“Accordin’ to the almanac,” as shared by Grandpappy Spears
- In January 1937 Keokuk, Ioway had a plus-one variation in it’s magnetic declination.
- Bristol, Tennessee is 1,680 feet above sea level.
- Bozeman, Montana is 4,755 feet above sea level.
- In 1936 there was 1,784 votes cast for Landen in Ramsey, North Dakota.
- The 1930 census gives Red Lodge, Montana 3,026 population.
- Hubert Utterback was on the Democratic National Committee in 1939.
- The center of the state of Alabama is Chilton, 20 miles southwest of Clanton.
- On Tuesday, December 1, 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, the sun rose at 6:44 a.m. and set at 4:54 p.m.
- Colors used for automobile license plates in 1936:
- black on orange — Californy
- white on blue — Coloraydo
- gold on blue — Connecticut
- white on red — Floridy
- The coldest temperatures in 1936:
- New York City: -14
- Milwaukee: -25
- Kansas City, Missouri: -22
- The United States had 731 bicycle shops in 1935.
- G.N. Collins was president of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry in 1936.
- The fastest the wind blowed in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1936 was 57 miles an hour. It blowed 54 miles an hour in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Beaver Bridge over the Ohio River in Pennsylvania has got a span of 769 feet. Red Rock Bridge has a span of 660 feet.
- The four-man team that took first place in the 1936 North American Bobsled Race on February 22-23 was A. Wells, K. Gelbock, M. Luck, and J. Otis. The two-man team was M. Monahan, Jr. and W. Morrison.
- The lifespan of the rhinoceros is 40-50 years.
- The lifespan of the elephant is 150-200 years.
- Roanoke College beat William and Mary 13-0 in a football game in 1936.
- There were 160 farms in Hamilton County, New York in 1930.
- Upper Sandusky, Ohio increased its population by 180 from 1920 to 1930.
- McNamara and Van Kempen won the 6-day bicycle race in 1924.
- Sam Atchison & Walter Stoolery of Memphis won the National YMCA Doubles Four-Wall Handball Championship in 1936.
- Annie Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a barrel on October 24, 1901.
- Bobby Leach went over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1911.
- Jean Lussier of Springfield, Massachusetts went over Niagara Falls in a 728 pound rubber ball.
- [Ad in the back.] Become a man of muscle in 30 days. Develop a perfect physi-cue with the new Marvo exercise machine. Why be ashamed to be seen in a bathing suit when just 15 minutes a day on the Marvo will give you rippling muscles and untold strength? Melvin Elkins of Staten Island, New York writ a letter here sayin’ “The Marvo machine increased my biceps six inches in one week. It made a new man out of me.”
- Steven Lysak won the one-man single-blade national canoeing championship in 1936.
- The Hooker telescope on Mount Wilson, California has a concave mirror 100 inches in diameter.
- A partial eclipse of the moon will be visible at Washington November 1937.
- $3,265,144 worth of sausage casings was produced in Illinois in 1939.
- The hydraulic turbine was invented in 1849.
- Earle Meadows won the pole-vaulting championship in 1936.
- Marshall Wayne was the platform diving champion in 1936 Olympic Games.
- Dr. P. O’Callaghan of Ireland throwed the hammer 176 feet, 11 1/8 inches in 1932. He throwed it in 1928, too. It was a 16 pound hammer. (“It don’t say why. It just says he done it. And the almanac always tells the truth.”)
- A feller named Shams of Egypt won the 148-pound weight-lifting championship in the two-hands clean and jerk class. “World’s Records in Weight Lifting Officially Accepted by International Weight Lifting Federation.” The feller hisself weighed 148 pounds. He lifted 151 kilos.
