Courtesy as Preventive of Auto Accidents in Postville
A Postville Herald column cites courtesy as essential to reducing crashes. A truck driver once stopped to help an elderly woman cross downtown, illustrating goodwill and safer driving. Executor C F Meier leased the Phillips 66 station to Geneva Oil Co of St Olaf for three years, with Floyd Orvis and Louis Hein in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Meier
W. Hein
Phillips 66
South Postville
Geneva Oil Co
St. Olaf
Floyd Orvis
Louis Hein
Pastville
Easy Pleasant Way To LOSE FAT
A vintage weight loss advertisement promotes Kruschen Salts as a safe fat loss method. It claims rapid weight loss, increased energy, and clearer skin by taking a half teaspoon daily in hot water for four weeks, plus limiting pastries and fatty foods. The copy urges measuring weight before and after and warns against imitations.
A Sign of the Times and a Towa Litigation Note
An Iowa newspaper summary notes the World Textile Conference in Washington called by the ILO with about twenty nations. It discusses textile industry woes after World War I, global interdependence, and hopes for rational action, plus a column on the Fourth Iowa district railroad labor case led by Leo F. Tierney, including remarks on Judge Parker and a greeting from the President.
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Washington
International Labor Organization
United States
Towa
Supreme Court
Leo F. Tierney
Manchester
Circuit Court of Appeals
Norfolk
Leo Tierney
Parker
Organized Labor
Supreme Court of the United States
Roberts
Reduced Expenditure and Hawaiians Take Offense Highlight Budget Friction
The house passed only one appropriation bill this year with 4 percent less than the current year, totaling 24 million for legislative costs. It is 1,413,724 less than last year and 946,030 below the Bureau of the Budget’s recommendation. Hawaiians protest inclusion of insular possessions as territories, asserting Hawaiians are Americans like Virginians and New Yorkers, while Puerto Ricans debate statehood versus independence.
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House
Congress
Bureau of the Budget
Senate
Capitol
Botanic Garden
Library of Congress
Government Printing Office
Hawaii
Alaska
United States
Towa
New York City
President is Healthy A Committee Report Note
A historic committee recounts its recent occasion to call on the president and confirms the president remains in good health. The note reflects routine health status and ongoing duties amid current affairs.
McGregor CCC Camp shows soil conservation gains
Under the Soil Conservation Service, the McGregor CCC Camp reports major improvements on Clayton and Allamakee farms. Completed work includes 13,217 rods of fence and 18.1 miles of terrace among other erosion controls, plus 7,088 acres of approved land use and 2,007 acres of timber for controlled wood lots. The superintendent notes aggressive farmer participation and offers to discuss erosion problems with locals.
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Soil Conservation Service
CCC
McGregor
Clayton
Allamakee
Rex L. White
North Iowa Times
Sunday visits color Grand Meadow area households
Grand Meadow residents spent Sunday visiting relatives and neighbors. Trips included Selmer Erickson and Lyle Aanes to Erskine Minnesota to see Elmer and Albert Erickson homes, and many called on friends in Elkader and nearby farms. The week saw road conditions force local schoolchildren to stay in town while buses could not run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brusst Holt
Laura Lyngaas
Arthur Meckelson
Selmer Erickson
Lyle Aanes
Erskine, Minn
Elmer
Albert Erickson
Almer Johnson
Ole Reierson
Ewald Lyngaas
Janet
Hans Larson
Esten Landsgard
Ed Johnson
Selmer Holm
Betty
Elaine
Roger
Andrew Reinhart
Elkader
Gilbert Buraas
Gloria
Alfred Buraas
Millard Olson
Marinell
Betty Trude
Robert Wharram
Arthur Olson
Willard Martin
Oscar Lien
Anton Skaren
Walter Martie
Charlene
Oscar Holden
Elgin
Glen Nygaard
Glendol
Bert Lyng
Clarence Olson
Quenton
Ole Blockhus
Frankville
Contour Plowing And Wedding At Guttenberg Reported
Agricultural note discusses contour plowing to reduce erosion and the benefits of terracing lime application and legumes, followed by a Guttenberg wedding of Bernette Pink and Harold Brown. Local theft report notes 600 pounds of salted bee hides stolen from Deskin Produce in Ossian, while a homestead exemption explainer outlines eligibility and residency requirements. A soap scam alert warns northern Iowa towns about a door to door vendor selling damaged soap at inflated prices.
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Deskin Produce Company
Ossian
Iowa
Grape Vines Prosper in Various Kinds of Soil
The Montreal Herald notes grape vines thrive in many soils with good drainage, loams best, planted two years old on a two wired fence. Planting uses one or two year old stock, cut to two or three buds, retain the strongest shoot, and repeat pruning to form the future frame wood by selecting the best canes each season.
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Gays
Montreal Herald
Use Manure for Orchards to Boost Vigor and Soil Health
The Missouri College of Agriculture recommends using stable manure for orchards this winter to improve water-holding capacity and soil fertility. Apply about 200 to 250 pounds per average size tree, adjusted for soil fertility and tree vigor, and consider a plan of commercial nitrogen fertilizer followed by a moderate manure dressing and pruning to revive devitalized orchards.
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Saya A. EB
Murnock
Missouri College of Agriculture
Agricultural Briefs Across Global Farms
Agricultural notes survey drought resistant desert plants studied in England. Argentina grown tobacco nears ten million pounds. Italy wheat output drops twenty percent from 1933. Guthrie Oklahoma orders four horse troughs. pumpkins and squash stored in warm basements stay usable till late winter. Grain by products sometimes cheaper than hay. hog slaughter may fall in late winter. New England reports bumper potato yield eight million bushels above average. Manure combined with superphosphate boosts fertilizing value by about fifty pounds per ton.
Editor withholds facts spares public from excess publicity
Those who rail at their local editor because they think they are not getting as much publicity as they deserve should be thankful he does not print everything he knows about them. Rocks County, Kans. Record.
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Rocks County
Kans
Record
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Clermont Enterprise
Clermont, Iowa
Elizabeth Priest
Iowa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Clermont
Fayette County
Tarmers’ Savings Bank
J. F. Miller
J. A. Erickson
I. C. Jerdee
Clermont State Bank
N. H. Nelson
Calla
NashigtonNo
Nias
Fred Biermann
President Roosevelt
America
Republic
McGregor CCC
Grand Meadow News
Echo
Carter
Ralph C. Hay
Agricultural Engineering Department
University of
Illinois
Guttenberg
Bernette Pink
Harold Brown
England
Argentina
Italy
Guthrie
Oklo
New England
MEAD
P.O. Boz
the Atlantic Monthly
The
Atlantic
Arlington St
Boston
Princes Theatre
House of Better Pictures
West Union
Fox
RKO
Warners
Metro
Harry Pace
Billy Mauch
Harry Watson
Penrod
Sam
Joan Crawford
Robt. Montgomery
Mrs. Cheyney
Dean Arthur and
George Brent
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