Iowa Home Economics Division celebrates 75 years of homemaking impact
The Division of Home Economics at Iowa State College marks its seventy-fifth anniversary on Friday October 24 with tours of the campus Home Economics facilities and events. Noted speakers include Chase Going Calderon and Dr. Hazel K. Stiebeling. Mary Beaumont Welch’s legacy is honored as part of a program highlighting 1872 origins and enduring extension work reaching over 66 000 homemakers statewide.
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Iowa
Dain of
Division of
Home Nomics
Cams
Chase Going Todhouse
Connecticut
Hazel K. Stiebeling
Bureau of Human Nuturiit
D.C
Stiebeling
Food Agriculture Organization
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
State Board of Education
Hiram C. Houghton, Jr
Red Oak
Mary Beaumont Welch
Iowa State College
P. Mabel Nelson
Charles E. Finley
Suit Skirt Length to Your Own Proportions
Iowa State clothing expert Lucille Rea explains skirt lengths should reflect individual proportions. Tall wear longer hems around mid calf, shorter figures about 15 inches from the floor. consider heel height, skirt style, and fixes like belts, tunics, or lengthening yokes to update wardrobes.
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Lucille Rea
Iowa State College
Rea
Miss Rea
Amaryllis Care For Frost Season Blooming
Iowa State College extension horticulturist L C Grove advises bringing amaryllis bulbs indoors at first light frost and storing in a cool dark basement. Water only every eight weeks, start growth by December, repot yearly in enriched soil, and use a soil mix of garden soil leaf mold peat moss and sand with a touch of bone meal. Keep bulb half above soil and use a 5 to 6 inch pot.
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L. C. Grove
Iowa State College
Grove
Pocahontas County Board Proceedings July 1 1947
Pocahontas County Supervisors met in regular session in the courthouse Pocahontas Iowa. The board adopted a resolution to purchase an Addressograph Multigraph and contracted with Addressograph Multigraph Corporation for equipment. Licenses and bonds for several establishments were approved, staff salaries set, and bids for coal and various expenditures authorized or audited.
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Court House
Pocahontas
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Pocatas County
G. ©. Johnson
Man
C. F. Young
J. M
Pocahontas Ny
Towa
Pocahontas County
Poca*inty
Adth Multigraph Corporation
G. C. Johnson
James and
Hattie Smith
Ray Dearinger
Young
Bush
Benefit Commission
Laurens Sun
County Board Minutes Highlight July 1947 Meeting Proceedings
The document records disbursements and motions from the county board, listing payments to stores, farmers, and service providers, with entries for rent, taxes, and animal losses. It notes adjournment to meet again on July 15, 1947 and records Roy A. Johnson as County Auditor.
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Young
Bush
Marie Pavik
Eileen Donahue
Berniece Hiatt
G. C. Johnson
F. Young
Viola McCartan
Frances Young
Mile
Exp Rowat & Murray Engr
J. I. Holcomb Co
Highland
Gale Peterson
N. W. Bell Tele. Co
P.e.rs. Fund
June Tax & Co
Boone Blank Book Co
Supp
Fidlay & Chambers Co
Jenkins-Fergemann Co
Koch Brothers
Klipto Loose Leaf Co
Matt Parrott & Co
Panama Carbon Co
Minnie Fullerton
Exp School of Instr
Wee J.C. Mordan
Chas. Joachims
Chris DeYoung
C.C. Eberle
Merle B. Yocum
Art Lanus
Russell Filloon
Earnest Johnson
Chet Whistler
Wm. C. Miller
K. B. Hatteberg
L. T. Nelson
John Hess
John Hatteberg
John L. Hatteberg
Fred E. McKim
T. R. Jones
L. G. Schonberger
W. E. Boles
Geo. W. Johnson
Gilbert Wilbur
Wm. Filloon
Melvin B. Larsen
Gordon L. Krug
Iowa Safety Drive Aims to Cut Traffic Deaths 15 Percent
Commissioner Alfred W. Kahl of the Iowa Department of Public Safety announced a five point highway safety program to reduce traffic deaths by 15 percent for the year. The plan emphasizes concentrated enforcement, enhanced public information, driver improvement, school driver training, and active public support groups.
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Alfred W. Kahl
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Iowa
Iive
Safety Department
Highway Patrol
Kahl
Department For Assistance and Instruction
Farmers Buy 8 Purebred Rams at Pocahontas Sale
The Rambling Rams sale in Pocahontas drew farmers from the area with eight Shropshire rams sold to John Ferry, Vern Smr kowski, George Roberts, Albert City, and Frank Werner. Hampshire rams went to Leroy Lewer and Royce Bodell, while E. E. Duthbert supplied two rams to William Wiedeman and Orlan Hersom. A remark notes summer shade for pasturing hogs and cites a wartime Navy fact.
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Pocahontas
Shropshire
Hampshire
John Ferry
Laurens
Vern Smrkowski
Havelock
George Roberts
Albert City
Frank Werner
Gilmore City
Leroy Lewer
Mallard
Royce Bodell
Otho
E. E. Duthbert
William Wiedeman
Palmer
Orlan Hersom
Terrill
Pheasant and Waterfowl Seasons Set for 1947
The State Conservation Commission schedules pheasant and quail seasons afterOctober 20 meeting. Duck season runs Oct 21 to Nov 19 with daily bag four and possession eight after day one. Wood ducks four possession one. Geese bag four with four in possession. Canada Hutchins and white fronted one. blue snow geese up to three.
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State Conservation Commission
Commission
Conservation Commission
Canada
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Frank Hogan
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Mtgs & Mil
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Fr. H. Kemis
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Geo. J. Onnen
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Gibbs-Cook Tractor & Equip. Co
Public Service Co
Geo. G. Kleen
McNall Mach. & Supp. Co
Pocaheontas
Standard Blue Print Co
Lape Sieg-Ft. Dodge Co
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Wana Withholding Tax Fund
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