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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1957
Page
4
An ad from Willemssen Hardware in Titonka offers a Green Colonial furnace unit with a convenient payment plan. Also lists a spinet piano for sale and other local notices including a dentist move and various classified ads.
A column highlights dropping zinc and copper prices, US reliance on imports, and calls for raising world price levels. It notes a bill to increase school lunch protein to expand lean meat use, and discusses a new corn variety for plastics, inflation controls, and farmer blame for inflation.
The general level of the American economy is criticized with the blame aimed at Representative Merwin Coad. The message stresses political responsibility for national economic conditions.
Mary K. Staudt presents a home economist column announcing weekly tips from Iowa State College and USDA experts. She highlights 25 to 50 percent savings, product ideas like purse concentrate and frozen nectar concentrate, and homemaker programs on WOI at 2 30 p.m. weekdays. She will attend 4-H training in Mason City as county girls finish clothing projects.
A reflective line invites inspection of a girl’s work in achievement show. The speaker notes July’s rarity as a day when someone is bitten by mosquitoes and flies, implying small annoyances mar a rare moment of accomplishment.
Gee Jones and Son of Wool stock received a plaque from Standard Oil marking 75 years as a dealer. The owner notes the business began when Mr Jones's father started, supplying kerosene belt dressing and harness oil as core petroleum items.
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