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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1946
Page
1
George Bernard Shaw criticizes English spelling and urges government action to simplify words like cough to coff and bom for bomb. He argues adults learned spelling the hard way and may resist changes, while youth would benefit from easier orthography.
The editorial argues returning soldiers face housing shortages and urges federal government to assume financing and leadership. It criticizes state and private sector inaction, cites material, labor, and construction limits, and suggests prefabricated homes as a potential fix while warning of rent profiteering by landlords. The piece ends with a critical aside about MacNider’s son in a Navy program.
Editors advise holding hogs at market peaks through winter while avoiding a rapid surge in supply. They warn a December price break followed by possible January and February drops, note potential strikes, and urge top weighting with lighter hogs held back if needed.
The column urges more sociable recreation like horseshoes and tennis to ease strain of war while noting leisure time choices and wage price dynamics. It contrasts workers with non-wage earners and explores how rising prices erase wage gains. It ends with a quiz about a famous robber’s horse.
Fifty Farm Bureau leaders met at Hotel Pocahontas on January 4 to map a January 14 to 19 membership drive for Pocahontas County. Despite fog and rain, township captains and 18 townships assigned teams and solicitation cards for the 1946 effort, with a kickoff set for January 14 at 12 30 p m in the Pocahontas school auditorium led by Wayne Tyler of the Iowa Farm Bureau.
The tale centers on a dollar bill found to have travelled from St. Ansgar to Little Rock and back unseen. Mrs Lessie Shulze sent a package to her daughter Wanda Denolf. the bill lodged in the string and eluded post staff until its Arkansas return note appeared. Lt L P Ross, navy diver, identified parts of the Chelan school bus tragedy.
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