Major the smart police dog earns place in Dennis home
A St Louis tale follows Major a clever police dog who travels from Iowa to California and back finally winning shelter at the L D Dennis residence in Cedar Rapids He woos the household with food tricks ice cream and beefsteak and befriends the Dennis hounds before securing a permanent home alongside the family and Joe Ely the grocer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major
L. D. Dennis
Avenue NW
St. Louis
Mary Lou Carter
Coe College
Los Angeles
Carters
California
Carter
Mr. Carter
Bob Dennis
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Dennis
Joe Ely
Ely Food Shop
Jack Dennis
Austin
Minn
Jack
Dennis
Notes on Books at the Public Library
The library curates works on social issues and exploitation, highlighting Grapes of Wrath and McWilliams A concise history of California’s labor and fascism themes. Other notable titles include Tobacco Road These Are Our Lives You Have Seen Their Faces and Roads to a New America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Steinbeck
Carey McWilliams
McWilliams
Steinbeck
California
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
Federal Writer's Project of
North Carolina
Margaret Bourke-White
Caldwell
Martha Gelhorn
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Louise Armstrong
FERA
Michigan
Mordecai Ezekiel
America
D. C. Coyle
R. A. Goslin
People’s League For Economic Security
Waln
Dodd
Hitler
Hertzler
Jersey cow family shows record milk and butterfat output
The report highlights Lass 2nd and three tested daughters producing 233 026 pounds of milk and 13 343 pounds of butterfat across 23 cow years, averaging 16 132 pounds milk and 580.1 pounds butterfat yearly. It notes lineage from Pogis 99th Hood Farm and Smoky Pogis progeny, with herd manager J. N. Martin emphasizing balanced rations and high quality feeds. The piece also discusses tankage versus soybean oilmeal in hog rations and market implications as new crop tankage becomes available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lass 2Nd
Smoky Junie
Smoky Lilac
Smoky Queen
Jersey
Mr. Martin
Gazette
E. L. Quaife
Flags For Red Cross Drive Accelerates Farm Bins Project
The drive advances as farmers shell corn for resealing. Filling of bins begins Friday with Roy Sorden and Son contracted to erect and fill bins at South English Webster Keswick and What Cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Sorden
South English
Webster
Keswick
What Cheer
Tankage Remains Favored Hog Protein For Low Cost Gains
The discussion centers on tankage as the preferred protein concentrate for hog feeders. It is noted that tankage handlers have little worry, and feeders should choose the concentrate that minimizes costs while promoting animal growth.
Government Bins To Go Up In Poweshiek County
Grinnell erects two steel storage bins for corn under seal as the first step toward 36 bins to hold about 83 000 bushels for three Grinnell elevator operators. Thirty one carloads of 16 bins each amounting to 496 bins have been ordered for Poweshiek county. A notable allocation includes 150 000 bushels at Malcom needing about 65 of the 2 200 bushel capacity granaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Linn County
American Red Cross
Sunshine Circle
King's Daughters
Ella Lund
First Avenue
Leona Brown
Albert Howard
L. K. Gossett
Amy Lilyard
W. L. Hoffer
Lund
H. E. McCormack
Lena Borschel
Grinnell
Poweshiek County
Malcom
The Handsome Road and a Fateful Encounter
Excerpt from Gwen Bristow's The Handsome Road describes corn storage bins arriving from Sigourney and a dramatic scene where Budge Foster is stopped by soldiers after being suspected of desertion. Corrie May pursues him as the sergeant demands identification papers and questions his prior enlistment. To be continued tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budge
Budge Foster
Louisiana
Corrie May
Foster
Government steel corn storage bins erected on Bensier farm
Delta Five government steel bins for corn storage stand on the George Bensier farm at Delta. Eight bins, each capacity 1,630 bushels, will be erected for storing government corn to be resealed. Mr. Bensier will oversee resealing operations locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delta
George Bensier
Bensier
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Naomi Doebel
Treasury Department
Washington
Three Miles Square
Paul Corey
Iowa
Detroit
Wessel Smitter
Bitter Creek
James Boyd
Emily Bax
Miss Bax
London
Ida M. Tarbell
Marguerite de Angeli
Shad
Phyllis Crawford
Doak
Ohio River
E. H
Thompson Photo
Second Ave. SE
The
Public
Grace
Beverly Smith
Jay Sigmund
Waubeek
Boys’ and Girls
Gray Gordon
Hotel
Reo
Court Hussey
Swan
Jewelry CO
Second St
Gov’t
Gwen Bristow
the Lafayette Cafe
Lafayette
Lafayette Club
Lafayette Cafe
John Thomas, Mer
Second Avenue
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