Temporarily Blind and Oddities in Rural Life
Mrs. Charles 4g of Lakota suffered temporary blindness but is improving and hopes to regain full sight. A tale of a five-foot bullsnake feasting on guinea eggs ends with the snake killed and seven eggs hatched under a hen. Alvin D Campbell of Ionia built a corn plow from odds and ends for $3.50, now cultivating 120 acres.
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Charles 4G
Lakota
Lewis
Jonah
John Hecker
Indianola
Hecker
Mr. Hecker
Alvin D. Campbell
Ionia
Campbell
Indiana Harbor Mine Hoist To Becoming Liberty Ship Plates
An old mine hoist shipped from a Minnesota mine to Inland Steel plants in Indiana Harbor is being unloaded and cut down to pan size by acetylene torches before being heated with pig iron in open hearth furnaces. The wartime process will transform this veteran World War I equipment into steel plates for 1942 Liberty ships.
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Indiana Harbors
Ind
Minnesota
WAACs Begin at Fort Des Moines in July 20 Ceremony
Fort Des Moines Iowa showcases WAAC formation with a photo of a barracks building and a captain supervising issue of clothing to entrants. Rehearsals determine time needed for issuing equipment ahead of opening day. Other items note a woodpecker damaged porch pillar hosting bees, a Madrid family dinner with a 15 lb catfish, and a Spencer man learning Alkmaar was bombed by American flyers. A Wianson plant with tubers and green tomato-like fruit is displayed.
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Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Women’s Army Auxilia Corps
Tati
John Smith
Spencer
Alkmaar
North Holland
Smith
Lowwa
Fred Peterson
Wianson
Local families visit and travels noted near Clermont
A Clermont area column lists numerous visits and social calls. Families including Loftsgard Nelson Wolfs and others meet in Waucoma for Bobby Wilbur's arrival and share stays with relatives. (More entries detail Cedar Rapids trips, funerals, dinners, and visits across Maynard, West Union, Ossian, and surrounding towns.)
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Theo. Loftsgard
Arthur Nelson
Harvey Meyer
Millard Nelson
Leo Wolfs
Frances
Wm. J. Nelson
Waucoma
Albert Wilbur
Bobby Wilbur
Clarence Johnson
Ivan Anderson
Orlando Kittleson
Wm. F. Sullivan
Ole Kloster
West Union
Harry Anderson
J. M. Brorby
James Brorby
Sheehy
R. V. Brandt
Lois
Anna Stee
Cedar Rapids
Bishop's
Edward Annel
Wm. Belschner
Chicago
Anna Zehendner
B. Riegel
Leo
Gamnayillo
Rose
Oscar Auer
Norman Arnundson
Swen Blockhus
Blooming Prairie
Minn
G. Ness
Carl Torkelson
Elgin
Cooney Olson
Elmer Brainard
Gladys Barnes
Postville
Ed Barnes
Ben Wedo
Ed Wedo
Ossian
Paul Wells
Osterdock
Mary Washburn
Soil nutrients and plant needs in modern farming
Dr. C. E. Millar explains that while carbon dioxide and water come from natural sources, mineral salts from soil are scarce due to slow natural decay and forested periods. Modern farming rapidly depletes nutrients such as potash, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen, causing weak stems, discolored leaves, stunted growth, and lower yields. most soils require added nutrients, often with calcium and sulfur as well.
Scientists Pasteurize Soil With Electric Device
Cornell university agricultural experiment station researchers are using electricity to pasteurize soil, aiming to kill pests and weed seeds. A soil temperature of 150 degrees Fahrenheit proved enough to destroy pathogens and most seeds, with buried heaters and portable pipes enabling pasteurization in greenhouses and beds.
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Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
A. G. Newhall
Value of Silage
A simple rule values silage at half the worth of good regume hay. Silage yields ten tons per acre and about fifty bushels. thus one ton equals five bushels of corn plus 300 pounds of hay. With corn at 75 cents per bushel and hay at $15 per ton, good silage is worth about zero dollars per ton.
Vitamin C and A For A Medium Tomato
A medium ripe tomato supplies about half of the daily vitamin C requirement and roughly one fifth of the vitamin A needed by an individual, highlighting its nutritional value as a fresh fruit option.
Farm Notes Seed Crop Expected Higher This Year
Hay seed production is about 10 percent above any recent year except 1338 and 1939. The number of farms served by electric light and power companies in the United States rose eight percent from 710000 to over 1400000 farms between 1932 and 1938.
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Electric Light
United States
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van Woodruff
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Boone
Clermont
We At
Dutch Harbor
States Navy
C. E. Millar
Michigan State College
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America
Ghe
Avalon
Better Pictures
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Roy Rogers
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Santa Fe
Ann Sheridan
Ronald Reagan
Henry Fonda
Gene Tierney
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