Shoots Animals Destroying Corn and Local News Notes
Local column reports ground squirrel predation on corn and preference against poison bait due to wildlife. several graduates listed from area schools. visits and family events noted across Crawfordsville region. upcoming Snowball Social hosted by Mrs George Dare on June 5. Community discussions include spending on a Rhodebeck to Twin Bridges mile project and calls for farm to market road funding.
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Harry Campbell
Jess Radda
D. C. Griggs
Pearl Mackey
Lloyd
New Jersey
Duane
Russell Grieg
Missouri
Richard Knupp
Evan Fishburn
Bill Finke
Richard Edmund
Jeanie Campbell
Will Edgar
Mr. Edgar
Crawfordsy
Patty Edgar
Clarence Fulton
Crawfordsville
Robert Wead
Brighton
George Dare
Homer Mayer
Gerald Graff
Bill Edgar
Rhodebeck
Twin Bridges
Big Bridge
Red Knight of Germany Leads Dunkirk Raid Foe
General Wolfram von Richtofen, cousin of famed ace Manfred von Richtofen, serves as co commander of German squadrons raiding Dunkirk. Baron Richtofen, known as the Red Knight of Germany, was killed late in World War I after downing numerous air antagonists.
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Wolfram von Richtofen
Baron Manfred von Richtofen
Dunkirk
Baron Richtofen
Red Knight
Germany
Sick Hogs And Vaccination Urgency In Community
A local note reports many sick hogs prompting a push to vaccinate. Seth Thomas and family visited Stanley Fishburn at the former family farm home. A separate anecdote describes the Fishburns killing rats with the help of a cat and a doe, collecting twenty seven rats the next morning.
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Seth Thomas
Stanley Fishburn
Fishburn
Tommy
Price of Delivered Logs Increases in Past Forty Years
Sawmill owner Charley Brown reports log delivery prices at $15 per thousand board feet for stump lengths and $20 for logs cut to length delivered to owners. Yard-delivered logs stood at $5 per thousand forty years ago. Community notes include election canvassing and bids for a school furnace replacement in Ainsworth, Iowa, with June 11, 1940 bid deadline.
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Alvin C. Hasty
Homestead Farm
Charley Brown
Wellman Saw Mill
John Blakely
Elmer Adams
Santa Barbara
Cal
Washington County
Ted Bailey
Mr. Bailey
English River Township
Abram Bailey
Ted
Richmond
Bailey Brothers
Stanly Kiesey
Ode Ferguson
English River
Kelsey
M Perguscon
Sweetheart’s bladonna draws seekers to Pompeii village
Twenty minutes from Pompeii lies Valle di Pompeii a quiet village attracting thousands of Italian visitors each year. Locals report a Sweetheart’s bladonna that answers prayers for those seeking a spouse or lover amid the shrine-like setting.
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Pompeii
Valle di Pompeii
Bladonna
Butter-Nut Coffee Contest Grand Prize Winner Named
Miss Gladys V. Uncelman of Bismarck North Dakota was announced as the Butter-Nut Coffee grand prize winner with her entry stating I Use Butter-Nut Coffee because. The letter completed the statement and twenty four other cash prizes and portable radios were awarded to other entrants in the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys V. Uncelman
Bismarck
N. D
Unzelman
Grasshoppers Tracked by Red Brand Trace Migration
Arizona agriculture workers tagged 50 000 grasshoppers with red pigment to map their movements. The follow up attempt was not repeated as none of the red branded grasshoppers returned or were seen again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona Department of Agriculture
Understanding Alternating and Direct Current
The text defines alternating current as reversing direction periodically and rapidly, while direct current flows in one direction only. It presents the basic difference between AC and DC.
German Schoolboys Start Soccer At Age Ten After Ban
German officials reintroduce soccer into the school curriculum after a period of prohibition. The program aims to promote physical education and urban youth engagement, restoring a sport once suppressed by prior government policy.
Duet by a Soloist Promised with New Voice-Changing Instrument
An electrical manufacturing company announces a device to alter a singer's voice from male to female or vice versa. The development enables one person to perform a duet with himself using the instrument.
Uncommon Americans Father of Chicago Whistler’s Wartime Feats
John Whistler born 1758 in Ireland to English parents rose from British soldier to lieutenant adjuvant in the American levies, helped found Fort Dearborn at Chicago, and became a P O W twice, later linking to artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler. A rare cross between British and American military fates, his story marks an unusual exchange of powers.
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Ireland
John Whistler
John
America
Burgoyne
Johnny
Saratoga
England
Hagerstown
Old England
New Republic
St. Clair, Wayne
Detroit
Lake Michigan
Whistler
Fort Dearborn
Chicago
Hull
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Western Newspaper Union
Cipher Expert Col George Fabyan on Secret Codes
Col George Fabyan, a noted cipher expert, said no message in secret code is unreadable. He warned that Baconian biliteral ciphers, devised about 300 years ago, are the most dangerous due to their infinite variations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fabyan
Francis Bacon
Iowa Will of Violetta Rohrer Filed for Probate
In Washington County Iowa the last will and testament of Violetta Rohrer deceased dated October 19 1933 has been filed opened and set for proof hearing at 9 00 A M on Monday June 19 1940 at the Washington Court House before the District Court or clerk Interested parties must appear to show cause why the instrument should not be probated and allowed as the will By order of R R Noonan Clerk of the District Court dated Washington Iowa
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Stan
Ode
Ferguson
Clarice Meek
Iowa
Washington County
Violetta Rohrer
Court House
Washington
District Court
R R. Noonan
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