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Newspaper
Bayard News
Location
Bayard, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1942
Page
4
Fragmentary notes discuss feeding pigs with clover and pasture forage. Mentions of pestures and seed planting, gradual feeding shifts, and transfer to pasture with minimal harm remain ambiguous due to garbled text. No clear event or entities can be confirmed.
Iowa farmers led the nation in poultry cash income for 1941 with eggs and chickens contributing a combined 85.7 million dollars. Egg and chicken sales totaled 50.5 million dollars, turkey income reached 5.4 million, while overall poultry cash receipts stood at 43.7 million in the state. The USDA forecasts higher poultry income for 1942.
The Iowa department reports a rise in personal crisis incidents this year, driven by job opportunities across industries. Data show 0 reports through February 1942 versus 193 in the same period in 1941, with totals for 1940 and 1941 higher. Fatal methods include explosives, hanging, poisoning, and cutting tools, while other cases span various causes. A separate note recounts a $1 heist incident where Ray Andersen found the silver dollar in a store, later returning it after logging the event.
Dr John C Gross of the Methodist boards urges trained Christian leaders for future national order and peace. He stresses college paths for gifted youth and outlines Presbyterian and Catholic studies on peace, wartime aid, and postwar reconstruction across campuses and churches.
Mr. and Mrs. Sport Laurence welcomed a baby boy on May 26 weighing 10 pounds. The town reports various Decoration Day visits with residents from Des Moines Adair Ames Ogden Guthrie Center and other locales visiting relatives and friends around the celebration.
Mary Ellen Pulver spent Friday with Virinia Kohst at the Orla Kosht home in Bagley. Several families visited relatives in Des Moines and at local homes for Decoration Day. John Moylan visited two weeks with his parents before resuming work at Creighton College. Jes and other residents attended gatherings, dinners, and bridge games across Perry and surrounding towns, including Coon Rapids, Carroll, and Des Moines.
All Over Iowa reports Clarinda Senior Boy Scouts sponsor bicycle schools teaching riding rules and safety. The piece adds notes on family sports ties, including Kellogg and Montezuma baseball rosters featuring Sutherland Braley offspring and Virgil Cole’s cycling injuries and repeated arm breaks. It also covers Dale Smith’s four year patent grant for an ambulance bed carriage and Joseph Sibert’s World War II enlistment pattern across two brothers Archie and Joe Jr.
John A. Meyer, serving his first term as sheriff, will run unopposed in both the primary and general elections. Fred Wooten of Ogden acknowledged Mother’s Day by presenting cakes to mothers with the most sons in the U S Armed Forces and to the eldest registered mother. The text also includes a fragment about age and enlistment notes involving Zi.
Seven year old Charles McClain of Corydon fell from a baled hay pile fracturing his elbow. He rode home, reported the injury, and later X rays confirmed the fracture while he remained calm during setting and splinting.
Walt and Jim received their diplomas at the high school graduation exercises. Paul and Dulles Peyton, Logan’s brothers, recently arrived in an Australian port. Both boys are sons of Mr and Mrs H L Peyton and are in the United States Navy.
Wanted ad offers living on Battles farm southeast of Bayard to raise chickens on shares. Contact A. Battles at phone 648, Jeffe Tixa. Also notes a business opp and debt collection service listings with Iowa locations.
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