Thompson & Waters Sale Dates Announced
Auction listings show dates including Feb 25 Otto Fischer Postville Feb 27 George G Nickels Wadena Feb 28 Capper Estate and Ole Erickson near Wadena Mar 1 John H Johnson Highland township West Union auction exchange every Thursday Elgin merchants advertise bargains to shoppers.
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Otto Fischer
Postville
George G. Nickels
Wadena
Capper Estate
Ole Erickson
John H. Johnson
Highland Township
West Union Auction Exchange
Governor Opens Gate to World’s Fair of the West
Culbert Dison of California unlocks barriers to the Gulden Gate International Exposition of 1949. Exposition President Leland Cutler stands proudly at the left as gates are opened to the event.
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Treasure Island
Culbert Dison
California
Leland Cutler
Iowa Legislature Holds Budget Fight Amid Tax and Revenue Talks
The Iowa Senate considers a bill allowing quarterly real property tax payments starting March 1 if county boards adopt resolutions. House File 200, the administration's big appropriation bill, faces uncertainty as budget plans, reorganizations, and reform efforts loom. Additional measures target lard substitutes, butterfat taxes, bank night theatre tickets, slot machines, and various licenses, aiming to fund roads, dairy advertising, and the old age pension fund. The rush of revenue measures accompanies debates over disease testing and possible “cow wars” amid state veterinary tests.
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Senate
Fat Ot
Polk County
County Board of Supervisors
House
General Assembly
Iowa
Old Age Pension Fund
Senate tightens embezzlement penalties and parole limits
A measure in the Senate tightens penalties for bank embezzlement to forty years and bars parole or pardon until three fourths of the sentence is served, with a prohibition on later bank positions. The piece also notes a behind the scenes legislative brain trust drafting bills and maintaining journals, with patrons once blocked from free copies by cost cuts.
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Senate
Hybrid corn Ioana boosts Iowa gardeners access in 1938
The article notes Ioana a new hybrid yellow sweet corn outstanding at Ames for three years is now available to Iowa gardeners along with three other hybrids. It discusses soil erosion control by cooperative farming, pork testing at Canadian government stations, dual purpose cattle on mid sized farms, horse leg growth, spring poultry hatch quality, and inoculation of soybean seed with nodule forming bacteria before sowing.
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Ioana
Ames
Iowa
State Corn Yield Test Outperforms Open Pollinated Varieties
The State Corn Yield Test showed hybrids yielding more per acre than open pollinated varieties across every section and all 12 towns districts. Some top hybrids had high moisture at harvest Oct 17 to 28, which would have made farmers ineligible for government loans.
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Iowa
Sheriff’s sale on Grand View Addition property Iowa
By virtue of a special execution from Fayette County Iowa Court and Home Owner’s Loan Corp as plaintiff the West one half of Lots 14 15 16 Block 7 Grand View Addition Oelwein is offered for cash to highest bidder March 14 1939 at 10 am in front of the West Union Court House. Sheriff A J Kutschat and Deputy Robert G Archer note the judgment dated February 7 1939 with four thousand nine hundred sixteen and 42 100 dollars principal plus interest costs and attorney fees.
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District Court of
A. D
Grand View
Oelwein
Fayette County
Iowa
Court House
West Union
Elgin School Doings Highlight Grades and Activities
Elgin school notes detail 8th grade newspaper collection and geography projects, science experiments by Anna Mae Schupbach and Betty Alice Schori, and a camphor gum design by Alice Becker. Absences include Verlie Bailey with chickenpox and Reuben Christen with flu. Intermediate room reports music memory winners George Bovis and Shirley Boyie. Second Primary lists James Dawson and James Wilson.
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Iowa
Verlie Bailey
Reuben Christen
Reuben
Anna Mae Schupbach
Betty Alice Schori
Alice Becker
John Warton
Ethel Rennison
George Bovis
Shirley Boyie
Europe
Dorothy Torkelson
Ler
Market hogs by August peak prices with low feed
Broadcaster notes hog price peaks between August 15 and September 15 and advises marketing then. Suggests using a Half Self-Feeder to reach 200 to 225 pounds with minimal feeding costs. Includes light humor and unrelated quips about money and jokes.
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Good Crossey
Elgin Furniture Store
Feller's Hardware
West Elgin
Echo
S. VF. Baker & Co
Keokuk
Yowa
O'Neill Drug Company
Elgin Echo
Thompson & Waters
Elgin
Bang
Lowa
Towa
Brain Trust
Assembly
iParade
Stammied
Reg
Canada
Jodna Nelson
Raymond Boleyn
George Christen
Harbara Ciider
Alto de la Paz
Bolivia
Sol Tubesing
Argo-Gazette
Prairie du Chien
Mississippi River
Sheriff's Sale
A. J. Kutschat
Said County
Robert G. Archer
James Dawson
James Wilson
Walter
Schori & Kuster Ler. CO
Elgin, Iowa
Iba
Firestone
Chammon
Firestone Man
Speed
Louis Meyer Galy
Taree
Fime
Wiener Anasal Ladiewspelis
Thadis
Firestone Convoy
Usten
Richard Crooks
Everett Margaret Speaks
Alfred Wallenstein
Mitchell
Parmer
WN. 8
C. Red
Ges
Elgin Oil Company
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WELCH
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