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News Notes of Iowa and Iowans weekly tribune feature
A conference in Des Moines gathered Iowa Minnesota the Dakotas and Missouri leaders led by Keith Vawter to plan chautauqua programs. Vawter, an ex Des Moines boy, pioneered popularizing chautauquas now reaching 60 groups serving 10 000 towns and aiming at a cooperative seven day circuit on profit sharing. The report also covers tuberculin testing by USDA and Iowa veterinary services with 714 herds 16 734 animals tested showing 764 reactors, plus expanding staff for Dr. Malcolm in Des Moines. Other items note Waverly Grundy Center poultry tailgate fun turkeys geese ducks, A J Cole circumnavigating the globe at 66, and a plan by William T. Rigby to honor Samuel J. Kirkwood with a monument at Vicksburg National Military Park.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Missouri
Keith Vawter
Cedar Rapids
Vawter
Lake Chautauqua
N. Y
Vincent
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa Veterinary Department
F. H. Thompson
Federal
Peter Malcolm
Malcolm