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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1933
Page
5
Sally Filers, teen actress and wife of film director Han, shares a patch of her favorite sweet corn waffles. The recipe lists canned corn eggs sugar salt baking powder melted butter and beaten egg whites folded in, baked until crisp brown for eight servings.
The Iowa Farm Bureau executive committee agreed to cooperate with Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace on directing the corn hog program and to seek early guidance from the administration on setup. They urged full cooperation of farm bureaus and extension services while avoiding conflicts with federal plans. The group also pushed for lower government loan rates on reform mortgages, proposing refinancing at about three percent with amortization, and asking Congress to pass parity-based refinancing when prices rise.
Plans for Harvest Sunday call for a day of town and country unity with visits to rural churches and farms. The event is set for Sunday November 26, just before Thanksgiving, with eight hundred clergy and county farm bureaus organizing locally. Radio stations and civic clubs will assist as city and rural Iowans unite to understand agriculture’s challenges.
The farm bureau urges city and town residents to make a special effort to visit rural areas on Sunday, November 26. The message promotes better days by encouraging urbanites to experience farm life for a day and support agricultural communities.
Bremer county farmers focus on the corn hog production control plan from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to balance pork and corn. The piece traces wartime land shifts, postwar Europe’s self sufficiency, and declines in U S pork exports from 1923 to 1932, noting tariffs and rising foreign production by Germany and Denmark affecting American sales.
The plan seeks to limit corn and hog production to achieve parity prices based on the 1909 to 1914 schedule. Bremner county would trade corn and hogs for nonagricultural goods at those old price levels, using effective demand to guide output. The first step bought 6.1 million pigs and 220 thousand sows, slaughtering about 100 million pounds of cured meat for human consumption, amid hog numbers rising to 61 million. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration pushes to raise farm buying power as the objective of the program.
Washington township farm bureau met at Aug Prottengeier home Monday evening October 23 with most of the time on the corn hog program. County agent outlined administration plans and rules while NRG Girls' club presented A Nephew in the House with Irene Mundt Evelyn Albright Ruth Kuethe Dorothy Mueller and Doris Lynch in the cast. Plans were made for a corn picking contest at LuLoef or LuLoff Brothers farm and refreshments followed.
Warren Towns area residents and families were seen at various gatherings and visits last Sunday and Friday. The list includes the Schuver, Ducker, Keller, Wedemeier, Pries, Hennings, Ehlert, Oestmann, Struck and Michael households, with trips to Buck Creek and Tripoli and a Chicago world’s fair visit by Henry Hennings.
Cards announce the marriage of Wm Koch Readlyn to Miss Minnie Diekman Klinger, to be held at the bride’s home this evening. Ma and Mrs Chas Leverenz celebrated their silver wedding, Mrs Jennie Fiester and child returned to St Paul after visiting her mother, and Carl Eichman is new clerk at the Mercantile Co. Historical market prices from 25 years ago are listed for eggs butter potatoes veal hides chickens hogs corn.
Ten years ago November 7 1923 reports Herman Geffert injured with right arm amputated in a shredder accident in Waverly Doris Bergman died from measles complications Chris Winning Jr died at his son Charles residence aged 90 Mrs Stella Matthews of Chicago and Miss Minnie Burt of Waverly visited at Frank Kimball home about twenty families attended Erwin Franklin’s fifteenth wedding anniversary celebration at his country home
Relatives and children gathered Monday evening at the Fred Schwem, Jr., residence to help Mr and Mrs Schwem celebrate their fist wedding anniversary. F A Robinson left Sunday evening for Harvard Illinois after the sudden death of his father J E Robinson.
Five years ago on October 31 1928 bandits robbed the Waverly State Bank in broad morning hours escaping with about 3000 in cash. Other local items note a musical comedy Sixty Miles an Hour set for Thursday and Friday evenings and farm prices from Carl Kroll fields with corn at 76 cents oats 45 cents and cows 80 to 120 dollars.
The University of California runs an undergraduate date bureau charging 25 cents for a date arranged by a card index of personalities and appearances and advice from the psychology department. London policemen may not marry in their first four years of service. After that they can manage any scrape.
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