Iowa Governor Contest Grows Warm
The Iowa Governor Contest grows warm as figures show a push to reflect grassroots thinking and broaden national committee representation. Mrs Emmett Hannan of Council Bluffs named to the Iowa conservation commission, effective immediately. A Des Moines industrial safety course is under way with Harold Nesbitt leading the federal standards bureau guidance. Local telephone rates in Iowa are not higher than neighboring states with commissions and may be lower in some cases.
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Emmett Hannan
Council Bluffs
Iowa Conservation Commission
Emmett Ryan
Underwood
Hannan
Pottawattamie County Conservation League
Des Moines
Iowa Commissioner of Labor
Federal Bureau of Standards
Harold Nesbitt
Iowa
Public Utilities Commission
Toilet Training May Begin Too Early
The piece warns against early toilet training and argues readiness matters. It notes many children learn by age four, while training at age two or three can provoke resistance, fear, and friction with parents. It emphasizes muscular and nervous development and child readiness as key to successful learning.
Public Utilities Comission Worth to Telephone Users Questioned
Clyde Mc Farlin an attorney for Montezuma and counsel for the Iowa Independent Telephone Association told the state meeting in Des Moines that a state public utilities commission would have little financial value to telephone users.
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Public Utilities Commission
Clyde McFarlin
Montezuma
Iowa [Independent Telephone Association
Des Moines
McFarlin
Asso
Two Years Given For Arson In Waukon Home Fire
John Sadler of Waukon pleaded guilty to arson for setting fire to his own house on March 19. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. In other notes Lt. Clair Jennett earned the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in Korea after leading a bayonet charge and destroying two enemy machine guns with grenades. Cliff Sanborn, Sioux City golf pro, scored a hole in one on a Mesa course in Arizona. Paullina Presbyterian Church was razed to clear space for a larger church, with volunteers completing the demolition in under two weeks.
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John Sadler
Waukon
Iowa
Sac Cty
Clair Jennett
Korea
Jennett
Mesa
Arizona
Farm notes urge culling hens for under 65 percent yield
Iowa tips urge culling hens producing less than 65 percent. Advice covers pasture management with birdsfoot trefoil and bluegrass, delaying turnout, hay and silage feeding, and letting legumes and grasses reach recommended heights. Sheep parasite treatment and fungicide use for seed germination are also noted, with a brief stray reference to Want Ads.
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Towa State College
Prewar banter and a joke filled campus exchange
A series of comic snippets and quick quips from college life include lines about prewar talk and a coin toss plan for decisions. A farmer’s ad touts Terra-Lite Plant Aid vermiculite for soil aeration and moisture retention, detailing benefits for clay and sandy soils. Another quip notes a elopement with the ice man, concluding with a blunt punchline.
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John Deere
McCormick- Deering
Ida Leuchtenmacher
St. Olaf
Gunder
Write Newspaper Production Laboratory
SUI
Towa City
Cedar Rapids ‘Piano Co
Cedar Rapids
Elgin Echo
Smith-Corona
Henry Amundson
Clermont
Echo
Silver City
Avalon
J. O. Anderson
Elgin
Duroc
Forrow
LaVerne
Larson
Postville
Kenneth Hellum
The
W. D. Allis Chalmer Tractor
L. T. N. Olson
O'Neil! Drug
Louis Hofer
Ben Hofer
Town
Echo Office
James Muncie
Dial
Robert Kohler
Lost Canyon
Adella ‘Chapman
Vernon Anderson
Fred Butikofer
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch
C. J. Robinson
Submarine Command
Sophia L. Wenger
Lee Brainard
Minnesota
Schori Bros
Jim Gunderson
Spensones Oy Tieom
Welfare Meteanch Station
Noel Brockway
Sun’ Elgin
Cliff Sanborn
Sioux City
Paullina
Wenger Sales Commission
Harry Wenger
Diz” Dean
Falb & Light
Elgin, Iowa
Wadena
Wadena Livestock Exchange
Orvin Thompson
West Union Auction Exchange
G. W. Alderson
Kenneth Baldwin
Funk
Balance
Severin Blockhus
West Union Auction Exch
Elmer Halverson
Ihe
Undegrad
Ice Man
Elgin Cooperative Grain
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