Bread weights law sets standard loaves for sale
The legislature enacted a law establishing standard loaf weights for sale. Bakers must offer loaves of nine and a half pounds, one pound, one and a quarter, one and a half, or multiples of one pound, with exceptions for stale bread. The wrapper must show a stated weight clearly.
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Midland
St. Louis
Dubuque
Committee On Clast
Balkastat
Europe
Committee On Appropriations
Balkan National Insurance Company
Sofia
Bulgaria
Balkan
Ovk
Jena
Supreme Court of the Te
Sioux County school notes and regional contests update
Regular tests for 5th and 6th grades set for May 5 and 6 with physiology and geography for 5th grade. Teachers to prepare preliminaries for 7th and 8th graders and report to the County Superintendent. Sub-county contests saw Orange City win Dramatic and Humorous while Hospers led in Oratorical. various postponements due to weather and roads. County plans include building new schools in Capel Welcome and West Branch, with Reading Township’s new school awarded to a Sioux Center contractor. Music results highlight strong Sioux County performances. intercounty spelling and extension summer programs noted, plus local travel and visits by residents listed.
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Alton
Orange City
Hospers
Rock Valley
Huil
Boyden
Ireton
Sioux Center
Siour Center
Pauma
Sioux County
Hull
Wood
Isolo
Hespers
Rock Port
Missouri
Spencer
Iowa
Ida Grove
Notice to Contractors for two Plato schoolhouses
Proposals for erecting two district 3 and 4 schoolhouses in Plato Township Sioux County Iowa are due by 6 PM Friday May 13 1927. Separate bids required for material masonry carpentry labor excavation hauling and painting with a 5 percent certified check. Bids opened at Carmel Schoolhouse May 13 8 PM. Board may reject any bid. Martin T Moeller secretary.
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Plato
Township
Sioux County
Iowa
Carmel
Martin T. Moeller
Plato Township Schools
Death of Airs. Harry De Vries Former Ireton Resident
Ireton friends learned Wednesday of the death of Airs. Harry De Vries of Denver Colorado formerly of Le Mars. She passed away Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were held in Denver on Thursday. Carmen Cole De Vries was the daughter of Mr. and Airs. W. J. Cole, now deceased, formerly of Hawarden. She moved with her mother to a farm near Alcester South Dakota after her father’s death in June 1918.
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Ireton
Airs
Harry de Vries
Denver Colorado
le Mais
Denver
Carmen Cole de Vries
W. J. Cole
Hawarden
Rual
Alcester
S. D
Griffiths Attend Haward Funeral For Mrs Griffith
Mr and Mrs Al Griffith and sons went to Haward on Tuesday to attend the funeral of his mother Mrs Wmn Griffith Survivors include her husband and a granddaughter Kathleen four years old and three brothers Earl Howard and Forest all of Colorado
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al Griffith
Haward
Wmn. Griffith
Kathleen
Earl
Howard
Forest
Colorado
Small Pox Outbreak Strikes Freton Schools
A fevered outbreak in Freton began as suspected chickenpox but identified as small pox. A large number of schoolchildren are confined at home, schools closed, and a strict quarantine is imposed. All students must be vaccinated before returning. Mr and Mrs Ed Marra of Orange City visited the T Marra home Monday.
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India
John B. Hungerford
Carrol
Signapore
Straits
Calcutta
Manley
Methodist
Burma
M. E
Riis
Simpson College
Indianola
Manleys
Bombay
Bishop Bradley
Luther
Simpson
Bangkok
Siam
Borneo
Philippines
China
Japan
Freton
Ed. Marra
Orange City
T. Marra
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Leary Blankespoor
Jack Sprat Xis
Rock Valley Beers
Halstead
Center
EAGLE
Ben
Gerrit Elrenberg
Gandy
Herman Ranken
Frank Wells
le Mars
Joe Robinson
Win. Pearl
Louisville
Kentucky
W. G. Cain
Pearl
George Bartlett
Elatives
G. O. Gronseth
Hudson, D. D
Rock River Lutheran Church
Wim. van der Hoef
Henry den Herder
E. J. Swier
Corner
Roelofs & Vander Bok
Rock Valley, Iowa
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