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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
1
December 21 issue notes annual significance and charity appeals. Fragmentary text mentions infant, history thread, and community actions. Reader is urged to support subscriptions and local goodwill as year ends.
The text appears garbled and nonsensical with fragmented phrases and no clear event or names. It cannot be reliably summarized into a coherent news item without additional readable content.
A garbled local article discusses SHOUED SPEND and WOT proposals amid money at home arguments. It references W. Ruthven, A. MONEY AT HOME, and local voting dynamics. Mentions taxes, workers, and a nurse figure in a campaign against an unnamed mayor or official.
Pivotal session coverage notes Denton’s view that lawmakers will favor a state dispensary system with debates on licensing direct buyers of livestock, tax revisions, and liquor control. The piece highlights telegrams to members, Oley Nelson’s upcoming birthday, and planned congratulatory telegrams to the Civil War veteran sergeant-at-arms.
State College researchers discuss rising corn prices driven by government loan support and federal monetary actions. The report notes a corn hog price ratio around 17.1 to 100 pounds of live hog in Iowa markets and explains how wider ratios influence farmers to feed more corn to hogs for fattening.
A circular notes hogs gain weight when corn becomes more profitable, but when the corn to hog ratio falls below 14, producers feed less corn and breed fewer hogs, signaling a shift in farming behavior.
Fire originating from a defective stove pipe totally destroyed the farm home of A. P. Asney four miles north of Dickens last Saturday. Only a few articles were saved.
Vormer Graettinger resident Lars Omundson has died, with Craettinger Tones reporting the former Graettinger president in Story City last week. The obituary notes his leadership and ties to the community.
At a meeting last week Whittemore Community Club named Dr. H E Woodward president and Dr. J W McCreery vice president with Ray L Burdine as secretary. Joe Fleming and Peter Schumacher were re elected to the executive committee joining new members John Uhlers hake R A Bartlett and Prof Roch ford.
Estherville artist Jess Cox painted a Venutiiat outline of The Bethlehem Scene in the city park. The display shows the Holy City, the manger scene, and approaching wise men on camels, extending nearly a half block.
Fred Hawley has been named field representative of the department of agriculture. He will supervise Palo Alto, Clay Dickinson, Emmet, Buena Vista and Pocahonkis counties in the corn-hog reduction program.
Miss Veronica Weinholzer, longtime Birney hospital nurse in Estherville, returns to Mallard to take a supervisor position in a Chicago hospital. A St Marys Hospital Rochester graduate, she departs for the new post amid the move.
Chris Olling, brother of Peter Olfing of Ringsted, was found dead in Red Wing Minnesota. He had left Ringsted five weeks earlier to seek work, taking $400 with him. Authorities say no money was taken from the body and foul play is suspected. The deceased had worked around Ringsted for about two and a half years.
U EB Yeutter resumes control of his Spirit Lake bakery while Wu Nutzman, who had been running that shop, opens a new bakery in St Cloud Minnesota. Yeutter long operated the Spirit Lake bakery, and his son Eugene runs a bake shop in this city.
The following list shows trial jurors drawn for the January 1934 term of the district court. They are to appear at the Emmetsburg courthouse at 9 o clock a m Tuesday January 16. Names include Feldman Johnson Loerke Terrill Dini Halstead Davidson Muller Nell Bohn Johnson McTigue Parks Legore Kerber Lee Smith Litndis Ward Skow Foley Norden Ruthven Johnson Sewell Watson Drew Seims Sweeney Sullivan and others from Emmetsburg Graettinger Curlew Fenton West Bend Mallard Rotman Briles Aynshire etc.
Kossuth County's weekly payroll under the Civil Works Administration totals 4800 dollars. The sum is distributed among 301 workers across 19 projects in the security program. The largest project employs 60 men on state primary highway repair work.
Whittemore farmer Geo Streit of Whittemere suffered a severe eye injury while husking corn last week and required removal of the damaged optic on Thursday.
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