Community Gossip From Iowa Towns and Local Visits
A collection of social notes from Buffalo Center Titonka Ashton and surrounding areas records weekly visits. Residents such as Ola Bomenars Fanny Abbes Larry Salmon Henry Slykhuis and Henry Slykhuis are mentioned with family visits to homes in Ashton Titonka Newkirk and Sanborn. A shipment of vacuum cleaners from Stegeman Appliances is advertised along with Weed Killer products and home visits by several local couples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ola Bomenars
Raymond Miller
Buffalo Center
Wayne Miller
Titonka
Iowa
Value of the Spud and Other Proceedings in History
A compact note shows how sweet potatoes supply vitamins A and C yet are underconsumed outside main producing regions. It cites wood pins in Northern Europe used until the early 1900s for timber framing, notes freight locomotives consuming about one ton of coal per nine miles, and mentions the abacus defeating the electric computer in some Western contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boyden Reporter
Boyden
Sioux County
Norman W. Bell
Act of Congress
TOWA
Assoc
National Editorial
MNA
Fanny Abbes
Leader Cafe
Stegeman
R. Kamminga
Henry van Nyhuis
Bernard Rensink
Ashton
Larry Salmon
L. A. Menning Home
Newkirk Friay
M. T. Slykhuis
John Slykhuis
Henry Slykhuis
Henry— Slykhuis
Nic Rouwenhorst
LaVonne Rouwenhorst
Sioux Falls
Stegeman Appliances
Ray Brockhouse
Dick Koerselman
Judy Dethmers
Clifford de Zeeuw
John Grooters
Ray Grooters
Sanborn
John Dokter of
Middleburg
Herman Meester
Mrs. Maryeester
George
Sandy Green
Sheldon
Paul Schreuder
Rochester
Minn
Dwayne Green
Glenn Salmon
Sioux City
Gerrit Roetman of
Peter de Boer
Firestone
H.P
Dethmers
Boyden, Iowa
Ersey Cates ‘Quick
Tintee
Boyden Hardware
N W
Hull Dry Cleaner
Ladie
Coats
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