East LeGrand 4-H Notes Rally Day Plans and Visits
Special correspondent reports Hazel Mable and Kathryn Mills visiting East LeGrand this week. Local residents Wilmer Mitchell and Corney Leech with Anna Herbert and families joined Glenn Mills' household for Sunday and Friday gatherings. Dr. Max Mills of Marshalltown and Dr E M Mills visited Glenn Mills Friday evening. The Highland Happy Maids 4-H Club met June 23 with Lucille Manful to plan Rally Day on June 28 in Toledo. Miss Jennie Nelson, home demonstration agent, offered games instruction. An ice cream social at Roy Wells home followed on June 20 with a program including Friendship Song Virginia Nodland and Katherine Buchanan solo.
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Hazel Mable
Kathryn Mills
Wilmer Mitchell
Gladbrook
Mabel Rowlison
Corney Leech
Marshalltown
Anna Herbert
LeGrand
Glenn Mills
Max Mills
E M. Mills
Highland Happy Maids 4-H Club
Lucille Manful
Toledo
Jennie Nelson
Uts
Highland Happy Maids
Roy Wells
Creed
Virginia Nodland
Katherine Buchanan
Doris Slingluff
Lucille Manfull
Fern Dowd
Jane
Virginia Nodl
Quaker Lane Notes Postpone Picnic and Family Visits
Quaker Lane correspondent reports the haymaking forces postponement of the community picnic to fall. Harvey Wolken's children suffer with whooping cough. Families of Guthries Hoover Sloat and Keen join gatherings at several homes, celebrating birthdays and a wedding anniversary near Ferguson and on Will Hoover’s Sunday visit.
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Qur
Harvey Wolken
Quaker Lane
Taylor Guthrie
Will Hoover
Walter Hoover
Glen Sloat
Ferguson
Glen
Thomas and
Howard Keen
Will and Clyde -Hoover
H. E. Gibson
Mrs. Gibson
Cockatoo Cocky Speaks Little and Guards Keys in Office
A Melbourne cockatoo named Cocky in an office resists speech training but can mimic phrases like rub my head. The white bird with lemon crest avoids cages, follows perch rules, and dislikes loose desk keys which it repeatedly knocks to the floor. It feeds mainly on mocking bird food bread and frit.
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Australia
Cocky
Giraffe Tallest Creature in Pathfinder Magazine
Pathfinder Magazine describes the giraffe as the tallest and one of the oddest animals. It notes a height of about 18 feet, its distinctive body features, and its habitat in central Africa. The article mentions its grace and speed, and lions as its main predators near water sources.
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Aleo
Central
Africa
Pathfinder Magazine
Choosing Bloodhound Pups for Reliable Trail Work
A Washington Star authority stresses selecting well bred bloodhounds from dependable trail dogs. He compares horse breeding, noting horses bred for speed differ from strength, and argues not every bloodhound can become an expert man trailer despite the breed.
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Washington Star
Airplanes turn easier says pilots in Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times notes pilots prefer turning in airplanes over cars. Cars require banked highways to curve, while aircraft bank itself with stick movement. Higher speed yields greater banking, making aviation safer and more controllable than driving.
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Los Angeles Times
Death Valley Bird Life Defies Driest-Spot Claim
Death Valley Calif may lose its label as the driest place in the United States as ornithologists report 78 bird and waterfowl species thriving there. The region lies 300 feet below sea level and hosts ducks geese osprey and burrowing owl amid its harsh desert.
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Death Valley
Calif
United States
Canal Bottom Flaw Found in Napoleon Era Ourca Canal
Engineers report the Ourca canal linking Paris to northern and eastern streams has a sleeve like bottom. The Seine General allocated 20,000,000 francs to seal the holes. Opened in 1812, the canal remains a vital artery for food stuffs and raw materials sent to Paris by barge.
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Ourca
Seine
Doctoring Diseased Trees A Vital Tree Surgeon Trade
A Montreal article emphasizes tree surgeons work alongside tree doctors to treat disease growths on roots and trunks, remove fungi and rot, patch wounds with antiseptics, and inject medicines into sap ducts to prevent or cure fungal diseases and deter boring insects.
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Montreal Berali
Prominent Ames Residents Visit and Move Activities
Prominent Ames area residents are noted with several visits and a move. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kratoska visited the Lewis Mertka home, Mrs. Krede Mague cares for Mrs. Dougherty, and Miss Ada Johnson hosts Mrs. Zatechka and her son Jack. The Schoeberlins moved to Ellsworth to run a restaurant, Mrs. Schoeberlin formerly Lyllis Lunde. Alva Dougherty improves after three weeks in Deaconess Hospital. Maxine Mertka will celebrate her eleventh birthday while visiting Ames. Mrs. J. W. Sloss of Omaha visits her father and sister. Esther Mertka accompanies her, staying until after the Fourth.
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Prom
Charles Kratoska
Lof Ames
Lewis Mertka
Krede Mague
Marshalltown
W. M. Dougherty
Dougherty
Charlie Bowles
Pearl Dougherty
Oscar Schoeberlin
Ellsworth
Schoeberlin
Lyllis Lunde
Alva Dougherty
Deaconess Hospital
Maxine Mertka
Chas. Kratoska
Ames
J. W. Sloss
Omaha
Mertka
8. W. Pierce
Louis Mertka
Hormone Found Governs Mother's Milk Production
Carnegie Institute scientists Oscar Riddle, Stobert Bates, and Simon Dykshorn report the discovery of prolactin, a pituitary secretion that triggers milk production in cattle and sheep. When injected into rabbits and guinea pigs it induced milk flow, signaling a potential health boost for infant feeding.
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Carnegie
Washington
Pathfinder Magazine
Oscar Riddle
Stobert A. Bates
Simon W. Dykshorn
Institution
Department of Genetics
Cold Springs Harbor
N. Y
Pituitary
Greenland Daylight and Darkness Balance Limits Winter Nights
The Montreal Herald notes that Greenland endures four months of continuous daylight, followed by four months of darkness. The rest of the year alternates day and night, with the midnight sun yielding midday night in winter and the aurora borealis and moonlight tempering the dark season.
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Greenland
Bring Home the Bacon Expression History
The phrase bring home the bacon traces to the whole hog carcass from rustic communities in England and the US. It evolved to mean any highly desirable reward or prize, with similar sayings like to Saye ene's bacon reflecting the same root.
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England
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East LeGrand
LeGrand Reporter
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Frand
John R. Manship
D. Harvey
Iowa
U. S
Holland & Holland
Federal Land Bank
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Marshall County
G. W. Lawrence
Town Electric Light and Power Company Bldg
Fred Zatechka
Jack
Ada Johnson
W.A. Kauffman
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