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Newspaper
Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1953
Page
2
The account describes a Burmese theater beauty contest with both girls and boys, noting the American bathing suit winner and the muscular male segment. It portrays simple village life in Myithyine, including bamboo homes, rice-based diet, low income, limited transport, and war-surplus jeeps, plus water wells and bathing customs.
A project report describes efforts to raise market weights for poultry and swine, introduce better breeds, and improve feeding with corn barley and wheat. Dairy production remains low, so focus shifts to swine and poultry while importing dairy stock. Plans include new crops, sugar cane farm, soil and fertilizer trials, tractor and animal powered farming, and expanded extension services despite bureaucratic delays.
Bequest from Ole J Madson will add 50 dollars to each of the top 20 seniors in Algona’s graduating class this spring. The late donor had no children. About 40 hunters joined a fox hunt near Denison. one fox was killed and the day ended with fewer hunters than expected.
Dr. Richmond of Fort Madison Iowa reports recovery from illness after moldy bread ingestion. A Iowa reader cites diary notes, while locals joke about selling stale bread as a health aid. Planners discuss molly bread, penicillin pudding, and housewife uptake, naming Ed Mazvinski Ray Hartman Jim Ware Les Murphy as bread dealers.
A 67 year old hunter and trapper from Brandon, South Dakota, who had been staying in Doon the past month, died when a small lodging he occupied at Doon was destroyed by a fire early last week on Monday morning.
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