Styles in Boys Clothes for Fall Echoes From Campus
The article reports on fall trends in boys clothing driven by the Apparel Buyers Association. Ensemble sweater-suit combinations gain emphasis, with matching patterns for suits and sweaters. Blues browns gray tones and greens dominate while single and double breasted coats vary by garment type. Topcoats overcoats belts and camel hair fabrics appear in broad color and fabric ranges.
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Boys’ Apparel Buyers’ Association
Grasshoppers Ravaged Town in the Seventies
A historical account recalls grasshopper plagues in the 1860s to 1870s across South Dakota, Nebraska, and western Iowa. Sioux City saw early devastation in July 1866, with repeated crop losses forcing settlers to relocate. Farmers tried burning, plowing, irrigation, and trapping to destroy eggs, while stock-moving and field rolling offered some relief. The era spurred dairy farming as a viable option and showed that crop adjustments could reduce future damage.
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South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Sioux City
Grass and locusts shaped Plains grazing industry history
John E Bri recounts on grazing on the western plains and the locust plague of the 1870s as featured in the July 1915 Iowa Journal of History and Politics. The piece links forage conditions to cattle economy and regional development in that era.
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John E. Bri
Iowa Journal of History and Politics
Probe death of Mary Volker near Knoxville Iowa
Authorities probe the strange death of 44 year old Mary Volker whose scantily clad body was found at her brother Dick Volker’s home near Knoxville Iowa. No knife near the body and motive for murder unclear as brother recalls finding her at 5 pm after working in a hay field.
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Knoxville
Iowa
Mary Volker
Dick Volker
Feed consumption by laying hens and grain types
Records at agricultural experiment stations show Leghorns laying about 150 culls a year consume 80 pounds of grain annually while general purpose breeds producing the same number of eggs eat about 87 pounds. Hens eat more grain in seasons of heavy production.
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