New Hope Society Notes Holiday Visits and Gatherings
Maquoketa residents Mrs. Fred Hahn and sisters spend days with sister Mrs. Carl Coffin family. Mary Frances Carter back from flu. Several local families share pre Christmas dinners and Sunday visits at multiple homes including the Hahn, Donovan, Hiatt, Scott, and Wilson households. Carl Coffin wraps up salvage work. Loyd Carter attends Farm Bureau meeting at Lyn Hilton home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. £. Donovan
Fred Hahn of
Maquoketa
Carl Coffin
Mary Frances Carter
Frank Hiatt
John and
Ella Hiatt
Duane
W. N. Miller
Fred Hahn
Hahn
Don Pettibone
George Scott
Roy Scott
Inventor Gilbert Gross Patents Mechanical Hod Bender
Greenfield inventor Gilbert Gross secured a patent for a mechanical hod bender and eye forming machine after failing to find one commercially. His first device used a pump jack, a truck brake drum, and assorted parts, built for personal use, with further handy implements also attributed to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Gross
Greenfield
War Ration Calendar details Nov 1943 to Jan 1944
Daily ration dates outline for processed foods brown and blue stamps, sugar and shoe stamps, air plane stamps, fuel oil periods, and gasoline coupons. Includes validity ranges from November 1 to January 16, 1944 with note to endorse coupons upon receipt and check want ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Unimportant Cogitations by Inez Faber
A diary piece recounts daily baking surges from three pies to six and the burden of meals. The author muses on pessimism, looming chores, and possible coping strategies while noting letters from sons overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inez Faber
Attendance and gatherings at Main Station
Sunday attendance at Main Station was twenty. Families and neighbors gathered at several homes including the Foster and Kaster residences for visits and a birthday dinner. Multiple households reported flu cases as the community shared leisure time across Centerville area locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darlene Gladfelder
Harley Bailey
Mra. Hoover
Oskaloosa
Robert Foster
Gertie Boyer
J. P. Poster
Grover Easter
Arlene
Jimmie Dotson
Lea. McElledge
Averi
Darlene
Grover Kaster
Centerville
Harry Woodward
Cody Luse
Ronald Woodward
Clyde Gladfelder
lGuy McKern
Trenton Gladfelder
Guy McKern
Myre
Hannah Gladfelder
George Hiatt
Ella Platt
Dairy cows use cracked soybeans in grain rations
Reed at Iowa State College notes dairy herds can efficiently use ground soybeans in roughage. Soybeans do not harm milk flavor even when comprising up to about one third of the grain ration, according to Cannon, head of dairy husbandry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Pacific
Saya
Cannon
Iowa State College
Also Mentioned on This Page
Moravia
Appanooge County
Iowa
Congress
Wayne Pitman Davis
Clark Hotel
Albia
U.S. Treasury Department
Swift
Swift & Co
Moravia, Iowa
Firestone
Colling
Sa Ee Amseree Ass OC
CMTC
DeSure
Champion Tire
Bey the
Lata Cts
Oehler Bros
North Side Square
Texaco and
Firestone Products
Voice of
Richard Crooks
Firestone Symphony Orchestra
N.B.C
Reed the
Want
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!