Household notes on hog slaughter and meat curing
The article explains benefits of not feeding hogs before slaughter to improve bleed, reduce feed waste, and aid meat curing. It highlights the potential national impact of 50 million hogs killed yearly, saving corn and producing pork. A circular with complete home slaughter and meat preserving guidance is available free by request, including those on the experiment station list.
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United States
Experiment
Pickled Pigs Feet Recipe From Ames Circular
A historical note describes pickled pigs feet as a winter delicacy with steps to clean boil for four to six hours salt lightly pack in a stone vessel and cover with hot spiced vinegar. Serve cold or fry in batter. The recipe appears in a new Ames circular on curing pork.
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Ames
Farm Journal praises country newspaper
The Ohio Farmer notes wartime costs forced many wood-pulp papers to fold, urging readers to support local papers. It argues the community loses news, public opinion shaping, and hidden assets without a strong local press. Publishers seek fair measures while raising prices, relying on public and advertiser backing.
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Ohio Farmer
Auto Mechanics opens with new course at college
A practical auto mechanics course begins December 27 at Iowa State College. Thirty-one men registered for the fall quarter. some will stay for the second quarter. Tuition is free for town residents. The six week program covers general auto repair with focused work on starting and lighting ignition battery care and acetylene welding. A two week tractor course may follow. Equipment for battery work and acetylene welding has been added.
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Iowa State College
Elasa
Emmet Echoes Local Social and House Wiring Update
Sunday visits abound as Mr and Mrs Tom McGinn spend time with Mrs Reed and family. Shutes and Goggin begin wiring the electric line while residents consider car registration before year end. Jessie Reed returns to Estherville to resume work and help sick relatives. Several locals report illness then recovery including Reed family Ahrens Van Eman and others with church bazaar attendance noted.
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Jessie Reed
Estherville
L. M. Christensen
Alf Henderson
Elsworth Township
Everett
Logue
Emmet Ahrens
Willie van Eman
Walter Shannon
Christian Church
Lynn Weir
Dolliver
Las
Paul Weir
Algona City Aids Union Drive and Legion Debates
State news notes a public hall and land dispute with Algona post 20548 expanding its membership drive. Fort Dodge plans sixteen basketball games. Garner reports sugar beet shipments up to 105 carloads to Mason City, aided by larger acreage. Algona purchases a Fulton Diesel engine for city electric plant and Hagg Post urges deportation of John Lanz as a first paper alien slacker. Sioux Center votes to consolidate Holland township into a 24-section district including Newkirk. Sioux City notes significant train discontinuations raising congestion concerns.
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Algolya
Grae Army
Hager Post
American Legion
Algona Ag
Garner
Mason City
Algona
Hagg
John Lanz
Kosseth County
Congress
Lanz
Cummins
Kenyon
Dickinson
Rail schedule to be tested by railroad officials
Storm in Lake-Buena Vista county will receive federal aid for road improvements though the county voted down hard surfacing. Grants cover the highway west from Alta to the county line and the nine mile air line between Sioux Rapids and Truesdale. Sioux Center opens a new State Bank costing $30,000 with safety devices and crowds over a thousand for opening day. Sioux City raids arrest six women and six men. twelve dates and several whiskey bottles seized. A man named Stanley Brown is acquitted after liquor contents prove tea. Fort Dodge gypsum mills closing leaves about 1,000 jobless, with teachers and others raising unemployment to about 2,000. Clarion Commercial Club backs a wood cord project to sell at production cost, stored on school grounds, with shade trees used to aid coal conservation.
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Lake
Buena Vista
Alta
Sioux Rapids
Truesdale
Clarion
Fragmentary Probate of Injury and Local Factory Plans
Readable fragments report a death from abdominal peritonitis after an injury during a scuffle. Other notes mention Clarion schools burning wood to secure elm wood, plans for Wright county school operations, and Humboldt obtaining a factory to manufacture a patent monkey wrench with new plant work to begin when conditions allow.
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Clarion
Wright County
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E. F. Mundahl
State News
Fort Dodge
Frank Waters
Sioux Center
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Sioux County
Newkirk
Algona City
City Electric
Sioux City
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