Plans for Iowa statewide auditions aim for national contest
Dean Holmes Cowper of Drake University heads the Iowa contest committee as the state is divided into ten districts Des Moines Sioux City Davenport Cedar Rapids Mason City Council Bluffs Ottumwa Creston Dubuque and Fort Dodge Two men and two women from each county advance to district contests Semi finals in Des Moines will send ten men and ten women to the Town finals on WHO radio early in November Winners receive 5000 and two years tuition plus a gold decoration Other prizes range from 2000 to 250 Town winners will go to Chicago for the national semi finals A canoe journey above the Arctic Circle by four University of Town students ends safely after a squall and heads toward Kazan river to aid Canadian government exploration
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Atwater Kent Foundation
Iowa
Dean Holmes Cowper
Fine Arts College
Drake University
Des Moines
Sioux City
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Council Bluffs
Ottumwa
Creston
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
WHO
Chicago
Arctic
Max J. Kane
Gordon C. Armstrong
Britt
Peder C. Roddum
Crystal Lake
John D. Fuller
Keokuk
University of Town
Arctic Circle
Mound Lake
Kazan River
Nebraska Seed firm hires 100 for blue grass stripping
Omaha based Nebraska Seed Company employs about 100 workers to strip blue grass seed by hand along county highways while larger tracts use machines. Workers earn six to eight dollars daily, with around 7000 bushels collected and dried before processing to remove the seed’s hulls. The article also notes plans for Iowa and Des Moines farm exhibits and a Des Moines summer exposition focused on women’s farm home projects and a harness industry, plus a government windmill tower survey near Pilot Knob park in Winneshiek county and a 103 foot tower on the Guy Irwin farm near Chariton.
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Nebraska Seed Company of
Omaha
Pilot Knob Park
Winnebago County
Coast and Geodetic Division
United States Department of Commerce
Guy Irwin
Chariton
Inside Information For Busy Housewives
A scattered page notes local notes on fruit crop failures in Hamburg Iowa and broader state results from the primary with Hammill Bowman Skromme and Anderson vote tallies. It covers factory vacation plans at Thomas D Murphy Red Oak and Iowa PTA committees. Col. Robert W Stewart acquittal. Muscatine Montezuma rail branch passenger declines. state supreme court tax ruling. a bee swarm incident. and home economics advice on food storage dress and sun suits for children.
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Hammill
Bowman
Skromme
Anderson
Calhoun
Guthrie
Ida
Pocahontas
Hamilton
Winnebago
Black Hawk
Story
Clinton
Black Hawk County
Clem Kimball
Pottawattamie
Buser
Muscatine County
Thomas D. Murphy Company
Red Oak
Bees Dodge Horses After Collision Under Tree
Beehive swarm clung to a limb as horses hit a tree and were attacked by angry bees. Lisle Hobbs was summoned to rescue the animals. Helpers used carry combs and salt soda water to remove bees. In other news Iowa 1929 license plates will be green and black with vertical lettering and start delivery December 1 from Anamosa reformatory.
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James Graham
Moville
Woodbury County
Homer Kenny
Paul
Lisle Hobbs
Ed M. Smith
Iowa
Anamosa
State urges caution in rabies scares and dog killings
Health commissioner Dr Henry Albert warns against killing suspected rabid dogs without cause. Early symptoms are unclear, so preventive treatment for bite victims remains essential if rabies is possible. If a dog is killed, its head should be sent to the Town City state hygiene laboratory for testing.
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Henry Albert
State Hygiene Laboratory
Town City
State Department of Health
Des Moines
Rivers of the world longest rivers charted
The Farm Journal notes that among the world twelve greatest rivers only three lie in the western hemisphere. The Amazon Mackenzie and Missouri surpass the Mississippi in length, while six of the rest are in Asia and three in Africa. The Nile at about 4000 miles is the longest.
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Council Bluffs
Western Hemisphere
Mississippi
The
Farm Journal
Amazon
South America
Mackenzie
Arctic
North America
Missouri
Asia
Africa
Nile
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Iowa News
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
Women’s Farm Bureaus
Towa
Harness Manufacturing Center
Toosan Ter Be
Des Moines Saddlery Company
Boot Harness Company
America
Bost
J. W. Hoyt
Ames
Cap and Gown
Tilden Manufacturing Company of
Boston
San Francisco
Irwin
Washington, D. C
Humeston
Wayne County
Liberty Center
Hamburg
Fremont County
B. C. Hopkins
Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers
L. R. Elliott
Des Moines Council of Parents and Teachers
Elliott
W. C. Cameron
C. T. Kirkwood
Iowa Congress
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
United States Senate
Col. Stewart
Senate
Continental Trading Corporation
Stewart
Linn County
Toaver
Cedar
Car College
South Dakota
Theodore Bowerell
Pough Riders
Cal
Coe College
Herbert Hoover
Muscatine and Montezuma
Rock Island Railway
State Supreme Court
District Court
Jefferson
Greene County
Supreme Court
Tower Court
Man
Iorses
Bureau of Home Economics
Center Junction Savings Bank
Center Junction
Jones
Capital
Federal Reserve Bank
State OF Iowa
Jones County
Ss. We
M. J. McNelley
C. A. Burmeister
M. J. McNeilly
Bertha M. S. Burmeister
W. S. Pangburn
J. M. Moses
J. N. Smith
Charles Moncrief
Dodge Brothers
Dodge
Reeriee
F.D.B
Detroit
O. B. Burrichter
Dance Brothers
B. Detrott
Peacock
Maurice Maire Lawrence Rickels
Monticello
Childress Motor Co
Ford
Men’s Union
BOP
Stuhlers
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