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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1956
Page
5
Tender details indicate early June availability for Peas Tendersweet No 303 peas in cans, with a pricing note of two for a typical sale. The fragment suggests a market listing or advertisement for canned peas.
The article contrasts the historical belief in the kings touch for scrofula with modern TB treatment and shares horticulture tips. It notes that drug therapies now replace royal healing for tuberculosis and gives weekly watering, mulching, and pest control advice for roses, bulbs, irises, peonies, lilacs, and annuals.
Planting tips cover cucumbers corn tomatoes peas beans and berries in Iowa. Plant cucumbers by July 7 in south and central regions and by early July 1 in the north. Two more sweet corn plantings before July 1. Fertilize setting tomatoes lightly with around a tablespoon per plant. Use shrub fertilizers and cultivate shallowly. Preserve pea vines after harvest as mulch and plant beans after peas. Ensure consistent watering for strawberries and raspberries through harvest.
A town debates Roy's thrift sparked by a drugstore joke about a grandmother and a supposed starvation claim. Misunderstood chatter grows into a label of selfishness as Roy dies after a right of way incident blamed on others. The piece contrasts cruel talk with the accident outcome. Farmers Can Use Soil Bank This Year in Sioux County. Farmers urged to contact the Orange City ASC office to join the soil bank program and discuss new farm law provisions for 1956.
James Gaul of Alton Iowa wins the Farm Bureau Essay Contest on My Parents Should Vote Because sponsored by Sioux County Farm Bureau for District 3 covering 12 Northwest Iowa counties. The 16 year old junior at St Marys High School earns an expense paid trip to the State Legislature next spring, a Governor Hoegh tour, a city visit and Farm Bureau offices, plus a dinner with Sioux County representative.
Jim writes a voter appeal pledging duty and citizenship. He explains voting as a privilege and weapon for a strong government and notes his hobbies of swimming and building model cars as personal interests.
The Hines Illinois Veterans Administration hospital seeks 75 graduate nurses to care for 2200 disabled veterans including blinded and paralyzed. Starting salary for new graduates is 336 dollars per month in Junior Grade with higher pay for experienced nurses. Benefits include 5 day 40 hour weeks 30 days vacation 15 sick days 8 holidays low cost housing uniform allowance free laundry life insurance and retirement. Further details from the Chief Nurse at Hines VA or local VA hospital.
The Orange City Cooperative Creamery shut down on Saturday due to financial difficulties. Cream is now hauled to Sioux Center and Hull, with deliveries resuming during the week. About 10 workers lost jobs except for cream haulers who continue route pickups. Mortgages were held by a local bank and one in Omaha. The coop had completed a new Orange City building within the past two years.
July 11 12 presents after noon and evening shows for Worthington children. Tickets available. children priced 4¢? 4% price. Box 66 Worthington Minn. June dates 21 28 55¢. Pianos for sale two units damaged in truck. One upright piano and one medium upright. See Midwest Plano Co Spencer town towa.
Listing details multiple farms in Leota and Grand Prairie Townships near Luverne Minnesota. Farms include 140 and 130 acre units with modern homes and outbuildings, 14 second improvements, crop land with good improvements, and more well improved and unimproved parcels to sell. Contact McDowell Realty Luverne Minnesota for details June 21 28.
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