Snow plows, farms and trees mark Iowa winter scene
Snow plows run on Iowa highways while a Northwestern Iowa prototype uses a blade and Caterpillar to clear drifts. Farmer L B Noe buys 380 acres for 425 per acre totaling 34000, run by his 13 sons. Audubon members survey 1097 winter birds across Des Moines areas. Miss Amy Daniels reports 30 percent rural Iowa children underweight. Hog and corn sugar notes spark farm debates. Old market prices from Red Oak show shifts from 1896 to year end. Harry Sheldon, Winterset native, dies in New York. Iowa road spending totals 248.5 million since 1916 with 89 million maintenance and 158.6 million construction. Tree measurements from J C Featherstone describe ancient regional oaks and cottonwoods. Field house near Drake University Stadium to be built for relay races with track, seating and facilities.
Breakfast food Raisin Bran gains favor in Pella
Mr R J Grogan of Des Moines selling a new breakfast product Raisin Bran from Skinner Manufacturing Omaha visited Pella this week. The blend of bran, wheat flakes and raisins is described as delicious and superior to similar goods, likely to win local grocer customers.
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R. J. Grogan
Des Moines
Skinner Manufacturing Company
Omaha
Pella
Radio Jazz to Enliven Rhine Dairies
Rhineland dairymen test phono graphs show cows produce 6 percent more milk with music. An American band from New York Pittsburgh or Kansas City may be broadcast to stables via radio loud speakers to give cows varied programs.
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Strasbourg
Alsace
Rhine
New York
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
Wanted Clean Cotton Rags and Farm Real Estate Ad
Wanted clean cotton rags for wiping machinery at Chronicle office. Cash offered. FOR SALE or RENT: 10 acres with a good house hog house chicken house fair barn some fruit. Price 3500 dollars with 500 dollars down, balance 10 years at 6 percent. Box 124 New Sharon Iowa. Des Moines Capital and Chronicle subscription offer for new subscribers and renewals at four dollars. Offer good for a short time. Chronicle office.
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Chronicle
New Sharon
Iowa
Des Moines
The
Used Cars For Sale At Pella Motor Co
Local dealer lists 1922 Dodge Touring 1923 Overland Touring 1921 Oakland Touring all gone over and refinished in first class condition. Also heavy shipping boxes 25x39x24 inches with lids priced at $1.50. Chronicle office.
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Pella Motor Co
Dodge
Oakland
Chronicle Office
American couple sails to Japan for teaching post
Prof and Mrs Hillis Lory, Morningside College alumni, depart from San Francisco aboard the President Cleveland for Yokohama and Sapporo Japan arriving about January 11. Mr Lory becomes English instructor at the University of Sapporo under contract via the Y M C A foreign committee. Mrs Lory’s brother Rev Merrill Drury ministers in Shanghai, enabling weekly radio hear- Sundays.
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Hillis Lory
Morningside College
Sioux City
San Francisco
Cleveland
Hawaiian Islands
Yokohama
Japan
Sapporo
Lory
University of Sapporo
National Council of Y. M. C. A
New York City
Yezo
Salix School
Merrill Drury
Shanghai
China
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J. W. Jarnagin
State Highway Commission
Blackhawk
Buchanan
L. B. Noe
Garrison
Benton County
Nichols Grow
Noe
Audubon Society
Amy Daniels
University of Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Miss Daniels
N. M. Leonard
Waukee
Dallas County
Bell Brothers of
Red Oak
Amy Tapping
American Child Health Association
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Oskaloosa
Council Bluffs
Waterloo
Clinton
Marshalltown
Miss Tupping
Don M. Griswold
Ed M. Smith
Winterset
Madison County
Claire Sheldon White
Harry Sheldon
Grinnell
West
Chicago
Fred R. White
Iowa Good Roads Association
J. C. Featherstone
van Buren County
Forest Grove
Featherstone
Mount Sterling
Drake University Stadium
Forest Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
Farmers Co-operative Exchange
Pella Produce Co
Harding Cream Co
John Wynberg
E Co
P. H. Stubenrauch
Side Square
H. A. Bauman
Indiana
van der Zyl Bros
J. M. Buwalda
Duroc
Horn Bull
Col. A
Inman
Oppenheimer-Alsop CO
Corvie
High Avenue
Oskaloosa, Iowa
J. C. Penney Company
J. C. Penney Co
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