04 Jun 1931
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1931
Page
1
A column reflects on morality and public life, contrasting goodness and sin while noting a surge in traffic to the county fair. It urges practical action and observes rural pain versus industrial mood, then praises Iowa soil as wealth. It mentions a wider bridge at Little Creek, road V, and a Texas vacation campaign.
The article discusses tariff comparisons among France England Belgium and Germany, arguing the U S imposes higher duties on others than on itself. It urges public virtue and neighborly kindness while lauding L W Boehner for funding and gifting a swimming pool to Malvern.
The Mills County Board of Supervisors orders landowners and occupants to destroy specified weeds by dates in 1931. Duties include cutting or destroying Canada thistle sow thistle quack grass European bindweed and other weeds before set dates and repeating as needed to prevent seeding. If noncompliant, the weed commissioner will destroy weeds at the owner's expense.
A bulletin from the Bureau of the Census details Iowa farm statistics. It counts 214,928 farms totaling 34,019,332 acres with land value and farm implements totaling 4,495,021 dollars. Crop land dominates at 65.4 percent, with pasture 28.4 percent, and woodland and other land making up the rest. The overall farm land and building value stands at 4,224,506,083 dollars, including dwellings valued at 475,397,544 dollars, and machinery at 270,516,267 dollars.
Eyewitness recalls early Mills County days near Emerson in the seventies. A father and hired man harvest potatoes while two men stalk turkeys along the road. They release dogs to drive off several birds before being halted by a shouted order from the distant potato field.
Louis Schneider and a mechanician won the race in a heavy eight cylinder car on the Indianapolis two and a half mile circular brick track. The average speed was 96.629 miles per hour on the straightaway and speeds of 140 miles per hour were reached while passing. They used 6.00-20 Firestone High Speed Tires with racing tread and reported no tire trouble.
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