horse shoe pitching races and pushball will be featured along with a top county concert band providing music.
A rough OCR fragment hints at a social chatter about goings in a country, calls and nicknames, and references to flappers and money. Names like Marys and W. S. Arrow appear in unsettled phrases, suggesting a garbled 1920s dialogue or diary note without a clear event or date.
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