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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1925
Page
2
Plymouth Printing Co proprietor John Starzl notes second class mailing at LeMars Iowa. Rates shown for advance payment per year and standard yearly rate. foreign country rate listed as $8.25.
A Globe Post piece mocks corn fever in Iowa and Kansas with tall stalks, rail ties from corn, and famine aid plots. It notes farmers, railroads, and fairy tale like claims while detailing a carburetor and intake manifold innovation in the same paper.
The report contrasts August 1 predictions from Wallaces' Farmer and the government for eight states Iowa Illinois Missouri Nebraska Kansas Indiana Ohio with updated August 10 figures. It notes close average across seven states and provides numeric yields: Iowa 41.9 Illinois 38.9 Missouri 29.4 Nebraska 22.9 Kansas 15.1 Indiana 41.7 Ohio 44.4, and cites total expected production around 1.727 to 1.732 billion bushels.
Article explains carburetion turns liquid gasoline to gas and wastes cooling energy. It notes historic ice on warm days from refrigerating action, then details Jewett engineers solving heating of intake to vaporize fuel, cooling the mixture for increased power by about 30 percent.
Talk of a Fonda creamery moves toward a real plan with a meeting after the big four fair. Prof F H Thompson from Ames College may discuss investment cost for a 60 by 30 building and equipment around $2200. Estimated 600 cows needed, location lot, cooperative dairy example cited from Fairbault.
Con ductor T J Quinlan of Dubuque retired after a 52 year service with the same railroad lantern. His brother J H Quinlan reached a half century with the system five years ago and remains on the job. The Quinlans, aged 76 and 72, both spent most of their careers on trains serving Dubuque.
Wrigley explains building a multi million package daily gum business by persistent ring and continuous newspaper advertising. He spends over a million dollars annually on ads to educate consumers to chew gum and to choose Wrigley. He warns that advertising must continue to prevent buyers from forgetting the product.
H J Schwiepert of the Illinois Central notes dairy farming as a stable, prosperous sector boosting farm value to 2.5 billion in year and a total of about 5 billion including manufactured value. He says one crop farming stagnates economy, praises good dairy herds as strongest bank note indorsers and insurances, and promotes ICC development bureau services for communities seeking dairy programs.
Iowa remains premier in corn production per August crop report, with an estimated 449.6 million bushels for 1925, about 48 percent higher than 1924. Iowa leads Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri, though some northwest towns report poor to total failures.
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