Iowa aims to stock over one hundred million fish in 1941
Iowa conservation officials announced a plan to stock about 100 million fish in state waters during 1941 funded by fishing licenses. About 1.43 million fish were stocked in 1940 from Sept 1 to Oct 18, including 80k large mouth bass, 78k small mouth bass, and 10k trout with multiple species.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Conservation Commission
Superintendent of Fisheries
E. B. Speaker
Speaker
Better Writers Than Hunters On A Monticello Pheasant Hunt
The narrator describes a pheasant hunt near Monticello at Fred Casper’s farm with about a dozen birds flushed in a cane field. They buy No 6 shot shells and learn cock and hen differences while noting the crowd in town, some in army uniforms.
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Monticello
Fred Casper
Hogan
Casper
Iowa
Ways of Not Growing Old- Playing With T N T
FAUL HANSELL describes operations at the Iowa ordnance plant where workers handle explosive TNT and guards control access with separate passes. The author tours the melting and pouring department, notes safety measures, and reflects on the plant’s high security and fencing as a backdrop to his hunting day in Benton county with friends.
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Iowa
Prominent Postville Man Ends His Life By Carbon Monoxide
Special to The Gazette. Prominent Postville resident Meier, 35, a member of a leading family, died by suicide at the Meier farm two miles northeast of Postville. He constructed an improvised CO tent using a horse blanket over a car exhaust. Found at noon by his father Louis Meier and hired man William Gericke, the body was pronounced dead by coroner Allanakee County Charles Boyden. Meier had attempted suicide several times in recent years. He was twice married, with a daughter Ramon a from the first marriage and two daughters with his second wife, plus two sisters living nearby.
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Postville
Hall Meier
Meier
Louis Meier
William Gericke Meier
Gericke
Ramona
Leo Hines
Elmer Zieman
Dysart Man Loses An Arm In Crash
A Dysart man Dale Carr lost his left arm in a highway crash eight miles north of Dysart on Fairview road Saturday afternoon. Carr driving a southbound truck was sideswiped by a passing truck driven by Ed Kelley. Both men were taken to a Waterloo hospital.
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The
Gazette
Dysart
Dale Carr
Fairview Road
Carr
Ed Kelley
Waterloo
Stores face Christmas help shortage in Des Moines rush
Des Moines department stores face a tight qualified help market for the Christmas rush. Managers say applications are scarce due to competition from defense employment and selective service, despite predicting the best Christmas in years.
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DES Moines
Des Moines Department
Manufacturers Oppose Federal Unemployment System During Emergency
The Iowa Manufacturers Association urged Congress to pause federal social security expansion and leave unemployment compensation to states. The statements call for protecting current benefits, opposing new federal taxes for social security, and ensuring military personnel and dependents maintain coverage without federal intervention.
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Washington
Iowa Manufacturers Association
Congress
Guy M Gillette
Towa
Senate
Association
Higginbotham Resigns Prison Duties After Return
Higginbotham, returned to Kirby prison Oct 28 after five years as a fugitive, shows disappointment at working in a cotton mill instead of a hospital attendant. His wife visited, noting his shaven head and striped suit. Convicted in Jefferson County for the lovers lane slaying of William Lambert, he had fled in 1936, lived in Des Moines as Ed Taylor, and played semipro baseball while selling cars.
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Montgomery
Ala
Clarence Higginbotham
Kirby
Ear Winson
Higginbotham
Iowa
Wilson
Tarrant
Jefferson
Birmingham
William Lambert
Chicgo
Des Moines
Ed Taylor
Sioux Rapids
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Commission
Hunter Hogan
Castle Grove
Fred
Hogan-McLeod Syndicate
Tna
T.N.T
Faul Hansell
Burlington
Atn.t
Casper Tract
Benton County
Ray Anderson
Gazette Farm
McLeod
Blairstown
William Baldridge
Cedar Rapids
Charles City
Bill
Harold Rynerson
A. E. Skelley
Franklin Equipment Company
Senate Military Affairs Committee
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