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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1921
Page
6
Fort Dodge defeated the Mallard Gun Club 931 to 873 in a clay target match held during a light rain. Mallard players, in their first season, plan a return meet soon hoping for improved results.
L H Weisenberger leaves Sunday for New York City to take a shorthand course in preparation for the national speed shorthand contest at Niagara Falls around mid August. He is a court reporter for Judge James De Land with a national reputation after winning last year’s contest. His wife plans to join him in August for the Niagara Falls trip.
Mrs. Ellen Boothby of Washta transfers quarter sections totaling 800 acres in Cherokee County to five grandchildren Laur ence Boothby Thomas Boothby Alberta Boothby Margaret Mattoon Francke and Paul Mattoon of California valued at a conserv ative quarter million dollars. The deeds reveal one of the region’s most generous land gifts.
A Tahitian legend describes offerings to the Shadow Folk as the narrator and beloved sister exchange shadows for treasures. The bracelet slips away as the beloved shrinks to a child and vanishes among the Little People, taken to hang on a stick as the light fades.
A. Ho ward Newton cites an anecdote from the Atlantic Monthly contrasting progress with personal habits. A London dinner features a marble block and silver mallet used to summon a maid, while the engineer dismisses push buttons in favor of candles, insisting true progress comes from personal action.
A four year old boy who had surgery at a Brooklyn hospital climbed to a window on the third floor and dangled outside. Two passersby improvised a net from coats by stretching them between sleeves to catch him as he fell, sparing serious injury.
Edward Wyckoff, pioneer resident, shows almond tree limbs planted in 1857 by his brother David Wyckoff, former Yolo sheriff, as proof of the orchard’s strong bearing. At 64, the trees are described as vigorous and the best in the valley while records are kept for future generations as the orchard nears a century of growth.
A National Geographic bulletin notes Waster Island's inhabitants show little curiosity about visiting ships and discoveries, despite colossal statues, stone houses, and sculptured rocks remaining from ancient inhabitants.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns of possible stable fly outbreaks this season. Keep barnyard manure cleaned up especially with straw, dry it in fields, stack straw with vertical sides, clean around stack bases, and spread or plow under unused straw to prevent maggot development.
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