Iowa Gasoline Pump Checks Prove Fair Play Sought
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture M G Thornburg denies motorists are cheated by short measurements. Pumps are licensed and inspected at intervals, with most stations self checking. He warns that no state gasoline standard exists and calls for a minimum standard to ensure fair play and pricing.
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Iowa
M. G. Thornburg
Chicago
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Thornburg
Mr. Thornburg
Commercial Corn Class Offered at Ames Show
Growers of commercial corn can compete at the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers show in Ames Iowa in January. Eighty pound crib run samples will be judged with liberal prizes. Samples must be scooped from a crib holding 300 bushels and supervised by a county agent or local elevator to ensure representativeness. Interested producers should contact Joe L. Robinson Secretary Ames Iowa for rules.
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Iowa Corn and
Ames
Joe L. Robinson
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association
Iowa
Books Donated to the Library by H. H. Lock
A list of books donated to the library by H. H. Lock includes titles across history fiction travel religion and biographies. Notable names appear such as The House of the Seven Gables Treasure Island and The Grafters among others.
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H. H. Lock
Ira B. Wilson
J. W. Hanson
Hamilton W. Mabie
William T. Ellis
W. 4. Milburn
Spain
Marshall Everett
Nathaniel Clawthorn
Green Mounuain Beys
Foot Hills
Jarry Castleman
Treasure Island
Stevenson
Shakespeare
Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Silas Marned
Eliot
Miles Standish
Longfellow
Mary Johnston
Aunt Jane
Kentucky
Tiliza c. Hall
Frances Lynde
Irving Bachellor
Harold MacGrath
Peru
Prescott
W. Churchill
John Halifax
Mulock
Dorothy
Charles Foster
Boone
E. S. Ellis
Our Home
Sargent
T. H. Burnett
Rooosevelt
Day Hosts Banquet for 1928 Football Squad
Superintendent C. E. Day hosted a banquet at the Lockin hotel for Coach Anderson and the 1928 football squad. Placards with football drawings marked seats as the three course meal was served. After talks by Day and Anderson, Horace Loeckin was elected captain of the 1928 team with Orvis Red Halder ness named captain as well.
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Orvis “Red” Halderness
Thanksgiving Morning Wedding at Webster City
Olive Dick and Frank Floyd wed on Thanksgiving morning in Webster City Iowa with Kew Collins of the M E church officiating They traveled to Des Moines to visit relatives before returning to their new home with Mrs Dick and Mr Floyd The Sentinel joins friends in offering congratulations.
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M. A. Dick
Olive
Frank Floyd
Webster City
Iowa
Kew. Collins
M. E. Church
Des Moines
Mrs. Floyd
Mrs. Dick
the Sentinel
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C. E. Bush
Oo. B. East
City Market and Grocery
Everett Building
Aurelia Bakery & Cafe
Ames Show
Garnituse
G. R. Wharton
T. Lynde
J. Fenimore Cooper
Wm. McKinley
Murat Talstead
Rev
T. DeWitt Talmage
Charles Eugene Banks
Day
Voss
Rapp Hardware CO
Aurelia, Iowa
Frank Lewis
Aurelia
Cherokee
Peterson
John Deere
Emerson
McCormick-Deering
Emerson Gang
Litchfield
Mccormick
Concord
Lyman & Son, Aucts
Jim W. Brown
First Nat, Bank
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