Committee Named to Aid Tenant Purchase Project
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace appointed a three farmer committee in Muscatine County to assist with the Farm Security Administration tenant purchase program. Bert L. Metcalf Granville E. Flater and Albert C. Eckhardt will help evaluate applicants for 40 year three percent loans to farm tenants and laborers. The group and Mr Klinetop will attend a training school in Fairfield Ila next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Security Administration
Muscatine County
Henry Wallace
Howard A. Klinetop
FSA
Bert L. Metcalf
Nichols
Granville E. Flater
Atalissa
Albert C. Eckhardt
Klinetop
Fairfield
Ila
Farm Bureau
Tipton Cedar County Fair Slated With Draft Horses and 4-H
Tipton prepares for the Cedar County fair with entry day Tuesday and a full week of events. Wednesday features Children’s Day and 4-H achievement and draft horse events while Rex Beresford judges swine sheep and dairy calves. Thursday includes baby beeves and dairy cattle judging with a balloon ascent to close the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Cedar County
Floral Hall
A. F. Kutch
New Sharon
Cedar County Fair
Don Smith
Stanwood
Emil Hack
Massillon
Otto Pruess
Clarence
Henry Lunow
Rex Beresford
Iowa State College
Ames
Smith- Hughes Agriculture
West Branch
Mechanicsville
Cedar Rapids
Schroeders Welcome Twin Calves Across Three Generations
Montpelier notes the Schroeder family in the calf business as three cows each produced twins in successive seasons. In two consecutive years a twin birth occurred, and days ago a third cow also yielded twins, marking a rare pattern for Edward and Mrs Schroeder.
Plans for U S Storage of Corn Moving Forward
Washington reports the agriculture department opens bids to store 50 to 100 million bushels of surplus corn in 1 000 and 2 000 bushel bins across the midwest. The move supports the ever normal granary program and keeps grain off the market until prices improve. A farmer referendum on marketing quotas may follow the July crop report, with quotas enforced to loans and penalties for excess production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Midwest
Corn
Corn Belt
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
AAA
Four Schools Join For Joint Future Farmers Picnic
Members of the Future Farmer clubs from West Liberty West Branch Tivton and Muscatine will hold their annual joint picnic at Rotary lodge on Staley's lake all day Thursday. The program includes games activities and a regular business meeting presided by officials of the four clubs. Faculty advisors supervise with Lindley B Hoopes Free Maltas Max Neady and Fireman Robertson named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty
West Branch
Tivton
Muscatine
Future Farmer
Rotary Lodge
Staley’s Lake
Lindley B. Hoopes
Muscatine High
Free Maltas
West Liberty High
Max Neady
Tipton High
Fireman Robertson
West Branca High
Pomona Grange to Hold Meet Friday
Pomona Grange will meet at 8 o clock Friday night at the YWCA with Sweetland and Penn Avenue Granges in charge of the program. Bloomington Grange will serve refreshments consisting of sandwiches and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomona Grange
Sweetland
Penn Avenue
Bloomington
Moscow Township Girls Four-H Club Discusses Projects
A meeting of the reorganized Moscow township girls Four-H club was held Tuesday night at Elva Brown’s home. County agent Mary Grace Martin and club leader Louise Brown reviewed project work and planned a next meeting to arrange fair participation with location to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow Township
Elva Brown
Mary Grace Martin
Store Employees Help to Harvest Hidden Tax Crop
Muscatine officials estimate 1,269 unofficial tax collectors in 331 local stores aid tax revenue by passing hidden levies to customers. NCTC head quotes 7,497 official tax agencies in Iowa. Clerks behind counters collect fractions of taxes embedded in prices, yet retailers cannot absorb them. Each cash ring is a sale and a tax payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
National Consumers Tax Commission
NCTC
Iowa
Melville Mucklestone
Women’s Organization
Legion Will Install Officers Thursday
New officers of the Edward H. Bitzer post American Legion will be installed at the post meeting at 8 oclock Thursday night at the Legion home. Attendance of a full membership is desired and refreshments will be served after the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward H. Bitzer
American Legion
Legion
Iowa Livestock Prices Across Cities Report
The Associated Press list shows hog prices in Cedar Rapids Mason City Waterloo Ottumwa with ranges by weight, noting hogs steady to higher in Cedar Rapids and varied quotes in Mason City and Ottumwa. Cattle prices are reported as unchanged or lower in places, reflecting regional demand and packing values this period.
Annual Baptist Retreat Planned for August
The Fourth annual First Baptist Sunday school and church retreat is set for August 28 to 31 at Rotary lodge on Staley's lake. The young people's council named committees for publicity registration tents and more. A registration committee meeting is scheduled Thursday at 6 45 pm at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
Rotary Lodge
Staley’s Lake
Young People’s Council
Sarah Marie Young
Lynn Cosgrove
Richard Crow
Arthur Talkington
Lois Warner
Marjory
Anthony
Carl Paetz, Jr
Levi Odell
Edward Lorber
Clara Louise Bloom
Fern Mittman
Margaret Jean Roberts
Lake Township Duo to Perform at Iowa State Fair
Lake township vocal duo Mrs Laurence Boshart and Mrs Stewart Hitchcock with Mrs Ernest Hoopes will sing a 20 minute program Friday August 25 from 3 30 to 3 50 p m at the Iowa state fair in Des Moines Miss Mary Grace Martin county home demonstration agent received notice of the time Muscatine county farm women appear on the program The duo will perform Barcarolle Tales of Hoffmann Over the Summer Sea by Verdi and Berceuse from Jocelyn Muscatine county will also be represented by Mrs R C Fry and Mrs John Hendriks in Cedar township home project womens booth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summer
Verdi
Berceuse
Jocelyn
Muscatine County
R. C. Fry
John Hendriks
Cedar Township
Womens Booth
Contented Cow's Milk Production Rises Sets Mark
The case history of a cow with an inferior ity complex was presented by W B Tobey at the London psychology summer school in Oxford. Herdsman Malcolm Bradbury raised a Jersey's annual output from 350 to 2000 gallons by petting, fussing, and changing its diet, with Bradbury stating cows need psychological understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Eng
London
W. B. Tobey
Malcolm Bradbury
Jersey
Bradbury
FSA Allocates Cash for Iowa Farmers
The Farm Security Administration announced an allocation of 1,317,351 dollars to Iowa from a 40 million dollar loan program for tenants to purchase farms. The measure is expected to enable 132 tenants to buy farms this fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Farm Security Administration
Iowa
Congress
Liquid Fuel Cargoes Towed Through Muscatine Locks
Two towboats moved seven thousand three hundred sixty tons of liquid fuel through Muscatine locks. Mokita passed at 7 10 a m with five barges carrying kerosene gasoline and fuel oil from Wood River Illinois to St Paul. Mishawaka followed at 11 p m with three 900 ton gasoline barges. St Louis Socony cleared at 10 30 p m Tuesday with six empty barges on the Wood River to St Louis run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Locks
Wood River
St. Paul
Mishawaka
St. Louis
Aledo Man Pleads Guilty To Melon Theft Case
William Wagoner of New Boston was arrested for stealing melons from a farm near New Boston. He pleaded guilty and was fined five dollars plus costs by Police Magistrate D F Keller in Aledo court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aledo
William Wagoner
New Boston
D. F. Keller
Dents Forming in Early Corn Across Iowa Fields
Des Moines Iowa observations by Charles D Reed report denting in early planted corn. Most ears at milk to roasting stage with favorable pollination and weather though heat and dry soil in some fields hurt yield. July rainfall near normal. oats and barley threshing progresses. new grass and clover seeding damaged by heat and drought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Reed
Weather Bureau
First AAA Cash Due Next Month Official States First AAA Cash
Iowa officials announced conservation payments totaling about 30 million dollars will be certified for distribution mid September. Most applications will be processed in November and December, with capacity for 4 000 applications daily. Eligibility requires crop allotment compliance and soil building practices on unseeded acreage. Over 2 million already paid in 34 counties under the corn parity program, which aims to deliver around 18 million more before mid September. Buena Vista County leads with 251 thousand dollars in payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Jarnagin
Iowa Daily Press
Des Moines, In
IDPA
H. L. Dieterich
State Agricultural Adjustment Committee
Dieterich
Chicago
Buena Vista
Wheat and Corn End Higher on Demand and Reports
Wheat prices rose to as much as 158 cents intraday on renewed demand and new deterioration reports. Foreign inquiries for both wheat and corn improved while crop estimates eyed by three experts loom on Thursday. Wheat closed unchanged to 3-4 up. September 65 3-8 to 1-2. December 66 to 66 1-8. Corn finished unchanged to 3-8 higher with September 42 to 42 1-8 and December 41 1-4 to 3-8. oats were unchanged to 1-8 higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sugar futures show mixed moves on New York market
Irregular world sugar futures due to foreign liquidation and producer selling offset by commission house and trade demand. By midafternoon September slipped to 1.159 cents per pound with a half point to one point gains elsewhere. Refined sugar held at 4.30 to 4.40 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Commission House
Omaha Livestock Prices Slip and Rise Across Flocks and Herds
Salable hogs total 4 500 with barrows and gilts up to 15 cents higher and sows 15 to 25 cents higher, top at 6 45. Cattle, 4 500 salable, feeders and vealers steady to firm, steers and yearlings mixed but active. Sheep 4 500 salable with native lambs up 25 to 35 cents, best market up while feeder lambs range 7 50 to 9 25 across sections.
Local Market Prices For Eggs Poultry Hogs And Packers
Local grocers publish prices for eggs 9 lb for local markets. Poultry shows heavy hens at 11c light hens 8c cocks 7c. Hogs range from 3.75 to 6.40 per cwt by weight bands up to 400 lb. Packers listed from 3.45 to 5.15 per unit in various weight classes. Annotations cite John P. Squire Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supp
John P. Squire Company
Bond market slips and stumbles through midday gains
New York bonds edged higher around noon with a ragged list of small gains and some slight losses. Higher priced industrial and utility issues led the demand, while several railroad and regional bonds dipped on mixed sentiment. Government issues drew good interest despite the uneven action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit
New York City
Manhattan Railway
American Telephone 3
Portland General Electric
Bethlehem Steel
Santa Fe
Consolidated Oil
Delaware and Hudson
International Hydro Electric
Pere Marquette
Southern Pacific
U. S
New York Produce Prices Mixed for Eggs Butter and Cheese
New York August 2 eggs total 30 917 steady with mixed colors ranging 19 23 c for fancy to extra fancy standards 18 42 c firsts 16 4 c seconds 15 154 c mediums 15 4 4 c dirties No 1 1 c average checks 1c Butter 1 065 874 steady to firm creamery higher than extra 24 4 0 c extra 92 score 24 4 c firsts 88 91 22 1 23 c seconds 84 87 Ws 211 9c Cheese 378 083 steady state whole milk flats held 1938 16 4 c June s 16 c other fresh 14 15 4 c
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago Produce Market Report Wide Price Standstill
Butter steady at 22 1/2 to 23 cents for 90 score creamery and 90 centered. eggs unsettled with storage pack firsts at 164 cents and extras at 17 cents. Poultry prices show hens steady, leghorn and Plymouth varieties across a range, ducks and colored whites noted. potatoes on track 72, U S shipments 242, cobblers and long whites listed with prices for multiple regions and grades. Futures closed with Butter storage standards at 24.10 cents for November, eggs 12.55 cents for October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Plymouth Rocks
Plymouth Rock
U. S
Russel Burbanks
Oregon
Bliss Triumphs
California
Minnesota
Chicago Cash Grain Market Prices Decline Across Commodities
Chicago cash grain report lists prices for wheat corn oats and barley with varying bids. No. 1 hard wheat 69 1/2 cents per bushel No. 2 yellow 68 1/4 cents No. 2 mixed 67 1/4 to 68 cents No. 1 white corn 57 1/2 cents No. 2 mixed oats 41 to 42 cents No. 1 white oats 31 cents Barley No. 3 37 cents and 48 cents for sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City Livestock Prices Report
Hogs salable and total 2 000 around 5 cents higher than Tuesday. 180 to 240 pound hogs $6.15 to $6.35, early top $6.35. Sows up to 1 cent. medium and heavy weights $3.75 to $4.50. Cattle salable 4,000. calves 800. Fed steers slow, weak to 25 cents lower. grassers opening steady. Cows steady to 15 cents lower. stockers steady. Bulls and vealers steady. Sheep salable 3,500. killing classes steady. native spring lambs above $8.60. Texas wethers $4.65.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Ottumwa
Omaha
U. S. Dept
Kansas City
Price Hictans
No. Wts
Price
Price Bivens
S Light
No. Wits
Woséwe
S. Dept. A
Wits
Epiay
Iowa Hog Receipts and Prices Across Interior Iowa and Minnesota
Combined hog receipts at 19 yards and 10 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ended 8 a.m. were 15,000, down from 19,700 a week ago and 16,300 a year ago. Prices ranged for various weight classes with steady to higher moves. sows and looks show notable gains. Quotations reflect today’s transactions up to 11:30 a.m. for delivered hogs in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
U. S
Iowa
Minnesota
New York Stocks Close Mixed Across Major Shares
Market activity shows Am Can at 101 e, Am Tel and Te 169, Am Re 14s, Gen Electric 38, GM 487%, U S Steel 52 percent, and Chrysler 82 with various second-tier quotes. Transport and utility sectors move modestly as investors weigh steel, oil, and consumer goods names amid uncertain conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda
Atchison
Beth Steel
Borg-Warner
St P
P & Chrysler
Curtiss-Wright
Deere and Co
Deere
Copid
Swine Bids Fail to Hold Gains on Hogs Market
Chicago August 2. Official livestock receipts for tomorrow show cattle 4 000 hogs 12 000 sheep 6 000. Hogs opened steady to 10c higher but closed with most gains lost as market softened near end. Heavy hogs ranged 6.50 to 6.75 for 180-240 lb and 6.10 to 6.70 for heavier weights. Slaughter stock totals 9 000 hogs and 8 500 cattle with calves mixed. spring lambs active and steady amid broad price spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Waterloo Station Lands 2414 Acre Site
The Waterloo railway station in London covers an area of 2414 acres, a vast parcel associated with the major transit hub and surrounding rail infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
London
KruGon Restores Peters After Long Ills
Mr Herman Peters of Clinton Iowa reports KruGon relieved years of irregular bowels night unrest and body pains. He says elimination improved sleep restored appetite and mobility improved overall wellbeing after using KruGon sold by McDaniel's Drug Company 115 E 2nd St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KruGon
Herman Peters
North 8Th St
Clinton
Iowa
Mr. Peters
McDaniel’s Drug Company
E. 2Nd St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kliinetop
Schroeders
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Iowa Livestock Bids
Associated Press
Mason City
Lake Township
New York Sugar
Omaha Livestock
BORDS
Chicago Cash Grain
Kansas City Livestock
ECG Market Review
Chicago Grain & Provisons
Fowler, Gilbert and Hill
Hershey
Dee Weswenee
Dupont
Eastman
Firestone
Gen Electric
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gillette
Goodyear
Hudson
Harv
Johns-Manville
Kresge
Libbey O F Glass
Mid Cent Pet
Mont Ward
Nash-Kelvinator
Natl Dairy
N Y Central
Oliver Farm
Penney
Phillips Pet
Pure Oil
Rem Rand
Repab Steel
AGUST
Sears Roeb
Shell Union
Sou Pac
Calif
Ind
Studebaker
Swift and Co
Texas Corp
Texas Gulf Sul
Unit Corp
Unit Drug
U S Indus Alco
U S$ Rubber
U S Steel
Westinghouse
Woolworth
Wrigley Jr
Curb Ark Nat Gas
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!