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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1939
Page
4
In a Thanksgiving note from Rolfe, Robert Obrecht reflects on gratitude for free universal education and the school system. He thanks teachers and taxpayers, notes student appreciation for schooling, and mentions school photos and local club meetings.
Entomologists at Iowa State College recommend continual rat destruction and poisoning this season. They favor red squill and barium carbonate as effective baits, noting squill is toxic to rats but relatively safe for people and pets while barium carbonate must be used cautiously around livestock and poultry.
Tom Bergman, 50, a Palo Alto farmer, died seven hours after he suffered extensive burns when his tractor backfired and caught fire last week. He had tried to extinguish the flames, then walked a half mile home before succumbing at his residence.
A federal bulletin based on 8784 families in Washington Oregon and California finds 9 in 100 husbands are chief breadwinners and 7 in 10 are sole providers. Nearly half of families are small with 3 to 4 members and average size about 3.5. One in seven wives works but contributes only about 5 percent of total family earnings.
The piece explains cabin fever as a common, imaginary ailment among Oregon loggers living in camps. When two bunk together for months, nerves fray and one logger may blow his savings in a spree, then return to find the partner again tolerable.
The Koala bear, living model of the teddy bear in toy shops, is cited by National Geographic society as needing stronger government protection. Koalas, once common across Australia, now survive mainly in the east and southeast, having been driven to near extinction by fur hunting and a historical epidemic.
In Ferrara farmers call the agricultural federation when mice invade. Within a day a wagon delivers about 100 half starved cats to the Farmer couple’s back door. The cats quickly clear the farm of rodents and the federation later retrieves them, providing free government service.
A Columbia river logger explains that Big Eddy refers to Portland’s Third Avenue, a West Burnside to Steel Bridge area known among loggers as a gathering place for workers like faillers buckers high-climbers donkey-punchers rigging-slingers and hook-tenders. The name draws from past river debris cast up near West Burnside.
Dr. Walter J. Bierring reports four to five thousand Iowa tuberculosis cases remain undiscovered despite a drop to 487 deaths in 1938. He notes active cases exceed four thousand, aided by a rural case-finding program funded half by Christmas seal sales. The initiative operates in counties under 30 000 population, with broad surveys since 1937 across rural areas.
Frank Priebe discusses the turkey market noting light turkeys top heavy ones by five cents per pound for the first time. He recalls whispers of demand for smaller birds and mentions breeders’ limited progress despite consumer preference.
The piece notes public eating spots favor smaller ovens and turkeys under 20 pounds with exceptions. It mentions Thanksgiving demand for large 20 pound birds is limited and prices for young toms around 22 to 25 cents, arguing retailers should steer buyers toward larger birds despite overall flavor.
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