Hartley Tells Of Tour Through The Golden West
A fragment from Hartley’s travel narrative recounts a coast to coast journey including Crvsccot City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The diary notes fuel costs, a ferry ride, rough streets, and colorful encounters with Chinese and other nationalities, plus weather and a Yellowstone Park entry fee.
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Hartley
The
Golden West
Prisoo
Los Angeles
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Ocean Beach
Lewis
One Room Schools Training Range Across Nation
A federal summary shows about 153000 one room rural school teachers. If all one teacher teachers stood shoulder to shoulder, their line would stretch 87.1 miles. The least trained to most trained teachers would require an 8.1 mile walk to view the spread.
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United States
Federal Office of Education
Otley Area Social Notes Show Summer Gatherings
Otley and vicinity residents share visits and gatherings across nearby towns. Families from Prairie City Reasnor Monroe Pella and Tracy join at relatives homes while Miss Helen Rextoat celebrates her birthday. Several residents travel to Passaic New Jersey and Okoboji YWCA camp with local hosts hosting weekend socials and weekday calls.
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Helen Rextoat
John Stirnemann
Neal Breen
Rean Lille
Art van der Werf
Reasner
William van Zee
Arnold Monsma
Gysbert Brandenhorst
Monroe
Henry de Leeuw
Anne de Graff
Gerrit’ van Dyke
Gerrit P. de Jong
Tainter
S. Vander Wiel
Rean Verwers
S., Korver
John de Leeuw
Passaic
New Jersey
Gerrit van Wyke
E. G. Roorda
Pella
Celvignes Verwers
Ucles
Henry
John de Liew
van de Gaarde
F. Tilma
Anne Vande Gaarde
Harry Gregory
Chicago
Vande Gaarde
A Two Dollar Dinner For G OOR Richard Almanac
A 2 dinner plan outlines a six person menu with prices and simple recipes. It features Lamb Chops with Pineapple Sauté and Peach Pudding, including pantry quantities and step by step cooking notes for a frugal, balanced meal.
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OOR Richard
Birds On Farms Help Fight Pests And Boost Yields
Farmers are urged to attract birds with protection, water, and nest boxes to reduce insect pests. Woodpeckers and hole-nesting species are valuable, while managing cats and other enemies is advised. The bulletin notes birds eat many fruits and seeds in winter and promotes local refuges. Also covered are cattle associations on the Carson National Forest funding salt licks and vaccination, and guidance on sorghum harvesting with combines versus manual methods with cost estimates.
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Bureau of Biological Survey
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
America
Federal Forest Service
Alaska
Rocky Mountain
Iowa Good Roads Association Program Outlined
The Iowa Good Roads Association lays out steps to preserve the state primary road fund, extend the primary road system to farm to market routes reaching towns of 150 or more, complete grading bridging and graveling for surfaced connections to market centers, cap further extensions at 50 miles per year until completion, urge counties to vote primary road bonds to pave roads, and halt counties that have previously voted bonds from further bond voting.
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State
Plan for Highway Bonds and Road Paving Expanded
A proposed program outlines issuing county primary road bonds to avoid excess debt and paving all primary roads with traffic high enough to justify paving. It includes widening roads near population centers and continuing a gasoline tax allocation of three cents, with portions split to primary and secondary roads.
Pella City to Hold Hearing on Power Plant Upgrade
The City of Pella Iowa will hold a hearing September 2 1931 at 7 30 p m at the City office in Beta Iowa to adopt plans and specifications for a 750 W steam turbo Generator condenser and cooling tower and to receive bids for furnishing energy and installing the improvements. Bids require a 5 percent certified check and all work to be completed by February 1 1932 with outside concrete finished within sixty days.
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Pella
Iowa
Beta
Resent Municipal Electric Light and Power Plant
Marion County
Southella
Towa
A. C. Kuyper
Weekly Letter From Washington Highlights Economic Plans
The piece surveys competing U S responses to the crisis from Hoover's twenty year plan to a National Council idea by Senator La Follette and proposals by Dyer. It notes a pervasive do nothing attitude, plus European paternal worker programs, and details U S debates over tariffs immigration taxes and government roles. It also touches on Hoover's frequent phone use and a pageant on Harvesting progress.
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America
Hoover
National Civic Federation
United States Chamber of Commerce
la Follette
Wisconsin
National Council
Dyer
Missouri
Congress
Do You Believe Morals Are Changing in Society
The Inquiring Reporter asks five people about shifts in morals and behavior. Mary Forsyth cites changes in home discipline and openness. Joe Helt blames cars for moral decline. A A Van Roekel notes public speech and dress have changed. Mrs Dunkin recalls shifts from horse to automobile and fading modesty. Mrs Idema laments widespread sin development and neglect of home training.
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Mary Forsyth
Joe Helt
A. A. van Roekel
E. S. Dunkin
State duty to Christian education emphasized by church
The piece argues for greater focus on Christian education by the church, not the state. It cites U S Department of Agriculture trials on fall-sown oats in the South, where acid phosphate 200-400 pounds per acre at seeding plus 100-400 pounds per acre nitrate of soda as a March top-dress produced best yields. Ammonium sulphate 80-100 pounds per acre may substitute for nitrate of soda.
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U. S.department of Agriculture
Department
Electric Sparks Weekly: Circus Job Flares Then Lion Roar
A jobless man joins a circus owner to perform as a gorilla in a trapeze act. A rope snap lands him in a lion’s cage, where the lion tells him to hush, noting he’s not the only man out of work. Hoover Co. touts electric cleaners as Pella promoters tour town.
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Psuedogorilla
Hoover
Hoover Co
North Canton
Ohio
Pella
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Farmers Co-operative Exchange
Eas
Washington
Tunis Klein
Security Bank
Genevieve Myrick
Hartford
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Edison Wells
Russell, Iowa
Telephone Blue 63
Harold Sack
C. W. Clement
Pella Motor CO
Oakland
Pontiac
Buick
Simon Vander Meiden
West Franklin
van Zante Bros. Hardware
George Hankamp
Wire Street
Ing
California
Ed Rayburn
Lady liv
Ozark Mountains
Oak Grove Nursery
John J. Slot
Beyers Battery and Electric Company
Dodge
Hudson
van Houweling Auto CO
Toaed and
Room College
Carl Beyers
Otley
Forrest Ver Ploeg
Phone
Black
van Zante Bros
Central States Electric
Central States Electric Company
Knoxville
Carson National Forest
New Mexico
Forest Service
Combine
Iowa Good Roads Association
Europe
France
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Quiberon
Alsace
Lorraine
White House
Mellon
Castle
State Department
Mills
Treasury
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Ames
McCormick Reaper
Pacific Coast
Martin Paardekooper
van den Berg Electric Co
Vol
Igair
Lori
St. Peter
Chevrolet
Ford Coach
Oskaloosa, Iowa
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