4-H Club Committee Plans for Local Achievement Day
The Sioux County Farm Bureau note indicates a July 19 meeting at the Farm Bureau office where the 4-H Club Committee and Home Demonstration Agent finalized plans for Achievement Day and the Lions county fair. A Women’s Committee meeting also occurred July 19 to discuss fair issues and schedule September organization meetings.
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4-H Achievement Day Arrives at Orange City High
All-county 4-H Achievement Day set for August 7 at Orange City High School. Sherdan Grant Plato Garfield Lynn Holland Center Eagle Reading Sherman townships will be represented by their Demonstration Team. Each team includes two girls presenting Third-Year Home Furnishing topics.
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Sioux County Achievement Day Demonstration Plan
Program starts at 9:00 with drawing of places by Mrs R M Grau, then 9:00 exhibits arranged by Mrs Reinders, 9:30 judging by Mrs Steer, 10:00 program opening, singing by Aliedi Abbey and Sadie Krause, noon recess, 1:00 demonstrations, 3:30 announcements, 3:35 placing explanations of exhibits. Sioux County Champion 420 Home Economics Team to be sent to Iowa State. Club members urged to attend.
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R. M. Grau
Reinders
Steer
Aliedi Abbey
Sadie Krause
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Radio Sets Proliferate on Iowa Farms in 1929
Radio receiving sets on Iowa farms rose to 1,000 per county belt from Clinton and Scott westward to the Missouri line, with one set for every 244 farms. The Weather and Crop Bureau notes a 13 percent year over year increase, aided by Federal cooperation. Market reports from major markets are transmitted via Government leased wire and Wireless Station WIO, Ames.
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Towa
Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Clinton
Scott
WIO
Ames
Plant Furnishes An Entire Meal Discovery
Byron O. Dale a greenhouse assistant at Iowa State College Ames has blended a tomato with an Irish potato root to create a plant that yields both tomatoes and potatoes in one harvest. He cannot decide whether to call it a topato or pomato as the tomatoes grow above ground and the potatoes are harvested below. The tomatoes taste like tomatoes and the potatoes like potatoes, not potato or tomato hybrids.
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Byron O. Dale
Iowa State College
Ames
Large Cedar River turtles draw local interest this summer
Waverly resident J F Grawe notes an uptick in large Cedar River turtles this season with several hefty specimens. Newt Marsh recently caught a nearly two foot long turtle, while Will Weber reported a seven pound dressed carcass. Others have been taken in recent days.
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Waverly
Bremer County
Newt Marsh
Will Weber
Cork Substitute from Fungi Cement Mix
A substitute for cork is made from certain fungi dried ground mixed with cement and consolidated under pressure to form a usable material.
Question of Newness The ages of Jack's parents puzzle the boy
In a child’s playful inquiry, Jack notes a marked age difference between his mother and father. He asks if his mother is much newer than his father, provoking a quiet moment of reflection on family aging and perception.
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Prohibition sentiments and temperance views echoed nationwide
The letter clips discuss Kansas prohibition longevity, stronger temperance sentiment, and enforcement compared with two decades ago. Oliver Rice reports little intoxication on long trips, while Mrs. R. G. Scott argues open liquor outlets threaten roads. John Wesley condemns liquor sellers as murderers spreading blood and hellish implications.
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Grand Island
Nebrasaka
Oliver Rice
Zion’s Herald
National Bureau of Economic Research
R. G. Scott
Reo Motor Co
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John Wesley
Railway to Feature Pig Crop Special
The C B Q railway with Iowa State College Extension Service will run a two coach exhibition train through southern Iowa beginning September 1 27. The event aims to help farmers profit from hogs they raise rather than boost production. The Des Moines assembled train will display swine feeding breeding and management with a flat car showing movable hog houses and swine equipment and one car of live hogs.
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