Corn Borer Threat Highlighted At Farm Week
Dr C J Drake state entomologist warns at lowa State College farm and home week that stopping the corn borer is unlikely but delaying its spread is vital. Cleaning fields, chopping stalks, and burning debris are urged with cooperative action and laws in states like Ohio to curb movement of infested seed corn and related products.
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Ames
Few 4
C. J. Drake
State College
Canada
United States
Drake
Ohio
County Mutual Phone Co Proposed Merger Meeting
County residents gathered at city hall to discuss merging telephone lines into a larger mutual company. William Sutherland chaired with W S Boyer as secretary, and a second meeting is planned to gauge support and feasibility.
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William Sutherland
Washington
W. 8. Boyer
West Chester
Brigh ton couple obtain marriage license yesterday
Clarence J. Van Winkle and Ethel L. Herseltine of Brigh ton secured a marriage license here yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence J. van Winkle
Ethel L. Herseltine
Brighton
Legislature to Decide Highway Control Next Week
Iowa lawmakers plan action on whether highway commissioners are elected or appointed. The Senate favors appointing all three commissioners under Benson bill while the House backs Lovrien plan to elect eleven by district. A clash between chambers is expected before addressing state control of road construction.
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Des Moines
State Highway Commission
Senate Highways Committee
Senate
House Highways Committee
House
Benson
Lovrien
Highway Commission
Washington Kalona Girls and Mt Pleasant Washington Boys Clash at MT Pleasant
Washington hosts Kalona in a 7 30 girls game with hopes to avenge a 10 6 loss earlier this season. Mt Pleasant plays Washington in a Little Six boys contest following the girls game with a 18 12 prior Mt Pleasant win in the series. H Tucker misses due to illness, Baker or Crone to fill in. Milburn McKay directs a 60 piece band between games with dance and tumbling acts to follow.
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Washington High School
Washington and Kalona
Eom
Kalona
Washington
Mt. Pleasant
Mt. A Pleasant
H. Tucker
Baker
Crone
Muscatine
JF. Tucker
Benson
Milburn McKay
Judging Team Heads to Ames for State Contest
Prof Julius Sehventas of Washington high school leads eight boys in a school judging team traveling to Ames to compete with other Iowa high schools in judging farm products and live stock. The contest runs today and tomorrow. The group includes Nathaniel Young Wendall Booth Lester Caldwell Willard Smith Clovee Hayed Maynard Kallaus Donald Kerr and Wilbur Quinn. The article notes Arizona’s state flower as the Sahauree, a large waxen white bloom.
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Julius Sehventas
Washington High School
Ames
Iowa
Nathaniel Young
Wendall Booth
Lester Caldwell
Willard Smith
Clovee Hayed
Maynard Kallaus
Donald Kerr
Wilbur Quinn
Farm Relief Plea Opens in Senate Debate
Senator McNary opened the farm bloc fight for the McNary Haugen price stabilization bill in the Senate. He argued the measure is needed to establish economic parity between agriculture and industry.
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Senate
Washington
McNary
Senate Agricultural Committee
Farm Bloc
Board Re Elects Supt Peet Again
At a Washington independent school district meeting Supt J H Peet was re elected for a third year. He is praised for progress and economy and has the trust of teachers and patrons. The board set the spring vacation for the first week in April and teachers will be elected at a later meeting. The southeastern Town district teachers convention will be held late that week at Keokuk with many instructors attending.
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Board of Education
Washington Independent School District
J. H. Pet
Peet
Anther
Keokuk
Prowler Shot by East Main Street Guards
Ed Bovee a special officer fired a shotgun at Howard Hazen after Hazen allegedly loitered on the Hammer property. Hazen was wounded in the leg and treated at the county hospital where doctors said injuries are not expected to be serious. Hazen recently worked in the Journal office composing room after high school graduation.
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East Main Street
FE. B. Hammer
Ed Bovee
Hammer
Howard Hazen
Journal Office
Funeral services for Mrs Marjorie De Witt
Mrs Marjorie De Witt daughter of Mr and Mrs Ambrose Cunningham died Tuesday in Wyoming Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 pm at the Cunningham residence on East Malan Street Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery
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Marjorie de Witt
Ambrose Cunningham
Wyoming
Cunningham
East Malan Wreet
Elm Grove Cemetery
Local shopper Mrs Romine Visits Keota Store Today
Mrs Romine of Keota browses a Keota store while noting that neither Queen Mary nor her daughter Princess Mary smoke in this brief society mention.
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Queen Mary
Princess Mary
Coffey Sentenced to Life for Dismembered Murder
William N. Coffey admitted murder in Lancaster Wisconsin after killing his wife, dismembering the body, and burying it near Platteville. He pleaded guilty to first degree murder and received life imprisonment. The motive cited was to conceal his bigamy and gain the victim’s property.
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Lancaster
Wis
William N. Coffey
Platteville
Wisconsin
Coffey
Hattie Yales
Churches Unite for Near East Relief Voice at Union Service
Protestant churches of the city hold a union service next Sabbath evening at First United Presbyterian to support Near East Relief. Speaker Mrs Katharine McCormick of Virginia, recently returning from Turkey, will address the gathering. An offering will be taken for the relief effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First United Presbyterian Church
Katharine McCormick
Virginia
Suppressed Revolt in Oporto Ends as Lisbon Reports
Rebellion against the Carmona dictatorship that began in Oporto was said to be suppressed by this afternoon. Troops, led by Colonel Amare, moved against insurgents, with a state of siege proclaimed earlier in Portugal. Railway workers began a strike. troops were sent to restore southern service.
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Lisbon
Carmona
Oporto
Portugal
War Ministry
Amare
Will Dine on Alaska Reindeer by Local IOOF
Members of the local IOOF and their families plan a large gathering next Tuesday evening. The centerpiece will be a “Reindeer” dinner featuring a deer from Alaska presented at the market. Ralph Kellar explains the reindeer’s journey from Alaska to St Paul.
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LO. O. F
Ories & Speer
Ralph Kellar
St. Paul
Steindeer
Shanghai Menaced by Cantonese Army Move to Hangchow Section
Wounded Sun Chuan Fang troops arrive at Hangchow as Cantonese forces gain reinforcements. Xu Sun’s front reportedly in retreat toward Tanglu while tensions rise in Shanghai. Foreigners fear a Cantonese advance could cut treaty port access within a week.
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Shanghai
Hangchow
Shanghat
Sun Chuan Fang
Marshal Sun
Tanglu
Sun
Ceived
United States
State Department
Legion Auxiliary Anniversary Plans in City Hall Rooms
The American Legion Auxiliary schedules a February 24 birthday celebration for the Goon Beatty unit. At last night’s meeting in the city hall American Legion rooms a large wives committee led by Mrs. Oscar Lane was formed to handle arrangements. One new member joined. initiation led by the president with assistance from Mrs. W. J. Cummings Mrs. Walter Conner and Miss Lucy Dempsey.
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Goon Beatty
American Legion Auxilary
American Legion
City Hall
W. J. Cummings
Walter Conner
Lucy Dempsey
Wagener Funeral for SeventeenYearOld Lester Wagner
Funeral services for Lester Wagner seventeen son of Mr and Mrs Fred Wagner of the south of town will be held Saturday afternoon at 230 at the L A Jones funeral home conducted by Pr W W Bowers Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery Lester who was born August 1909 on the farm where he lived died yesterday after a illness that began last December following measles pneumonia and infection He was a good boy and a favorite in the home and is survived by his parents and his brother Clark Wagner a student at Washington High School He attended the Mureka school south of town
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Lester Wagner
Fred Wagner
South of Town
L.A
Clark Wagner
Washington High School
Lester
Mureka School
Cotter Declain Declama Contest Honors Local Winners
Cotter high school held its annual declamatory contest with entries in oratorical dramatic and humorous divisions. Winners include Elwyn Owen for Oratorical Martha Hendrickson for Dramatic and Richard Arthur for Humorous, with several students noted in the program.
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Cotter
Cotter High School
Flwyn Owen
Evelyn Arthur
Dorothy Colton
Dorothy Davie
Danny
Martha Hendrickson
Liz
Thelma Quigley
Richard Arthur
Cousin Benty
Irene Dirks
Mersham
Harriet Jenkins
Mary Louise
Marjorie Jenkins
Irene Thomas
Gil Summerville Replaces Measles Sidelined Carrier
Gilbert Summerville, a Journal carrier substituting for Merle Waters, fell today and broke his wrist, leaving him off the route for a few days. Merle Waters is out with measles.
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Gilbert Summerville
Merle Waters
Suggestion Great Aid in Preserving Youth
An Australian visitor in San Francisco notes Americans appear young due to optimism and social greetings. She attributes youthfulness to positive feedback and mental attitude more than a literal elixir of life. The piece cites that modern medicine adds years, yet people look younger than two decades ago.
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Alma Law
San Francisco
San Francisco Bulletin
Central window control system for factory winds
A four story eastern factory uses electric motors to open and close all top hinged steel sash windows. Separate controls allow side by side floor operations while a master system can close all windows at once. The setup reduces manual labor and maintains ventilation and weather protection. American Mutual Magazine.
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American Mutual Magazine
New England Rag Dolls Describe Old Row Dolls
Old row dolls treasured as heirloom items in New England homes with flat faces rigid hands and outward turning toes. Some have painted or embroidered features, hair made from hemp or real strands, and garments of sprigged muslin or prints. One New Hampshire family preserves a doll over 50 years with repaired facial cloth.
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New England
Troth in Marriage Rite Traces From Roman Times
The article traces the word troth to Roman practice and notes the evolution of marriage customs from a formal pledge with troth rings for both spouses to the modern simplified rite centered on giving a ring. It mentions lingering double ring customs among some European peoples.
Beau Nash and Bean Nash in 18th Century Fashion
Richard Nash born in Wales in 1674 rose as a gambler who funded Bath’s transformation in 1704. The city honored him with a statue beside Newton and Pope, yet he died in poverty at eighty seven after gambling was curtailed.
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Bean Nash
Richard Nash
Wales
Bath
Newton
Pope
Kansas City
Redwood Log Called Gold Mine by Oregon Finder
A redwood log unearthed by an Oregon man was valued as a gold mine by the finder. The log, eight feet in diameter and sixty feet long, was 327 years old and yielded three thousand dollars in lumber plus thirty circular dining table tops worth seventy five dollars each after two days of scraping and team work.
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Oregon
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Niagara Falls Tops World Noise Scale in Tests
A Bell Labs noise meter measured Niagara Falls at 70 units, surpassing New York City noise from trains and traffic which peaked at 55 units. The test compared the cataract at Cave of the Winds to Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and 34th Street intersections.
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New York City
Niagara Falls
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Sixth Avenue
Broadway
Thirty-fourth Street
Jagara
Popular Science Monthly
Birds Fly Southward Migration Wonders Across Autumn Skies
Autumn brings warblers swallows martins and many birds to leave these shores on a long southward journey. The article notes the epic trek as a marvel of bird life with millions making the journey and some young birds venturing far beyond typical paths.
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London
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Suther
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L. Blepton
Katona
Arizona
MART
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Near East
Relipe
Mick
Government of
Portogauel
Republican Guard
O.F
Alaska
International Race Club
Chung King
Changsha
Hang Chow
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Yale
China University
Tientsin
China
Clarence E. Gauss
Froday
Legion Auxiliary
Wagener
Troth
Redwood Log
Bird Travels
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