Ramblings and Remnants Washington County Scenic Drive
Bruce Cowden details a three hour ramble through Washington Oregon Highland and Jackson townships plus nearby towns Haskins and Gladwin. He describes timbered river banks and rolling farmland offering unexpected beauty and a tunnellike tree bordered road along the Iowa river with an expansive river panorama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa County
Iowa
Ington
Oregon
Highland
Jackson
Haski
Gladwin
Haskins
Washington County
Milwaukee
Iowa River
Wanderings Through Washington County Farm and Home Scenes
A narrator tours Highland and surrounding townships in Washington County Iowa, praising Wollrab farm gardens and notable old homes. The trip passes White Place near Haskins, views fine rural roads, cornfields, soybeans, and notable estates along side roads off No. 92 and 218.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Highland Township
Wollrab
Washington
Haskins
Iowa
Ainsworth-Riverside
Bethel Church
Jackson Township
Fishermen Paid to Retrieve Naval Gun Targets Off San Diego
The U S Navy offers fishermen 25 dollars per intact 12 foot floating pyramid target found drifting along the coast. Targets are anchored offshore for bombing practice and may wash ashore if moorings fail.
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San Diego
Naval Air Station
State Fair Month Opens Aug 25 Des Moines Iowa
Iowa Daily Press notes State Fair month as the 92nd fair runs Aug 25 to Sept 1 in Des Moines with record entries in open swine and cattle, a $142,477 premium list, and attendance projected above 500000. Exhibits space is sold out and a big rodeo with $5000 prizes anchors the program along with daily entertainments and special days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Daily Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Hawkeye Lane
California
Fair Board
Lloyd B. Cunningham
Press and Radio
Farm Bureau and District Farm
Queens
State
Weekly and Closing Livestock Sales Across Iowa Columns
Community sale every Friday at Whittaker sale barn and weekly livestock auctions at Kalona Sales Barn Kalona Iowa Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Ollie Live stock Exchange Ollie Iowa with August 17 closing out sale 11 00 am and August 22 closing out sales of Dell Farrier and Joe Conrad Farrier sale 12 30 pm Crawfordsville highway 218 Conrad sale immediately after Farrier sale second sale 144 mile south of Farrier farm also on highway 218
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Whittaker
Kalona Sales Barn
Kalona
Iowa
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Ollie
Livestock Exchange
Keota
Ralph Romine
Dell Farrier
Joe Conrad
Farrier
Flying Made Too Easy
Oklahoma City report says new light planes are easy to fly. Muril Woolsey piloted a light plane that struck an oil derrick guy wire and crashed into an elm tree. he crawled out and said he dozed off at the stick.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Muril Woolsey
Woolsey
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Bruce Cowden
Mississippi
Verlie Wollrab
Charles Havel
Havels
James Havel
Lowa
Bohemia
Neota
Wellman
White Rock
Oliver SS
II International Tractor
A.C. Combine
Oliver S
Oliver
New Idea
International
Little Genius
John Deere
Endgate Seeders
Fairbanks-Morse Hammer Mills
Burr Mill
HAY & Grain
Clinton
DE Soto
Brown & Bruty & O’brier
Anet Et State Bank
Ladies Aid
Lean Jane Smith
Lyon County
Washington Concrete Co
12Th St
Rock Island Tracks
Journal
Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Elder, Shannon & Co
R. E. Shannon
Dave R. Elder
Bruce C. Cowden
Charles Morris
W. J. Shannon
Max Marble
United Press
Inland Daily Press
Iowa Press
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Wash- Neo
Cs Bee
Iouwa
EGG Markets
Rock Island Produce Co
Reisters
Burdock
Burdock’s Cut Rate Lumber Co
Brighton, Iowa
Palooka
Ham Fisher
Dixie Dugan
By McEvoy
Striebel
Blondie
Chic Young
Ghe Young
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