Indees Open Season With Iowa City Here Sunday
Washington Independent manager Ray Whitehead plans a 1939 lineup on Blattner field for a home opener against Iowa City. Buckwalter Heyde Cummings and Young key infield shifts with Campbell and Wagenknecht expected to start on the hill. Last year the club hit around .350 with Heyde, Burich, Anderson, Gillespie and Buckwalter contributing. The 2:30 game offers 25 cent men and 15 cent women admission with extra bleachers added.
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Ray Whitehead
Washington Independent
Washington
Dale Burich
Riverside
Bob Young
Sumner Cummings
Date Heyde
Lyle (Punkin) Anderson
Charlie McAvoy
Bob Gillespie
Howard Comkrey
Campbell
Kenneth Campbell
Pit Wagenknecht
Ainsworth
Moline
Ork
Boo
Cummings
Bob Lewis
Mike Lee
Omer Palmer
Dale Booth
Heyde
Burich
Anderson
Gillespie
Buckwalter
Iowa City
Indees
Bony Clark
Pig life declines as farrowings face tough spring
A bad slide in pig fertility could trim this spring’s pig crop by about 800,000. Factors include heavy feeding of cheap corn to sows, more sows kept, light oats, poor weather, and less sunshine. Iowa Cattle Feeders Day at Ames draws 2,000 with speakers from Swift and Co, Wilson and Co, and the Chicago Produce Association.
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Ray Walsh
Chicago Produce Association
Leo Daily
Swift and Company
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Animal Husbandry Department
Beech Avenue
Major League Standings and Thursday Results
American League standings show New York Boston Chicago and others with records and notes. Thursday results include Chicago 3 Boston 2 and Cleveland 7 Philadelphia at Cleveland. National League standings list St Louis Brooklyn Cincinnati Chicago and others with records. Thursday games include New York 4 Pittsburgh 1 and Brooklyn 4 Cincinnati 4.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Washington
T. Louis
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St. Louis
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Cincinnati
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Louis
Thanks and appreciation for kindness after Fiona Babcock death
A note of gratitude from Bert C. Babcock, Wm Darbyshire, and Dr Charles Darbyshire to friends and neighbors for kindnesses shown during Fiona M Babcock illness and passing.
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Fiona M. Babcock
Bert C. Babcock
Wm. Darbyshire
Charles Darbyshire
Riverside High Beats Ainsworth In One Sided Baseball Game
Riverside High School club defeated Ainsworth 26 to 5 on the Ainsworth field with Ward Flynn pitching and Kenneth Kos catching. Riverside extended a six game spring streak, previously beating Solon and Lone Tree, while losing to Stockport 4 to 3 in the Conesville tournament.
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Rverside
Riverside High School
Ainsworth
Ainsworth Club
Ward Flynn
Riverside
Kenneth Kos
Solon
Lone Tree
Conesville
Stockport
Weekend visits and hospital surgery in Wellman area
Mrs Belle Messenger and Clarabel Turnipseed spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Richard Scott. Roger Rumht from Sigourney visited Donald Bidwell and Robert Godlove. Mrs Hugh Troup underwent appendectomy at Mercy Hospital Iowa City Monday. Numerous local visits followed including relatives from Wisconsin Nebraska and Kansas. Will Simmons celebrated his eighty fourth birthday in North English with family. Willing trips to Grand River and Town City noted.
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Muscatine
Ira Huber
Toppan Johnson
Melvin Buth
Milwaukee
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George Wright
Colorado
Donald Cummins
Auburn
Ola Cummins
Ada
Wayne Cummins
Mae Ficher
Wayland
John
John Swartzendruber
Mary
Lowell Dodds
Iowa City
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Chas. Durian, Jr
Hetty and
Howard
Pete P. Swartgendruber
lLewl Swartzenruber
Aurora
Neb
Ben Gashe
John Yeackley
Doris Kicher
Milford
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Elizabeth Yordy
Aaron Yordy
Ella Yordy
C. P. Slacel
Harper
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Rachel Swartzendruber
Wallace Swartgendruber
Fannie Schrock
Sam Kain
Hesston
Karl Yeackly
Emma Yeackly
Jéssie Eicher
Keith Wilson
Owa City
Will Simmons
North Englich
George Miller
Elsworth Palmer
Grand River
Ray Jennings
Irvin Goodin
Merl Enfield
Omer Green
Parl Scott
Town City
Lyle Wade
Farm Bureau Notes On Centrel of Rats Demonstration
Washington county men will learn new rat control methods at a district demonstration in Mt Pleasant this Friday. Attendees include corn sealers, A A A committee representatives, and County Agent J W Chandler. The event is part of fifteen statewide demonstrations amid a campaign prompted by heavy corn damage. R K Bliss of Iowa State College cites multi million dollar losses in Iowa. A rat killing week is planned to start May 22 following small grain ripening to curb chinch bugs with barriers and specific crops noted as safe.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Ames
Paul Smith
Swift and Company
G. B. Thorne
Wilson and Company
Washington County
Mt. Pleasant
A.A.A. Committee
J. W. Chandler
R. K. Bliss
Bliss
Spraying guidance for apples plums peaches and cherries issued
Extension horticulturist W Edgecombe urges timely calyx sprays to control apple scab. The recommended mixes use lime sulfur with hydrated lime and lead arsenate to 50 gallons of water, plus adjustments for moths worms brown rot and curculio. Cherries plums and peaches should be sprayed when husks fall from new fruit.
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W. Edgecombe
Edgecombe
Iowa
Chinch bugs threaten southern Iowa grain yield
State entomologist Carl J. Drake warns a heavy chinch bug outbreak could damage or destroy much of the grain in southern Iowa this year unless heavy rains reduce pest numbers. He notes the infestation is strongest in the southern three tiers, with centers extending into the fourth tier, and reports 20 to 50 percent winter mortality among egg masses.
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Iowa
Carl J. Drake
Iowa State College
Great Mothers: Nancy Edison Shapes Son Thomas’s Rise
Nancy Elliot Edison steered young Thomas Alva Edison’s home education after a failing school start. Her devoted guidance, patience, and a self-built lab in the cellar fostered his early study of history and science, leading to his later fame as the Wizard of Menlo Park. The piece is part of a Golden Rule Mothers Day feature honoring pivotal maternal figures and promoting May 12 observances.
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Elliot Edison
Vienna
Canada
Thomas Alva
Nancy Elliot Edison
Mrs. Edison
Ee Teak
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Cision
Menlo Park
Railroad and lodge notices in Washington area timetable
Local and long distance rail schedules list daily and weekly departures from Washington including No. 3 Golden State Limited No. 1 Local No. 43 Californian and Eastbound Local. Also Knoxville Branch No. 430 and mixed trains with specific departure times cited. Burlington routes provide local and eastbound service with ticketing notes and depot pickup locations.
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Golden State Limited
Californian
Washington
Anness
California
Knoxville
Pindar Quote Recalled on Girgenti’s Ruin Beauty
A historic nod to Pindar describes Girgenti in Sicily as the most beautiful city of mortals, a claim echoed today as the site is revered for its ruins rather than as a living city.
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Pindar
Girgenti
Sicilly
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