Notable Art, Mystery and Midwest Verse Books Arrive
City library adds diverse titles including Vasari's Lives of the Artists and Editors. New offerings feature Ellery Queen Murderer Is A Fo, Dusty dog story, Carl Sandburg Poems of the Midwest, Ruth Moore Spoonhandle, Wodehouse Joy in the Morning, Truck Darling Ark Way, Claudia trilogy volume Another Claudia, and Kathleen Norris Over at the Crowley with vivid portraits of American life and postwar reflections.
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Crowley
Kathleen Norris
Ellen
Julia
Joe
Gemima Caruso
Robert Chalmers
Crowleys
Vonnie Considine
Swap Your Old Singer For A Modern Electric Machine
Convert any make or trendle into an electric sewing machine. Former Singer factory mechanic with 10 years experience offers home service for 2 dollars, with free estimates and delivery. Over 10,000 satisfied customers, prewar prices. Write Box 143 Pella or Carr's Sewing Machine Service 1210 1st Ave Newton.
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Singer
Pella
Teaching Son To Drive a Car
An Iowa Child Welfare Research Station summary recounts a father and son tale of driving. Jack at fourteen begs to learn, but the father delays. Jack later buys a jalopy and speeds to ninety, prompting a dangerous lesson on timely guidance.
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Jack
Losally
Highway Patrol
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
University of Iowa
Cold Weather Casseroles Boost Family Nutrition
Cold weather appetites rise with hearty casseroles that mix meat milk and bread for economical, complete protein. One-dish meals using ground meat, potatoes, rice, or pasta stretch meat budgets and suit busy households, with recipes like creamed meat hash and scalloped meat.
No Stamp For Sumner Carrier In 81 Years Of Service
Lloyd Dickman a Sumner rural mail carrier delivered his route just before Christmas without licking a stamp marking an 81 year career milestone. The unusual moment highlights his long service and the jump in stamp free mailing practices during the holiday period.
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Lloyd Dickman
Sumner
Lard Production Highlight From Van Buren County Home
A Duroc Jersey sow slaughtered at a Van Buren County home yielded 535 pounds of meat and 200 pounds of lard as residents contribute to relief efforts amid shortages.
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van Buren County
New Electrical Gadgets to Save Labor on Farms
Iowa State College agricul tural engineer Harold Beaty highlights new on farm electrical devices for 1920s agriculture. An electrically heated drinking fountain for livestock replaces old stock tanks, using an automatic water system and a thermostatically heated cup. Also featured is an ultraviolet milk can sterilizer with lights to kill bacteria.
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Harold Beaty
Iowa State College
Beaty
Phone number notice for Pleasantville legal holidays
On legal holidays and Sundays call Pleasantville at 445-21 and all calls must be in by 10 a.m. The Knoxville number 337 is listed for contact during standard hours.
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Knoxville
Pleasantville
New Farm Time Saver Devices Introduced
Beaty notes several innovations aimed at easing farm life. A lamp under 26 watts claims to cut bacterial counts in washed milk cans by 96 percent in one minute. A dairy barn ventilation control unit maintains constant humidity with motor driven fans. A variable speed motor drive enables one motor to perform multiple farm tasks. Grain loading equipment and silage unloaders also surface, with most items still under testing. The trend shows time savings and reduced drudgery on the energized farm.
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Benty
Beaty
Car plunges into Perry Creek Bridge. Robinson escapes ducking
Robert Robinson of Cherokee narrowly escaped injury when his car veered at night and went through the side of the Perry Creek Bridge, the vehicle and bridge sustaining about 400 dollars in damage. Robinson was ducked but unharmed.
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Robert Robinson
Perry Creek Bridge
Mr. Robinson
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