CLUB MEMBERS WIN AT STATE FAIR Des Moines prizes noted for Louisa County
The Louisa County Baby Beef Club exhibited at the State Fair won 133.00 in prize money. Seven of thirteen calves earned premiums with Josephine Garden winning top short yearlings and Ruth Bennett Letts placing 2nd in long yearlings. County farmers sold all calves at auction for average 13.09 per hundred while local organizers plan a new club.
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Thetate
Des Moines
Josephine Garden
Ruth Bennett
Letts
Iowa
Henry Bartenhagen
Columbus Junction
van Burton Snyder
Louisa County
Colors in Old England Show Gold and Yellow Prevalence
A reckoning finds gold and yellow flowers dominate Old England flora with roughly 240 yellow, 150 red, 100 purple, and under 100 blue among 900 flowering plants. White flowers are second only to gold and yellow in number.
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Old England
First Recorded Auto Smash Marks Dawn of Car Crashes
The first automobile smash on record occurred in 18, when Jonathan West of Rochester New York, riding in a car, collided with a wagon owned by a laundry company, marking a historic early crash in motor vehicle history.
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Jonathan West
Rochester
N. Y
Their Thrifty Landlady and Boarder Whisper
A Boston Evening Transcript line recalls a cautious exchange between a thrifty landlady and her tenant. The suggestive remark ties a wedding next door to concerns about food safety and taste.
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Jim
Boston Evening Transcript
Mad Sam and the Island of Self in a Desert Dawn
In Springfield Sam Field known as Mad Sam, a gentle wanderer who believes he is everyone else, narrates his fractured world. The narrator recalls Sam’s rise from a once prosperous merchant to a troubled figure, his sister’s care, the wedding plot to run away, and Sam’s final death from heart disease after years of wandering and delirium during an epidemic winter.
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Verybody
Sam Field
Sam
Sarah
Springfield
Mr. Jones
Mojave
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Louisa County Farm Bureau
Rollo
Pickford
Colese
Farm Bureau
Union
Concord Port Louisa
Eliot
Morning Sun
Dorothy Taylor
Ames
Union Township
Fred Moody
Concord Township
R. G. Lowe
Port Louisa Township
H. M. Lyda
Flint Township
Oakville
Moraine Sun Township
Federal Department of Agriculture
Wapello
Toolesboro
By Edward Levine
Western Newspaper Union
Columbus
Washington Battery Station
Gas
2Nd St
Journal
Clowns
Washington
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