Dams Threaten Pearl Button Industry in Mississippi River
Prof. N. M. Grier of Des Moines University warns wing dams and river sediment smother mussel beds in the Mississippi river system. He urges closing sloughs to mussel fishing to restock the main stream as governments seek to improve conditions for the pearl button trade centered in Muscatine, Iowa.
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Mississippi River
N. M. Grier
Des Moines University
Science Service Magazine
Scientific American
Mississippi Valley
United States
Muscatine
Mississippi
Despieines University
Prof. Grier
Mississippi valley officials plan meeting to boost barge service
Major George Leach of Minneapolis joins mayors of Sioux City Burlington and Helena to call a December 20 Burlington meeting of Mississippi valley city officials to urge the federal government to promote upper Mississippi barge development. Americans consider erecting a cotton mill in Haiti.
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Minneapolis
Minn
George Leach
Sioux City
Burlington
Helena
Ark
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi River
Iowa Rials to Broadcast Iowa vs Pittsburgh Game Tonight
WSUI will radio the University of Iowa versus Pittsburgh basketball game from the Iowa field house at 8 oclock. Iowa stations WHO WOC KSO KOIL WOI KMA KWOC relay network programs including a Roxy from WHO at 6 30 and Spez orchestra from WHO at 10 with various local music and theater programs through the night.
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Associated Press
Iowans
WSUI
University of Iowa-Pittsburgh
Iowa
WHO
WOC
KSO
KMA
KWOC
Iowa State College
WOI
KOIL
WHO At 11
Roxy
A and P Gypsies
Spez Orchestra
WOC Program Schedule for Tuesday December 20
Daily schedule lists programs from 6 45 to 9 30 including The Happy Hour of Morning Drill Weather Forecasts Market Quotations Time Signals Home Management Aunt Jane Chimes Concert Studio Program Seiberling Singers Correct Time Auction Bridge and late weather updates for Iowa and Illinois.
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Aunt Jane
Seiberling
Freready
Iown
Illinois
Market and Music Schedule From NBC Broadcast
The listing details a noon market report and various musical acts on NBC programs. Highlights include The Ambassadors at 12:15 and Harold Mallicoat with Vera Travits at 2:30, plus Bankers Life Trio and other NBC segments.
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Victor
Iehristmmas Carols
NBC
the Ambassadors
Jose
Harold Mallicoat
Vera Travits
Bankers Life
Nationalusicaliies
Sieberling Rubber Co
Bankers Life Little Symphony
U. S. Playing Card Co
Palace Theatre Ad Offers Free Ticket This Week
Readable ad tells readers to clip the notice and present it at Palace Theatre box office for one free ticket. Mentions Palais D Or Orchestra and NBC 19:30 Janssen's Hofbrau Getks CNBC for timing.
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Palace Theatre
Palais D'Or Orch
Janssen
CNBC
How Iowa Became a State radio program schedule
WSUI presents a 5:00 p.m. radio review followed by 5:30 p.m. Social Hygiene with Dr. W. Hardy. Dinner music airs at 6:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m. Prof. Bruce E. Mahan discusses How Iowa Became a State.
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Radio Review
Social Hygiene
9. W. Hardy
Iowa
Bruce E. Mahan
WOI Program Schedule Amid December Talks
A sequence of WOI broadcasts lists Dec. 20 to Dec. 24 events. Homemakers’ Half Hour, History talk, ceramic engineering, health, entertainment, psychology, library, and a Boy Scout program are scheduled across mornings and evenings with specific times noted.
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Homemakers
Saturn
North London Recorder Briefs United by Fragment
Fragmentary text from the North London Recorder hints at advisory guidance. The readable portion mentions taking advice, but no clear events or names are fully legible.
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North London Recorder
Former Local Boy Earns High Honors at Naval School
Wilbur Bond, former local youth and son of Jake Bond who ran restaurants here, graduated with high honors from the naval fire control school in Washington D C. He placed fourth in a class of 34 and has a 30 day leave before reporting to the fleet at San Pedro California. En route to the west coast he will visit his sister Mrs E A Danford in Omaha.
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Wilbur Bond
Jake Bond
Naval Fire Control School
Washington, D. C
Young Bond
Bond
San Pedro
Calif
Omaha
E. A. Danford
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