Public School Teachers Demonstrate Progressive Education Trends
The Kindergarten through second grade teachers at Lincoln Building pursue learning by doing. Students build a model house in class to explore family life, home types, and social roles, with boys painting and building, girls sewing curtains, and groups planning tasks. Annabelle Beebe, 1st Grade teacher.
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Tancoln
Rome
Annabelle Beebe
I One
Stuart Meulpolder
Logan van Sittert
Ald Blom
Benny S. Dekker
Dick Benny Ann Hokilsate
Mary Allee Buwalda
Portsons
Lautenbach
Henry Vande Voort
Jack Klein
Baden Dover
Gretta
Pale
Transportation study at Lincoln and Webster kindergartens
The Lin coln and Webster kindergartens studied transportation to connect children with their environment and the wider world. They built a large painted airplane named Star, discussed parts and roles, learned new terms, and explored how planes carry people goods and even bombs.
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Lincoln
Webster
Tater
Des Moines
Cheese An Ideal Food Of Many Uses
A historic profile extols cheese for versatility and value, noting U S consumption rising 86 percent in a decade. The piece highlights cheese as a rich source of calcium and phosphorus and a cost effective protein option, including a recipe for Bavary Cheese Soup with onions celery peppers and chicken stock.
Second Grade Lincoln Building Studies Community Helpers
The Second Grade at Lincoln Building explored community helpers to teach protection, communication, recreation, transportation, production and distribution. Classes visited school police, jail, post office, banks, bakery, meat market and grocery store. students planned a real in-room grocery shop and announced a grand opening for March 18, 1941.
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Lincoln
Fhe
Elizabeth Hyde
Iowa tractor power drives cropping efficiency gains
In Iowa, tractor power is used in production, covering about two thirds of the corn and a similar share of the main acreage. The data indicate widespread mechanization, with tractors underpinning yields and farm labor practices across major crop areas.
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Iowa
Predicted Hog Rise Has Begun in Iowa
Iowa hog producers feel upbeat as prices rebound after last year’s lows. Farmers who stayed committed report strong demand and rising slaughter totals, signaling a possible sustained upswing for the state’s hog industry.
Electric Ironing Cuts Wash Day Labor For Farm Homes
IRA MILLER explains electric ironing as the final time saver in farm households. He notes that electric irons can save one third to two thirds of the labor and many farms with electricity still do not use ironing machines. Automatic high wattage irons cost 5 to 10 dollars but machines range 50 to 130 dollars. Average power use runs about one kilowatt hour per month per person, a small price for convenience.
Hog prices to rise in 1941 amid tightening hog supply
Iowa State College economist L K Soth predicts higher hog prices in early 1941 due to rising demand and reduced supply. He notes 1940 saw record marketing in fall and winter, with only 63 percent of pig crop left for marketing by October. Hog corn ration fell to 10.6, while defense program boosts demand. storage pork and lard may temper price gains.
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L. K. Soth
Iowa State College
Soth
National Defense Program
Rose Hill Social Ties Report Visitors and Illness
Rose Hill notes show Aric Vink visiting his ill mother in Pella Friday. Kathryn Vander Werf and Arthur Vander Werf visited friends near Monroe with Raymond Brouwer and his wife. Neal Vander Werff called on Lane Dunnink and Des Moines relatives. Ver Steer has measles and Jennie De Ron de sore throat. Mrs. Van Veen has the flu. Will Jansen joined Arie Ver Steer for Sunday dinner.
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Aric Vink
Pella
Kathryn
Arthur Vander Vander Werf
Raymond Brouwer
Monroe
Neal Vander Werff
Lane Dunnink
Delbert
Des Moines
Albert van Zante
Verda Ver Steer
Jennie de Ronde
John van Veen
Will Jansen
Arie Ver
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Donald Terpstra
Kirk Fuller
Keith Vriezel
Nancy Ruth Groendyke
Dolores Vander Wilt
Jerald Kuiper
Shirley Hoeksema
A Jne Hagan
Betty Steenhock
Jay Kuiper
Lou Ann LeCocq
Delores
Virginia
Millikert
America
U. S
National Dairy Council
Butte
Ira Miller
Farm Electrification Bureau
Frosen Foods
Friphdaire
Rose Hill News
Cownie’s
FUR Service
Cownie’s “Fur Coat Club
Mrs. Mitten
Kuyper
Jay
Gladiron
Child
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