Champion Farm Woman of Iowa to Be Chosen
The Iowa State Fair plans a statewide search to award the Home and Community Service honors. Ninety nine county winners will yield eleven district champions who will be guests at the State Fair. The state winner will be selected August 26 and receive a formal ceremony. Nominations are sought from fair officials, friends, and neighbors.
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Iowa
A. R. Corey
Falcon Farm Bureau
Corcy
Vtoday
Making Automobile Transportation Safer
The article discusses safer car design and highway engineering to reduce crash risk amid rising traffic. It notes four wheel brakes non-shatterable glass sturdy bodies wider roads smoother surfaces and banked turns as protective factors. It also references a joke about a five cent cigar and remarks on jury methods and social mores, concluding with a reflection on labor-saving efforts.
Diary of a Downward Spiral in Credit Pays For Car and Land
A distressed narrator documents a spiral of purchases and delayed payments from November 1927 to November 1928. Entries note buying an automobile, a radio, books, land, and a piano on easy terms, with frequent loans from relatives and a growing debt burden. The diary reveals attempts to finance possessions, borrow money, and eventually lose the car as payment issues mount amid financial strain.
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Hig
Uncle George
Hank
Fifty Years of Light and the Rise of Electricity in Iowa
A retrospective notes that fifty years after the first practical incandescent lamp Edison mastered electricity for lighting. Iowa now boasts a highly electrified landscape with 28 towns lacking service. Private enterprise spurred rapid electrical development and industrial growth, though some areas remain unconnected. The piece ends with a garden tip about whitewashing to ease a back kink.
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Thomas A. Edison
J. Piemont Morgan
Iowan
Towa
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