Rolscreenings Big Sales Meeting Leads to Hunting Vein
A Cleveland sales meeting drew Rolscreen distributors from over 90 locales led by Louise Van Hemert and Ned Hedrick. News recaps 1 9 sash production, then shifts to hunting season with several references to local residents, gifts, new windows, and shipments including 128 Venetian Blinds to Wolf & Dexsaur in Fort Wayne and 54 blinds to Gleason Machine Works in Rochester.
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Cleveland
Louise van Hemert
Ned Hedrick
Herb Vander Waal
Bill Kilpatrick
Bob ‘Triplett
Carol Wilson
Stu ‘Kuyper
Paul Parver
Peter Kuyper
Hotel Statler
Margaret de Jong
Rock Island
Marjorie Miller
Eveline van Binglenburg
Hampton
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Wolf & Dexsaur
Gleason Machine Works
Rochester
New York
The Wheelchair Bound Boy Who Could Not Be Stopped
A story from Iowa recounts a youth who prized risk over caution and learned the hard way after repeatedly testing dangerous curves on country roads. He began with a telephone, then moved to reckless driving at high speed, skidding through a famed gravel curve. After an early accident, a hospital stay, and his mother’s vigil, he later suffered a spine injury leaving him paralyzed below the waist at age eighteen.
Reckless Driver Seen as Product of Community
The passage argues that the boy's dangerous driving habits were learned from his community and that his identity, if he had achieved fame beyond recklessness, would have made him a unique local product. It emphasizes communal responsibility when a young driver dies or is injured.
College Seed Testing Opens To Aid 1950 Crop
Iowa farmers can test the 1949 seed crop at the Iowa State College Seed Testing Laboratory. E P Sylvester notes equipment is ready and urges sampling now to avoid January March rush. Gather representative samples from each sack, mix, and send to the lab.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
E.P. Sylvester
Sylvester
Support Prices for Corn in Marion County
Marion county set price support for the 1949 corn crop at 1.34 per bushel with range up to 1.66 per bushel by county. The county PMA committee, chaired by Paul Brown, is taking applications for LY corn loans and extended loan dates shift to November 30 from October 31, with loan maturity in July 1950. Farmers extending loans or using purchase agreements may receive a storage payment of 10 cents per bushel if corn is delivered to the CCC at maturity. Knoxville Journal.
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Marion County
Paul Brown
County
PMA
Aply
Brown
CCC
Knoxville Journal
Crosley
Shelvador
Crosley Kitchen
Birthday notices at Home for the Aged honor residents
On November 2 5 and 7 the Home for the Aged noted birthdays for Joe Vanden Heuvel 76 Cornelius Van Gorp 71 and Jennie Harmsen 83. Agnes De Vries later Nes Fopma born July 14 1872 died November 3 1949 aged 77 3 20 and funeral held at 1 30 pm with Rev Van Houten. Interment at Peoria cemetery.
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Joe Vanden Heuvel
Cornelius van Gorp
Jennie Harmsen
Agnes de Vries
Agenes Fopma
Hainz
Friesland
Netherlands
F. van Houten
Peoria
Sam Fopma
Peter Fopma
Gerrit Jansen
Ruth Fopma
Evert Jansen
John Laverman
Social Security Card Basics For Your Family
Advice on securing and preserving the Social Security card as part of building retirement protection. Stresses using the card while earning benefits and urges applying for a duplicate if lost or destroyed at any Social Security office.
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Social Secu Administration
Kill No Hens is Sportsman Plea
Iowa and the Midwest pheasant population has increased over last year. Biologists from the State Conservation Commission endorse hunting cocks only during the season to protect future pheasant hunting. They note hens are crucial for reproduction and urge hunters to observe the Kill No Hens rule to sustain the sport.
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Iowa
Middle West
State Conservation Commission
Three Marion County Club Calves to Be Shown in Chicago
Three 4-H or county club calves from Marion County will travel to the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago from November 26 to December 3. Alberta Woolsey enters her Angus steer, county champion and fourth in its state fair class. Florence Woolsey also enters an Angus steer, and Charles Feagins of Bussey enters the third Angus.
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Marion County
Chicago
Alberta Woolsey
Florence Woolsey
Charles Feagins
Bussey
Fisherman Reaches 100 Carp Goal on Des Moines River
Walter F. Lee of Knoxville area completed a fishing challenge by catching his 100th carp in the Des Moines River. Over two months he used a cane pole and various baits to land carp up to ten and a half pounds, achieving the milestone this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter F. Lee
Knoxville
Des Moines
Iowa Honey Is Double 1948 Crop Output
Iowa produced about 6.72 million pounds of honey in 1948, ranking third nationally. Production rose 11 percent, though Iowa slid to tenth in some measures, aided by a favorable weather year for North Central states. Floyd Paddock of Iowa State College cites weather and other factors as reasons for the rise.
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Towa
Iowa
Minnesota
Hawkeye
Floyd Paddock
Itown State College
North Central States
Production stress shifts toward efficiency and units
The note discusses pushing for higher production efficiency over increasing unit count. It mentions efforts to improve the bee-keepers’ output and the challenge of balancing production targets with resource limits.
First Oil Well in Titusville Built in 1859
A fragment notes the first oil well in Titusville was built in 1859, marking a pivotal moment in American petroleum history. The text also references a payment rate of 89 per colony, but the context remains unclear.
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Titusville
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