Jones County Corn Show Features Junior Exhibitors
The Jones county Farm Bureau announces a corn and legume show with a special junior class for 4 H club members and vocational agriculture students. Prizes are 1 50, 1 00 and 60 cents for first to third in the junior group. Judging will occur January 3 4 and 5 at the Olin school gymnasium.
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Jones County
M. A. Hauser
Iowa State College
Olin School
Arnold Fedderson
Olin
Iowa
Community urged to act as credit council aids citizens
The notice urges broad cooperation with the credit council committee to serve consumers and address budgeting needs. It notes 4 H club beef programs, railroad and warehouse commission rate increases, cash and carry ideas, and farm lobby politics, urging support and action from readers.
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Credit Council Committee
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Congress
Will Rogers
Europe
Farm relief ideas spark talk on landscaping and corn sales
A writer shares family crop worries and a plan to crib corn for next year to raise prices. She recalls a Home Project meeting where Nord Davis taught affordable yard improvements, stressing practical, low cost steps for farmers to beautify their place without big expense.
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Mary
John
Harry Newman
Farm Bureau
Nord Davis
Free Landscape Wisdom From A Patch of Waste Land
A speaker recalls cutting clutter with a simple fence and grass, using native trees and shrubs for screening. He learns to gather materials from a creekside brush patch, turning a neglected area into practical landscaping and boosting confidence in extension work and Farm Bureau outreach.
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Mary
John
Alice
Rainbow Club Holds Meeting and Names Officers in Wayne
Rainbow club of Wayne township met November 12 with eight members and guests. Florence and Elfrieda Wehling joined. officers elected include Mary Helen Hudson as president and Maxine Cooper as vice president. A Christmas program is planned for December 10 at the Streeter home. Ten Tru Blu 4-H girls completed their first year home furnishing project, making 42 items and saving about 35 dollars.
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Rainbow Club
Wayne Township
Florence Wehling
Florence
Elfrieda Wehling
LaVonne Streeter
Laura Siebels
Maxine Cooper
J. W. Streeter
Frances Soper
Lucille Stebels
Arlene Bock
Mary Helen Hudson
Mary Jo Daly
Lucille Siebels
Barbara Hudson
Irene Remington
Tru Blu
Tru Blu Girls
Baby beef success at Martelle Shorthorn breeder
Donald Meeks of Martelle reports his 1931 July calf weighed 300 pounds at Dec 26 and finished 750 pounds for fair time. He fed ground corn and cob meal mixed hay and linseed meal, achieving a 1 971 pounds daily gain and a cost per pound of gain of 0 347 cents. It was his seventh year in 4 H club and he plans to continue.
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Martelle
Donald Meeks
Martelle Boys’ Club
Jones Co. Boys’ Club
Feeding a Carload of Baby Eaters From the Stock Show
A writer recalls planning to feed their baby beef after returning from an international stock show last winter. The reflection centers on enthusiasm for beef feeding and the intent to supply an ample amount.
Plan for Thanksgiving wildfowl dinner. migratory season ends
The Iowa migratory waterfowl open season closes November 30 1932 with a ten day possession limit after the last day. Pheasants may be kept until November 29 1932 after the three half day limit. Fathers urged to teach sons outdoors values and sportsmanship while adhering to game laws. A Marshalltown boy Robert Carl shares six reasons to observe Iowa fish and game laws.
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Towa
Iowa
Fish and Game Department
Robert Carl
Marshalltown
Winter feeding shelters aid quail and songbirds
The article urges winter feeding stations for quail pheasants and Hungarian partridge to supplement scarce farm foods. It suggests simple shelters low costs and one bushel of grain per station. It promotes contests with Boy Scouts 4 H and farmers and urges songbird shelters as part of the same effort.
Outdoor bonding urged for boys on hunting trips
A persuasive call promotes taking boys along on hunting trips to instill character through nature. It argues that exposure to the outdoors teaches more than schools and homes and that a sportsman father or guardians should share these lessons with boys.
Two Angus Calves Bred by George Fraser Show Potential
George Fraser of Monticello Lovell Boys' 4 H Club describes starting January 1 with two Angus calves, a red and a black. Both thrived on a diet of corn, silage, wheat bran, hay, and cottonseed meal, later adding linseed oil meal. The red calf is lively and not suitable for showing, while the black calf is promising for competition.
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George Fraser
Monticello Lovell
Supreme Court of the Exposition Sets National Champions
Since 1900 the International Live Stock Exposition closes the fair season as a final court for national championships. Only the best stock is shown as exhibitors seek prestige for farm and stock from premiums in hundreds of classes. Railroads offer record low fares and free parking near the Chicago stock yards entry.
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Supreme Court of American
Chicago
Half Day Pheasant Hunts Favored by Sportsmen and Farmers
The fish and game department announces half days for pheasant hunting with afternoon permits, drawing praise from farmers and sportsmen statewide. Newspapers note approvals as welcome after earlier seasons saw fatal accidents mainly in early mornings during open season.
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Fish and Game Department
Christmas seal sale urged across churches and nation
Health Sunday关注 tuberculosis and child health work as churches promote the 26th annual Christmas seal sale from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas. Ministers volunteer as speakers, with Fargo leader Rev. W C Stinsbury urging nationwide support.
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Iowa
W. C. Stinsbury
D. D
Fargo
N. D
Anamosa Eureka Reports Tax Sale Extension and Voter Canvass
County Treasurer Harry Holcomb extends tax sales to January, a plan adopted by many counties to help hold property. The county board of supervisors met to canvass last Tuesday’s election and results largely stood as reported with minimal errors. Dr J C Perkins and Bert Preston car thefts occurred on High street, with tools stolen from both vehicles. Local theft reports suggest local culprits, who will face consequences.
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Harry Holcomb
Board of Supervisors
J. C. Perkins
Bert Preston
G. H. Witham
High Street
Funeral Honors and Mourning Customs in China Exposed
An article describes Chinese funeral practices from necromancers arranging auspicious burial days to grand processions funded by families. It notes state burial allowances in Nanking, and details mourning in the death chamber with Buddhist and Taoist rites, paid mourners, and music.
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Nanking
China
Writer Advises Letting Young Authors Struggle
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat argues against lavish prizes for first novels warning rewards tempt talent away from true literature. It praises authors who write without greed for money though acknowledges Milton’s modest legacy and lauds modern writers who earn their living from their craft.
Plymouth Rock Reunited After Century of Separation
The Pilgrim Society notes that in 1774 Plymouth inhabitants moved the rock to Town Square a shrine of liberty was begun but the rock split. One piece was taken to its destination while the other stayed in Plymouth yard. In 1834 it moved to Pilgrim Hall yard under iron fencing and in 1880 returned to the original separated section now under a granite canopy and encircled by a peristyle built by the Society of Colonial Dames.
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The
Pilgrim Society
Plymouth
Town Square
Pilgrim Hall
Society of Colonial Dames
Origin of Fore in Golf Remains Mytery in NY Times
The article notes the origin of the term Fore in golf is obscure with no satisfactory explanation of when or how it entered the game, described as the Royal and Ancient Game.
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New York Times
Before! The origin of the golf cry in Scotland 1457
A note on the term Fore as a trouble maker in 1457 Scotland and its evolution from Before used by golfers. It traces Jamison’s 1820 dictionary definition as a cry to those blocking the bus, and cites present authorities on its shortened modern form.
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Scotland
Jamison
Dead Reckoning Origin in Sea Terms
Pathfinder Magazine explains C Grand Pierre’s note on dead reckoning as estimating a vessel position without observations. The article traces how the term Di/ded grew from log sheet abbreviations like deduced latitude to the shortened form dead, noting its non inert meaning in nautical use.
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C. Grand Pierre
Pathfinder Magazine
Earth's Existence Time Described in Nabatean Epistle
The Epistle of Bar nabas divides earth's existence into three 2,000 year periods: creation to the promise of redemption through prophets, the prophetic era to the Christian era, and the Christian era to the millennium. It then foresees a final judgement and the earth's destruction or reorganization.
Distinguishing Ambition From Wish in Grit and Effort
The note contrasts ambition with a mere wish, defining ambition as intense desire backed by untiring effort and tempered by patience through disappointments, a view attributed to grit.
Manuscript discovery at Talbot castle yields Boswell pages
In a lumber room at Talbot de Malahide's English castle, servants found 107 pages of James Boswell's Life of Johnson among crates. The owner was offered 875000 for the manuscript, with only 10 pages previously known. A second item notes 300 year old wassailing apple trees ritual at Cardnampton Somerset.
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Lord Talbot de Malahide
James Boswell
Lord Talbot
Johnson
Memoir Excerpts Reveal Queen Victoria Era Views on Animal Cruelty
Writings from August 1996 depict a royal letter on cruelty to animals amid London the mad dog scare. The document urges humane treatment for dogs, insisting no dog be killed unless a veterinary surgeon declares it mad and calls for protection of beloved canine companions.
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Victoria
London
Child’s polite remark charms Riverside visit
Three year old Patty visiting grandparents near Riverside observes grandmother plucking a turkey and asks why leaves are pulled from the bird. Later she accidentally steps on a gobbler’s foot and calmly says Pardon me as she meets the flock.
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Mabel Williams
Patty
Riverside
Los Angeles Times
In ancient In Orthnithopolia Sidonian birds decorate glass
Ornithopolie Betow Sidon, north of Tyre, is described as Ornithopolia the city of birds. Glass known as Sidonian features birds in various poses including storks and swans, suggesting the city was a center for glasswork manufacture during the Augustan and Tiberian eras.
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Betow
Sidon
Tyre
Sidonian
Chaco Canyon Location and Landscape Description
Chaco Canyon lies in northwestern New Mexico covering 20 269 acres of prehistoric ruins sagebrush cedar trees and brightly colored cliffs and sands in a stark high desert landscape.
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Chaco Canyon
New Mexico
Digest's Prophetic Fame Spreads Across Polls
The Western Leader notes The Literary Digest's growing reputation as a prophetic gauge, echoing its influence from coast to coast and in various poll circles.
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Literary Digest
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