Farming Topics From The Rural Outlook
The excerpt covers farm practices and economic notes from a rural periodical: electric chick brooders and grain pest control, alfalfa to smother Canada thistles, separating spring pigs from breeders after weaning, highway lighting to cut night accidents, brakes and lights lagging behind speeds, cattle feeder margins, feed costs shaping profitability, U S population growth and pork consumption, lard export prospects, white grub crop damage mitigations, June beetles and May or June bugs impact, soil preparation in wet springs with disc harrow or rotary hoe, seedbed improvement, and living costs among 100 rural families. It notes factors influencing farm expenditures: income, home production, debt, and children’s ages.
Fayette County Fair Cancels Winter Acts Show
The Fayette County Fair board cancels their early winter acts to make room for Ernie Young’s revue The Passing Parade. The three day program features 60 cast with a 10 piece band plus acts by the Mandel brothers Hamiltons Danwills Robeys Reed and others, auto racing and a WLS Barn Dance finale.
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Fayette County Fair
Betty Reed
Danwills
Robeys
Batman
WLS
Earthworms Grow Long In Bass River Valley Australia
Earthworms in the Bass River valley reach up to 12 feet in length and resemble fishing worms. Too much sunlight kills them. They surface at night to cough up soil, feeding as they burrow. Their presence signals fertile soil prized by pioneering farmers who settled there.
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Bass River Valley
Australia
Social visit and moves around families in Iowa town
A Clarence Muehlethaler home gathering honored Mrs. Howard Shaffer last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Math DeSart moved back to West Union to live with Mrs. Rosa Reed. In Elgin Mary Carpenter and others visited C. B. Schori family. Carpenter was rehired to teach at Van Horne. Ern Baechler and Alfred Baechler traveled from Clermont to Lucedale Mississippi with plans to tour the Gulf of Mexico then return home later this week.
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Clarence Muehlethaler
Muehlethaler
Howard Shaffer
Math DeSart
West Union
Rosa Reed
Elgin
Elmer Pinney
Karl Fox
Fayette
Mary Carpenter
van Horne
C. B. Schori
Miss Carpenter
Ern Baechler
Alfred Baechler
Clermont
Lucedale
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Wisconsin to Ban Butter Substitutes
Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture and Markets told counsel for Jelke Margarine that no license will be issued to sell butter substitutes in the state. The department says the product, found in markets, imitates butter and cheese and is subject to a tax with prosecution possible for future sales.
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Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Markets
John F. Jelke
Chicago
Franco’s Victory Leads Spanish War Then Break in News
General Franco, whose army has been victorious on all fronts in Spain, celebrated decisive gains as Nationalist forces push forward, signaling a secure position amid ongoing conflict and international attention.
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Franco
Spain
Strikers Take Over Power Plant
Striking Consumers Power Co. workers seized an electric generating plant at Zilwaukee near Saginaw Michigan after the company declined to renew its contract with the CIO affiliated Utility Workers Organizing Committee. Other plants operate without service interruption as Gov Murphy's return is awaited for settlement. Strikers gather around an improvised campfire while picketing the Zilwaukee plant.
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Saginaw, Mich
Consumers Power Co
Zilwaukee
Here
CIO
Gov. Murphy
Advertising as Investment: Want Ads Sell
Advertising is framed as a smart investment not cost. Want ads are highlighted as effective tools to tell and sell products or services. The brief stresses value and practical use of classified advertising for reaching buyers.
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McCormick-Deering
Fragmented thoughts mix in a quirky column snippet
A mosaic of voice snippets shows debates on art, rules, and daily quirks. It includes jokes about teaching Buddha, a painter seeking help, and a long joke about a politician's son. The tone is playful and satirical, with references to manners and aspirations.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct
Oweng River
Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Capper’s Hatchery
Echo Office
Pleasant Street
Iowa
L. W. McKellar
Samuel Mosby
Elgin State Bank
Ern Friederich
LW. McKellar, R
Olaf Berg
John Falk & Sons
Case Implement’ Dealers
Elgin Furniture
Elgin Co-operative Co
Orvin Thompson
Postville
Monona
Gunder
Batte
Kenneth Duff
Volga City
J. Silverman
Walter Haigh & Sons
Manchester
Maillard
Gilbert Loftsgard
Felier’s Hardware
West Elgin
Hunsberger & Schori
the Atlantic Monthly
the Atlantic
America
Artington St
Canada
United States
Wisconsin
Thorntown
Indiana
Sugar Creek
Jesse Wetherald
Fort Recovery
Ohio
Carters
Henry
Bill
Schori & Kuster
Faarhian
Torkelson Bros
Chrysler and Plymouth
H.C. Farm Machinery
Elgin, Iowa
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