New Iowa farm notes show disease risk and crop trials
Ames releases a rust and smut resistant oat for 1949 trials. Lime use in 91 counties nears 500000 tons. hybrid versus open pollinated corn yields depend on land quality. Farmers plan tree distribution under Clarke McNary act and plant family vegetables with new varieties such as Stringless beans and Table Queen carrot.
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Ames
Clark-McNary Co-Operative Nursery
Clarke McNary
Rutgers
Spencer Elected President of Fayette County Guernsey Breeders
Jerry Spencer of Clermont township was elected president of the Fayette County Guernsey Breeders' Association at its annual meeting in the Farm Bureau rooms Saturday. The 24 members elected officers and then shared a dinner after the vote.
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Spencer
Jerry Spencer
Clermont Township
Iowa
Fayette County
Guernsey Breeders’ Association
Farm Bureau Rooms
Posture training near at hand for Fayette 4-H girls
Fourteen Fayette county 4-H members and leaders plan a trip to Waverly on March 30 to see Minnie the Manikin one of the main attractions at district posture training schools. A separate contact meeting is set for April 1 at the State Bank of Fayette with county and township home project leaders. Dairy enrollments reach new high as 202 entries in five breed classes exceed prior totals. eligibility requires heifers to be dropped July 1 to April 13 for the show.
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Fayette County
J. B. Turner
K. J. Kerr
Waverly
Minnie
A. J. Hansen
District Farm Bureau
Township Home Project
County 4-H Girls Club
County Home Project
State Bank of Fayette
Vlub
McCormick-Deering Farmall
Harvester Company
Man Forgetting Stars Sparks Towers at His Feet
A reflective line describes the moment a man reaches for distant stars and finds himself confronting a looming tower beneath his feet, balancing aspiration with grounded consequence. The verse spotlights ambition clashing with reality.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 shaped Northwest Territory
The Northwest Territory was organized under the Ordinance of 1787 as a U S territorial model, banning slavery, setting admission at population 60 000, and creating a 5 000 minimum for a territorial assembly. Nathan Dane and Manasseh Cutler likely authored it, with St Clair governing 1788 1802 and states Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin forming from it.
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Northwest Territory
United States
Pennsylvania
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Canada
Thia
France
Great Britain
Massachusetts
New York
Virginia
Connecticut
Indianapolis News
Nathan Dane
Manasseh Cutler
Arthur St. Clair
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Transylvania Colony Briefly Built In Cherokee Lands
In 1775 Richard Henderson and eight associates organized Transylvania in the Cherokee country, purchasing land from the Indians and inviting about 200 settlers. They drafted a constitution with annual legislatures and courts, clashed with Virginia over jurisdiction, and Congress referred the matter to Virginia. Virginia asserted control, ending Transylvania as an independent colony, with compensation of 200000 acres granted to the proprietors.
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Transylvania
Kentucky
Tennessee
Richard Henderson
North Carolina
Henderson
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Alleghenies
William Penn
Government of
Virginia
Continental Congress
Virginia Convention
Gainsborough Portrait Painter of English Society
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727 to 1788, famed as the premier English society painter. He let sitters observe him as he painted an idealized woman, then halted when resemblance appeared. He preferred landscapes but turned to portraits to satisfy his wife's costly demands.
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Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough
George Hi
Salt Spring near Prairie Kansas Deep Bottomless Spring Mystery
Salt Spring lies a few yards from a main road in Kansas where salt water seeps from the ground. Indian legends say Waconda springs mark a former arm of the Pacific Ocean left behind when the ocean was sent away. The Ocean God would depart only if his representative remained. The spring is a rare bottomless pit, with no agreed depth after many efforts.
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Kansas
Caterpillars Hear With Shellac Coated Hairs
Experiments show caterpillars can hear certain sounds causing sudden body movements. They hear via sound absorbing hairs acting as ears, but shellac coating on the hairs prevents our noises from triggering a response.
Fourth Grade Classes Study English Explorers and Spring Arts
Pupils in the fourth grade history class study English explorers while intermediate room sings spring songs. Sixth graders begin temperate regions of South America noting opposite seasons. Art classes finish health posters and now prepare Safety First posters. Typing records show Margaret Urider at 65 WPM with 1 error in two minutes. Ellen Stillman 43 WPM with 1 error in ten minutes. Commercial contest hopes rise as Oelwein event on April 16 nears. senior play It’s Great to be Crazy slated for May 5 after spring break.
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South America
Margaret Urider
Ellen Stillman
Oelwe
Reader's Digest praised as ideal literary secretary
Secretary to Rupert Hughes lauds The Reader's Digest as the ideal literary secretary that condenses what matters for busy readers. The General Reader should rely on such a service, and the editor endorses digest as essential reading.
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Rupert Hughes
Suan
Coal Apples from Mammoth seam in Pennsylvania
Coal apples are spheroidal anthracite specimens found in the Mammoth seam of Pennsylvania. They vary from a quarter inch to ten inches in diameter and are usually about the size of a hen's egg, likely caused by jointing. Calendars from 1938 are nearly gone. hear Echo office to claim one free.
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Mammoth
Pennsylvania
Echo Office
How to Keep From Growing Old Comic Driving Tips
A jokey guide prompts risky driving habits such as speeding and passing on turns. It contrasts unsafe behavior with a Dallas welfare concern about blind pencil vendors who refuse pensions, noting they earned several dollars daily, including an $18 average profit for one seller.
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Dallas
Texas
Northwood Anchor
Red clover seed mix boosts pasture costs in Fayette county
Farmers in Fayette county can cut seed bills by about 20 percent while securing a solid hay crop by increasing timothy and alike in seed blends. A favorable mix this year is 3 pounds red clover, 2 pounds alsike, and 6 pounds timothy, though typical use ranges 6 to 8 pounds red clover with less timothy.
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Fayette County
Handy recipe card file offered at Echo office
A handy card file containing sixty recipe cards arranged alphabetically is available for only 25 cents at the Echo office. Suitable for home or business use and useful for quick reference.
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Echo
Bombay Island dimensions detailed in 19th century note
A historic note describes Bombay Island, the landmass on which the city of Bombay sits, measuring 11 miles in length and 4 miles in width, illustrating its geographic scope.
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Bombay Island
Bombay
Broadcaster chosen as Corona fire extinguisher distributor
The Broadcaster reports being selected to distribute the Corona fire extinguisher in the area and promotes it as a home safeguard. An unrelated humor exchange follows with a father joking about Santa and Easter eggs.
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Betty
Santa Claus
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