Pilot plants aid industry in new farm product uses
The Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering builds four regional pilot laboratories to move discoveries from lab to market. Pilot plants test large scale feasibility, costs, and marketing, guiding manufacturing decisions and reducing farmer risk. example cited is starch making from sweet potatoes leading to a cooperative plant processing 4,000 acres.
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W. W. Skinner
Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering
Government Scientists Advance Farm Studies
Government chemists in West Virginia study how to make red apples redder. They isolate the red pigment idaein from anthocyanins and test spraying leaves and fruit, injecting branches, soil applications, and girdling to color apples artificially.
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America
Franklin
West Virginia
Foot and mouth disease serum and wheat acreage notes
Denmark develops foot and mouth serum that may immunize cattle for a year but effectiveness against all three virus types is unproven. U S wheat planting allotment for 1940 stands at 62 million acres, nearly two million more than any World War I harvest year. Plus items on peppermint pork chops, sunlit calves, lard use in restaurants, and a Park reaction.
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Denmark
United States
Spees Families Visit Chet Carpenter Home
Mr and Mrs Frank Spees and Mr and Mrs Jack Spees of Gilmore visited in the Chet Carpenter home Sunday afternoon.
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Frank Spees
Jack Spees
Gilmore
Chet Carpenter
Weekend visitors and 4-H plans noted in local items
Ray and Leroy Dahmer visited friends in Omaha ia. Orville Lawman attended a 4-H meeting at Pocahontas on Thursday evening to plan the 1940 4-H fair. Mr and Mrs Elsmer Lowe and Jackie and Mr and Mrs Lindsey Feaster of Bradgate were visitors in the J B Lowe home on Sunday. Rose Esterling and Gene Henry of
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Ray
Leroy Dahmer
Omahia
Orville Lawman
Pocahontas
Elsmer Lowe
Jackie
Lindsey Feaster
Bradgate
J. B. Lowe
Rose Esterling
Gene Henry
Rolfe High School On Air Broadcasts News
Rolfe high school in northwest Iowa broadcasts news from KVFD Fort Dodge Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00 to 5:15 pm. Five broadcasts have aired. student reporters write each short, 100 word piece read by a studio announcer. Fort Dodge Tobin Business College sponsors the program.
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Rolfe High School
KVFD
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Rolfe
Tobin Business College of
Last Friday Test for Amateur Radio License in Des Moines
Gerald Thompson traveled to Des Moines to take a code test needed for an amateur radio license. Reports indicate six week tests were completed last week and report cards issued Wednesday. James Hauck was absent with a mild pink eye. The last pages of the Annual have
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Gerald Thompson
Des Moines
James Hauck
Birthday of Americas first regular newspaper Boston News Letter
The piece notes the Boston News Letter founded April 24 1704 and its 72 years of weekly publication. It highlights rapid printing industry progress from that start to 1937 with large circulations and praises newspapers for informing the public and advertising. Iowa’s literacy and the paper’s shared history are celebrated.
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America
Boston News Letter
News Letter
Iowa
Towans
West Bend family visits documented in weekly notes
West Bend residents and friends gather in various homes across the week. John Lynch and Glen Carpenter visit Loren Pease. Lori and others join Wes Carpenter family gatherings. Thorson family hosts dinner in Royal. Schafer visits Schmidt home. Spencer and Kaye make Pocahontas calls. Jensen and Meisenbach kinfolk gather for a seventh birthday. Pease and Sylvester visit BE Pease. planning meetings for Achievement day held. Schreier and Lang host Pocahontas supper. Johnson family and Nielsen family host Bradgate dinners.
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West Bend
Lyle Kilbourne
Detroit
Michigan
Carl Schafer
Henry Schmidt
Harry Spencer
Maxine Spencer
Dale Spencer
Karen Kaye
Pocahontas
Bert Lowe
J. B. Lowe
Albert Jensen
Johnnie
Joe Meisenbach
Josephine
Mary
Roy Jennings
Havelock
John Jensen
Rutland
Loren Pease
Sylvester
BE. S. Pease
Keith Martin
Lester Thorson
Robert ‘Weigert
Wm. Schreier
John Lang
Lester Johnson
Earl Johnson
Bradgate
Hans Nielsen
Johnny Nielsen
Weekend visit cited for Evelyn Sernett at parents’ home
Evelyn Sernett spent the weekend at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Wm Sernett. Twelve ladies attended an all day home project meeting in the home of Mrs George Lehnus last Thursday.
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Evelyn Sernett
Wm. Sernett
George Lehnus
Titonka man climbs through window to retrieve key
Howard French carried a key on a neck chain after he locked himself out at his Titonka home. Residents confirm he crawled through a small window to obtain the key, with others noting his escape was successful. A separate line notes O. K. Yarni reports income in 1939 for living in the United States nearly tripled from seven years earlier.
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Howard -French
Titonka
O. K
United States
Pocahontas County Clerk of District Court Candidate Notice
Katherine Boozell announces candidacy for nomination as Clerk of District Court of Pocahontas County. The decision rests with Republican voters at the June primary election. Pocahontas, Iowa.
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Yama
Torney
Pocahontas County
Will
Office of County
Pomney
of Publican
Geo. A. Shors
Pocahonta County
Katherine Boozell
Pocahontas
Low
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