Traer Com merscrip Starts Circulation in Tama County
Traer Iowa launches a local scrip backed by creamery indebtedness and 600 patron members. Denominations include 25 cents 50 cents and 1 dollar with 53 merchants accepting face value. Certificates totaling 21000 are pledged by the Traer Commercial Club and a 97 cent cash value is offered through the chamber clearing house.
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Iowa
Traer Co-operative Creamery
Traer Commercial Club
Tama County
Traer Com
Merscrip
Co-Operative
Maurice Bordewick
Commercial Club
Commerscrip
al & Discount
Chamber of Commerce Clearing House
Traer Commercial Club scrip aims to boost local trade
The Traer plan introduces a self supporting scrip called Commerscrip printed on special paper with a serial and certificate number. It promises immediate payment to farmers for butterfat and a ready medium of exchange for goods, circulating among merchants to boost commerce and employ local craftsmen.
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Bordewick
Eges
Commerscrip
Traer
Tracy Co-optralne Creamery Note Promises One Dollar
The Tracy Commercial Club promises to pay to bearer at the secretary’s office within two years the sum of one dollar in United States currency upon presentation of Certificate No WWW called for payment. The secretary is named in the notice.
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Tracy
Spring surplus confronts dairymen in Iowa report
Special to The Gazette from Waterloo, secretary Clyde Bechtelheimer of the Iowa Creameries Association cites two remedies for dairy overproduction this spring: boost demand through lower prices and cut supply by culling low producers. He opposes a proposed tax on trucks and notes butterfat prices fell from 24.78 to 20.04 cents per pound year over year.
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Waterloo
Clyde Bechtelheimer
Iowa Creameries Association
Bechtelheimer
BechteIheiner
Bechtelheimmer
Mr. Bechtelheimer
Farmer Sells Grain as Flour and Corn Meal
Special to The Gazette. Spencer Grove Pearl Stevenson farmer one mile north of Cheney grinds home grown corn and wheat finding ready sale at 17 cents a pound for wheat or 90 cents a bushel for corn meal or 56 cents a bushel for corn meal.
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Spencifrs Grove
Pearl Stevenson
Cheney
Mule Team Brings $195 at Farm Sale
A Maynard sale of four mules east of town realized $195 for six and twelve year old animals. Other farm stock included nine dairy cows, shoats, Rhode Island hens, roosters, corn, seed and crib, and farm equipment with sales ranging from $2.50 to $57 for livestock and $3.50 to $40 for machinery. In Columbus Junction a consignment sale at the fairgrounds saw seventeen horses fetch up to $90 and work teams selling for $155 and $165 while milk cows and spring fill brought moderate sums.
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The
Gazette
Maynard
W Patsey
Guernsey
Jersey
Rhode Island
Columbus Junction
Auctioneers Sell Machinery in Columbus Junction Sale
Five items sold for 3.80 to 4.00 dollars each in a Columbus Junction auction conducted by Paul Klotz and H M Duncan. Machinery harness and tools were among the goods sold by the auctioneers.
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Paul Klotz
H M. Duncan
Columbus Junction
Taylor Township Wins Semi Final In Benton Drama Meet
Taylor Township claimed first in the Benton district drama event at Prairie Creek church with the cast of Seeing Things Right coached by Mrs Blocher. Harrison Township finished second with Not Quite Such a Goose, while Jackson Township ran the same play as Harrison with a listed cast. The final tournament is set for Saturday evening in Winton.
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Gazette
Winton
Taylor
Jackson
Harrison Township
Prairie Creek Church
Taylor Township
F. E. Palmer
Iowa College For the Blind
B. H Blocher
Morris King
Pearl Blocher
Will Anderson
Glen van Wice
Clinton van Nice
Frank Stauffer
Bert Blocher
Blocher
Delbert Cox
Morris Long
Hilma Eastridge
Burl Johnson
LaVerne Corbett
A. D. Johnson
Jackson Township
Harrison
Glenn Christy
Howard Schoonover
Grace Herger
Victor Hanson
Vera Pritchard
Breaks Sod Near Winthrop at Dale Arnold Farm
The first field work in the area is reported from north of Winthrop at the Dale Arnold farm where Mr. Arnold is breaking sod as part of spring farming activity.
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Winthrop
Dale Arnold
Mr. Arnold
Farm Sold For 100 An Acre Cash In Linn County
On the banks reopening day Linn county farmer Charles Bachman of Cedar Rapids bought the George Waln farm of 130 acres nine miles east of Cedar Rapids along the Lincoln highway for 13000 cash. Possession will be taken in spring 1934. The property includes 100 tillable acres a timber creek pasture and lime-deposited land. Bachman plans a home and improvements and will use the farm as residence and investment. Childs Realty of Cedar Rapids handled the deal.
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Linn County
Charles Bachman
Cedar Rapids
George Waln
Lincoln Highway
Bachman
Childs Realty Company of
Maple Sap To Syrup: 250 Gallons For Pancakes
Spencer’s Grove farmer Sam Brody 89 estimates his 400 maple trees will yield 250 gallons of syrup this year enough to spread 32000 pancakes. For over two weeks sap runs then turns to syrup within six hours. Brody has run the sugar camp seventy five years mainly supervising his son in law Elihu Culver and a helper.
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Spencer's Grove
Sam Brody
Urbana
Brody Place
Brody
Elihu Culver
Corn Delivered At Sixteen Cents A Bushel
Webster C G Moore purchased a quantity of corn from Will Heaton for 16 cents a bushel delivered. Other locals are paying 14 cents and hauling it themselves.
Farm Auctions Bulletin Promotes March Sales
A brief notice lists a state Holstein sale at Winter and a consignment sale at Declow barn scheduled for Friday and Thursday in March, outlining upcoming farm auction opportunities for buyers.
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Declow Barn
Pork in Cold Storage Rises Slightly in February
Union Smkyards Chicago reports pork in cold storage up 6 percent in February amid cautious freezing by packers. On March 1 about 610 million pounds of pork stored, vs 642 million a year ago and 856 million five-year average. Lard stores at 59 million pounds, 36 percent below last year and 48 percent under five-year average.
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Union Smkyards
Chicago
Oelwein Creamery Pays In Cash For February Butterfat
The Oelwein Farmers' Cooperative creamery paid patrons 21.9 cents a pound for the first half of February butterfat in cash. A banking holiday delayed payment by check. A new 7,500 pound capacity separator was installed to replace the 6,500 pound unit. Patrons will get March 20 payment for the last half of February butterfat.
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Oelwein
Oelelwein Farmers’ Co-operative Creamery
Chicago
Stop a Cold the First Day Ad Script
A vintage advertisement urges stopping a cold on first day with Grove s Laxative Bromo Quinine. It claims four actions: opens the bowels kills germs and fever relieves headache and tones the system. Available in 30c and 50c at druggists.
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Grove
Groot
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Traer Commerscrip
R. C. Wood
Mr. Wood
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