Women’s Community Club with Edison sketches February Meeting
Scotch Grove reports an all day Women’s Community Club gathering next Wednesday February 19 with a picnic lunch at noon. Members will hear a Thomas A. Edison character sketch by Mrs L J Schlemm, a Washington and Lincoln review by Miss Hattie Folkerts, and a lesson on teaching children money use by Mrs H A Loomis. Music and recreation close a lively program.
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L. J. Schlemme
Thomas A. Edison
Hattie Folkerts
Washington
Lincoln
H. A. Loomis
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Jones County
Des Moines
Anamosa
Newton
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McDonald Hospital
Elizabeth Renk
Monticello
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Arend Balster
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Center Junction
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Bernice Hansen
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Carl Wurst
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Mary Ladage
Cedar Rapids
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Miss Ladage
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Progressive Women's Club
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Ruby Roush
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Dema Hunt
Hazel Reade
Mary Platner
Alice Wherry
Louise Leysen
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Weaver
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America
Fishwild
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Gladys Marshall
NBC
Ingwersen
U. S
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D. G. Lyons
Lyons
Archie Butler
Central City
Butler
W. J. Lyons
Wilfred Streeper
Bernard Cass
Austin Parsons
Mercy Hospital
Wyoming Team Defeats Cascade 25 to 6 In Local Game
The Wyoming high school basketball team won 25 to 6 on the local floor Tuesday evening, leading throughout. Earlier, the local freshmen defeated the eighth grade Wyoming squad 15 to 6.
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Wyoming
Cascade
Frances Buchholtz
John Buchholtz
Carl Wurst
Ella Lorenzen
Vera Westphal
Buchholtz
Wartburg League
Glen Westphal
Marie Ketelsen
Raymond Holtz
Raymond Huggans
Anna Lorenzen
Fred Buch Ee
Herman Hintz
The Maple Sap Discovery Story of Blue Heron
A Ne NH Indian boy Blue Heron discovers maple sap near Winnepesaukee lake while playing war and drinking sap from a maple. He shares the sweet sap with his father, and the tale explains how the maple sap tradition began among the tribe.
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Blue Heron
Winnepesaukee
Indians Enjoy Bowing to Blue Heron Legend
The tale recalls a tribe’s sharing of bows and arrows after strong approval of a story told by Little Blue Heron’s father. The clan taps maple trees for sweet water as said in the tale. Local notes include social visits and events at homes, church programs, and gatherings around February birthdays.
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Blue Heron
Mish Queey
New Hampshire
Cornstalk crafts and village happenings in Wyoming
R B Thompson opens with cornstalk log and roof timber ideas for farm use. The Wyoming scene covers wedding of Frances Buchholtz and Carl Wurst, school events, club meetings, basketball results, farm purchases, and social gatherings with community figures and local families townwide.
Hybrid Corn Wins Again in Iowa State Yield Contest
Iowa State College’s 1929 state corn yield contest shows hybrid seed outperforming open-pollinated varieties in all 12 districts. Hi-Bred Corn Company of Grimes won the banner trophy with 87.71 bushels per acre in the north central section, 14.5 percent above district average.
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Iowa State College
Iowa
Grimes
Hi-Bred Corn Company
North Central
Diet for child’s dental care plan
A report notes a dietary approach for a child focusing on culent vegetables and fruits and similar foods the child desires. It suggests dental care improvements may be arrested in about two months.
Tests for silk and wool for housewives at home
Textile experts at Iowa State College explain simple tests to distinguish silk from rayon and wool from blends. Burning tests show silk leaves a hard black bead, rayon flames and ash, wool gives a feather smell. A lye test dissolves pure wool into a gummy mass while cotton blends dissolve differently.
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Towa State College
Diet Linked to Fewer Tooth Decays in Children
Iowa State College home economics experts report that dietary balance rich in vitamins and minerals reduces tooth decay in children. A preschool daily plan includes milk, egg, cod liver oil, butter, orange, and multiple servings of foods high in minerals and vitamins to support growing teeth.
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Iowa State College
Iogold oats offered in three bushel lots for trial
The Iowa State College Ames station offers Iogold oats in three bushel lots for trial to Iowa farmers. Iogold yields about two bushels more per acre than rivals and is stiff-strawed with good resistance. Orders to Joe L. Robinson with a $2.25 payment cover seed, bag, and handling.
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Ames
Towa
Joe L. Robinson
Farm Crops Department
Towa State College
Iowa
Law Agent Turned Criminal Faces Nine‑ty Day Jail Term
Fred Trexler of Dubuque, once a federal prohibition agent, pleaded guilty in a Sioux City federal court to illegal liquor manufacture. Judge George C. Scott sentenced him to ninety days in Dubuque county jail. Trexler left Prohibition enforcement in 1928 and later financially backed a young farmer near Dubuque who ran a still.
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Fred Trexler
Dubuque
Sioux City
George C. Scott
Trexler
Chicago Angler Tells Truth About Other Fisherman
A column of wry Chicago humor notes a fisherman who always tells the truth about his rival’s catch. A gossip classifies people by clever arithmetic and jokes about laziness and its supposed cure.
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Chicago
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