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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1957
Page
3
An ad promises earnings of $2.00 per hour for ambitious neat appearing individuals, offering a postal box response at Box 665 Fort Dodge. It notes Gordon owners of Green Colonial furnaces as best boosters and mentions Willemsen Hardware Titonka with convenient payment plans.
Card of thanks from the family of Bill Schutter expresses sincere gratitude to friends relatives and neighbors for kindnesses messages flowers and memorials. Special thanks to Rev Goldman for prayers and support. appreciation noted.
The Ben Siehlmann family thanks neighbors and the ladies aid for dinners and lunches, relatives and friends for help and kindness, those who gave money and flowers, and Rev Kroon for visits and comforting messages. May God bless you all.
The Portland Social Club will meet August 1 at the Portland Community Hall with Mrs. C W Heerdt as hostess. A long list of local social visits and gatherings follows, including families traveling to Creswell for a picnic and to Tacoma to visit relatives and attend various events. The piece closes with a remark on growing difficulties in supporting the government in its current scope.
A crank case explosion at Hawarden light plant caused $2000 in damage to the 1000 horsepower electricity generator. No injuries were reported.
Woden News notes Mr. and Mrs. John Huisinga and Mr. and Mrs. Harm Hilsenga left for a western trip via the Black Hills and Yellowstone. Sharon Helm of Des Moines visited her parents the Helms and was driven home. Ottawa pair Mr. and Mrs. Rudisill and Mr. and Mrs. Weishaar vacationed two weeks in Oregon and California and returned. The Hayengas of Windom visited Rev Hayenga. their children joined them later. A Methodist W S C S luncheon is planned for August 1 at the church basement. Jon Johnson, once hospitalized in Buffalo Center for pneumonia, has returned home. Herman Blakely and family plan trips to Tennessee to visit relatives.
Extension columnist Mary K. Staudt explains a USDA approved raw pack method for corn using pint jars with cream style or whole kernel varieties. She details packing, salt, and pressure canning times, and provides a cold syrup for peaches with ascorbic acid to prevent darkening plus substitute preventatives.
The notes urge keeping freezers efficient with defrosting and cleaning yearly, and outline current US beef grades from Prime to utility. It also lists 51 demonstration teams at the Kossuth County Fair with additional activity demonstrations for all ages, inviting attendance.
Iowa State Fair officers announced a international thrill day on Monday August 26 featuring top stunt men from Europe and the United States. Highlights include a high speed automobile dive into a pile of cars and end over end crash rolls along the race track. A Romany style car drive with no driver at the wheel and a driver atop the car, plus a life slide where a man drops from a car to slide through rings of fire.
A state fair Thrill Day features stunt acts including auto stunts leaping ramps and wall crashes. Guests will include English daredevils who performed for Queen Elizabeth. The report notes a rise in patent medicine use by 740 percent from 1880 to 1910 as population grew 83 percent.
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