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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
5
A long list of visits and gatherings in Wesley Iowa highlights visitors from Algona Mason City Mason City Detroit and Ventura. Notable items include births, hospital stays, a new cafe named Woosley, legion auxiliary meeting plans, alumni picnic, and several family trips and weekend visits across nearby towns.
The Lakota area hosted a string of visitors over Sunday and past week. Rudolph Morrison, Mrs. Milton Mehr, and Amalia Koppen hosted relatives from Albert Lea and nearby. Goodnow and Rippentrop families traveled from Mason City and Des Moines to join dinners and gatherings. Other guests included Jost week at Reidnes, Williams on a Minnegate trip, and Audrey Hastings with her father after a Minneapolis visit. Chinch bugs and fox-tail remarks from Tony Stobert near Manning conclude the notes.
Titanka resident Phyllis Falle spent the weekend with Jo Ann Tindall while Fred Krieger of Buffalo Center visited a hospitalized relative in Minneapolis. Several towns report entertaining visitors, travel plans, and family milestones including tonsil removal, a new baby, funeral attendance, and shore trips to Lake City Forest City and Wabeno Wisconsin.
Otto Rees a 64 year old bachelor of Lost Nation attended a Sunday afternoon baseball game. Returning home his parents paid no attention until they found him dead in his room and learned he had been writing a suicide note.
Des Moines Iowa Special The National Horseshoe Pitching Tournament opens at the Iowa State Fair on Friday August 23 with stars from across North America entering for the 1940 world title and 1100 in cash prizes Fernando Isala of Mexico City is among the expected contenders The event runs through Tuesday August 27 and the Horeashoe Pitchers Association convention will be held at the fair August 22 and 28.
Emory Collins, a dirt track racer, aims to beat a 24.6 record at the Iowa State Fair opening Aug. 23. He will race the new $15,000 Offenhauser car, while Gus Schrader adds a $156,000 Offenhauser to the lineup for the national classics Aug. 22–25 with many famous drivers expected.
Iowa State College experts argue for a carcass yield and quality basis in hog marketing. A. L. Anderson says a premium for prime hogs would align payments with actual production, reducing price gaps between good and poor carcasses. Geoffrey Shepherd notes overseas carcass systems eliminate hogs’ bidding flaws and could work in the United States.
Richard Smith is a 16 year old son of Mr and Mrs Lester Smith near Spirit Lake. After a night collision with his father’s car he drove to the Parents farm lane, left an apologetic note, and then disappeared.
A humorous note recalls Bussett Robinson and his wife fishing trip in Minnesota where Mrs. Robinson alone landed any fish, prompting lighthearted embarrassment and stories about who did the catching.
In a voters tale from over four decades ago Missouri Valley towns voted to curb saloons, leading to the council shutting street lighting and street work, cutting the Arc department budget in half and trimming city official salaries by 25 percent due to revenue loss.
An advertisement promotes Adlerika to relieve stomach gas and constipation. It claims one dose eases abdominal pressure and heart pressure from gas. The ad attributes the claim to W J Denton, druggist, and uses urgent patient language.
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