Mrs Milt Wallrab Raises 800 Baby Chicks in Fairview
In Fairview on Monday Mrs Milt Wallrab became the first in the neighborhood to hatch 800 baby chicks. The article notes local social visits including a bridal shower for Mrs Lawrence Marek, Bunco prizes, and several family movements and gatherings in the area.
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Milt Wallrab
Fairview
Vince Tellin
Harold Admons
Will Tellin
Lorence Marek
Melvin Souky
Otto Novy
Edwin
Alex Mehaffey
George Havels
Marek Viola
Evelyn Marek
Lawrence Marek
Bunco
Luella Sojka
Darlene
Marie Sojka
Rita Kanneman
Larene Sojka
Carl Kos
Norma Rose
John Knotek
Joe Knotek
Ralph Prybil
Joan
Iowa City
Froman Estle
Mary Ann
Coneaville
Ed. Hotz
George Gora
Washington
Milo Harak
Mary
Nellie
Charles Sojka
Larine
Betty
Lu Ella
Harry Wallrab
Rita Kuenneman
Frances Bulger
Gertrude Bulger
Erma
Ralph Walsh
Albert Kasnar
Harry Kasnar
Clutter
Mary Sojk
Wess Sojka
Harry Malichky and Sons
Milt Sojka
Mae
Lloyd
Harry Wollrab
Charley Sojka
Milt Wollrab
Louis Havel
Melosh Havel
Butchers Promote Chickens To Boost Prices
A butcher urges customers to buy more poultry claiming top quality chickens available today. Grocers and butchers collaborate to influence purchasing to raise food prices.
Keep to the Right Demand Grows for Poultry Through Retail Push
Retailers and poultry raisers met in Chicago with buyers warehousers and officials to consider raising poultry prices by pushing sales of stored chickens. The National Association of Food Chains has previously boosted egg sales by large scale advertising across 8000 newspapers and 50000 handbills, reaching 37,000 stores and 156,000 clerks who contact 12.6 million customers daily, lifting egg sales 21 percent year over year.
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Chicago
Tel
Rstaurant
National Association of Food Chains
Frank Priebe Letter Advocates Uniform Poultry Service
A 1939 letter from Frank Priebe of Chicago argues that multiple agencies should coordinate to promote lower priced poultry and equal services for producers and consumers. He asserts surplus sales help both growers and buyers and thanks readers for their support.
Local Moves and Community Events In Lexington
Lexington residents report several address changes as Aunis Miller family moves to the Swarzendruber property and the Swartzendruber family relocates to the Duret farm. Local residents recover from flu as George Bishop and James Schultz improve. The Wellman high school play features Dean Emde in a lead role during a contest. Marion Timmins and John Gardner attend the idle reading contest in Washington. Ted Anderson Guy Hoyle and Wade Gardner oversee the Farm Bureau membership drive with a supper and meeting at the Congress hotel in Washington.
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Hugh Bishop
Crawfordaville
Warren Bishop
Dean Emde
Wellman High School
Marion Timmins
John Gardner
Washington
Ted Anderson
Guy Hoyle
Wade Gardner
Farm Bureau
Congress Hotel
Liner Wiegand Rescues 34 After Off Jersey Collision
Off Barnegat Light New Jersey a collision between the 3482 ton freighter Lillian and the North German Lloyd liner Wiegand left the Lillian sinking. The Wiegand rescued all 34 crew members then returned to New York en route to Moji Japan. The Lillian carried raw sugar from Puerto Rico.
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Lillian
Barnegat Light
New Jersey
Wiegand
Gan
New York
Moji
Japan
Puerto Rico
Pan American Clipper Noses Over in Caribbean Bay
All 23 passengers aboard the Pan American Clipper were rescued after the airliner nose dived in the bay near San Juan Puerto Rico during fleet maneuvers. War ships anchored nearby monitored the incident as debris drifted.
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United States
San Juan
P. R
Caribbean
Rerica
P. BR
Pratt's Rocks Named for Col. Zadock Pratt in Prattsville NY
In Prattsville New York Pratt's Rocks were named for Col Zadock Pratt who founded and owned much of the village. The rocks lie in the eastern part of the village are tall and overhanging and reachable by a winding path. Long ago figures faces trees and horses were carved and painted white. A tramp befriended by Pratt is said to have hammered the figures into existence.
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Pratt
New York State
Prattsville
Col
Zadock Pratt
Mount Royal: Cartier Hochelaga and Champlain’s Naming
The text notes that Mount Royal derives its name from Cartier visiting Hochelaga on Montreal island in 1535. Champlain in 1610 named the tall hill Mount Royal, a designation Maisonneuve adopted when founding today’s city in 1642.
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Mount Royal
Cartier
Hochelaga
Montreal Island
Champlain
Maisonneuve
Piel Mail and the Carp Messenger Legend in China
The article explains a Chinese term for secret letters called a brace of carp, tied to a legend of royal intrigue. Courtiers sent carp gifts to disguise messages, avoiding traps as conspirators swapped coded notes folded like fish shapes, with messenger carp appearing on early stamps.
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China
Arrowhead Country Joins United States After Sovereign Status
The Arrowhead country passed through eleven sovereignties before finally becoming part of the United States.
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Arrowhead Country
The
United States
Tate ousted from State Motor Vehicles post in Des Moines
Horace Tate, a longtime assistant state motor vehicles commissioner, was discharged. The move, reportedly ordered by Secretary of State Karl G. Miller, was described by Commissioner T. Harry Vicker as an economy measure saving Tate’s $8,600 annual salary. Vicker said no replacement will be appointed.
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Des Moines
Hoerace Tate
Tate
T. Harry Vicker
Karl G. Miller
Vicker
Miller
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Alfred M. Moore
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Milton Sills
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Nevada
Frank Ride
Frank Priebe
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Aunis Miller
John Swarzendruber
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Duret Farm
Pverette Green
George Bishop
James Schultz
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Louise Duke
Marcel Sablon
Monte Carlo
J. F. McNamara
International Nickel Company
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Weigand
Circus Dot
Horace Tate
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