Iowa News Highlights Trade Goods and Local Aid
Des Moines received hundreds of rail car shipments of apples grapes peaches pears and other produce with totals listed for 1920. Generous neighbors helped George Kaiser by picking 5000 bushels of corn in eight hours near Archer aided by 125 gallons of free gas from Sioux Oil Co. Other notes include higher truck night safety concerns, charity gifts to Scattergood Friends School and Hoover family support, farm fire prevention with chemical extinguishers, a silver fox breeding project in Knoxville, tree relocation for Waverly well grounds, and progress on the Des Moines River bridge on Highway 2 in Mahaska county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Railway Economics
Washington, D. C
Des Moines
Iowa
Otto F. Bartz
Sheldon
O'Brien County
George Kaiser
Archer
George
Sioux Oil Co
Des Moines River Bridge Span Extends Across to New Highways
Details describe a 1,230 foot Des Moines river bridge with nine 50-foot approach spans to be built on fifteen piers, surpassing Ottumwa Market Street Bridge in length and linking Marion and Mahaska counties. The report also covers city relief methods, public school foreign born citizen training, pedestrian safety guidance, and large scale farm operations led by Henry A. Wallace with Collins Farms Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market Street
Ottumwa
Towa
Des Moines River
Bellefontaine
Marion
Mahaska
Henry A. Wallace
Des Moines
Collins Farms Company
Cedar Rapids
Collins Company
Busy Housewife Guide to Child Food Habits and Planes
The article advises parents to supervise children’s eating to resist influences from peers and snacks, linking good habits to nutrition and growth. It notes English buses decorated with route scenery, a dream book in the British Museum, and announces a 93,500 foot altitude mark for commercial planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
British Museum
Iowa Library System Expands Free Service Across Counties
The model county library in Black Hawk County brings free access via 78 one room and consolidated school stations plus a Parmalee Bus book wagon serving Waterloo central collection. Donations fund county libraries, praised as essential. Nobel prizes highlight literature and science with Swift prizes of about 47000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Library Association
Black Hawk County
Mary Parmalee
Waterloo
Parmalee
Iowa
Keep The Schools Open In Iowa This Fall
Iowa health officials urge keeping schools open during outbreaks. School nurses or physicians enable daily health checks and rapid exclusions, while teachers should dismiss ill students. Collaboration between boards of health and schools, plus timely certifications, is key to controlling epidemics without closing schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Board of Health
Monticello City Council Meeting Minutes November 3 1930
Monticello Iowa council met in regular session with Hoag Matthiessen Hayes Cass present and Bancroft absent. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. October treasurer’s report read and ordered filed. City clerk reported October collections including taxes and transfers totaling 15 598.19 9 735.66 1 858.45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
Monticello
Iowa
Hoag
Matthiessen
Hayes
Cass
Bancroft
Monticello Council OKs 1931 paving project contract
The Monticello Iowa city council authorized the mayor and city clerk to enter a contract with Howard R Green Co Cedar Rapids for engineering on a 1931 paving program. The resolution passed with Ayes Hoag Matthiessen Hayes Cass and no Nays Absent Bancroft. The council then adjourned. Attest City Clerk Ray Echternacht.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Iowa
Monticello State Bank, Iabor
Eclipse Lumber Co
R. H. Balster
K. L. van Meter
A. W. Adants
Eilers
H. R. Green Co
Cedar Rapids Water Works
H. Soule
R. Echternacht
W. Corbin
Renk Bros
Hoag Co
E. A. Wright
Town Municipal Supply Co
Bell Telephone Co
Matthiessen Auto & Supply Co
Improvement Fund
J. R. Green Co
Korneman Bros
Towa Electric Co
General Fund
Parrott Sons Co
Rand
Monticello Band
BNE Ing
Ben Starks
Merrde If Crane Co
Ag Bne
J. B. Clow Co
L H. R. Green Co
Hoag
Matthiessen
Hayes
Cass
Bancroft
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Iowa News
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
Lyon County
Hoover
Scattergood School
Friends
West Branch
Cedar County
Herbert Hoover
Hulda Minthorn Hoover
H. E. Skott
Jackson County
Elmer Bowman
Mr. Skott
Buckhorn Creamery
Silver
Albert Trabert
Knoxville
Trabert
Denver
W. W. Hartzell
Albia
American Fox and Fur Breeding Association
Prince Edward Isles
City Council of
Waverly
Reeves
Highway No. 2
Mahaska County
Tracy
Ben Cole & Son
Ames
A. B. Mason
Grinnell
School For Citizenship
Des Moines Public Schools
United States
Department of Public Instruction
W. H. Root
Iowa Highway Commission
State Highway Commission
Iowa Book News For
People
Library News
Mildred Othmer Peterson
Sinclair Lewis
Sweden
Alfred Nobel
Hamlin Garland
Edwin Booth
George W. Cable
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman
Camden
Rudyard Kipling
New York
James Whitcomb Riley
Joachim Miller
Sierras
California
John
Bird T. Baldwin
Eva Abigail Fillmore
Lora Hadley
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Baldwin
University of Town
Sue
Paul
Flack
Dalgluesch
Tippett
Liang and Lo
Wiese
Morrow
Hader
Sewell
Brock
McNamara
Fyleman
Rusty Pete
Nicol and Fogler
Hitty
Field
Sam
Reed
Hutchinson
Wanda
Gretta
Broby Farm
Palm
Princess Rosette
Segur
Lupe
Brann
Malou
Criss
Hillyer
France
Hall
Nordhoff
Mukerfi
Irving
Nesbit
McNeely
Ferris
Snedeker
Hulbert
Vilno
Kelly
Tahiti
Turkey
New California
Jonathan
Greening
Texas
Virginia
Ferndell California Peaches
Van
Ferndell
Pineapple No. 2
Kraft and
Milani
Ricklefs’ Grocery
Council Proceedings
B. FE
Ray Echternacht
Christ
Carlyle
Coast To Coast
Tweeds
Kayser
Beery's Dry Goods Store
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