Thompson Hatchery offers Hybrid 303 Cross chicks
Hinders Feed and Supply Woden Murphy's concentrates and feeds list Thompson's New Miracle Variety Hybrid 303 Cross. Thompson's Chicks promote non broodiness high egg production rapid growth and strong marketability. Thousands of chicks for delivery Mondays and Thursdays. Order direct from Elmore Minnesota hatchery phone 117.
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Hinders
Woden
Murphy's
Funk
Firestone
Marlow Milkers
Thompson
California
Tilmer
Thompson Hatchery
Elmore, Minsn
Notice to Contractors for Kossuth County Drainage Project
Bids due 10:00 A M April 15 1954 at Kossuth County Auditor's Office Algona Iowa for furnishing and laying 48 15 12 10 and 4 inch tile in Drainage District West Branch No 5 with depth about 4 7 feet. Commencement April 26 1954 completion May 15 1954. Bid deposit 10 percent certified check. Information from County Drainage Clerk or Lewis K Ferguson Engineer in charge.
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Kossuth County Auditor's Office
Algona
Iowa
Kossuth County Board of Supervisors
West Branch
Kossuth
Lewis K. Ferguson
Board OF Supervisors
Kossuth County
GC. S. Pearson
ASC Committee Urges Farmers to Reseal Corn
Kossuth County farmers with reseal loans on 1952 crop corn are urged to extend for another year. Interest rises to 3 14 percent and a storage payment of 13 cents per bushel will be paid for extended loans through July 31, 1954. Total resealed Iowa corn nears 30 million bushels with 1,875,927 in Kossuth.
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Kossuth County
Herman J. Studer
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
ASC
Iowa
Studer
Kossuth
Algona Man Named Weed Commissioner for 1954
Clarence Priebe of Algona was appointed Weed Commissioner for the 1954 season by the Kossuth County Board of Supervisors. He mailed landowners a warning to plant fields infested with cockleburrs with crops other than soybeans since soybeans cannot be sprayed effectively and urged removal of cockle burrs before seeding.
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Clarence Priebe
Algona
Kossuth County
Federated Clubs Meet at Lakota in Kossuth County
Lakota hosted a Federated Club meeting at the Presbyterian Church with 10 15 registration and a 10 30 am start. Speakers included Rev Harlan Kruse Mrs Patterson Burt district director and Rev C C Callahan Fenton. Performances by Lorene Barrett and student ensembles accompanied the event.
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Kossuth
The
Presbyterian Church
Gertrude Gutknecht
Harlan Kruse
Patterson
Burt
Lorene Barrett
Faye Asche Hurt In Tractor Mishap
Liarkota Paye Asche was injured when a tractor overturned on him Saturday. He sustained a broken ankle and a gasoline line burned his leg. First aid was given at Buffalo Center before he was transported to a Mason City hospital. The tractor did not catch fire. In Manchester friends installed a television for Dick Singer, a 26 year old polio survivor.
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Paye Asche
Buffalo Center
Mason City
Manchester
Dick Singer
U S Population Reaches 160 Million Mark in August
The United States population surpassed 169 million in August per an automatic Commerce Department census calculator. The device tallies births, deaths, immigration, and departures, showing a birth every eight seconds and an immigrant every two minutes, with overall growth favoring many states since 1950.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Department
Montana
Friendly Octopus Surprises Navy Diver Off Esquimalt
Chief Petty Officer Robert Wigmore, a naval diver, encounters a friendly octopus near a piling off Esquimalt. The creature taps his shoulder and wraps tentacles around the area as Wigmore signals to return to the tender, forming an unusual bond during the dive.
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Ottawa
Robert Wigmore
Wigmore
Esquimalt
Ohio County Installs Unique Siren System
Ohio County mounts a countywide air raid warning network of 56 sirens including Columbus. An electronic tone broadcast by the sheriff’s transmitter starts the sirens with one touch, and an all clear is sounded by another button. An operator runs the system 24 hours.
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Ulumbus
Ohio
Franklin
Columbus
Denver Wheat Harvest At Stapleton Airport Farm
Denver received 5 600 dollars as part of a wheat crop from 285 acres harvested on the municipal Stapleton airport. A 1 100 acre land lease dating six years tied aviation and grain farming with 815 acres fallow this season. About 650 acres were sown in winter wheat and the rest in winter barley with a 40 percent yield to the city. Grain farming reduces dust and weed fires and serves as weed control.
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Denver
Stapleton Airfield
Fish Resources Become Important Food Items Worldwide
Global fishermen shifted views on species once deemed useless such as rosefish and swordfish. Rosefish, once discarded, now marketed broadly. swordfish gained acceptance outside New England after World War I. Education changes tastes and reduces prejudice toward waterborne foods.
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Washington
Notance
New England
Community Chorus in Lakota to Sing Seven Last Words Palm Sunday
The Lakota Community Chorus presents the cantata Seven Last Words of Christ by Theodore Dubois on Palm Sunday night April 11 at 8:00 in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Conductor is Donald Baum. organist David Blanchar. piano Mrs. Greg Deim. Soloists include Mrs. Russelle Paske and Murray Elmore. Harold Friedrich is county auditor. Public invited. offering to defray expenses.
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Lakota
Christ
Theodore Dubois
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Donald ©. Baum
David Blanchar
Waldorf College
Forest City
Greg Deim
Swea City
RussellePaske
Murray Elmoré
Harold Friedrich
Ployd County
Charles City
Barnstone
Baum
Paula Buckels
Kenneth Busch
C. A. Gutknecht
Ronald Heetland
Charles Hertzke
Burdette Hoeppner
Andrew Jansen
Harold Murray
Elmer Stohr
Nadine Troge
Verdene Stroebel
Altos
Arlone Blome
Clifton Buckels
John Cook
Maynard Hertzke
Ivan Hastman
Dora Johnson
Harlan Kruse
Ted Wallertine
John Wibben
Leonard Weinkaut
L. R. Meine
26 New Cars And Trucks Licensed In Kossuth County
Twenty six new vehicles were licensed in Kossuth county last week with owners including Delbert Blanchard Lewis Duffy Chester Fitch and others from Algona Whittemore Titonka Burt Lakota and more. The report lists makes from Chevrolet Minneapolis Moline Oldsmobile Buick Nash Ford Pontiac Plymouth Mercury DeSoto and Dodge along with several named individuals and firms. A separate note says a 100 foot coal tower on the Chicago and Northwestern tracks was torn down as it was deemed unsafe and engines now burn oil.
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Kossuth
Chevrolet
Delbert E. Blanchard
Lone Rock
Lewis Duffy
Whittemore
Chester Fitch
Algona
Minneapolis-Moline
John H. Rade
Titonka
Norbert Zumach
Kenneth Isaacson
Swea City
Edward Sathoff
Itonka Co-Op
Creamery Co
Oldsmobile
John Brandt
Ledyard
Ed Wertjes
Buick
J. G. Clapsaddle
Burt
Nash
R. F Donavan
Ford
Merwin Farrow
Lakota
Vernon L. Larson
Titanica
Robert McAllister
Vin~cent Clay Products Co
Chrysler
B. A. Frankl
Pontiac
Oscar Hammond
Edward G. Hal
LaVerne
Plymouth
Elmer J. Hellman
Bencroft
Edna Manks
Mercury
Swen City
J. W. Schulte
DeSoto
Lysie Mathes
Dodge
Waller L. Mine
Tama
Chicago and Northwestern
Toronto joins North America’s ten largest cities
Toronto has merged 12 suburbs into a single Greater Toronto City Council of 24 with 12 votes for the city and one vote for each suburban mayor. The plan creates a transit authority and a Metropolitan Board of Education, retaining local policing and fire services.
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Toronto
North America
Canada
Toronto ‘Transit Commission
Metropolitan Board of Education
United States
Mechanical heart and lung device used in first human trial
Surgeons at Jefferson Medical College Hospital used a mechanical apparatus to replace both heart and lungs for 26 minutes during heart surgery on an 18 year old girl. The device, invented by Dr John M Gibbon Jr, represents a first in combined cardiopulmonary support.
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Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical College Hospital
Pennsylvania
John M. Gibbon, Jr
The
Medical College
English Professor Defends Lazy Wives
London based Professor Guy Pasco Browden of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine argues that fatigue studies justify rest during routine tasks. He urges a minute break after four minutes of work and recommends avoiding standing work, tea, good lighting, and nutritious food to support housewives. He adds a sharp question about when housewives will finish tasks and prepare meals.
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London
Guy Pascoe Browden
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
United States
New Labor Layer Let Man Eat Goose
New Mexico cotton fields employ geese to weed cotton replacing manual labor. Farmers say geese eat most weeds including Johnson grass, offering cost savings despite a slow start. After a year geese must be sold as they no longer fully resist cotton. Geese have long been used to weed strawberries in other regions.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Southwest
Sollesting Traditions Echo Through Centuries
Observers note that Sollesting dates to 1800 A D and that in this country an Indian brave could lie on the ground for hours without sneezing and keep the earth warm enough to plant beans.
Reunion of Lesters Held at Boone Iowa Dale Downing Home
Relatives gathered Sunday at Boone Iowa for a Lester family reunion at the Dale Downing home. JL P Lester and Art Lester and Mrs Dale Downing celebrated birthdays. Forty attended including relatives from Madrid Ogden Des Moines Chicago and other distant places.
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Lakota
Vance Lester
Juanita
Edmond Lester
Art Lester
Boone, Iowa
Lesters
Dale Downing
JL. P. Lester
J. P. Lester
Boone
Madrid
Ogden
Des Moines
Chicago
Titonka District Calls May 7 1954 School Bond Vote
Public notice says the Consolidated School District of Titonka Kos suth Iowa will hold a special election on May 7 1954 to decide issuing bonds up to 250000 for reconstructing the current school building and adding a new grade school. Polls open from noon to 7 pm at the present School House between 5th and 6th Streets.
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Titonka
Kossuth
State of Iowa
State of
Iowa
April 2 1954 Titonka Iowa School District Notice
Board of Directors of the Consolidated School District issues a notice by order and resolution dated April 1 1954 to all qualified voters of the district. The notice, signed by Secretary Harold E Gartner, sets time and place for a petition based meeting at Titonka Iowa and urges participation. Buy it in Titonka.
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Iowa
Harold E. Gartner
Board of
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