Iowa farmers show steady rainfall and rising farm wealth
State weather notes little variation in rainfall over a decade while crops and livestock add to a total farm value of about 1.052 billion dollars. Iowa farms yield 1,060 dollars per resident and a family averages five thousand dollars yearly. much of the crop is fed to livestock. Ackworth’s 1852 academy walls survive fire and time. W. H. Barker promotes the sycamore as a peace tree with memorial plantings. Campanile at State Teachers College rings for first time as crowds listen to a campus concert. Thomas E. Johnson pays cash for 120 acres near Eldora, building a two-farm ownership in Hardin county through steady work.
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United States
Iowa
Warren County
Ackworth
W. H. H. Barker
Harvey
Marion County
Harvey Arboretum
Shiloh
National Association
National Forestry Association of
Washington
L. C
National Association of the Survivors
Battle of
Shi- Ioh
Hiloh
Corinth
W. H Barker
Colner
Caisr Falls
Ghey Tal
Andrew EL Watervint
New York
Will Ainson
Dudley F. Fasoldt
H. E. Moffett
Eldora
Hardin County
Thomas E. Johnson
Charles O. Ryan
Eldor
Johnson
Honest Hobo Policy At Des Moines Salvation Union
Commandant Hugh Dundas of the Salvation Army describes the Industrial Home and Workingmen's Hotel in Des Moines. The Home provides work for seven to eighteen men weekly and offers limited free supplies to the needy while operating as a self supporting unit. Beds at the hotel cost thirty cents a night. one resident once stayed forty six nights seeking employment prospects. Dundas notes forty years in service across Britain India and America.
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Hugh Dundas
Salvation Army Industrial Home
Workinmens
Des Moines
Dundas
Ieee
Salvation Army
Britain
India
America
Gensing grower in Iowa fields large future value
A. O. Gilbertson of St Ansgar Mitchell county farms 60 acres of gensing the world’s largest crop. With 100000 plants per acre under old rules and 20000 plants under new, he projects millions in value as the plant reaches market age. The crop, native to China, is largely shipped to that country from the United States and Canada.
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A. O. Gilbertson
St. Ansgar
Mitchell County
Gilbertson
China
Canada
Supreme Court labels gambling device mint machine in Iowa ruling
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Des Moines restaurant owner D. T. Striggles, ruling a gum or mint vending machine with any element of chance is a gambling device. The decision, by Justice Albert, holds ignorance of the machine’s nature is not a crime element, citing 25 seizures of such devices and extending the ruling to all. Also notes on Grand Army report and peat land potato prospects.
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Iowa Supreme Court
D. T. Striggles
Des Moines
Polk County
Supreme Court
Albert
Ateat
John
Inman
Grand Army of the Republic
Commander Inman
Spudsi
Peat Soil Effects on Potatoes and Varieties
The text notes peat soil as equivalent to late planting, high in nitrogen leading to vigorous growth and nitrogen-rich potatoes. It mentions tops killed by frost preventing over-ripe harvest and cites Fine Early Ohio and Irish Cobbler as varieties grown on peat soil.
Notice in District Court of Iowa Estherville Nuisance Liquor Case
In Emmet County a petition charges Mrs Hausner and Albert Free with keeping intoxicating liquor at Lot 8 Block 8 Wood's Addition Estherville prior to June 18 1926, seeking injunction nuisance abatement and penalties. Defendants must answer by noon of the next term or default judgment will be entered.
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District Court of Iowa
Emmet County
State of Iowa
N. Ressell
District Court
W. M. Hausner
Albert Free En
Wood
Estherville
Iowa
State of
Said County
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Bill Booster
Man Hoah
Sha Suny
Black Hawk
Sam Spurrier
Mount Ayr
Ringzold County
Goodly
Spurrier
F. E. Sheldon & Co
James A. Balliet
John Balliet
City
Cotbese Gen Boom
Remington Portable
R & Republican
Lowa
Agricultural Extension Department
Jews State College
Ray S. McWhorter
Burt
Kossuth County
W. M. Hansner
Albert Free
W. M. Hauster
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfg. Chem
Buffalo, N
Sinclair
Sinclair Oils
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