Community Notes Highlight Local People And Honors
Anna Dawson returns home from the Wilsons near Ainsworth to care for the sick as everyone avoids measles and fights mumps. Lee Norris earns a Quebec convention honor with Equitable Life of Iowa. County Home debate spurs care improvements while residents push for better facilities. PEO dinner, WRC Lincoln birthday event, YW Girl Reserve plans, and a Washington man buys a coal heater via a Journal ad.
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Anna Dawson
Wilsons
Ainsworth
Lee Norris
Equitable Life of
Iowa
Quebec
Is Epilepsy Inherited Causes Explored by Doctors
A free booklet from the Educational Division 535 Fifth Ave New York Dept 5526 asks readers to write for opinions of famous doctors on epilepsy. The piece hints at hereditary questions and causes discussed by medical authorities.
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Fifth Ave
New York
N.Y
Market for soft wood opens in Farmington Iowa
Arthur Secor of Farmington says developments in wood fiber products create a strong market for Iowa soft trees. He notes the first carload of pulpwood has been shipped to an Ohio pulpwood mill and hopes for expanding demand and new mills.
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Farmington
Iowa
Arthur Secor
Ohio
Secor
Iowa Softwood Timber for Pulpwood Sale Explored
A study identifies cottonwood and other Iowa softwoods suited for pulpwood markets. It evaluates growth, yield, quality and regional demand to guide potential harvesting and sale strategies for timber growers.
Township Women Dinner Meeting At Mrs W Bower
The Homemakers of 76 township met at the home of chairman Mrs Walter Bower for a cooperative noon meal. Three members attended, setting a new attendance record. Mrs Bower opened the meeting with five minute reports from committee chairs on library school health international relations. Ruth Foster county extension director presented lessons on House Dresses and Work Aprons with member models.
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Walter Bower
Ruth Foster
County Achievement Day at the Y
She asks all women in the county to keep Feb 22 for County Achievement day at the Y. The township group of homemakers will meet next Tuesday Feb 18 with the location to be announced later.
Pastor Siple Found Guilty in Daughter Poisoning Case
Rev. Frank E. Siple, aged 54, confessed to poisoning his 17 year old daughter and was convicted of first degree murder in Grand Rapids Michigan, receiving a life sentence.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Frank E. Siple
Dry Suds Use It All in Soap Jelly or Similar
Small soap scraps are presented as a practical reuse. The text suggests saving leftover pieces to form soap jelly or other products so no bubble goes to waste. It reads as a household tip emphasizing thrift and efficient cleaning.
Red Mite Parasite Harms Poultry And Egg Production
The red mite is a common poultry parasite that hides in cracks near roosts. It feeds at night, sucking blood from chickens and retarding growth and egg production, though it rarely kills.
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FOX
Warren
William
Charles Berdo
Washington
Rosemary
Curtis Guy Johnson
Texas
Lome
OPA
Harvey Davis
South
Marion Ave
Arlington Daniels
Everstine
Washington, D. C
PEO
YMCA
Emma Barnett
Cnter
WRC
Lincoln
White House
Chester Bowles
Office
Price Administration
U. S. Senate
Connecticut
Capital
Clare Boothe
International
D. J. Palmer
Aeea
Iowa City
Top Notch
Dance
Lee
Phillips & Hebner
West Side Druggists
Nicola
Harmon
GIANT
Rotary
Sharpeners
Jack Carson
Nixie
Charles Winninger
Adele Jergens
America
Old
Santa FE
Lynn Mouse
Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Karl Doenitz
K. C. Hall
Pua
CHONE
Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
Edwin S. Pauley
Pauley
O 1
Ray Reeves
Phillips 66
W. Madison
Les Gilmore
Shell Station
Vitalis
Civil Service
Family Bible Birth
Wardrobe Cleaners
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