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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1929
Page
11
A local promotion invites residents to read advertisements on this and next pages to collect six word pieces. By locating a square with a number and word in each ad, participants form a sentence portion and visit store display windows to claim a yellow card. The contest aims to boost Christmas gifting amongst town and countryside residents.
The November report of the Montgomery Mills Cow Testing association shows 479 cows tested, 287 milking and 92 dry. Average production was 494 lbs milk and 20.11 lbs fat. Five leading herds include Glenwood Institution Holsteins with 88 milking, 13 dry, 702 lbs milk and 12.47 lbs fat. Farm No 1 Oscar Lew Guerners with 7 milking, 2 dry, 427 lbs milk and 22.7 lbs fat. Rex Davidson Guernseys with 14 milking, 3 dry, 429 lbs milk and 21.8 lbs fat. Moniker Marflower, a Glenwood Institution Holstein, yielded 2,268 lbs milk testing 2.9% fat. Seven members fed silage and eighteen of twenty fed legume hay. all used low protein concentrates with fourteen on high concentrate.
Advertisement describes a town contest open to all except sponsor employees and families. Six prizes for in town entrants who bring a complete sentence by Thursday, additional prizes for rural contestants by Saturday. Twelve gifts total, one per contestant, with words printed on them. Stores sponsoring include Clem Drug, Col Uns Drug, Landis Hardware, Leader Dept Store, Mulholland's, J and Randerson.
Four Colored Boys from Piney Woods Miss Negro School entertained a small Methodist church audience Saturday evening. The Cotton Blossom Quartet toured in a house truck promoting their school, delivering spirituals and humorous folk songs with lively vitality.
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