Federated Club Women to Run '40 Tulip Show Event
The Federated Club Women will organize the annual Tulip Show with judging by Iowa State College experts from Ames. Prizes include ribbons for first to third places, a blue ribbon sweepstakes plaque, and a store display prize at Wilson's Jewelry. Six blooms per exhibit across several divisions and artistic arrangements are solicited. Next, growers debate whether to dig bulbs, with storage guidance based on summer temperatures.
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Federated Club
Iowa State College
Ames
Pri
Wilson's
Federated Club Show Committee
Toggeth
Tulip bulbs may be hard to get soon in homes
From Better Homes and Gardens May issue the piece weighs two views on bulb supply. Some fear Dutch fields damaged by war and rising water may limit imports while others insist the crop will hold steady. Guidance suggests conserving bulbs by reducing feeding and using poorer soils to preserve current bloom size.
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Ordens
Holland
Holland Bulb Industry
Germany
France
England
Advance
Louis XIV
Inglescombe
Darwin
Bagchus
Breed
Bishop
Rheingold
Grenadier
Ellen Willmott
You May Have A Lovely Garden With Few Tulips
A May reprint from Better Homes and Gardens offers tulip styling tips for combining tulips with perennials shrubs and annuals. Transplanting creates fuller displays with a dozen tulips appearing like many, using neighbors such as phlox primroses wallflowers violets and iris to frame and foreground the blooms.
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Freda Brownell Woodroffe
Lord Beaconsfield
Hugo
Thunberg Spiren
Piren
Virginia
Journey by stage from Keokuk to Fort Des Moines 1850
A Missouri reporter signed "zel" recounts his late November 1850 trek from Keokuk to what is now Fort Dodge. He travels by ecoach and buckboard via Des Moines valley, stopping at Fairfield for potatoes and coffee, then onward through Agency Ottumwa and Oskaloosa to Pella town for breakfast with Widow Post.
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Missouri Republican
Keokuk
Des Moines
Fort. Dodge
St. Louis
Zel
Thomas J. Tweite
the Palimps
State Historical Society of Jaws
Wzel
Brink
Walker
Fort Des Moines
Charleston
Farmington
Bonaparte
Missouri
Fairfield
Oskaloosa
Ezel
Widow Post
Pellatown
Learning Billie Arneson and the Split Zoo Job
A beverage of fragmented phrases recounts Learning Billie Arneson aged six from Split Zoo amid a puzzling incident. The garbled text hints at a washing wringer and bones or a bones finding, but the exact events and names are unclear.
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Billie Arneson
Split Zoo
Bones Br
Fort Des Moines Visit Describes Des Moines Valley
The traveler Ezel notes Pellatown as thriving yet says Hollanders lag a half century, living in turf houses with all under one roof and odd attire. He praises industrious farms and Fort Des Moines with presses, courthouse, doctors, and happy people. Freight costs hinder transport. corn brings high prices. After sleet and snow, he returns to Keokuk but deems the expedition worthwhile.
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Fort Des Moines
Pellatown
Ezel
Wlded
Fort
Lizard Fork
Des Moines
Ft Dodge
Keokuk
Fort Clark
First Public Schools in Iowa Started in 1839
Fully half a million children attend the public schools of Iowa tracing back to January 1, 1839 when Governor Robert Tacas approved an act enabling common schools. It authorized districts to form, elect trustees and officials, build schoolhouses, and levy a school tax with a ten dollar limit.
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Iowa
Robert Tacas
Early Iowa public schools traced to 1839 reforms
The text recounts 1839 laws to create free public schools in Iowa and notes Governor Lucas’s view that the law was ahead of its time. It cites Dubuque and Lee County districts, mentions rural districts forming in February, and points to growing statewide figures in 1938 including 4,873 districts 21,156 board members and 26,215 teachers.
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Lucas
Dubuque
Lee County
Iowa
J. A. Lisher
the Palimpsest
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Federated Club Women
Ames Horticulture Department
Pella
John Res
Netherlands
Historical Society
Bernace van der Linden
Marion van Gorp
Marion Jr
FT. Dodge
Hollanders
Crane Xasy
County
The
United States
Pella's Gift Center
Allen
Pella’s Gift Center
Hotierrons
Glover Dryer
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