Squirrels Target Corn Pests Draw Local Attention
Mrs. Harry Campbell notes ground squirrels and gray squirrels devastate corn fields, preferring not to use poison bait due to birds. Neighbors discuss community happenings from graduations to visits, with social plans and concern over municipal spending on a Rhodebeck to Twin Bridges project.
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Jess Radda
D. C. Griggs
Pearl Mackey
Lloyd
New Jersey
Duane
Russell Griggs
Missouri
Red Knight’s Kin Leads German Dunkirk Raids
General Wolfram von Richtofen, cousin of famed WWI ace Manfred von Richtofen, co commands German squadrons raiding Dunkirk. Baron Richtofen, known as the Red Knight, died late WWI after downing more enemy aircraft than any other ace.
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Dunkirk
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Red Knight
Germany
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Sick Hogs Prompt Vaccination Effort in Community
In a local note, many sick hogs prompt a push to vaccinate as residents worry for animal health. Seth Thomas and family visited the Stanley Fishburn home, connected to the former Seth Thomas farm. The Fishburns reported a rat problem at the chicken house, resolved only after cats and a dog helped reduce the rat population.
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Seth Thomas
Stanley Fishburn
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Price of Delivered Logs Increases in Past Forty Years
A Homestead Farm item notes Charley Brown of Wellman cuts and delivers saw logs at 15 dollars per thousand board feet if logs are stump lengths and 20 dollars if cut and delivered. Yard price for delivered logs runs five dollars per thousand. The piece covers local logging pricing shifts over four decades and mentions bids for a school furnace replacement in Ainsworth, Iowa.
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Sweetheart’s Fladonna Draws Lovers From Across Italy
In the Valle di Pompeii a village known to locals, Sweetheart’s Fladonna is said to answer prayers for those seeking mates. The site lies about twenty minutes from Pompeii and hosts thousands of Italian visitors yearly.
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Walt
Pompeii
Valle di Pompeii
Fladonna
Miss Gladya Unzelman Wins Butter Nut Grand Prize
Gladya V. Unzelman of Bismarck North Dakota has been named the Butter Nut Coffee grand prize winner. Her submitted letter completed the statement Llite Butter Nut Coffee b cause and was judged the best among all entries. Twenty four additional cash prizes and portable radios were awarded to other contestants.
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Bismarck
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Grasshoppers Tracked by Red Brand Policy Halted
Arizona Department of Agriculture tagged 80 000 grasshoppers with red pigment to trace migrations, but the project was not repeated after none of the branded insects returned or were seen again.
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Arizona Department of Agriculture
Definition of Alternating and Direct Current
The text explains alternating current as reversing direction periodically and rapidly and direct current as flowing in one direction only. It defines the two basic electrical current types and contrasts their flow directions.
Germans Reintroduce Soccer Into School Curriculum
German schoolboys begin playing soccer at age ten as the government restores the sport to the curriculum, after a period of bans. The move signals renewed emphasis on physical education and organized team play within schools.
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Treeerby Ctu
Instrument to swap voices lets a man sing as a woman
An electrical manufacturing firm announces an instrument that can alter a singer’s voice from male to female and vice versa so one person could perform a duet with themselves.
Uncommon Americans Father of Chicago John Whistler
The 18th century English soldier John Whistler fled to America, fought at Saratoga, and after a varied career founded Fort Dearborn in Chicago. He later surrendered Fort Dearborn to Hull and then again to the British, becoming a rare cross‑gen hero linked to James McNeill Whistler.
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Fabyan on Secret Codes and Bacon Biliteral Cipher
Col George Fabyan, famed cipher expert, stated he has yet to find a message in secret code that cannot be read. He said the biliteral cipher, devised about 390 years ago by Sir Francis Bacon, is the most dangerous for its infinite variation.
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George Fabyan
Francis Bacon
Notice of Will Probate in Washington Iowa
An instrument purporting to be the last will of Violetta Rohrer, dated October 19, 1932, was filed and opened for hearing in Washington County District Court on June 10, 1940. Interested parties must appear at 9:00 AM at the Washington Court House to show cause why the will should not be probated.
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Ainsworth
Washington
Dorothy Smylie
Iowa
Wathington County
Violetta Rohrer
District Court
Said County
R. R. Noonan
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