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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
8
W. L. Woodall relocates from Wiota to Anita and will be employed at the Walnut Grove Company plant in the town.
Edger R. Holt describes 1859 era traffic on the Missouri River aboard the Omaha, a Sioux City packet boat. The ships boasted up to 46 state rooms, fine furnishings, nurseries for children, entertainment like pianos and a string orchestra, and social dancing. Passengers included frontiersmen playing poker while crews stocked cargo for gold miners, with Wilcox recommending a long outfitting list heavy on whiskey and provisions.
A USDA produced milk for health film features Walter Johnson of the 1924 champions as a model of milk’s benefits for pitchers. Shot before the 1925 season opener at American League Park Washington DC, Johnson praises clean milk and good diet while recalling Kansas origins and family milk habits.
A reflective verse laments the end of joyous revelry at a polished bar. It contrasts schooners and foam with brimming steins replaced by termilk as Volstead era gloom masks earlier pleasures and songs.
J. Doubenmier of Seeley Colorado and his bride formerly Miss Obera Petit visited Anita this week. They were returning from a honeymoon trip by auto and spent a day visiting relatives and friends.
The Blue Valley Creamery Institute reports twenty five percent of Cass county farm hens do not pay a board and should not be carried over as layers. It recommends culling nonlayers by checking pelvic bone width and vent moisture to identify non laying birds, noting July August failures predict poor winter layers.
C W Williams once famed for a kite shaped track at Independence Iowa where Allerton and Axtell set world records lives in Aurora Illinois on a fine farm with Herefords. He sold the horses for fabulous prices and invested in Canadian lands then became an Evangelist after a Billy Sunday rally. Kenneth Dean and wife return from a summer in South Dakota.
Martin Brehmer of Lincoln township provided the editor of the Record with the first fall pumpkin pie piece. The pie is described as an unusually fine specimen of fresh fall pumpkin material left at the office Friday.
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation reports Iowa has the highest farmer representation in state government with 31 farmers in the Senate and 68 in the House from a 158 member legislature, amid a 46 percent farm population. Nationwide, 30 percent farm population yields 5 senators and 21 representatives.
Audubon county farmer Wm Esbeck reports pigs at Extra prefer sweet clover for pasture over a twenty acre alfalfa field. During peak heat they cross the alfalfa to reach the sweet clover noting juiciness and palatability in dry weather. After alfalfa regrew, pigs shifted back to alfalfa.
Miss Caroline Haist, famed in Anita, now Denver resident, is spending weeks in Cass and Adair counties visiting relatives and friends.
An elderly New York farmer at a Binghamton picnic observes the dance crowd. He quips that some ladies' clothes resemble a barb wire fence, arguing they protect property yet block the view.
The Rock Island railway company announced this week a reduction of staff across sections out of Anita, with three employees cut from the east section, two from the west section, and two from the two sections combined.
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