Rock Valley Bee Reports New State Game Preserve Details
The Rock Valley Bee notes a large wood and pasture tract of 1400 acres in Des Moines as a new state game preserve along the Raccoon river. State game wardens will manage the area. trustees invite bids for cemetery caretaker duties with bids due February 1.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Raccoon River
Rock Township
Albert
Trustees Reserve Game Commission
J. C. Suter
Ribbons of Faith and Folly at a Rural Fair
A fragmented column recalls Gerrit Kaldenberg of Monroe Iowa urging piety over pies and a church altar over kitchen fire, mixed with tales of local misdeeds and a Niagara Falls honeymoon. Highlights include thefts from Toft near Hudson and a Hoover sign poster. The piece ends noting Farm Bureau twine labeled Made in Canada and a parallel critique of domestic produce and industry.
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Holy Ghost
Gerrit Kaldenberg
Monroe
Iowa
The Cow War Over Tuberculin Testing in Dairy Areas
A reader letter questions farm farmer resistance to cattle tuberculin testing across Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin. The writer claims state and federal actions favored condemned beef flowing to soap and porters rather than fresh meat and urges honest testing while exposing possible profiteering by packers and inspectors.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Omaha St. Paul
Chicago
Kansas City
AT Moat
Walsdorf- Astoria
Beven
Minneapolis
T.B
Sori
Farm Board, tuberculosis, and pork linked illness
Medical authorities link a disease to undercooked pork at a party where frankfurters were roasted. The note mentions tuberculin testing, grasshoppers, and the Farm Board, with a claim about slaughtering cows and cotton rows. Miss Noland of Iowa State University is noted as a presumed case. October 1 is cited by J O Bentall.
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Farm Board
J. O. Bentall
New York
Miss Noland
Iowa State University
Rock Valley Bank Statement of Condition 1929
The State Bank of Rock Valley Iowa reports year end December 31 1929 figures with Loans and Discounts 293067.44 Bonds and Securities 293067.44 overdrafts 266.09 real estate owned 10090.00 due from banks 31519.18 total resources 349852.71 capital stock 33000.00 surplus 58000.00 profits 6792.36 depreciation reserve 0.00 deposits 219389.75 bills payable 62670.00 total liabilities 349952.96 sworn before E R Scanlan notary public Bronx County January 6 1929 directors D J Scanlan P D Van Gosterhout W Hl Hospers
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State Bank OF
Rock Valley
Iowa
Lioux
Federal Reserve Bank
E. R. Scanlan
Bronx County
D. J. Scanlan
P. D. van Gosterhout
W. Hl. Hospers
United States
U. S
Reserve Bank
Case of Trichinosis in Boone County
J G Lucas of Madrid Missouri reports Miss Winifred Jand was taken to Kings Daughters Hospital in Perry with trichinosis a rare painful disease. Authorities estimate only about four thousand cases exist in the United States.
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Boone County
J. G. Lucas
Madrid
Winifred Jand
Kings’ Daughters
Perry
United States
Large Increase in the Number of Swine Reported
U S Department of Agriculture official Des Moines notes 26.1 percent more fall pigs saved last fall and 28.1 percent more sows farrowed, indicating more hogs for market next summer, with greatest rise in the northwestern Iowa region. Estimation shows 43.1 hogs per 100 acres, about two thirds over six months old and one third under six months.
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T. Myers
Afton
Union County
Leslie M. Carl
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Des Moines
Iowa
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Bing
Opheum Theatre
Zane Grey
George O’brien
Roscoe Ates
Wallingford
Wm. Haines
Jimmy “Schnozzle” Durante
Edward Robinson
H.B. Warner
Marion Mish
Boris Karloff
Evry Minute
Friends
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C. K. Toft
Hudson
Sandy Mactavish
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Falls
Sandy
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Dent
Frentier
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American Farm Bureau Federation
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Chicago Daily Drovers Journal
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Iowa Public,service CO
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