Chronicle recounts vacation travels and local notices
Vacation news fills the page as Lettie Menninga travels to Des Moines to fetch a son arriving from Chicago for a ten day visit. Several residents and visitors are listed from Des Moines to Columbus, with illnesses, absences, and family matters noted. The column ends with a quip from Les Norsmortel about worrying.
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Chronicle
Lent
Lettie Menninga
Des Moines
Pane Fra Chiccago
Cart
Inbred Hog Lines Boost Hybrid Vigor in Hogs
The Iowa State College report details commercial need for carefully chosen inbred lines to sustain hybrid vigor in pigs. It notes four generations can retain benefits in litter size livability and growth, but reverting to original lines reduces vigor. Poland China and Landrace crosses yield lean carcasses high primary cuts with nine weaned pigs per litter.
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L. N
Freedee
Ok Town’ State College
Ames
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Hazel
Iowa State College
Poland
Landrace
China
Progress in Radioactive Sugar Research Advances
Dr Harriet Frash describes continued work on expensive radioactive research, noting improved techniques yielding 40 to 60 percent of theoretical yields for tagged sugars. The team reports a fivefold enhancement over older methods, using radioactive carbon fourteen obtained as barium.
Radioactive Sugar Tagging Breakthrough at Oak Ridge
Dr Harriet Frank and a colleague report a new method to produce tagged carbon atoms in sugar in greatly increased quantities. This tracer technique helps map how sugar is absorbed into body tissue, with potential applications across biology and medicine.
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Nate
Oak Ridge
Chronicle
Harriet Frank
Parents Should Not Expect Child to Think Like an Adult
An Iowa University Child Welfare Research Station analysis argues six to twelve year olds are neither babies nor adults. Expecting adultlike behavior insults them and creates misfits. children need age-appropriate expectations and healthy peer contact, not overconscientious pressure.
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Iowa University Child Welfare Research Station
Quick Action For Picnic Stains In Summer Heat
Summer sun can set picnic stains from cherries peaches pears plums soft drinks and mustard. Sponge with cold water to prevent setting. If stains remain rub with glycerine or soapless shampoo and rinse with cool water. Textiles experts at Iowa State College warn soap and heat set stains, so use first aid methods before washing.
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Iowa State College
How to remove stains with household cleaners and tips
An old home care column instructs on stain removal for grass fruit juice tomato dressings tea coffee blood and more. It covers hot water cold soaking glycerine glycerin and carbon tetrachloride tips, plus caution on sun drying and footwear care.
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Fred Carbon Chloride
Simple immediate cleaning solved by Cen dry cleaner
A brief note suggests center dry cleaners handle simple, immediate fabric care to resolve a water damage issue. It emphasizes quick action and professional treatment for best results.
Antistotics Continue Notes on Pigs and Milk
Antistotics may swallow infective Praterial with the first mouthfuls of milk. If the pigs were not furrowed on pasture, sows and pigs should follow advised practices.
Farrow M P E I Hog Pasture Advice
Instructions urge allowing hogs out of the farrow area until they can reach a new pasture. Avoid old hogslots and permanent pastures. Ensure pasture has clean water supply. Hogs should have access from pasture to barnyard or hog yard for loading and feeding.
Coffee Invitation Punchline Exchange
A humorous exchange unfolds with one person inviting the other to coffee and the reply suggesting the other go first. The light banter hints at a casual social moment. No additional context or participants are provided.
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