Women Plan Achievement Day at Weed Park
Farm Bureau officials announce the annual event at Weed Park on Wednesday starting 7 p.m. Features include a poster exhibit judged by Mrs RB Birch, a Get acquainted contest, a noon basket dinner, community singing, township attendance prizes, vocal solos by Cloyce Downer, a playlet by Montneli er township women, and a talk by Mrs. Lewis Conk of Des Moines known as Aunt Elizabeth. Prizes are being prepared but not yet announced.
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Lewis Conk
Des Moines
Middle West
Elizabeth
Farm Bureau
Weed Park
RB. B. Birch
Glen McCullough
Cloyce
Montnelier Township
Local Stockyards Pay Premium on Mercer County Hogs
Mercer county Michigan farmers in accredited area will receive a 10 cent per pound premium paid by J P Squire Company at the stockyards for hogs marked with the required tattoo after July 1. Marking traces infection to owners. hogs may be marked before sale. Rock Island county misses premium.
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Mercer County
J. P. Squire Company
C. N. Nickelson
Rock Island County
Gibson era Democratic convention in Houston stirs split over prohibition
In Houston on June 25 the Democratic convention looms as a clash of wet and dry factions led by Norman Mack and Smith. Governors Moody and Reed figure in the battle with Southern delegates wary of Smiths leadership. Farm leaders press for an agricultural plank as Hull and Harrison push for unity to avoid a Madison Square Garden repeat.
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Houston
Texas
Jefferson
Jackson
Madison Square Garden
Dan Moody
Dixie
Smith
Cotton Belt
New York
Wilson
Mack
Pat Harrison
Cordell Hull
Mississippi
Harrison
Hull
Peek
Muscatine Memories Recounted In Journal Snippets
A Muscatine Journal retrospective compiles brief items from 1870s to early 1900s. Hunting trips to Nye's island, four prominent marriages, city salary figures, road paving asks, a pastor's move to England, and a political farm plank stance are summarized from past editions.
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Chris Ruckdeschel
C. T. Campbell
William
Daniel Parvin
Nye’s Island
Muscatine
Marie Estella Rolland
Fred D. Butler
Neddess Huff
Edward A. Ogilvie
Sarah Howe
Eugene Nelson
Margaret Stuart
Charles F. Schillig
Mr. Schillig
Addison, N. D
Vending Machine Men Confer With Civic Club Board
Representatives of the Thomas Kern vending machine company conferred with Muscatine Business and Labor association directors at city hall Saturday afternoon. They discussed terms under which a local factory could be established and no action was taken. Read the ads on Classified Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Kern Vending Machine Company
Muscatine
Delegates From 38 States Attend National 4 H Camp
Thirty eight states are represented at the second national Four H club camp in Washington DC. Iowa sends two girls and two boys including Ina Fae Paul of Pleasant Prairie. About 150 attended the first program as delegates chosen for excellence in agriculture home economics leadership. A week of tent living on USDA grounds features a national 4 H radio night and a speech by Secretary James J. Davis.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Ina Fae Paul
Pleasant Prairie
United States Department of Agriculture
National Press Club
Labor
James J. Davis
Myrtle Lewton
Training as a singer marks debut on the air
The article notes an ascent in a singer's career with a debut on the air. Four H clubs anchor the agricultural extension system run by the department of agriculture and state agricultural colleges. Current club membership sits around 620 000. Peggy explains a man must be brave and handsome yet modest and kind while Petter praises love and luck in meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Aricultural Colleges
Solomon
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Testa
Journal
R. J. Leysen
Norman Mack
New Yorker
Moody
George N. Peek
Moline
Chester C. Davis
Chicago
Washington
Kansas City
Committee of Twenty-two
Resolutions Committee
Convention
Trans- Mississippi
W. A. Julian
Muscatine Journal
State Highway Commission
Walcott
Durant
Scott Counties
Wiliam Hainsworth
First Congregational Church
Yorkshire
England
Ohio
Civic Club
Colm & Company
Peggy
Liberal
MSColm_& Company
Belmont
Mr.Colm
Company Depertment Store
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