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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
6
The Iowa Theatre in Bloomfield reopens tonight after seven weeks of rebuild work. The venue now features air conditioning with a giant unit, fresh air, fully upholstered seats, Western Electric Microphonic sound, new decorations, drapes, modern lighting, improved acoustics, and updated restrooms including a nursery.
The Bloomfield theater offers modern comforts with new AV gear and neon canopy as it screens In Old Chicago with Tyrone Power and Alice Faye. Next, Happy Landing stars Sonja Henie and Don Ameche, followed by The Baroness and the Butler and Charley Chan at Monte Carlo. Auto trade concerns spur calls to buy from licensed local dealers to protect buyers.
An Iowa auto industry warning describes outsized shipments of used cars from Chicago and other states into Iowa. The piece claims many cars are mortgaged or stolen, depresses values, and urges Iowa to enact stricter laws as nearby states already have done. Waterloo and Cedar Rapids are noted as heavily affected locations.
The round headed borer threatens apple pear and quince trees, especially younger plants, spending three years in a tree. Larvae reach about an inch, adults are black with white back stripes. Control methods include digging out larvae, removing surrounding soil to locate burrows, cutting bark up and down the trunk, using a sharpened wire tool, and fall applications of para dichlorobenzene to protect trees five years old or more, including peaches and apples.
Weight from two and a half to three and a half pounds. Price 16 cents per pound. Call 14 L 3806 or see Mrs. Orville Hetzler for details.
Mrs Pearl Ruggles Dean advertises in the News offering in home care for children or elderly persons with reasonable prices and best references. Contact by phone for arrangements and references.
By authority of the Midway Church of Christ trustees the church property near Moulton on the J P Stansberry farm will be sold at public auction. The sale includes church seats building and grounds. Cash terms. Date Saturday July 6 1938 at 2 PM. Location at the church property one mile east of Moulton. Daniel W Davis Chairman Board of Trustees. June 30 July 7.
A 218 foot mural by WPA artists project starts in Des Moines as a Centennial feature for the Iowa Territorial Centennial State Fair opening August 26. It will be the largest mural of its kind in Iowa, hung around the balcony of the agricultural building and becoming a permanent part of the structure. The two panels, each 109 by 10 feet, trace Iowa farming from 1838 pioneers to modern methods, with town history research spanning six months aiding the depiction.
The fragment notes a proposed phase titled pahothma for Towa’s initial century, outlining a framework for its 100 ferrs. It records no dates or organizational details beyond the concept and its scope.
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