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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
2
The piece identifies livestock and machinery as the top accident causes on farms. It urges calmness and patient handling of animals to prevent incidents and notes a corn beef claim that a new patent process improves flavor and nutrition through an active curing agent during processing after meat juices release.
The Iowa State Employment Service appoints representatives in towns to maintain registers of farm orders and workers. In Boyden, Sioux City manager John P. Bowler has placed a local register at the Co op Lumber Co with S Smid as the representative. Farmers and farm workers are urged to use these facilities.
An overview of New York State wildlife feats notes record fish sizes including muskellunge 58 pounds 5 ounces and lake trout 31 pounds with most records since 1940. It contrasts hunting rules and NRA data on deer distances, plus a note on a Wisconsin archer fined for a loaded bow in a car.
Iowa health officials report the Serum-Plasma Center distributed hyperimmune serum in 1947 to prevent whooping cough in 1200 infants exposed to the disease and treat 400 ill babies. Dr. Carl F Jordan notes the disease is highly communicable, with infant deaths rising in 1940–45 and 28 deaths in the first nine months of 1947. The serum could prevent about 95 percent of cases when given within days of exposure, and is more potent when used for treatment.
A large fire razed 18 structures in Albany as flames swept through multiple blocks. Fire crews battled the blaze through the afternoon, evacuations were ordered, and damage estimates mounted as residents assessed the wreckage.
Whig members of Congress caucus in Washington to decide on stand on peace treaty now before the Senate. Largest contract to date for 31 miles of construction let by the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad forerunner of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway System. British Parliament committee studies condition and prospects of colonies in the West Indies.
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