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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1954
Page
10
Homemakers face a confusing array of soaps and synthetic detergents for laundry in hard and soft water. Experts from Iowa State College explain how soaps work in soft water and why syndets perform better in hard water, plus tips on labels and skin care.
A columnist argues children should contribute to family duties as a positive role rather than punishment. It notes parents struggle to motivate chores and suggests framing tasks as shared responsibility. Emphasis on family attitude over repeated commands and highlights recognizing each member’s helped duties.
Galen Harms and his son operate a 70 acre Chester White breeding farm near Wayne Center and Amber. They emphasize breeding stock over market pigs, maintaining bloodlines and pedigrees, and purchase new out-of-state boars to improve stock. Their current crop is described as long, smooth, and meaty, with February and March litters averaging several offspring.
The farmer purchaser gains new blood with each yearly stock purchase from Galen Harms as his operation grows. His clean stock bedding uses saw dust, and his small office holds a trophy case featuring a Cedar Rapids top Iowa pig from last spring. Galen, a 1951 Monticello graduate, funnels most 4-H earnings into a future farming enterprise. His brother Raymond, 25, works at Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids after two years in Germany.
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