Interesting Events Of Iowa News
A survey of early 20th century Iowa items notes canned potatoes with pealings, turkey ranching expanding in Iowa, a Osceola prison farm producing 25 000 bushels of potatoes with 17 trustees, Drake University bell project costing 320, and charitable acts for Piney Woods school in Mississippi with a large reconstruction fund and a call for more donations.
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Dulany
Texas
Chicago
Piney Woods School
Braxton
Miss
Lunky
Corn crop depends on cultivation more than weather says farmer
Ira Van Wyngarden, a prominent Jasper County farmer near Prairie City, asserts that a good corn crop hinges more on cultivation than on weather. He notes his farm lies in one of Iowa’s driest pockets yet the past season showed varied results.
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Ira van Wyngarden
Jasper
Prairie City
Iowa
Corn yields and farm notes from council bluffs area
The report cites 91 acres producing 45 bushels per acre with intensive cultivation reducing dust and preserving yield in dry weather. It notes good corn quality and October shelling, plus farm anecdotes from Van Wyngarden and Gittinger about local farming and related rural enterprise in Iowa.
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van Wyngarden
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Quarker Oats Company
Old time hog buyer fades as trucks claim the market
Paved roads and motor trucks shift livestock sales from the traditional hog buyer to packing houses in cities like Omaha and Des Moines. Farmers report direct sales to packing houses now dominate, with truckers turning livestock into a business. The change marks a transitional era in rural commerce.
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Page County
Omaha
St. Joe
Sioux City
Mason City
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Christmas Party and Meetings In Richland Center
Mrs. Will Balsiger hosted a Sunday school Christmas party at Rev. August Peterson’s home with a tree and Santa. Attendees included James Balsiger Melvin Hein Wilma Hein Mary Lou Hein Joyce Wismeier and several guests. The week featured a Farm Bureau meeting in Anamosa Rustic Rustlers gathering with Mary Ellen Wismeier and several talks and a party. Other items note pinochle at Fred W Hein’s, visits by Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, and Ellsworth residents, and Rev. Peterson’s hospital stay and return.
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Will Balsiger
August Peterson
Santa Claus
James Balsiger
Melvin Hein
Wilma
Mary Lou Hein
Joyce Elaine Wismeier
Lucie
Dolores Yossi
Elizabeth
Georgia Rieniers
Olga Schnelter
Ruth E. Hein
Janaan Schweitzer
Herbert Woods
Amarilo
Texas
John
Martha Balcar
Cedar Rapids
Henry L. Wismeier
Herman Schneider
George Korman
Dubuque
Joe Kiburz
Clara Burrichter
Smithtown
Oliver Kiburz
Nelson Kiburz
Matthew Allen
George Allen
John Yossi
Women's Missionary Society of the Reformed Church
Armin Tendick
Hulda Behrends
Voss
Frank Brune
Ruth
Fred Liddy
Dubique
St. Luke's Hospital
Paul Buol
George L. Buol
Eunice
Elda Buol
George Essman
Ellsworth
Minn
Five Jones County Boys to Ames Short Course
Jones county to send Marvin Blohm George Phillips Eldon Fisher John Henry Richhorn and Alvin Bailey to the seventeenth annual boys short course and sixth annual state convention at Town State college December 29 to 31. They will compete in live stock and grain judging classes study breeds and rations demonstrate stock fitting and will receive medals trophies and pins for crop and livestock judging.
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Farm Bureau Bulletin
Jones County
Town State College
Marvin Blohm
Center Junction
George Phillips
Oxford Junction
Eldon Fisher
Olin
John Henry Richhorn
Wyoming
Alvin Bailey
Anamosa
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Iowa News
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
Missouri
Arkansas
Fort Turkey
Patterson
Madison County
Harris
Osceola County
George Casson
Audubon
Guthrie
Dallas
State Senate
Fort Madison
Paul Seeley
Prake University
Drake University
J. C. Gillespie
LeMars
Isaac Grimjes
Plymouth County
Germany
Henry Gittinger
Chariton
Lucas County
Louisiana
O. T. Myers
Afton
Baton Rouge
Trader Rat
Quaker
Hardin Co
John Moffett
Eldora
Hardin County
L. V. Carter
42Nd
General Assembly
Moffett
The
Friends Church
New Providence
Friends Yearly Meeting
Friends
Towa Coal
Union County
B. I. Mimi
Albia
Centerville
Tif
American Red Cross
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
U. S
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Bureau
Disabled American Veterans
U. S&s. Veterans’ Bureau
Muscatine
Extension Department
Iowa State College At
Ames
Africa
Hal Wolford
Conesville
Elmer Corwin
Fruitland
Roy Jean
Grover Strouse
Duke V. Layton
B. L. McKee
A. L. Anderson
Ringsted
Emmet
Anderson
Ed M. Smith
Sibley
Willis Overholser
G. M. Carman
Buffalo Center
Albert Bleich
Burt
Kossuth County
Northwestern
Supt
M. J. Clark
First National
Sioux City National
Sioux City Clearing House Association
U. S. Veterans’ Bureau
Richland Center
Fannie
Buchanan
Memorial Union
Locher’s Music Store
Frank Locher
Music Store
Star of Bethlehem
God of Love
Monticello
Madsen Motor Co
Ford
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