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Graettinger Times

Location

Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 14, 1940

Page

2

Pioneer Round Kernels Show Higher Yields In 1936 Iowa Test

The 1936 Iowa Corn Yield Test finds Pioneer round kernels averaging slightly higher yields than flat kernels under the same conditions. Easy to plant round kernels now compatible with correct planter plates. Pioneer’s grading methods yield uniform kernel sizes. Farmers are increasingly planting round kernels despite aesthetics. Round kernels sell for 1.50 to 2.50 per bushel, saving up to one third vs flat kernels. planter plates offered free with round kernel orders. limited flat kernel supply remains.

Iowa Pioneer

Ed Herke Pioneer Representative in Osgood Iowa

A jumbled clipping shows Ed Herke named as a pioneer representative in Osgood Iowa amid miscellaneous anecdotes and local items. It mixes odds and ends from humor, weathered laments, and school notes, with scattered lines about a New York taxi, grocery men, and Halloween party reports from G.H.S. and Sparis News, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century small-town page.

City Barber Shop Best of Net s Vice and Workmanship

Classified ad notices from Graettinger area list services for barbering dairy products real estate and farm loans plus multiple farm animal sales and equipment listings including Poland China boars Jersey heifers Holstein calves and bulk oils and coal heaters. Several farmers advertise buying selling and purchasing corn cobs and estray cattle with contact names and towns such as Ringsted Wallingford Graettinger Osgood and Peters en included.

Malvern Boy Scouts Aid In Child Search And Local Dramas

Summary of fragmented local items: Jack McQueen from Tama survived ear injury with 16 stitches after a fight. Malvern volunteers aided in locating 2 year old Larry Davis in a 165 acre corn field. Scott Kimes, now of New Virginia, returned to Wheatland after 69 years absence. Griswold Fire Department received a 360 gift from an insurer, and a Malvern area sprees, corn turnover to government by Otto Albert Reinbeck, and Garry Mumm’s fall from a second story window. Bill Kelling of Waverly recalls October 4 week with car fire and a missing child scare. Greenfield calls another election over a pool issue. a Spencer fair box yields $40. Twins feature in a Breda-Omaha wedding and related twins at the ceremony.

Twin sister and bride mother twin noted in ceremony

Two Mason City girls went fishing and found a 22 inch pickerel swallowed another fish as they prepared to go home. The report mentions a ceremony performed by someone with a twin sister, and the bride's mother is also a twin.

Mason City

Social Items R N A Met At Watson Hall

Social events and meetings are listed including the R N A gathering at Watson Hall last Monday with large attendance and a post meeting social lunch.

Watson Hall Missionary Society Mrs. L. Hood Catholic Missionary Society

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