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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1947
Page
2
The junior play was a success amid threatening clouds with a good crowd and fine cast interpretation. Students pose for individual and group photos, while Halloween characters entertained. Beverly Morley’s absence saddened the assembly, and plans for Christmas were discussed at the faculty meeting.
Chester Whites originated in Chester county Pennsylvania from crosses of English hogs York shire Lincolnshire and Cheshire. They are prolific with good disposition early maturing and good feeders. White in color and good dressers. Six months boars weigh 225 pounds gilts 200 pounds yearling boars 560 pounds gilts 400 pounds mature boars 900 pounds sows 700 pounds. Boars rugged with strong head features bone and sex characteristics. Sows refined in head and hair coat roomy body with udder development. Hair is straight and fine especially on sows.
The concrete milk cooler provides a dairy man with proper milk cooling, keeping it clean and sweet until market. The tank dimensions are 27 inches deep, 36 inches wide, and two cans require a 2 foot long section.
Rural districts cities and farms use gassing with calcium cyanide as a quick method to kill rats under tight floors and in burrows. Harold Henderson of Iowa State College notes that gas with a gas gun blown through the system makes the process effective while supplementing trapping and rat proofing.
Newcastle disease, a new virus affecting chickens and turkeys, remains a serious problem. Officials say the main spread is through bird-to-bird contact, urging poultrymen to keep diagnosed birds in strict isolation and to practice strict sanitary measures.
In Hamburg, high water spared cotton seed while garden crops failed. William Lenz Jr of near Sutherland escaped severe injury after his clothing entangled in a tractor’s power take off, leaving him badly lacerated but alive. Barbara Ann LaDue of Britt is born into a family with two great great grandparents, one on each side.
The Gaines Dog Research Center notes greyhound racing expands in the United States with 18 tracks and 500 kennels. About 2,500 fans own dogs, 6,000 dogs in training, and breeding yields $500 to $1,500 per pup, with top stock reaching $3,500. Masters like Master McGrath and Never Roll shape pedigrees. racing began circa 1906 and rose to prominence by 1926 before reform.
In a dispute involving Barbara Ann Money and John Vanden Berge Sr. and Jr. a father reportedly buried 32,200 dollars in currency under a car shed on the son's property in a frost jar. the money vanished and witnesses include the father, son, and a daughter. A separate Knoxville burn case recalls Walter Hulgan, Central States Electric, severely burned by a gas pit explosion during a gas pressure test.
Mrs John Vogel reports receiving 55 pounds of potatoes from a single seed potato. The seed potato, traced to a supplier in South Dakota, led to a harvest with 17 resultant plants. Nearby, 22 year old Charles Smidutra near Rock Rapids has been a long term tenant on the same farm amid several ownership changes.
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