Titonka News Briefs and Wartime Commentary
Local notices cover subscriptions and postal terms for Titonka territory with specific rates and policies. A wartime column discusses Sevastopol losses, Libyan campaigns, Aleutian threats, and future logistics including air transports and ship production progress. It includes an appointment for David A. Dancer to the Iowa state education board and a Mount Vernon fire department note on fog nozzle adoption.
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David A. Dancer
Decatur County
State Board of Education
Merrill R. Pierson
Michigan State College
Miss Queller
Mount Vernon
Economic High Lights on War Effort and Home Front Optimism
A Life magazine excerpt argues Americans have not joined the war effort in force, with most people prospering at home while Axis powers advance. General Somerville warns of the vast, difficult task ahead for the United Nations, noting widespread optimism clashes with military realities and revolutionary changes caused by Hitler and allies.
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Ghenghis Khan
United Nations
U. S
Aleutians
Alaska
Billy Mitchell
Dutch Harbor
Attu
Kiska
Axis
America
Somerville
Army
Detroit
Hitler
Folks Fun and Fables by M G in a light column
A humorous column mixing quips about preachers, devils, haters, and old age with social zingers. References to Edgar A Guest poems and light irony about everyday life, manners, and current stories. A playful mosaic of short witticisms and observations.
Cheaper Feeders May Be Best Buy for Cattle Ops
Iowa State College extension man Rex Beresford says narrowing price spreads between choice and common cattle favor cheaper feeders. He cites a Town State College WWI experiment showing cattle fed corn silage with reduced corn rations yielded lower feed costs and similar or better gains, with higher margins. He urges avoiding high calf prices and planning roughage use, suggesting sites for corn crop use this fall.
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Rex Beresford
Iowa State College
Beresford
Town State College
Ways to cool homes and local notes in Logan
Homemakers can beat the heat with cross ventilation by opening shade-side windows during the day and all windows at sunset. Floor level electric fans help circulate cool air. Attic cooling uses ventilation, attic fans, and insulation. Exterior cooling aids include green grass shrubbery or a green field, and vines. Evaporation from watering plants adds cooling to the house. Logan headlines joke about Allies in a softball league, not war. Legal Hatter & Hatter is a law firm with R. E. Hatter and Arthur Hatter. longtime employee Job Loyalty Joe Meredith left Bedford creamery and Cudahy Packing Co. to work in Tacoma shipyard.
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Kaiser Yards
de Seversky
Australia
Joe Meredith
Bedford
Bedford Creamery
Cudahy Packing Co
Tacoma
Washington
Unusual double hook fish caught near Union Grove Lake
Mrs. F. W. Scharfenberg fished at Union Grove Lake west of Gladbrook with two poles when both lines showed bites at the same moment. She reeled in and found she had caught the same fish twice, as it bore two hooks in its mouth.
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Union Grove Lake
Gladbrook
F. W. Scharfenberg
Greenfield 4th of July speaker profile highlights Cerna lineage
Manuel Giron Cerna of Guatemala connected with the Maritime Commission in Washington DC and grandson of former Guatemalan president General Vicente Cerna. He was principal speaker at Greenfield's Pan American 4th of July celebration, while his father Dr Manuel Giron previously served as Guatemalan minister to the United States.
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Greenfield
Manuel Giron-Cerna
Guatemala
Maritime Commission
Washington, D. C
Vincente Cerna
Manuel Giron
United States
Traveling Beet Impresses Marengo Garden Visitors
The Pioneer-Republican reports a five inch beet on display at the Marengo office showing extraordinary growth from a suitcase key lost in the garden of Mrs Mary Schoeman.
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Marengo
Mary Schoeman
Decorah Alderman Haugen Fined For Gambling Devices
In Decorah district court councilman E. T. Haugen was fined $300 plus costs for alleged illegal possession of gambling devices. Haugen, a retailer of tobacco, candies and other merchandise, operated a tin ball machine later seized in his store.
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Decorah
E. T. Haugen
Haugen
Ice House Collapse Damages Over Thousand In Clear Lake
A section of the Choate and Chizek ice house in Clear Lake collapsed spilling ice and wreckage onto a side street. Damage exceeds $1,000 with cause of the explosion still undetermined. The structure held 2,000 tons of ice.
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Choate & Chizek
Clear Lake
Timely Suggestions for Hens and Farm Tips
Dip the hens in a solution of one pound sodium fluoride to sixteen gallons of water to control lice and boost egg production with a single treatment. Use Black Leaf 40 to paint roosts, with a second treatment in 7 to 10 days. Keep eggs cool, market old roosters, save fats for war production, vaccinate hogs to prevent cholera, and note hay and grain advice for poultry feeds.
Ordinance Limits Trucks and U Turns on Titonka Main Street
The council of Titonka Iowa enacts rules restricting tractors or vehicles with logs on Main Street and prohibiting U turns at specified intersections. The ordinance was authenticated on July 13, 1942, by Town Clerk Florence K. Reaser and Mayor H. A. French.
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Titonka
Iowa
Florence K. Reaser H. A
Kossuth County
French Lbr
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Onha
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Roy C. Balk
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Alicons Rendevigg Co
A. M. Petersen
Modern Cleaners
Algona, Iowa
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Jean Parker
Richard Arlen
Outlaws OF
Bob Steele
Tom Tyler
Rafe Davis
Kings Row
Ann Sheridan
Ronald Reagan
Sullivan's Travels
Joel McCrea
Veronica Lake
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