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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1933
Page
8
Funeral services were held in Pax ton for Marvin Cullinan a 10 year old boy killed during a severe wind storm last week. He was camping with three other boys on Cap Has kell ranch by Birdwood creek when a large willow fell crushing him as the tent collapsed his companions crawled free under the side walls.
The Gazette mocks the World-Herald over Gurley tax rankings and its inland town characterization. It calls out alleged unreliable AP writers and questions the paper’s reputation with small towns.
John J Weyerts aged 62 died at his home in Ambhurst Colorado Interment was made in the Weyerts cemetery following services at the family homestead.
Born in Burnhafe Germany he immigrated to America in 1882 and moved with his parents to Cheyenne county in 1886. He settled in Venango in 1903 for hotel work, then relocated to Amherst in 1918 continuing in the hotel trade.
The Supreme Court upholds Nebraska high court ruling barring state bank assessments. It saves over eleven thousand dollars for the Sidney Liberty State Bank depository and uncovers more than twelve thousand dollars held at the American National Bank in the same place. The fund arose while the American operated as a state bank.
Marie Stormberg of Potter Nebraska lists mammoth bronze turkey eggs for sale at a price of per egg. The note appears as a small classified item from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page.
Arlo Fisher of Potter Nebraska advertises mammoth bronze turkey eggs for sale. The note lists a price per egg and provides contact location.
Francis H. Sisson of the American Bankers Association argues for a failure-proof banking system with strong government supervision and public responsibility. He says banks must be immune to failure, free from dishonesty, and supported by sound laws and cooperative citizens to ensure stable national banking.
A New Hampshire farmer, with county agent help, top dressed 6 acres with 500 pounds of complete fertilizer at $75. After 4 weeks cows grazed on the pasture for six weeks, yielding 7000 pounds more milk than the prior year with one fewer cow and 800 pounds less grain. At current milk prices, he earned $185 from extra milk and saved $16 on grain, netting $120 more income.
The text recounts Hadi the second son of Mansur becoming caliph in 785 and his murder in 786, the Barmecide family figures Yahya, Fadhl, and Jafar as vizier, foster brother, and close ally, and Harun al Rashid's rise aided by Kheistran. Jafar is executed in 803, and Yahya and Fadhl die in prison, ending the Barmecides’ influence.
A British incident aboard the steam trawler Avonside refutes the idea that waking a sleepwalker is deadly. A deck crew thought a man boarded from the sea, but a sleepwalking sailor explained he had fallen overboard and was saved when the cold water woke him and he climbed back aboard by grabbing a rope.
Maj. Gen John White Geary, who rode with Sherman to the sea, led a diverse life after the Civil War. Born in Pennsylvania, he studied law but did not practice, rose to colonel in the Mexican War, commanded Mexico City, served as San Francisco postmaster, was elected mayor, and later governor of Pennsylvania until his death in 1873.
A Chinese earthquake in Kansu in 1922 killed over 100000 and created the remarkable image of a road lifted a quarter mile from its bed by a moving hillside. Trees and even crow nests were carried along atop the new elevated road.
A German beekeeper’s accidental observation led to the centrifugal honey extractor. While his son spun a honeycomb in a basket, honey sprayed from the comb by centrifugal force. The father quickly built a device applying the same principle, yielding the extractor.
The Cascade tunnel built by the Great Northern railway through the Cascade mountains in Washington is the western hemisphere’s longest. It spans 7.79 miles, runs straight through solid granite, and is lined along its entire length with concrete.
The electors for a political party equal the state's representation in both branches of Congress. The Constitution allows each state legislature to decide the method of their selection.
Opening weekly prices at Union Stock Yards Omaha show beef steers steady to modestly higher, light receipts around 6,000 head. Cows and heifers steady, stockers and feeders strong. Yearlings and steers priced from 4.25 to 6.75, fed cattle from 2.75 to 6.60, with various grades listed for each category. Fat lambs and sheep noted with weaker lambs and steady aged sheep.
Liberal receipts depressed hog markets with bids and sales 5 to 19 cents lower than Saturday. Fourteen thousand head were marketed and most trades settled around 4.55 to 4.65 per hundredweight, with some light weights achieving about 4.70.
Fat lambs sold weak to 75 cents lower from last week with slow movement. Receipts 8,500 head. spring lambs brought 7.25 to 7.50 for good to choice, or 6.25 to 6.50 for shorn fed. Aged sheep steady. Pat lambs and feeder classes listed with varied ranges. fat yearlings 3.00 to 5.50, fat ewes 2.25 to 2.75, lighter pairs 0.50 to 1.50.
A Kansas City Star writer debunks the idea of an animal trainer's hypnotic eye. The trainer relies on bluff and swift footwork to control big cats, and must prove mastery in every encounter. If defeated, he may end up in a hospital but returns to resume the challenge.
Four beet types are described: common garden beet, sugar beet, mangel wurzel, and foliage beets. The garden beet is variety erasa, foliage beets derive from cicla, and common names include leaf beet, Sicilian beet, sca kale beet, spinach beet, Chilean beet, and Roman kale.
The article describes a whitish halo seen when the sun is obscured by a hand, caused by dust or fog reflections. It can outshine the sky by vast margins, unlike in dust-free air where the sky remains blue to the sun’s edge. Clear skies are rare in cities but common in remote, high, or snowy regions, as noted by Fleury Norris Russell.
I Carlberg explains in the Swedish-American Trade Journal that cheese flavor correlates with its internal structure. Round holes form when pulp is stirred into a clump, limiting air and shaping gas holes by temperature. Irregular holes arise when whey is broken into small fragments before aging.
A man, indignant at a demand note from the income tax assessor, claims he cannot pay fifty pounds and jokes that he is a contractor, not a conjurer. He replies by letter noting the misunderstanding of his profession on the return form.
Romania, now spanning about 123000 square miles, united Walachia and Moldavia with the Danube Dobruja, and after World War I gained Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, and part of the Hungarian plain. About 80 percent farm. wheat primary crop with corn, mulberry, tobacco, and vines. Key outputs include oil, salt, lignite, iron, and copper. Railways total around 7500 miles. Danube and Black Sea navigation controlled by the government. Principal towns: Bucharest, Iași, Galați, Brăila, Chișinău.
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