Iowa Economic Digest Highlights Jobs Cabbage and Trade
Iowa reports an oversupply of teachers across counties. Cabbage shipments totaled 567 carloads nationwide. Dubuque gears up for over 1,000 Kiwanis visitors from Illinois and eastern Iowa in September. Free chautauqua programs pop up in towns. Bees travel 75,000 miles for a pound of honey. Davenport to build a $75,000 men’s clothing factory. Road paving links Polk County miles. Goat milk markets grow as Iowa fairs display livestock. Farm Bureau pushes Weather and Crop Service funding. Gas and oil retail expands. Humboldt serves motorists. Tuberculosis battle in cattle wins small gains. Des Moines hosts Omaha cadets at training camp. Big Wall Lake condemnation suit filed. Sioux City bans bobbed hair in teachers. Iowa’s farm wealth rises. forestry and manufacturing contribute. Town clubs aid 22,000 scholarship fund. Weather damages crops. six-state Odd Fellows gather in Kansas City. Library demand shifts to informative books. Apple spray success proves orchard profit. Dairy cattle drive into Wisconsin for Holsteins. Davenport’s market calf wins at state fair. Cedar Rapids shrubbery curbs urged for safety. Federal marshal changeover in southern Iowa. Iowa soils and crops rank high in value and production. Road-building advances with miles under contract. Dairy farmers gain cream checks. Dubuque marshals milk health drive. Local students excel in spelling contests. Iowa banks’ large rediscounts reveal postwar finance. Auto tax climbs. Polk County leads state revenue. Car registrations exceed 1922 totals. Colonel Guy S. Brewer dies from car crash injuries. Coal production steady. miners face winter supply pressures. Iowa’s farm credit and transportation networks drive state growth.
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Iowa
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Market News Service
Dubuque
Kiwanis Clubs
Illinois
Iowa State College
Davenport
Iowa Construction
Polk County
Farm Bureau Messenger
Humboldt
Delaware County
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Fort Des Moines
Nebraska
Citizens Military Training Camp
Big Wall Lake
Wright County
Sioux City
Board of Education
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Clarion
Belmond
Wisconsin
Lloyd Taube
Marion
Guy S. Brewer
Hammond
Marshals
Colonel Brewer
President Coolidge
Texas
Town Federation of Women's Clubs
Oskaloosa
Winterset
Wartham
Corning
Cumberland
Ceneva
Jasper
Poweshick
Wright
Humpoldt
Story
Odd Fellows
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
State Brary Commission
J.C. Mays
Durant
Livestock Commission
Farm Bureau
Cedar County
Iowa Road Building
Garner
Dubuque County
Ruby Ethington
Marshall County
Oliver W. Wade
Wade
National Banks of
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Seventh Reserve District
AU East
Guy 8
Brewer
United States
One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry
Rainbow Division
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Thes Moines
Collins
Don Brey
Don Brewer
Waite
James
Louise
Gol
Guy Brey
Pershing
State College
Ames
Secretary of State
Lowa
Twenty Years Ago In Local Chronicle June 1903
Des Moines to Kansas City excursion offer advertised for $3.00. City council granted three saloon licenses. A cement crossing test contract with Jake Plender. pay if it lasts six months. H Brand died at 92. Misses Bess and Gertrude Synhorst hosted Pella youths near Leighton. Crew couple wedding trip in Pella. Otley wedding Sept 9 linked to Rev H K Beer’s daughters to Oltman and De Pree. Central college vandalism reward offered. Vander Meulen family bought a single footer. W C Farmer heads public schools. Maasdam and Matthes wed at Sully.
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Jake Plender
Jake
Chronicle
Des Moines
Kansas City
H. Brand
Bess
Gertrude Synhorst
Pella
Leighton
G. A. Vander Meulen
Andrew
Wm. van Rees
Knoxville
W. C. Farmer
Leonard M. Maasdam
Henrietta Mathes
Sully
Soy Bean Demonstration and Variety Test
County agents and Extension Service specialist will host a soybean variety test at the county fair grounds on Monday afternoon September 17 at 1 30 PM. They will discuss planting cultivating harvesting and feeding problems and adapt varieties to local conditions. Iowa average soybean yield is about 20 bushels per acre and hay yield exceeds 2 tons per acre.
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Harry Warner
Extension Service
Iowa
Hessian Fly prevention relies on late seeding and farming practices
The entomology department at Iowa State College warns that stopping Hessian Fly losses hinges on community cooperation and seeding after the fly free date. Once established, control is impossible. farm practice is the only defense. Recommended actions include crop rotation, plowing under old stubble, destroying volunteer wheat by discing and harrowing, and preparing a good seedbed.
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Iowa State College
Carl J. Drake
Wheat seeding and neighbor cooperation urged for Hessian fly control
Farmers advised to plant after the fly free date to prevent infestation, conserve moisture, and give wheat a quick start. Early seeding risks spreading flies to other fields. timing varies yearly and will be broadcast countywide by the Farm Bureau. Also notes a quick home remedy for eye care using Lavoptik eye wash and aluminum eye cups at Ideal Pharmacy.
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Farm Bureau
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