College bands marooned by Iowa mud on tour
Drake University band halted mid tour as muddy northeast Iowa roads trapped the group at Grundy Center. Coe College ensemble, at Hoover inauguration, tried to reach Des Moines for Drake Relays but abandoned after miles of roadblocks. Des Moines University Girls Glee Club, with 30 members, logged a thousand mile trip through Town and Illinois by bus, needing 30 mud rescues and twelve uses of horsepower on the Winterset to Des Moines leg.
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Drake University
Iowa
Grundy Center
Coe College
Hoover
Des Moines
Girls Glee Club
Des Moines University
Town
Illinois
Winterset
Fruit crop forecast hinges on late frost and spraying
R. B. Herrick warns that despite favorable moisture in 1925 nearly all bearing fruit trees bloom this spring. Only first class fruit should be salable at fair prices, so continued spraying is needed though a heavy winter kill of bees requires delaying sprays during full bloom. Further spraying details available from Herrick at the State House in Des Moines.
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Towa
Herrick
Iowa Horticultural Society
Mr. Herrick
R.S. Herrick
State House
Des Moines
Weather Bureau cites record rainfall in Iowa since 1873
The Weather and Crop Bureau reports that October to April averaged 17.29 inches in the State of Town, the wettest seven months on statewide records since 1873-74. The next highest are 1918-19 and 1882-83. April data may shift slightly but could reinforce a record. Late planting of corn hinges on upcoming dry spells.
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Weather and Crop Bureau of the
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Weather and Crop Bureau
Marriages Outpace Divorces in Polk County 1928
Polk County court records show 1 680 marriage licenses issued in 1928 and 788 divorces granted at the courthouse. June led in marriages with 195 applicants while September saw a surge in divorces with 200 finalizing.
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Polk County
Harry Warrick
Secretary of War Sets Aside Big Sum for Missouri River Improvement
Secretary James W. Good secures $1.5 million for Missouri River work including $500,000 from harbor funds and $1,000,000 previously allotted. He signals plans to request more next year to accelerate the upper Missouri project between Randy City and Sioux City.
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James W. Good
Washington
Gond
Missouri
Randy City
Sioux City
Cement Demand Expands as Hawkeye Plant Ships Daily
Hawkeye cement works in Earlham and Pyramid at Walley Junction supply rock, with 35 carloads shipped daily. Winterset area seeks rock, Mason City houses the largest factory. nationwide highway needs drive day and night shifts, including Sundays.
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Soryemg
Cei Sue Ste Bhs
Fear
Des Moines
Hawkeye
Earlham
Madison County
Pyramid Concern
Walley Junction
Gilmore City
Humboldt Couty
Winterset
Mason City
Iowa Parents to Washington Seek 1930 P T A Convention
Mrs B C Howkins heads a Iowa delegation planning to invite the National Congress of Parents and Teachers to hold the 1930 convention in Des Moines. Twenty Iowa women will attend the Washington meeting. the Foster Parents' Club of Council Bluffs elected Congressman Swanson to lead their delegation. Mrs Ray Miller, daughter of the late Mrs Isaac Lee Hillis, will travel from Des Moines. Mesquakie Indian Farmers Club forms in Tama county with George Young Bear as a full member and officer slate. Members vow to improve Mesquakie industry and agriculture, raise crops, prune gardens, and adopt scientific farming methods.
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Iowa
Washington
B. C. Howkins
Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers
National Congress of Parents ‘and Teachers
Des Miones
Foster Parents’ Club of
Council
Bluis
Congressman Swanson
Ray Miller
Isaac Lee Hillis
Des Moines
Tama
Local Time Table C M S T P RY Rock Valley
Train schedule lists eastward and westward passenger trains including No 4 to Spencer Des Moines Mason City Marquette Savanna Clinton and No 11 Sioux Flyer to Canton Sioux Falls Mitchell North Black Hills Also shows way freight No 98 to Sanhorn and local to Canton with ticketing baggage and sleeping car notes
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Spencer
Des Moines
Mason City
Marquette
Savanna
Clinton
Sheldon
Madison
Milwaukee
Chicago
Sanhorn
Canton
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Black Hills
Sioux Falla
C. W. Jacobs
John Deere NH Cultivator Dominates Use Among Farmers
John Deere two row NH cultivators are the most used, with thousands of farmers preferring them for performance. The NH offers a long view for efficient cultivating, preventing digging and hills, plus spacing, tilting, and master levers for easy adjustments without stopping.
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Great Midwest
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Farmers Lumber
Rock Valley
Rock VaLley Grain Co
John Coert
GPK Valley
Prane
Valley Poultry Yards
G. Vanthu
Ncinn
State Executive Council
Iletcher
Supreme Court
C. M
ST. P. RY
Huntting Elevator Company
WH. Schouten
Oakland
Fisher
Pontiac
Michigan
General Motor
Quiland-Pontiac
Oakland-Pon
John Deere
John Doers
Wynia
Dykstra
L. C. Shannon
John Vander Poel
Coreer Dray
Richard Sneller
Owee
Jake Vande Weerd
Neaga
Res
Peter Sprvyt
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