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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1931
Page
2
The piece argues the economic cycle cannot be flattened due to unchanging human nature. Prosperity spurs spending and borrowing, causing booms and crashes, with only limited relief from public works and savings. A quoted inspector warns a law restricting polygamy must be obeyed.
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station released nineteen new bulletins in the last two months. Topics include dried buttermilk for pig growth, soybean versus alfalfa hay for ewes, horse feeding, Grundy silt loam soil tests, livestock trucking economics, retail credit for farmers, secular corn price trends, wind and fire safe farm buildings, hen feeding for eggs, fruit varieties by Iowa region, greenhouse vegetable containers, corn genetics, churn butter contamination, stalk borer biology, cottage cheese production, and a study of 147 Iowa farm families’ living costs and practices.
Miss Bertha Nessa of Chicago visits her mother Mrs M T Nessa this week. Mr and Mrs Tom Helgeson and children of Bricelyn Minn visit Helgeson family last week. Mrs Silas Espe Olive and Mrs Ole Espe of Radcliffe visit Lars Seversicke’s family. Seversicke completes church basement carpentry. M K Lara announce birth of baby daughter born Wednesday August 12. Ellen Larson of Roland visits Odie Lenning family. Mrs Leah Reid Andre and daughter…
Des Moines reports the Iowa State Fair aims to be the greatest vacation value in the Midwest with a five million dollar show. The eight day event runs August 26 to September 4 featuring 6000 prize livestock, 2000 farm 4-H youth, auto and horse races, aerial stunts, a World on Parade spectacle, and free Children’s Day August 28.
The 1931 Iowa State Fair will feature a complete Women’s Exposition in two large fairground buildings. The event, running August 28 to September 4, will include interior decorating home economics and child welfare exhibits as well as open forums lectures and demonstrations. More than 200000 women are expected to attend the statewide showcase organized with the State Federation of Women’s Clubs and Women’s Farm Bureaus.
Lee Thompson from Milford township was taken to Clarinda Saturday where he was committed to the state hospital.
Ben Borwick and Mrs. C. J. Holland are among jurors summoned for Hamilton County district court in Webster City. The court, with T. G. Garfield of Ames presiding, convenes August 31 and petit jurors report September 7.
C. L. Lucas, famed for long memory in Iowa, writes to the Madrid Register News that the year 1854 stood out as the best farming year. He reflects on conditions, crops, and prospects for Iowa agriculture of the era.
The writer recalls a favorable farming year with dry weather at night, ample soil moisture, and corn maturing before frost. Corn sold for twenty five cents a bushel locally, while some farmers hauled grain to the Boone river settlement and sold at forty cents. The author sold three wagon loads to Isaac Hook at Hook's Point hotel.
A Los Angeles Times report notes Germany manufactured mouth organs valued at 32 million dollars in 1980, highlighting national production capacity and market reach.
Special exhibits across two hundred acres will highlight the Iowa State Fair from August 26 to September 4. Thirty seven county farm bureaus join in presenting top agricultural projects including alfalfa, soil testing, weed control, and corn yield tests. Women's bureaus add home economics topics while demonstrations and lectures expand the program alongside college and council displays.
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