Local Social Roundup From Nes Moines to Cedar Rapids
Mr and Mrs Marion Hearron of Nes Moines visited H A Dusenbery. Ken Dusenbery returned home and attended Wellman West Chester. Mrs Walter Duvall joined Ames town and home week events. Ted Andersons attended Grassland conference in Cedar Rapids. John and Merle McDowell families plus Mrs Harold Leet and Johnny dined with Ken Cuddeback and baby. Mrs Ted Anderson acquired a gas range and refrigerator. Mrs Dean Moore Mrs Ted Anderson and Mrs Robert Stephens attended the Methodist W S C S meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken Dusenbery
Walter Duvall
Ames
Ted Anderson
Cedar Rapids
John
Merle McDowell
Harold Leet
Johnny
Kenneth Cuddeback
Dean Moore
Robert Stephens
Dayton Grove Notes Mrs Dusenbery Returns Home
Mrs Harry Dale Dusenbery came home from the hospital and is recovering well. The Leonard Bomber family and members of the Hartzler and Lyall Moore families are ill with scarlet fever. Mrs Harold Leet and Johnny of Clifton New Jersey left Iowa after spending a week there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton Grove
Harry Dale Dusenbery
Leonard Bomber
Hartzler
Lyall Moore
Harold Leet
Johnny
Clifton, N. J
Iowa
Oskaloosa Visitors Attend School Board Banquet
The Leet and McDowell families with Mr and Mrs Fred Ladehoff and Mr and Mrs Charles Thrapp were visitors in Oskaloosa Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Walter Duvall attended the school board banquet Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Ladehoff
Charles Thrapp
Oskaloosa
Walter Duvall
School Board
Giant overhead crane powers San Francisco shipyard project
The world’s largest overhead crane installation can lift 1,008,000 pounds at the San Francisco naval shipyard and uses a hoist control system with horsepower to operate 10,000 washing machines. The trestle like structure is built to endure earthquakes and severe weather. Brazil nuts grow wild along the Orinoco and in northern Brazil, Para, and French Guiana on trees 100 to 150 feet tall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Brazil
Orinoco
Para
French Guiana
Oregon man patents tire pressure warning device
An Oregon inventor develops a electric warning button linked to lever driven mechanism that sounds when a tire loses air pressure, alerting the motorist to a flat or dangerously deflated tire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Youngsters in Navy First Class Volunteers
In early times boys joined the British navy as volunteers and were promoted to midshipmen at age 15, earning the nickname oldsters due to their age and status in training.
Rural electricity expansion boosts power to farmlands
Public utilities in the United States plan to spend over 3.3 million dollars to extend rural electric service. Farmers now use less than two thirds as much labor per unit of product as in 1920, signaling efficiency gains alongside expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Community and Farm Livestock Sales Schedule
Weekly livestock sale notices list venues at Whittaker sale barn Columbus Junction Kalona Ollie Sigourney and other Iowa locations. Specific dates include February 17 closing out sale near West Chester. February 23 bred gilt sale Knotek Bros Timm. February 24 closing out sale of 149 acre farm near Rubio Valley Church Washington area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luithly Farm
Washington County
Rubio
Valley Church
Keota
Whittaker Sale
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Kalona
Ollie Livestock Exchange
Ollie
Hi Dollar Sales Company
Sigourney
West Chester
Augustine
Norman
Knotek
German Silver Plates: Early Electroplating Trend in England
When electro plating arrived in England in 1844 German silver items plated with silver became popular as a cheaper alternative to Sheffield plate. Today silver plated articles are still formed from nickel silver before electro plating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sheffield
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marion Hearron
Nes Moines
H. A. Dusenbery
Dagwood
Iso
Kalona Sales Barn
Leet
McDowell
Dutch Creek Township
HAY & Grain
Machinery & Equipment
Ford Ferguson
John Deere
Kewanee
Case
Victor Endgate
Litchfield
Charter Oak
Fairbanks Morse
Meyers Grapple
Valley Ladies’ Aid
Faye Shultz
Navy
Journal
Verve Farm
Rayburn Land CO
Carload
Long & Hotle
WASH
George's
RADIO
South Ave
D. W.L
Col
Little
Washington Dairy
Brown Finance CO
Lihone
Court House
Carl Stark
N. Jeff
Sigourney, Iowa
Reister Hatchery
the Journal
John Blick
Mangold
South Second Avenue
Washington Concrete Co
12Th St
Rock Island
Pioneer
Reister Bros
Creamery
Hatchery
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