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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1948
Page
14
Dialogue excerpt shows voters discussing party leanings and candidate choices. Citizens reference Democrats and Republicans while naming Beardsley and Gillette as preferred governor and senator candidates. The casual exchange highlights local political sentiment.
Dr James H Steele reports undulant fever now 60 times more prevalent than 20 years ago. He cites 1928 cases under 100 and last year over 6000 reported. Other major threats named are sleeping sickness and rabies as the PHS calls for control of bovine mastitis and related dairy illnesses.
A closing out sale announces livestock, farm machinery and miscellaneous items from a sold farm. The sale is held one mile south of Toddville and one mile west of highway 150, six miles north of Cedar Rapids, turning west at the foot of Singer.
Rex Conn reports from the All Iowa fair with H A Willenbrock a 58 year old farmer owning 125 acres near Marengo. He notes strong yields on Clinton oats and high milk returns from two Holstein cows while praising artificial breeding and purebred herds in Cedar Rapids.
Final plans for the Benton county air tour were announced by District Conservationalist Emerson Wolfe in Marion. The event starts Friday at 8 a.m. at the William Fry farm near Van Horne and runs until 5 p.m. The farm serves as headquarters and landing field for 30 minute aerial tours of soil conservation practices. Two tours are planned: Van Horne west to the county line and Belle Plaine east to Luzerne and Blairstown, and a second to Shellsburg Vinton Garrison. Maps will be available on the ground and in planes to show routes and participating farms.
A barn on the R. G. Kinsley farm near McGregor burned after a lightning strike during a brief rain storm. Twenty tons of hay and straw were lost. no livestock were harmed. A corncrib and two straw stacks were saved by McGregor firefighters. Estimated loss: $3,000.
Spontaneous combustion caused a blaze that destroyed an 80 by 80 foot barn on the Herman Brunscheen farm near Wyoming Monday night. Eleven hogs perished and 100 tons of baled hay were burned.
The Wyoming fire department contained a blaze, preventing damage from spreading to nearby structures. Fire crews secured the scene and investigated the origin while ensuring residents' safety and reinforcing surrounding units.
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