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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
4
A Fifth grade student brings enthusiastic drawings back to town. The visit features a display and local interest in the young artist's work.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a plan for a future working notice and rules about children. The readable content is incomplete and provides no coherent event, date, or named entities to summarize with confidence.
The narrator travels from Brunswick into Georgia and Florida, describing turpentine country, sap harvesting, and long road hours. They visit St. Augustine, noting Ponce de Leon’s legend and the spring of youth, then Orlando, Lake Wales with the Singing Tower, Palm Beach, Miami, Daytona Beach, and Ormond Beach, savoring scenery and climate shifts.
A fragmented travel letter from a northerner recalls scenic drives through Pinehurst and Southern Pines in North Carolina, Raleigh, and Washington, with hopeful nostalgia for the South. The piece shifts to agricultural news about the 1939 State Fair corn show, detailing hybrid and open pollinated classes, prize structures, district divisions, and prize totals, including 496 dollars in total awards plus banners and plaques.
The Iowa State Fair emphasizes hybrid corn with ten of eighteen classes linked to the crop. Harl Ferris, head of the fair’s agriculture department, announced today that since over half of Iowa’s corn is hybrid, the fair board has streamlined the program for the year.
Drury will assume duties at Wistar College Stott Lake Iowa starting September 1. He arrived in LeMars in 1936 from Wimball Nebraska high school. A former Iowa State Teachers College athlete, he earned a 1932 master’s degree from Columbia University. Edith Collins testified that her husband George Collins, a New York University professor, showed affection only two or three times a year due to absent mindedness.
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