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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1948
Page
1
The Gravity Independent notes it is published every Thursday with a subscription price of 31.50 and 2.00 for year four. Francis is listed as editor and rub. The item indicates second class mail matter status at Gravity.
March storms arrived like a lion roared through Friday night and Saturday morning. Hall, rain sleet and ice disrupted daily routines as spring weather was replaced by a sharp wintry mix. The piece notes good Friday weather, garden efforts, and mentions Truman Administration spending $40 million in taxes to keep potato prices high with an official estimate of $200 million this year for price supports.
A fragment from a town report notes a Monday election vote with unclear details about what was being decided and who participated. The text lacks concrete names, dates, or outcomes, preventing precise reconstruction.
Discrepancy emerged as it was decided the Justice of the Peace candidate should be elected in November at the general election rather than in the current time. Consequently this portion of the ticket was removed during printing on Saturday.
Good gardeners know insect control matches seed and water. New insecticides and dusts improve garden dusting, reaching under leaf surfaces. Hand dusters suit average gardens, while knapsack or crank dusters fit larger plots. DDT spraying at 10 day intervals boosted potato yields 40 to 60 percent in Wisconsin tests, controlling leaf hoppers flea beetles potato beetles and more.
A reader notes .38 inch of rain Tuesday night and that March behaved harshly, more a lion than a lamb. The writer hopes April brings warmth and sunshine to advance spring work delayed by march weather and its erotic changes.
The UP item notes that fulfilling President Truman's proposed $39.6 billion federal program would compel the U.S. Treasury to print money for 26 years. The calculation frames the scale of funding and currency needs in a blunt fiscal light.
On Emerson Grebel’s Beaver Dam farm Wisconsin FFA members demonstrate a temporary silo using dried cheese whey as a preservative. Grass with mixed legumes was chopped in the field and whey powder about 30 pounds per ton added as it was fed to the blower. The group will study silage quality and its effect on milk production.
Ketle Parks visited his son Lowell in an Omaha hospital over the weekend. The Royal Neighbors will meet with Mi Ida Post on Saturday April 3 at 2 00 p m. Inoculate your alfalfa and clover seeds. Get it at Drug Store.
Darrell Baker employed in Washington visits his parents Mr and Mrs Glenn Baker and other relatives and friends here.
Mrs Frank Trumbo returns to her Long Banach California home after visiting sister Mrs J W Ackley and her family as well as Mr Milo Dugan and Mrs Dugan.
Mr and Mrs John Neil and their children from Ellsworth spent the weekend visiting Mea Neil and her mother Mrs Kilda Ginn, sharing time together in a family gathering.
MrsArthur Meyera is visiting this week at Davia City with her daughter Mrs Lawrence Atte berry and family.
Sixteen guests attended a dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Rhine. Present were their son Harvey Rhine and family from Gromwell, daughters Mrs Woodrow Wynn and family from Prancott, Mrs Daleton Broswall and family from Corning, and Mr and Mrs J W Ackley.
Cornell University reports that studies on about 60 heifer calves showed adding vitamins A D E ascorbic acid and several B vitamins to a normal diet with capsules or tablets did not lower the incidence or severity of scours.
Injury to plants may occur from using spray containing 2 4 D residue. The most effective removal method is hot water and household ammonia. Rinse with hot water then fill to capacity with water, add boiling ammonia two teaspoons per quart.
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