Who Lifted the Lids in the Canning Cap Caper
A humorous reminiscence on jar lid shortages and the Teapot Dome era satire. Neighbors argue over free enterprise and supply demand while Sid and Ol Fuz chase lids across states from Illinois to Minnesota. The letter ends with a space mission joke and a weather note.
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Sid
Mrs. Fox
Mrs. Dean
Ol’ Fitz
Fitz
Ol’ Fuz
Ol Fuaz
Mrs. Olson
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Fort Worth
Reno
P.S
Farm Bureau names Nelson and Waggoner replacements
Iowa Farm Bureau announces Dale W. Nelson will become secretary treasurer and executive director while Leo Waggoner will assume administrative director duties effective January 1. Nelson, 56, and Waggoner, 54, rise after long agency service. their appointments follow retirement of Kenneth Thatcher who led the organization since 1948 and 1973 in various posts.
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Des Moines
Dale W. Nelson
Iowa Farm Bureau
Leo Waggoner
Kenneth Thatcher
J. Merrill Anderson
Farm Bureau
Thatcher
Nelson
Dayton
University of Iowa
Farm Bureau Life Insurance
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Companies
Beef Improvement Corp
Agricultural Business Corp
Challenger Investment Fund
The
Minnesota Farm Bureau
Waggoner
Anamosa
Iowa State
Tobacco Plant Grows in Iowa on One Home Garden Plant
Alva Lynch of Union Grove near Gladbrook home grows what may be Iowa’s only tobacco plant this year. He brought the teacup seed from the Southeast after a Winston-Salem visit, and the plant rose from three inches in May to a predicted five feet, with pink trumpet buds between leaves and on top.
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Alva Lynch
Gladbrook
Union Grove Lake
Iowa
Lynch
United States
Winston-Salem
N.C
Allis-Chalmers CA
John Deere
Lilliston
Glencoe
Case
Oliver
Ford
Wagner
Koyker
Lindsay
Ford Tractor
M&w
Carl Decker
Wayne Miller
Independence
Ed Wessels
Farmers State Savings Bank
Backroad Diary Reflections From Decorah Nordic Fest
A vivid memoir fragment describes a Ridgeway area team of sorrel draft horses drawing a hay wagon at Nordic Fest. The author recalls past rural life, memories of Tom Thompson’s farm, and a nostalgic meditation on progress and happiness amid mechanical change.
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Decorah
Ridgeway
Doris and
Aherns
Delaware
Kansas
Nebraska
Tenure Nativity and Age in Iowa Agriculture 1850 1880
Coe College graduate and former associate professor Cogswell authors a study using census records of over 12 000 farms to show how land tenancy age and birthplace shaped farmer responses to prairie agriculture changes. The work argues renting land served as a gateway to eventual ownership. published by Iowa State University Press.
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Seddie Cogswell
Coe College
Cedar Rapids School
Iowa
Iowa State University Press
Ames
Cogswell
Iowa corn crop hit by rootworm beetles says ISU expert
ISU extension entomologist Harold Stockdale says rootworm beetles feed on emerging corn silks delaying pollination in many late maturing fields. He notes pollen must land on exposed silks at the ear tip and that as few as five beetles per silk can stop growth under moisture stress, impeding fertilization.
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Ames
UPI
Iowa
Iowa State University
Harold Stockdale
ISU Extension
Stockdale
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Cedares
Sun
Muddy Manor
Nelson Background
Wayne County
Cumming
American Red Angus
Iowa Beef Improvement Associations
By Dale Ahern
Winneshiek County
Tom Thompson
Thompson
Little Rock Road
Iowa State House
Washington
Thompson Barn
Tom
Coe Graduate Studies
Tenancy
San Francisco State University
M. Feder & Sons
Gus
Anthony Angus Corporation
Lamont
Highway 187
Farm News
Delaware County
Blanche Swindell
Manchester
Ryan
Coggan
Blacktop
Robinson
Adams Township
Section 7
Improvements Farm
R.E.A
Ryan Telepone
Masonville
North Linn
Acre-Inspectio
Delaware County District Court
Monticello State Bank
Monticello
Thomas H. Tracy
Wesley Waterhouse
Central City
Marvin Waterhouse
Tom Funke
OWA
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