Tuberculosis Conference to Draw 700 Delegates to Des Moines
Des Moines will host the Mississippi Valley tuberculosis conference September 17 to 19 with speakers from New York Boston and eastern health experts. Delegates from Michigan Wisconsin Ohio Indiana Illinois Minnesota Iowa Missouri North and South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas expected. The National Tuberculosis Association executive committee will meet and committees on child health education and publicity will hold sessions preceding the event. The lead speakers include Dr Linsley Williams and Dr Ken dall Emerson.
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Linssey Williams
New York
National Tuberculosis Association
Rockefeller Commission
France
Kendall Emerson
Boston
Red Cross
Orient
Des Moines
Valley
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa State Fair Names Special Days and Aircraft Show
Announcement by Secretary A R Corey lists August 28 as Old Soldiers day and Aircraft day with free admission for veterans. The fair features an aviation show including Captain Wilkins in the polar flight plane and a large tri motor, plus a full week of themed days and events.
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A. R. Corey
Fair Board
Wilkins
North Pole
Randlett to Organize County Councils for Statewide PTA
Mrs. B C Hopkins reports that Mrs CG W Randlett national rural organizer will visit Town for September and October to organize county councils. Miss Agnes Samuelson and county superintendents will assist with the program. Randlett will conduct schools of instruction and advise localities under the PTA constitution and by laws.
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B. C. Hopkins
Town Congress of Parents and Teachers
M. N. Marrs
National Congress of ‘Teachers
CG. W. Randlett
Randlett
Iowa Farm Prosperity Seen After Nine Years of Low Values
A survey by the Iowa State College agricultural economics department finds Iowa regaining its place in the sun with a forthcoming prosperity period. For the first time since September 1919 farm product purchasing power matches wholesale nonagricultural prices, after nine years of low spirits values. Farm products will buy as much nonagricultural goods as in 1910 to 1914.
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Agricultural Economics Department
Iowa State College
Iowa
Irving
Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
Midwest
Seaboard
Australia
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Missouri
Kansas City
Omaha
Mississippi
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Illinois
St. Louis
New Orleans
Decorah woman’s racer snake lays thirteen eggs
Herbert Thomas of Decorah found a female racer snake with thirteen eggs the size of small hen eggs and later three more eggs. He plans to hatch them by placing the eggs in wood pulp, hoping to see young racer snakes by August. The mother snake was about three feet long and was kept in a yard box before he begins a trip to Oregon.
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Herbert Thomas
Decorah
Herbert
Oregon
Hoover's Boyhood Physician Among West Branch Notables
West Branch features Dr Louis J. Leech 83, Hoover's boyhood physician remembered for saving a life and a limb. The country doctor shuttles to patients, once drove off a cornfield bump, and mentored Bert Leech who now drives for his father.
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Doc Leech
Louis 4
Leech
Hoover
Moe Leech
Hedside
Urere
Doc
Bert
Mayo
United States
Iowa City
West Branch
Right
Louis J. Leech
Hoover recalls Iowa boyhood in West Branch speech
Former President Herbert Hoover returns to his Iowa birthplace West Branch and recalls early life with neighbors and teachers, discusses farm relief, waterways modernization, and the evolving structure of U.S. agriculture and transportation costs affecting Midwest farmers.
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Town
Marquette
Joliet
Julian Dubuque
DeSoto
Iowa
Mississippi River
Lewis and Clarke
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Missouri River
Monona County
Floyd River
Leutenant
Zebulin Pike
Pike's Peak
Colorado
Bluffs
McGregor
Albert Lea
Minn
John Brown
Grinnell and
West Branch
Herbert Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Crawford County
Denison
Jeff Davis
Fort Atkinson
Winneshiek County
Zachary Taylor
Fort Crawford
Navou
Ill
Land of Promise
Utah
Chef Blackhawk
Des Moines River
Davis County
Iowa Counties
Keokuk
Mahaska
Gong Discutt
Herbert ‘Gover
Hoover
Hoovr
Towa
Allen
Multiple Inventors Named in 1930s Draft Appliance Concepts
The item lists several inventors and their associated innovations including Neal Nielson of Spencer with a double-radius controlled differential and running board foot pad luggage carrier, Emil F. Novelius of Davenport with a control unit, Ernest R. Snook of Davenport with a shock absorber, Albert Penn of Des Moines with a valve device for pumping structures, and Victor J. Tegeler of Hopkinton with a draft appliance.
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Neal Nielson
Spencer
Emil F. Novelius
Davenport
Ernest R. Snook
Davienport
Albert Penn
Des Moines
Victor J. Tegeler
Hopkinton
Castle Grove reunion, county meetings and farm news
Family reunion at Olin attended by Castle Grove residents including Mr and Mrs Albert Hutton and others. August 31 farm bureau meeting planned with pictures, business, singing, reminiscences and plays. Crop reports note heavy storm damage to corn and wind. threshing largely done. oats and barley good. wheat promising. Various local visits and social events listed with area residents and out-of-town visitors.
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Albert Hutton
Helen
G. Wolf
Macuoketa
Henry
Fred Caspers
Claude Mason
Greeley
Nella Davis
Rochester
Minn
Henry Gerrets
Otto
Cedar Rapids
G. Ehits
Bellevue
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
Fred Harken
Canada
Wilbur Mann
Louis Heiken
North Dakota
Robert McDonald
Hopkinton
F. C. Cramer
Local Socials and Weather Update from Hopkinton Area
Sand Spring resident Orpha Garlinghouse visited Hopkinton with Mrs. E. L. Brandt. Mrs. Cap Arduser and others attended a Buck Creek fair and a Hopkinton chau tauqua. A storm Monday caused wind damage to corn and telephone lines, with heavy rain and hopes frost stays away. Nearby visits included Cascade and Buck Creek activities.
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Orpha Garlinghouse
E. L. Brandt
Hopkinton
Fred Egger
Helen
W. H. Behrends
Chautauqua
Mike Clement
Joseph
Smith and His Critics
Sioux Falls Argus Leader notes Gov. Smith worries about enemies and would be busy if he tried to answer every critic.
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Sioux Falls
Gov. Smith
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