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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1925
Page
2
Old-timers linger over holiday shop windows and recall Christmases of long ago. Home made gifts dominated with mittens from lamp light, cookies shaped like animals, and a watch from Uncle Tom. Bought presents were rare yet cherished, and simple joys like church pageants and cutter rides defined a bygone season.
A reflection on holiday shopping habits. The piece argues that impulse and haste create stress and rob the season of cheer, noting that people delay and hurry, driven by human nature, which resists perfectly reasonable planning. It contends would be inhuman to shop calmly and early.
From Des Moines Iowa December 12 1925 Georg Kuhns president Bankers Lite Company outlines a plan to create a new annual market for one hundred million bushels of corn by manufacturing corn sugar and by-products. He argues amending the pure food law will open wide markets, boost canning and education in corn sugar use and relieve Corn Belt surplus with by products like corn oil molasses gluten stock and oil meal.
In Black Hawk County only about 64.43 percent of 200 corn germination tests yielded viable seed. Many samples were dead, with only a few showing strong germination. Iowa State College specialists urge an immediate statewide survey, collecting 100 kernel samples per ear for tests to guide seed sourcing and planning.
Mills County Health Association formed to manage sale and spending of Tuberculosis Christmas seals. Officers named include Lloyd H. Spencer as president and W. W. Mossberry as first vice president, with Mary Rethke as executive secretary and A. C. Baumgartner as treasurer. Membership covers county buyers of at least one dollar in seals. directors include city superintendents, rural teachers, Farm Bureau agents, and county organization chairmen. Annual meeting at County Institute.
A garbled medical note describes a home remedy or mixture claimed to aid digestion. It references herbs, dosages, and unintended effects, but the text is largely incomprehensible and unclear about exact ingredients or outcomes. The fragment hints at stomach relief and possible side effects or cautions within a chaotic, OCR-like transcription.
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