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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1951
Page
1
The notice lists annual subscription prices: $2.00 per year in advance for South County and Titonka trade territory, $2.50 per year outside Kossuth County and Titonka territory, and $2.00 per year in Canada and other foreign countries.
Mrs J P Studer drove to Mankato to fetch Virginia who attends Good Council Academy and will spend Easter at her parental home. Joe Johnson hosted a 7 o'clock dinner for cousin Robert Goetz before his army service, with guests including Leo Hildman Billy Goetz Robert Oppedal and others. Miss Cheryll Meurer of Fort Dodge visited over weekend and returned Monday. Mrs Vincent Kleinpeter and Mrs John Heuptman traveled to Fort Dodge Saturday. Helen Johnson learned of her new grandson born in Buffalo weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces with sister Linda Ann. Don Powers and two sons visited Knoxville over weekend. The Priscilla Phoebe Society meets March 28 at the church. John Arndorfer and Walter Lichtner with Algona guests dined at Leo Goetz home. Alfred Erdman Henry Arndter Ed Hildman Joe Goetz joined lumbermen in Des Moines for several days. Don Haverly of Camp Carson returns 24 days for furlough. Harold Skow visiting his mother Esther Show before navy duty April 16. “Dixie Varieties” to open the annual amateur program hosted by the American Legion Auxiliary March 30.
George Premo visits Wesley area then heads to Janesville Minnesota for work on the Kenneth Spangler farm. Various local 4-H updates, birthdays, etc. Fund drives and church notices frame a week of arrivals, travel, and community activities.
Local message advertises a durable file purchase in Titonka with a bold call to action. It emphasizes profitability and lasting usefulness, urging immediate buying.
Moscow reports a new encyclopedia portraying the United States as aggressive and imperialist. It accuses America of racial discrimination and wealth disparity while showing images of lynchings and Jim Crow practices. The AFL is labeled as a tool of imperialism in the labor movement. Edited by Sergei Vavilov.
Basil Raynham of Toronto has logged about 300000 miles on a bicycle since 1914 with only six car rides and seven streetcar trips. He moved to Canada from England in 1923 and continued to travel through England, Canada, and the United States, with trips including South Carolina Quebec City and the Adirondacks.
Washington D C Marshall plan experts determine Attica Greece cows stop chewing stone walls by craving calcium from calcium deficient diet. They find marble dust a cheap calcium source for cows with a daily ration of three ounces. Walls preserved as Bossy receives marble dust with feed or in a trough.
A thief stole an unmarked Tulsa police car and used its radio to taunt officers calling the vehicle location. The suspect identified as Norman and gave a drop spot, prompting multiple patrol responses. The car was later found abandoned about 150 miles away.
The title King of the Swedes the Goths and the Wends dates to the 16th century. Gustav I adopted it to reflect Svealand and Goetaland though the Wends were never conquered by Swedes. The misperception persisted while the title remains in use.
An Iowa Safety Congress message urges regular eye exams and glasses when needed to protect safety in driving working and recreation. The article notes a 60th wedding anniversary for James Brooks and discusses Patrick O'Brien's 37 years of postal service before retirement in La Porte.
A caravan braves ice and snow to attend a funeral for John, notes delayed mail and a railroad strike. Chicago’s vast post office and a dead letter department led to a yellow towel rescue, then warmer Chattanooga weather with blooming forsythia and magnolias shading a fairy tale scene.
Albert and Susan Eisele of Blue Earth and Mina share travel notes comparing spring in the South with Minnesota’s chill. They praise daffodils, discuss rapid Southern development, view television’s rise, and recall Minnesota blizzards. The piece also notes local incidents: Herschel Van Dyke’s 120 days in Spirit Lake jail for multiple offenses and Joe Bechler’s car crash near Sheldon requiring extraction.
A tractor ran over Lloyd Dye at Marengo but he escaped serious injury after the tractor jackknifed on icy roads and the wheel passed over his lower body. Three pigs on the John Hemingway farm at West Branch were electrocuted by a ground wire that did not carry current.
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