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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 05, 1939

Page

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Farmer Loan Offers Long Term Federal Help

Advertisement notes a long term Federal Land Bank loan for farmers, urging community talks at 94 Third Ave Cedar Rapids Iowa with Harold B McTavish secretary treasurer National Farm Loan Associations and a location near Anamosa Light Co store Tuesday. Snakes Eat Eggs and Language Notes provide scattered nonrelated topics from Pathfinder Magazine.

Jones County Farm White Farm Olin A. C. Loepp Fieldman 4Th Ave S.B Cedar Rapids Iowa Harold Oldham Beavercrest Drive Des Moines First Trust Joint Stock Land Bank of Chicago S.E Harold B. McTavish National Farm Loan Associations Third Ave Light Co Anamosa

Primitive Weather Forecast From Animal Habits

Primitive peoples in temperate zones used animal behavior as a calendar cue predicting bad weather. The early return of the abernating animals warned communities of approaching storms and harsher seasons.

French Anthem Marseillaise Composed by Engineer De Lisle

This item recounts Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a French captain of engineers and amateur musician, composing the Marseillaise on April 24, 1792 at Strasbourg. It notes his royalist stance, later exile, honors, and the anthem's controversial status under monarchies before being publicly celebrated.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Strasbourg de Lisle Marseilles Paris Detroit News France Switzerland Legion of Honor the Invalides Pantheon

Roman dog groupings through history and modern split

The Romans divided dogs into six groups: house, shepherd, sporting, war, scenting, and swift sight hounds. Margaret Kidder notes in the Los Angeles Times that the United States groups dogs into sport ing bird and hound, working, terrier, toy, and non sport ing, with some shifts over two millennia due to selective breeding.

Rome United States Margaret Kidder Los Angeles Times

Bull Terrier: English origin and breed traits

The bull terrier emerged in England around 1820 with mixed forebears possibly including bulldog and greyhound. By 1862 all white dogs became fashionable though colored ones have resurfaced. typical height around 20 inches and weight 40 to 60 pounds. The breed endures heat and cold well and is common among British Civil Service members in India and tropical regions.

England India Tropics

Bananas Emerge as Global Staple Food

The article notes bananas became a staple for millions worldwide within about six decades of large scale cultivation. It explains early bananas were seed filled and tasted disagreeable before selective breeding improved produce.

Farm Bureau Call to Farmers for Unity and Funding

A veteran farmer reflects on rising taxes and costs while labor and laws erode profits. He recalls a fellow farmer urging joining the Farm Bureau to support collective action. The Organization Committee stresses organized farmers must unite to protect homes, livelihoods, and the family farm.

John Doe John Mr. Farmer Farm Bureau

Cats Top Farm Wildlife Threats Says National Wildlife Federation

The National Wildlife Federation identifies the cat the rat and the dog as the farm’s most destructive wildlife. Farmers are urged to curb stray cats due to their impact on insect eating birds. Cats follow regular routes making trap placement effective. Rat damage from distant dwellings is unquantified, and in warm weather rats move to fields and marshes, swimming and diving like muskrats.

National Wildlife Federation

Piney Monticello Ad Page Poised For Home Needs

Monticello Iowa October 5 1939 issue advertises lumber yard services by J R Barron editor. It promotes flat cribs insulation roofing and fuel products like Storm King coal with humorous quips about teachers and politics. It teases home building gear and warm winter readiness for local farmers and residents.

Monticello St. Anthony and Dakota J. R. Barron

Daughter of the Dam Shows Strong Butter Progress

A dam and her daughter are highlighted for progress with the daughter producing 1015 pounds of butter in ten months and continuing to grow.

U. S Shomont Flere

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Emma Zimmerman Jonathan Apples W. D. McLaughlin Chester White Irving Hintz W. E. Tuetken Henry Che C. J. Opfer First Street GLOBE Wm. Siebels N. Gill Street F. IE. Stimson Monticello State Bank Chester Harry D. Cook Hopkinton Wayne Zion Lutheran Church F. H. Kehren McLaughlin Buick Company Hampshire R. Hasler Coggon Goodale Locher Locher Rawleigh A. E. Apland Center Junction G. J. Tauke Dyersville Rawleigh’s Dept Freeport Ill Monticello Express Eliza Zeadow James Lahey F.C.M c/o Express Helmer John J. Wenger Town Farmers Grain Co Scotch Grove Beagle Hound Danny Thomas Shover Stuhler’s Wonder Express Deutch Stove House of Dubuque 13Th Caroline’s Tavern Engineering Dept Woodmen Accident Co Chester A. Condit C. C. Hodson Sargent Minral Goodrich Matthiessen Auto and Suppl Company Phoenix Stuhler William Miner Chilren Eclipse Lumber Co Radiorgan Phonorgan Zimmerman Electric Shop Shaffer Implement Store Acob Paulsen Monticellos German Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Jones County Towa Wayne Township John E. Folkerts Palmer Drug Store Willie Behrends Louis Heeren Blue Willow Inn Oliver Thelma Howland Don Maire Dick & Don East Side Yard Locust St Robert C. Wilcox Jones County Fair J. H. Hinrichs Helms’ Studio Green Colonial Green Foundry and Furnace Works Pathfinder Magazine Sea of Galilee Jordan Dead Sea Soviet Union Augeas Khs Hercules Lathfinder. Magazine Teerraplane Chevrolet Studebaker Plymouth Ford Tudor BUICK Pontiac Crawford HeeHaw News Pullman Henry Sue Matthiessen Auto & Supply Posch Piebe Ormsby King Posch Man-O-War Ormsby Shomont Burke Shomont Lillie Triune King Posch Man-O-War Shomont Hazel Ormsby Shomont Posch Segis Shomont Posch MAID POSCH Korndyke Ormsby Shomont Hazel Posch Shomont Farms Thos. Shover & Sons, Props Monticello, Iowa
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