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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1934
Page
8
A collection of satirical proverbs and maxims on life, war, honesty, and social behavior. The musings contrast clever aphorisms with blunt sayings about rulers, manners, and fate, reflecting a rootsy, old newspaper voice.
Current History notes Japan's leadership, dominated by men from humble origins. Among six or more top officials, only Prince Saionji was born aristocratic, while Premier Makoto SakO, Gen Sadao Araki, and others rose from modest upbringings. Most leaders are older, with Araki and Hirota the only under seventy.
Singapore Straits Settlements passes an ordinance requiring opium smokers to carry a license with the smoker’s photograph. Purchases restricted to one shop per smoker, one daily purchase, and banned for those under twenty one. Licenses non transferable.
The 1200 year old Mony musk reliquary is to become a national possession of Scotland and will be shown at the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. It was bought by the National Art Collections Fund for 12500 dollars. Historically the custodian carried the relics of St Columba with it before Scottish armies in battle. The reliquary is noted for its presence at Bannockburn in 1314.
Six meteorites have been added to Field Museum of Natural History's meteorite collection, boosting its status as the world's largest. The expanded collection now holds 723 of the 1,046 known meteorites with a record.
A professor jokes with the class asking if the joke has been told before. The class answers in chorus that yes, they have heard it. The professor then says he hopes they will understand it this time.
Second Surgeon: On his appendix for money and on his liver for experience.
A reader letter notes that age difference is not a barrier to marriage with affection described as love being blind and a partner’s experiences framed as a playful caution about relationships and compatibility.
Puzzle-like dialogue from Everybody's Weekly about domestic tension and odds in a light humor frame. The short exchange features a wife telling the husband to hang his shirt on the clotheshorse and the husband asking about odds, reflecting a comic domestic setup.
A brief cartoon style joke from the St Louis Globe Democrat features Cheap Skate Sam asking if Jim got a haircut. Jim replies he only washed it and it shrank. The panel reflects light humor in a newspaper comic item.
Receipts Monday cattle 13 000 hogs 17 000 sheep 6 000. Cattle markets steady to strong with top beef steers reaching 9.00 and bids improving for stockers and feeders. Fat lambs opened steady at 6.50 to 7.00 while feeder lambs held around 5.25 to 5.65. hogs advanced 10 to 15 cents and were bought freely by packers and shippers. Fat lambs included Rangers good to choice 6.75 to 7.00 and 6.25 to 6.50 for fair to good.
The item lists feeder lamb and lamb meat prices with ranges for quality from prime to fair, including native and heavy categories. It ends with a humor line about a man dodging a bridge game with his wife, citing sore shins from the last match.
A brief exchange hints at a humorous misdirection in an advertisement for an overlook or hotel vantage point. The hotelkeeper directs a recalcitrant inquirer to look up on a clear night, implying a literal skyward view rather than the promised ground level scenery.
The importation of Bermuda onions has fallen due to Texas onions becoming dominant. Texas crops yield higher per acre and ship directly to northern cities, while true Bermudas require two-handling. One annual Bermuda crop near 10,000 pounds per acre, Texas often surpassing this with up to 34,000 pounds per acre.
In a bygone era when cars were scarce and radios unseen a fisherman's party rolled along a lonely road near a field where a man plowed with a single shovel and his wife hitched to the harness. A newspaper windmill caused disruption and a brief delay before life resumed.
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