Local Social Notes Highlight Travel and Visits Across Towns
Mr and Mrs Glenn Freeland return to St Louis with plans for Mrs Freeland to wed Mr Charles Hoyt and daughter near Brookfield moves for employment. Green City hosts a Friday celebration with several families visiting. Numerous relatives travel to Chicago Kansas City St Louis and Detroit while students and residents join honor roll additions and post office staffing news.
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Glenn Freeland
St. Louis
W. F. Roach
Don Elders
E. E. Harris
St. Joseph
Raymond Hatch
Detroit
Mich
Wayne Stufflebean
F. E. Reyner
Helen Gooch
Chicago
Eva Biswell
Woodrow Slater
Jennie Slater
Vernon Norvell
C.C. Norvell
Mary Taylor
Aubry Myers
Kansas City
Julia
Lora Myers
Julia Myers
Elmer
Carlos Harris
Moline
John Allen Martin
Garnelle Falconer
Chillicothe
Ben Peterson
Ray Duane
Bernard Browning
John Browning
Bernard
New Pest Attacks Local Corn Stalks
George Prather shows a corn stalk with top blades drying and the plant dying as small maggot like worms cut the roots. The field is waist high and many veteran growers have not seen this problem before, leaving Prather at a loss on controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Prather
Prather
Dickinson items recount social visits and storm damage
T S C Lambert visited Dan Gray on Thursday afternoon. Ethel Swisegood and son Max called on Edna Lambert. Several people traveled to Marceline the night of the fourth. Pvt Allen Lambert of Fort Leonard Wood spent the weekend with relatives. Numerous local families hosted and toured nearby towns. A severe rain and wind storm hit Sunday evening causing extensive tree and fruit damage with an inch of rain falling quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. S. C. Lambert
Dan Gray
Ethel Swisegood
Max
Edna Lambert
Marceline
Pvt
Allen Lambert
Fort Leonard Wood
Geo. Spencer
Oda Spencer
Alex Purdin
Robert Lambert
Lizzie Head
Alice Johns
Kansas City
Marion Head
Purdin
Brookfield
Chas. Schreiner
John Longwell
Eugene Jacobs
Chillicothe
Alumni Visit Shapes Graduates View of the Future
A reflection on how alumni visiting during commencements influence graduates outlooks on the future. The piece notes graduates often underestimate upcoming opportunities and challenges after college.
Soy Beans Rise in Value and Demand in 1941
The article notes soy beans reaching 1.40 a bushel in June 1941, nearly doubling in value in a year. It highlights soy oil’s wide uses from soap to plastics and states production is increasing as world demand grows, with Chicago market quotes placing soybeans above wheat and corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Chicago
Farmers Grow Acreage as Oats Prices Rise
Farmers expanded their oat planting area and profits rose as market prices stayed above one dollar per bushel, boosting incomes and farm wealth across regions.
Aluminum cookware ad hints at rationing mindset
A Browning reader reflects on aluminum shortages and potential rationing. The piece likens aluminum pots to airplanes and urges households to endure, noting Americans’ appetite for comfort and imagining life without electric power, lamps, or electric shavers.
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Exchange
Browning
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Ola Belcher
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G. C. Rhodes
Joe Street
Icy Street
Herman
A Woodworth
Dora Atkins
Maxine Riley
E. W. Riley
Maggie Wykoff
J. C. Browning
Vera Lay
D. G. Freeland
Albert Maggart
W. F. Peters
Gertie Crooks
Mollie Cordray
Clifford Fanning
John Tucker
Clarence Blackman
Ross Riddle
W. A. Bundies
Frederick Remick
S. J. Bartow
Ruth Lawrence
B. H. Slater
Edgar Shepherd
Clive Hoskins
Ernie Warren
C. J. Ingraham
Fred Lumsden
J E. Brown
W. E. Guyer
Arthur Mundell
W. E. Duckworth
J. J.dodson
Cecil Taylor
H. A. Cotter
R. W. Elliott
Helen Gable
Ida Purdin
E. L. Arnold
J. Gooch
L. C. Lantz
Ida McCollum
Glenn Gooch
Oliver Lay
Hazel Vincent
W. J. VanHorn
Dickinson
Raymond Browning
Wilma
Triplett
Ernest Pearler
Brunswick
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