Iowa Highlanders to Parade Bagpipe Girls at National Meet
The University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders will travel to San Francisco for the national convention, promoted by the Iowa Lions Service Clubs. Local praise highlights the all girl drum and bagpipe unit as colorful and memorable, with optimism Iowa bagpipers will be seen as standout entertainers.
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Iowa Lions +Service Clubs
University of Iowa
San Francisco
Glen Ellis
Marengo Pioneer-Republican
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Lona
Ellis
Iowa
Ten Points For Good Government From Iowa Secretary Bergeson
Iowa Secretary of State Rollo H Bergeson urges citizens to engage in politics with responsibility. He lists ten points to improve state government including being informed voting in primaries and caucuses and supporting good candidates. He stresses citizen duty and realistic expectations of imperfect officials.
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Rollo H. Bergeson
Iowa
Hawkeye
Burgeson
Bergeson
State of
What kind of husband Harvard prof says
Harvard anthropologist Ernest A. Hooten advised audiences that women should return engagement rings to men who are overly active or anti social. He divides men into fat men who crave comfort and sociable traits, the impatient he man who lacks exercise, the reclusive string bean and the in between type combining flaws from both ends.
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Paris
Harvard
Ernest A. Hooten
Prof. Hooten
Prof Hooten
State legislature passes slot machine tax law
The Chariton Leader notes the legislature ended in April after approving a tax on slot machines. Some readers question if the law makes possession legal. The article hints the next session could legislate taxes on burglary receipts.
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Chariton
Hoover's Corner Still Remembered
Estherville Daily News notes lower prices may lurk around the same elusive corner where readers searched long for an end to the depression.
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Hoover's
Estherville
Soil Conservation urged as key to national welfare
Ada Aedson argues in Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune that soil conservation must be ingrained in American thinking and legislation. She notes erosion costs 2000 dollars per minute and advocates small daily conservation spending to balance soil fertility and sustain export levels of 100 million dollars monthly, linking conservation to peace and food security.
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Ada Aedson
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune
Bed bug finding echoes at upstairs party scene
Denison Review notes a quiet upstairs moment as a hostess hushes guests to hear children deliver their good night message. The punchline reveals Willie found another bed bug, ending the scene with a mundane domestic detail.
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Denison
Willie
Taxpayers Back Economy Move Despite Washington Politics
Mitchell County Press notes that major Washington politicians push cuts in government spending, but taxpayers remain pleased with Congress reducing expenditures and the impact on their wallets.
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Mitchell County
Washington
Congress
See What the White Man Has Done
Essay reflects on colonization and its impact by comparing indigenous life before and after white settlement. Observes absence of taxes and debt, and notes women's labor in the precontact period versus later reforms and modernization. Credits the Algona Upper Des Moines for publication.
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Algona
Des Moines
Government costs fall when Congress enacts budget cuts
The editorial urges reducing government spending by pressing Congress to implement budget cuts. It notes a 371 percent rise in government costs since 1939, claiming this increase far exceeds rises in food, lodging, clothing, and lumber.
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Red Oak Express
Congress
By The Way Concerning Monticello And Other Places
A column of assorted anecdotes and gossip about Monticello Delhi Tama and Cascade including fishing woes a misfiled photograph a humorous war era mail address and a joke about salmon ice cream hoax letters and a urge to re petition state boards for a pool project.
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Monticello
Local Chamber Hopes For Pool Approval Next Summer
A distressed tone notes a petition may be revised and sent to the state board with a Junior Chamber of Commerce delegation. The idea of a swimming pool for next summer offers some relief during the current heat wave.
Jones County Excels in Bond Sales for June 1947
Bond sales report shows Jones County ranking high statewide for the first half of 1947. In June 1947 E F G bond purchases reached $139,108, up from $98,138 in 1946, with the six month total at $1,586,871 versus $776,516 last year.
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Frank E. Stimson
Jones County
Buchanan County
Cedar County
Delaware County
Dubuque County
Jackson
Linn County
Great Jones County Fair Dates Quick Preview
The Great Jones County Fair runs August 20 to 22 featuring rides games concerts and food vendors. Organizers invite families visitors and local businesses to join in the community celebration with events across the fairgrounds.
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Jones County
Monticello Woman Tours South America by Air
Miss Caroline Heiken of Monticello completed an 18 day air journey from Chicago to Miami then across Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Haiti. She traveled with guides, spoke little Spanish, and visited Quito, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Port au Prince before returning to Dubuque.
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Gail L. Huibregtse
South America
National Geographic
Main Street
Caroline Heiken
Monticello
Heiken
Sun
Florida
Winged
Mexico
Canal Zone
Latin America
Miss Heiken
Monticello State Bank
Yellowstone National Park
Alaska
Lake Louise
Banff
Canadian Rockies
United States
Chicago
Panama Canal
Quito
Ecuador
Trujillo
Pizarro
Lima
Peru
Miss ‘Heiken
Santiago
Chile
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Andes
L. A
Aconcagua
Hemisphere
Rio de Janeiro
Rio
Brazil
Copacabana
Puerto Rico
San Juan
el Morro
Saint Joseph’s
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Heiken Plans Milder Travels After South America Trip
The story notes Miss Heiken enjoyed traveling as she waited to meet her companion. The feature on "Around South America in 18 Days" suggests more journeys ahead, with her hoping next year’s travels will be less strenuous.
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South America
Creamery Men Meet Sept 4 in Anamosa
The annual meeting of district F Town Creameries association is set for Sept 4 in Anamosa. Plans were shaped by the district advisory committee at their Thursday session in Anamosa. Recommendations include creating interior butter market reports via the state federal market news service.
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Town Creameries Association
Anamosa
Federal Market
Dairy committee outlines milk feed research and shipping rate worries
The group backs research on skim milk butter milk and dried milk solids as stock feed and opposes higher freight rates for butter. They plan a September district F meeting to discuss Washington dairy policy and price outlook post price supports ending December 31, 1948. District F creameries span Benton Linn Johnson Jones Cedar Muscatine Jackson Clinton Scott counties. Advisory members Fred Boland chair LeRoy Boland Cletus Boland Hazel Smyth Hartvigsen Hyatt attended.
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District F
Washington
Benton
Iowa
Linn
Johnson
Jones
Cedar
Muscatine
Jackson
Clinton
Scott Counties
Fred Boland
Williamsburg
LeRoy Boland
Amber
Cletus Boland
Springville
A. Hazel Smyth
Anamosa
E. J. Hartvigsen
H. H. Hyatt
Maquoketa
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