13 Jul 1933
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1933
Page
1
Ancient texts and myths explain salt’s origin and value from Ukko’s spark to tears of suffering. Trade and wages linked to salt, giving rise to terms like salary and to the saying earn one’s salt. Salt as hospitality, omens, and quarrel superstition appear across Greek, Roman, German, and Oriental traditions.
The Titonka town council of Kossuth County Iowa will meet on July 25 1933 at 8 PM at Titonka Savings Bank. Taxpayers will be heard for or against the proposed expenditures as listed in the town budget estimate.
An old tradition links spilled salt to quarrels and lost friendships and suggests throwing salt over the left shoulder to avert the omen. The piece notes such beliefs persist across cultures and time. It also critiques three billion dollars in public works funding, currency payments, and bonds, calling the approach a puzzling government finance game. It questions why deficits and interest are needed to pay bills in currency. It accuses leading financiers of tax evasion in 1930–32 and urges public heat via votes to reform.
Wallace markets stabilize beer pricing across Iowa Fairmont and Minneapolis areas. Iowa rate is 15 cents, Fairmont two for a quarter, Minneapolis three for a quarter, with limited access to Minneapolis for many residents.
The article notes July as a time when couples return from romantic fantasies to reality. It describes aspiring brides and enthusiastic grooms easing back to earth, shedding ideas of cheap combined living, cottage life, and the lingering stickiness of early love.
The Globe Gazette outlines a surge of about 3,000,000 young beginners entering the workforce from schools and colleges. It urges persistent job seeking, walking into businesses, and taking any suitable work despite low initial pay. The piece notes many will farm, some stay home, and others fill new vacancies as industries adjust to shortages. Local notes mention Harley Larsen visiting Clarion, a $25 bootlegger reward by Ernest Hand, and Alice and Elsie Nelson visiting Crystal Lake relatives.
Thirty years ago Mr and Mrs Dick Sprecker welcomed a baby girl born July 9. Field Day at Buffalo Center and a purse of 100 dollars for the Indians versus Swea City. Edith Jaspers visiting the Smiths. Heeren family visiting Janssen. Mae McDermott wins a Bancroft beauty prize. Mrs Ladendorf ill. doctors attend. E R Woolridge resigns as Queal yards manager to join Libertyville National Bank. Mission test at Reformed church July 9 with Revs Bode Johnson Barney. County institute attendance at Algona. Bob Young visits Hutchins to run a general store. A cradle yields a boy, a satirical lifespan of a publisher. John Spear buys the Dick Spear estate farm for 8000 dollars.
Twenty years ago Wm. McDermott sold a car of hogs to Schram & Pannhuk for 8.50. Fred and Mrs Amesbury left for California. Geo. Larsen’s son had an appendectomy. A Green County pool hall owner paid fines for minor access. Herman Carlson bought 280 acres near Titonka for 25000. First gravel cars arrived for Titonka streets. Wm. Taylor visits to rent his farm. Geo. S. Hansen tenants. Adolph Greger’s St Paul trip for poultry work. A two year old died after injury from a cultivator. a five year old broke an arm. Bank sales and resignations reshaped Titonka finance. J. Cosgrove resigns, bank reorganized with Sullivan & McMahan and E. J. Murtagh steering.
A Friday evening moonlight gathering on the river banks near Dean M. E. Church celebrated Miss Myrtle Beane and Mr Herbert Callies. Chaperoned by H. C. Armstrong and M. Ss. Hudson with wives, attendees enjoyed roasted weiners and peanuts.
The Christian Science churches plan a Sunday Lesson-Sermon on reality with the Golden Text from Psalms 33:11 and selections from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy. The lesson emphasizes God as All-in-all, divine Principle, Love, and the universal cause with no other self-existence, reflecting the real and eternal.
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