Titonka Topic School News Highlights Weekly at Boat Office
The eighth to seventh grade notes show Frances Reefer and Donna Calvey absent due to injuries from ice incidents. Several students earned hundreds in spelling and arithmetic as the class planned a Valentine party, discussed teeth health, dictionary use, and historical tests. Gwen treated the class with cookies for her birthday.
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Oe Towa
Frances Reefer
Donna Cal- Francis Reefer
Dona Calsey
Francis Broher
Donna
Alfred
Anyna
Honnié
Dickie
Loren
Doris
Larry Boyken
Larry Burger
Gwen
Leoha
Keniny Dean
Harry
Glenda
Greta
LeRoy
Nany
Washington
David
Alvina
Sharon
Shirley
Sherry
Mary Ann
Dean
Gary
Lawrence
Billy
Merle
Patty
Richard
Karen
Verna
Dell
Ronald
Verlyn
Fifth Grade Becomes Town History Explorers in Classroom
Fifth grade students study county histories and early settlers in town history. Names Bonnie to Carol appear among top spellers as awards are handed out. The class creates red white and blue posters of Washington and Lincoln and stages a department store animal tale enactment. Carol’s birthday was Thursday with a classroom treat.
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Towa
Gome
Bonnie
Leroy
Priscilla
Norma
Wanda
Betty
Ronald
Alvin
Gale
Paul
Phillip
Harry
Carol
Washington
Lincoln
Gravy-Eye Shift Origin of Graveyard Watch Term
An essay traces the phrase gravy-eye to sailors who called the midnight to four A M watch the middle watch. Over time tongue mispronunciation transformed gravy-eye into graveyard reflecting the eerie hours and accidents once linked to the period.
Airport Officials Move To Stop Jap Beetles In Planes
Airport authorities collaborate with the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine to curb Japanese beetle spread by aircraft. Inspectors screen baggage and passengers at key airports during beetle activity to prevent hitchhiking. If found, beetles are destroyed. both civilian and military airfields participate.
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Bureau of Entomology
Fisheries Report From Lake Titicaca Trout Spread High Andes
Speckled and rainbow trout hatched from imported eggs multiply in Lake Titicaca 12 500 feet up in the Andes Peru. Indians say trout large enough to challenge reed canoes are being caught. Peru aims to boost animal protein by stocking streams and major waters including this 4 500 square mile lake.
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United States
Lake Titicaca
Andes Mountains
Peru
Submerged Territory and State Claims to Offshore Lands
The piece discusses national sovereignty over submerged offshore areas and state rights spurred by offshore wealth. It notes a House bill to withdraw federal title to submerged lands, reflecting state interest in mineral rights. Texas contends federal claims are invalid, citing historical conquest and statehood.
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House of Representatives
Texas
Mexico
Union
Rockefeller Sets Standard for Solder Drops at Oil Refinery
In the early Standard Oil days Rockfeller watched a soldering machine fill cans and count drops. He ordered a test after noting 39 drops were insufficient and found 88 drops would seal as securely as 39. That single drop was worth about 950,000 a year to the company.
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Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller
Standard Qi Company
Camping Fiend Betty Guides Tim Through Hardship
Betty, a city wife, impresses Tim with her camping know how as he injures his ankle. She manages camp duties while Tim’s family arrives, serving beans, trout, biscuits, and coffee to a cheerful gathering, proving Betty’s practical skill and charm.
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Etty Hayes
Aga
Tim
Betty
Sweet
Red Cross
Bill
Concrete feeding floors improve hog finishing yards
A 1930s agricultural note summarizes U S Agriculture Circular 701 on hog feeding floors. It covers space per pig for self-fed and hand-fed hogs, concrete floor smoothness, rat control, foundation shielding, and shade. It notes wallows boost gains and cites Portland Cement Association material tables and a Carroll County hog bath anecdote.
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Iowa
Imore Hograisers
U. S
Department of Agriculture
Portland Cement Association
Carroll County
Texas
Fox hunting in small plane aboard Adel party thrills
Adel hunters Campbell Parrish and Hol Parriah fly a fox hunt in a small aircraft. Campbell pilots the plane while Parrish handles a shotgun from the waist position. A ground crew of hunters assists in the fox area and collects pelts.
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Honta Dale Campbell
Hol*'Parriah
Adel
Campbell
Parrish
Boiler leaks leave Eldora stores cold in winter
In Eldora during a severe cold spell a boiler leaked, leaving four business houses without heat. Stores used stoves, some apartments faced two days of closure, and a hospital patient named Raymond Ramsey appeared in a marriage license notice by error after a horse accident.
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el~ ‘Dora
Chicago
Raymond Ramsey
Audubon
Eldora
Raymond
Hard Luck Two Boys In Belmond Find Trimmed Hair
Two young Belmond residents Donald McCann and Dickie Parsons each saved a dime and sought a haircut. After hitching to Clarion and visiting shops, they returned to find their army haircut completed by the service, with a local barber Warren Jacobsen reportedly out of stock. The two, billeted in adjacent buildings, discovered the barbering chaos mirrored across town.
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Belmond
Donald McCann
Dickie Parsons
Hershey
Main Street
Max Heeneene
Iowa
Clarion
Yokohama
Belmord
Warren Jacobsen
Elk Horn
Stack Caved Buries Hog Barn at Decorah Farm Loss
Frank J. Barloon of near Little Turkey in Decorah Iowa reported a straw stack collapse that crushed 18 brood sows and a stock hog. Straw loss valued at 1200 dollars. Barloon notes it was not hay.
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Frank J. Barloon
Little
Turkey
Decorah Aia
Snow Fox Hunt Nets Four for Burk Family
Snow covered fields saw Wilmer Burk and his son Gerald of near Belmond harvest four foxes in a single hunting trip using white coveralls for camouflage. The men reported exploiting the fresh snow to stalk and bag the quarry efficiently.
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Wilmer Burk
Gerald
Near
Belmond
Girl Trappers Earn By Selling Mink Coats
Two young trappers from near Logan, nine year old Phyllis and twelve year old Betty Jean Sievers, took their mink coats on the hoof and earned $231 from fur sales during the last trapping season.
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Phyllis
Betty Jean Sievers
Logan
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