Good Roads Picnic to Promote Jefferson County Highway Efforts
Jefferson county plans a Good Roads picnic on August 17 at noon during Chautauqua events. Prizes for essays on building and maintaining good roads will be awarded to men and boys, with judges from outside the county. The event aims to share practical road-making ideas and showcases local and regional commitment to highway improvement.
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Jefferson County
the Tribune
Reading
Good Roads
Pew Named Head of Animal Husbandry at Iowa State
Ames Iowa July 19 W H Pew associate professor named head of the department of animal husbandry at Iowa State College to replace W J Kennedy who resigned to head agricultural extension work. Pew a 1907 graduate and former assistant professor at New Hampshire College is noted for his rapid rise and “doing things” in agricultural education.
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Ames
W. H. Pew
Iowa State College
W. J. Kennedy
Board of Education
Pew
Ohio
Ohio University
New Hampshire College
New Hampshire
Pew promoted to head of Iowa State animal husbandry
The passage notes Mr Pew staying with Iowa despite offers from New Hampshire and later rising to lead the nation’s largest animal husbandry department. It highlights Iowa State College’s strong program, with enrollment around 400 five years ago and about 500 in the coming year, reflecting Pew’s role alongside W J Kennedy.
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Iowa
New Hampshire
Experiment Station
Pew
Iowa State College
W. J. Kennedy
Hamilton Expects Pedagogue Famine in Hamilton County
Webster City Iowa July 21 County Superintendent E F Snow reports Hamilton county teachers examinations were among the worst on record with over one third failing Of 43 examinees one earned first grade nineteen second grade eight third grade and fifteen failed The next exam runs July 26 27 and 28 under a new law requiring average 80 with no score below 75 for certification State Superintendent Deyoe still uses the old rule allowing 75 average and no lower than 70 The tally suggests a possible fall teacher shortage unless results improve.
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Webster City
E. F. Snow
Hamilton County
Snow
Deyoe
Boy Relates Strangest Disappearance and Return
Ray Lewis son of Mr and Mrs T B Lewis recounts a near disappearance from Albia Iowa after being abducted near the stock yards and driven to Ottumwa then Chicago. He describes two assailants in raincoats with Van Dyke beards and says he was robbed and forced to work odd jobs before telegraphing home and returning on No 1. The community aided in the months long search and the family expresses gratitude.
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Ray Lewis
T. B. Lewis
Libertyville
Albia
Monroe County
Ray
van Dyke
Chicago
Ottumwa
Union Station
Niles
Michigan
Forage Crops and Sanitation in Swine Production
The clover and oats with corn backing and sanitary conditions address most swine production problems. Rye grass, the oldest grass for forage, has been cultivated in England for over two centuries for that purpose.
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England
Whirlwind Clearance Sale on Dress Goods and Fabrics
A wide clearance offers low prices on dress ginghams, silk, lace curtains, table linen, and embroidery. Items include 12¢ 23¢ and 15¢ fabrics, silk waists at 1.25, wool dress goods up to 7.50, and bed spreads reduced to 1.79 with many garments priced under 5.00.
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Foulard
PRG
Iowa Reaps Double Harvest From Rate Reduction
Des Moines reports the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a fifteen percent cut in interstate express rates, aligning with Iowa board of railroad commissioners reductions. Chairman N. S. Ketchum says federal court will likely uphold the state’s cut, easing costs for shippers and consumers and reducing barriers between producers and buyers.
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Des Moines
I Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
N. S. Ketchum
I Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners
Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners
Iowa Commissioners
Smith McPherson
Ketchum
Iowa
Mr. Ketchum
Iowa Board
Iowa Commission
Twine famine grips Iowa farmers in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids July 21 Iowa farmers face a binding twine shortage and rising prices. Wheat, hemp and sisal factories produced only the usual amount of twine, pushing price to 8 to 9 cents per pound. Dealers are scrambling as demand outpaces supply, forcing a return to hand binding methods used fifty years ago.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa Young People in Poultry Contest
Ames Iowa July 21 Iowa leads the union in poultry with 23 000 000 chickens The Iowa State college agricultural division promotes the industry The experiment station released a free illustrated bulletin on building good poultry houses and the extension department runs a class of over 2000 youths in poultry raising The bulletin notes three houses including the Iowa colony house
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Iowa Colony House
Poultry Extension Plans Distributed to College Students
The college signed a contract providing complete plans and bills of materials for poultry facilities costing 39.79 to 180. An edition of 25000 copies sold to meet demand. Over 2000 students in poultry correspondence courses receive booklets and join a growing contest to be decided this winter at the short course led by Director E. A. Bishop.
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E.A. Bishop
Team crashes into train on farm near Mason City
A team on the John Watts farm west of Mason City collided with a refrigerator car after bolting toward an approaching train. One horse was killed instantly and the driver was thrown to the ground as the train, at about twenty five miles per hour, passed.
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Mason City
John Watts
City
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