Unemployed Relief Club Harvests Grundy County Corn
About 20,000 bushels of corn have been picked in Grundy County by Waterloo based Unemployed Relief club workers. Forty men started Oct 12 and now roughly 120 are employed across six farms, living in two camps and commuting home weekends. Payment is in corn or corn meal, via a central commissary, with farmers supplying transport and unloading. the plan is reported as satisfactory.
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Rundy Center
Grundy County
Cavne
coud + grervises
Menas
Conkre
R Club
Waterloo
Allgood
National Farm Holiday Officers Meet At Sioux City
National Farmers Holiday association officers from Montana North and South Dakota Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Ohio and Iowa gathered in Sioux City to discuss extending the holiday campaign A committee was named to draft resolutions and a press statement Attendees included John B Bosch Atwater Minn Harry Parmenter Nebraska John Chalmers Iowa Arnold Gilbert Wisconsin A W Ricker St Paul and E Anthony Illinois national directors.
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Sioux City
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
Montana
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wsconsin
Illinois
Ohio
Iowa
Milo Reno
John B Bosch
Atwater, Minn
Harry Parmenter
John Chalmers
Arnold Gilbert
Wisconsin
A W Ricker
St. Paul
E. Anthony
Grunden Center Feeder Steers Sold to Van Deest
H Heroni mus of Holland sold fifty-one head of 900 pound feeder steers to Ben Van Deest a feeder living west of Grundy Center.
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Gazettc
Grundy Center
H. Heronimus
Holland
Ben van Deest
Fence Drift Advertisement Sparks Gas and Corn Exchange
A wartime style filing station ad shows a rustic banner claiming You burn my gas and I burn your corn. It touts five gallons of gas for ten bushels of corn amid fiery language and promotional mockery.
Reed Reports Corn Fit for Cribbing in Most of State
Iowa crop progress shows corn husking advancing in most counties with moisture still delaying cribbing in some localities. Reed notes cool September slowed drying, yields strong for potatoes and apples, wheat stands improving, and alfalfa cutting may risk winter kill while huskers fetch 12 to 2 cents a bushel.
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Reed
State
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Clinton County
Rowley
Gates Brothers West
First Half Of October Butterfat Commands 23c
Special to The Gacette Monticello patrons of the Farmers Mutual Creamery company will receive 23 cents a pound for first half of October butterfat. Rowley patrons of the Row W Farmers Co operative creamery have received payment for last half of September butterfat at the rate of 20 cents a pound, according to A F Stown secretary. First half of September butterfat also compared at a similar rate.
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Gacette
Monticello
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company of
Rowley
Rowws Farmers Co-operative Creamery
Record corn husking wins in Grundy meet mark world record
Clarence Bockes husked 2,698.9 pounds in eighty minutes at the Grundy county contest near Grundy Center, likely a world record. Joe Grimmins was second with 2,681.4 pounds, Ben Grimmins Jr. third with 2,673.3, Elke Hendricks fourth at 2,643.3, and other contestants also posted strong yields amid rain and mud. Marvin Spading won Poweshiek county contest near Brooklyn with 2,350 pounds. Dean Thompson second with 2,290 pounds as corn runs 80 to 85 bushels per acre.
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Bockes
Earl Harman
Mills County
Joe Grimmins
Grundy County
Elke Hendricks
Hendricks
Forrest Mullenix
Bud Connell
Conrad Weaders
H. E. Young
Brooklyn
Marvin Spading
Poweshiek County
James Keller
Here
Dean Thompson
Malcom
Antique Plow Linked to Roosevelt Farm Displayed at ISU
Ames residents learn the agricultural engineering department at Iowa State College showcases an old cast iron plow once used on Franklin D. Roosevelt's ancestral estate. The plow was donated by Charles Miller after he bought it from S. Y. Todd of Poughkeepsie New York who said he used it on the Roosevelt farm.
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Ames
Agricultural Engineering Department
Iowa State College
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles Miller
S. Y Todd
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Todd
Roosevelt
Committees Named For Husking Meet In Jones
Committees for the Jones county corn husking contest set for Saturday on the George Zimmerman farm north of Amber are listed. The lineup includes general, weighers, finance, location, judges, gleaners, checkers, wagons, and lunch coordinators with names such as Harry Newman Loyal Byerly Stanley Waggoner Delbert Brickley Gene Porter and others serving across roles.
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Amber
Jones County
George Zimmerman
Harry Newman
Loyal B. Byerly
Stanley Waggoner
Wwf H. Fraser
G H Monroe
L.W Kellogg
Loyal Byerly
Ray Sanford
Merle Murfield
Lyle Callahan
Avin Byerly
Harold Hartman
Delbert Brickley
Paul Smith
S. M Hosford
Gene Porter
William Reese
H E Stover
Truman Stanton
Ray Stivers
J C McConaughy
Gleaners
Frederence
Wiliam Reese
John Husmann
Frank Byerly
Clem Liddy
Max A Wortman
Checkers
Fred Heiken
Morrell Leeds
A F Walker
What's What Out on the Acres Won't Chance Garner
Interview with L. E. Uncle Lyman Moats a tenant on 200 acres near Center Junction. He discusses voting for Hoover, Garner, tariffs, the monetary system, direct marketing, the Farm Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp, taxes, rents, prohibition and crime in a 1930s rural Iowa context.
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L. E
Lyman” Moats
Center Junction
West Union
Farm Auction Schedule Drawn Up for Late October
Consignment sales listed for Thursday October 27 at Meyers barn Lisbon and Friday October 28 at De Clow barn. A Duroc hog sale occurs Saturday October 29 east of Lisbon by Bert E Miller and a closing out sale at Bertram by C F Waskow.
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Meyers Barn
Lisbon
de Clow Barn
Duroc
Bert E. Miller
Bertram
C.F. Waskow
Miller
Lincoln Highway
Golden Orion
Berte. Miller
Iowa
W. E. Challis
Boars Average $13 At Center Junction Chester White Sale
Twenty two boars sold for an average of $13 Tuesday at the annual fall sale of J. B. Seehusen Chester White breeder near Center Junction. Seventeen gifts averaged $9. Not such a good sale considering former averages, but not so bad given the market and steady rain during the auction.
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the Gazette
Center Junction
J. B. Seehusen
Chester White Breeder
Mr. Seehusen
Illinois Man Named County Agent in Marshall
Harold J. Peterson of Peoria Illinois, formerly of Marshall county, is employed to succeed Harley J. Walker as county agent here. Walker resigned recently to take a similar post in Boone county.
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Illinois
Marshall
Washington
Harold J. Peterson
Peoria, Ill
Marshall County
Harley J. Walker
Walker
Boone County
Packing sows hit top price at $3.10 in Iowa sale
Herman Pleggenkuhle, a farmer near here, consigned several packing sows to the Farmers' Elevator company in Chicago on Monday. The animals sold at a top price of $3.10 per unit for their weight, reflecting strong demand in the market.
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Hawkeye
Herman Pleggenkuhle
Chicago
Farmers' Elevator Company
Center Township Farm Bureau Elects Officers
The Bureau elected M. E. Talcott as president at the annual meeting in Center township. Albert Benter was chosen vice president and J. B. Turner named secretary and treasurer during Thursday's event.
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Randalia
M. E. Talcott
Center Township Farm Bureau
Albert Benter
J. B. Turner
Indigestion Rooted in Body’s Waste Elimination
To treat indigestion address its cause, usually the body's failure to eliminate waste. The text highlights that removing this blockage or buildup is essential to relief, focusing on internal elimination as the key factor in digestive comfort.
Red parachutes worth 5 dollars for right ones
Des Moines AP report details lost weather bureau instruments in Iowa district. Ten baskets with delicate stratosphere testing gear drifted by red parachute with baskets attached to balloons. Eight recovered so far, one found in Princeton Missouri. Reward offered by Reed, weather station director, but not advertised publicly.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Charles D. Reed
Omaha
Missouri
George W. Mapel
Princeton
Closing Out Sale at Bertram near Palisades road
Auction notice for October 29, 1932 at 1 p m details 3 head of horses 10 head of cattle 31 hogs farm implements grain hay and other stock and gear. Items include mares cows heifers calves plows disc wagon harness cream separator and miscellaneous. Terms will be stated. C F Waskow owner A T Benn auctioneer Town State Savings Bank clerk.
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C. F. Waskow
A. T. Benn
Town State Savings Bank
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National Farm Holiday
Marion Bivd
Poland
Milo Phelps
Los Angeles
Portland
Americas
Third St
Ventrove Hotel
Ares
Dr. F. J
Thind Avenue
RFA
Poweshiek
Roosevelt Farm
Husking
Jones
Pat
AshMan
Hamilton Seed & Coal CO
Republican Farmer Wavers
Hoover
Job
Garner
United States
Dudley Field Malone
New York
Malone
Cleveland
Coxey
Henry Wallace
England
Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald
Federal Farm Board
Farm Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Mnarengo
Joint Stock Land Bank
Anamosa
Tru
Lyman Moats
Chester White
Hans Januschke
Vienna
Dr. Januschke
Fleischmann
Fleischmann's
Austria
Europe
Palisades Road
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