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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
8
A fragmentary account describes a blue room in a long lived mansion where the Governors Council met and where General George Washington is said to have received his commission as commander in chief. The interior, tile and furnishings remain largely from earlier days.
An old promotion claims Hall’s Catarrh Medicine treats nasal catarrh by building up the system and cleansing the blood. It asserts internal action through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation and prevent chronic catarrh. Druggists offer circulars free. B. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is listed as the maker.
The Cedar township unit of the Farm Bureau proposes three cents per bushel for husking corn and recommends farmers accept it. They warn that anyone paying more will lose exchange work with the Bureau, forcing the offender to thresh shell corn hay and perhaps conduct his own funeral. The note cites corn at twenty four cents a bushel and last year’s higher offers to win help. A separate item mentions a cake cut into 405 pieces for J. H. Ramsay’s Clarion anniversary and Griswold’s collie dog fetches the mail each day.
Frederick carries an empty milk bottle to the grocer and returns with fresh milk and a sucker. He explains he paid for the sucker with a nickel earned from the bottle return, confusing the pricing with a charged bottle. The dialogue highlights his grasp of money and finance as a verb transitive in a domestic scene.
Preston Slosson argues in the New York Independent that a true vacation blends leisure with passion. He says play defines vacation, citing examples from fire building to dancing and fishing as either work or play depending on enjoyment and purpose.
The guide notes a practical horticultural rule to tell cherry from plum trees before fruit. Cherry leaves fold together like a book while plum leaves roll like a magazine. peaches resemble cherries and apricots resemble plums in leaf behavior.
A long column of mixed items reports a Magian in Oelwein facing charges, a two month old child and a mother dying from lockjaw, a Montana rider entering a Cornell College colt race, and a Gilmore City man surviving a lightning strike. It notes jail, marriages at the Little Brown Church, indictments, car thefts, a war on street cars, and farm and oil prospects across towns like Des Moines Sibley Ames Pocahontas and Decorah.
Report mentions nighttime theft of 2000 dollars worth of coats silks and other merchandise. Kossuth County officials locate six stills while Tennessee eyeing larger illicit operations. Jim Berry returns to Pocahontas to manage pending business as Mrs Berry battles health. Clay County Bankers Association posts a 1000 dollar reward for robbers operating in that county. Arrow office corn bill wired in from Fonda.
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