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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1928
Page
8
The Anita Iowa town election yielded five hundred twelve votes. Councilmen listed include J T Monnig and W H Schultz with others. City Health officer G M Adair elected for two years. Board of Review adjourned to April 3 1928 at 7 30 PM.
The article from Blue Valley Creamery stresses two key practices to lower butterfat production costs. It urges feeding cows suited to their production, while prioritizing careful manure management to keep soil fertility high and manure value restored quickly to fields.
A Cedar Rapids and Clinton candy firm uses vast raw materials for its well known bar. February and March shipments reach 32 car loads of the bar. The operation moves about 18 000 carloads yearly including 9 000 outbound finished products with large inputs of sugar chocolate milk corn syrup peanuts and other items. The plant accounts for one fifth of US peanut production.
A New York schoolboy declares George Washington was the first man but the teacher notes Adam as first. The boy retorts that if discussing foreigners, that is different.
Glenn McCoy left his automobile on Des Moines streets without tail lights. Municipal judge Zeuch dismissed the case, ruling the motor vehicle law not violated by a stationary car. McCoy’s defense cited the Harlan vs Kraschel decision, arguing the statute requires movement or use, not a stationary vehicle.
A young man tells a lecturer he enjoyed the talk though he was not present. He explains he bought tickets for his girlfriend’s parents, and they attended in his stead. The exchange highlights a humorous misunderstanding about attendance and appreciation.
Miss Mildred Walker a teacher in Eagle Grove schools Iowa and her brother Max Walker a student at Iowa State College Ames are spending the Easter vacation in Anita at the home of their parents Mr and Mrs V U S S Walker.
The Blue Valley Creamery Institute cites experiments from the Iowa station showing purebred dairy bulls raise annual milk from 4 110 to 5 825 pounds and butterfat from B pounds to 266. Three-quarter pure bred daughters reach 8 106 pounds milk and 865 pounds butterfat, underscoring the value of purebred sires for profit.
The April 2, 1928 Anita Iowa town council session approved minutes and treasurer reports, listed numerous bills paid, and decided fire truck limits. J T Monnig was sworn in as mayor with the council and officers taking oath. committees were named and town clerk and city attorney appointed.
Sandy McPherson tried to sell a race horse to Abie for 500. The deal collapse leads to a dead horse and a novel remedy. Abie raffles 500 tickets at two dollars each, promises to return the buyer’s two dollars, and keeps the prize money.
Miss Winifred R. Tilden of Iowa State College urges proper standing and alignment to prevent hollow backs and protruding abdomens. She prescribes a wall contact routine tightening abdominal and buttock muscles to flatten the spine, rotate the pelvis, and improve posture for all ages.
A lighthearted exchange centers on a new radio purchase with a basic plan. The woman notes the radio cost and monthly price while the man pokes at the duration, revealing a humorous miscommunication about the term of the agreement.
A Milford widow thanks neighbors for aid during her husband's illness and death, noting her sale of a good milking cow and a roan gelding eight years old. She describes plowed garden plots ready for seed and comments on household duties and spring work amid local hardship.
Nursery stock offered by Snyder Nursery Atlantic Iowa includes apple trees five to six feet high at fifty cents each cherry and plum trees sixty cents each evergreens two years old for wind break and ornamentals grapes fifteen cents each or 1.50 per dozen one-year currants and gooseberries mastodon ever-bearing strawberry plants two dollars per hundred and other items write for wants and 1928 price list located on Highway 32 cemetery pavement Seventh St Atlantic Iowa.
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