Iowa crops for year valued at half a billion dollars
Des Moines report shows 1928 Iowa agricultural output at 569,616,000 dollars based on Dec 1 prices, up 46,449,000 from 1927 and nearing 1924’s total. Corn, oats, and barley drives led by a 476,012,000 bushel corn crop, 89 million bushel more than 1927, with 11.174 million acres at 42.6 bushels per acre.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J. Earl Cook
Towa Crop and Weather Bureau
Towa Agricultural Convention
Charles D. Reed
Bureau
Reed
United.States
Thaw Turns Snow and Ice to Slush
Springlike weather today sent temperatures near 40 degrees. A thaw stretched overnight and resumed this morning, leaving streets awash with slick puddles and posing hazards to traffic and pedestrians.
Man Injured When Crushed by Shredder Team
Clarksville Iowa December 12 Herman Hagerman sustained a severe thigh gash when a team of horses forced him against the shaft of a shredding machine Tuesday afternoon. The funeral of Mrs Ray Betts, formerly Carrie Toll, will be held Friday in Waverly with burial here. The husband and four brothers survive. Archie Thompson and Mrs Pierce Thompson's son Archie, returned from Tulsa after illness and death of his mother in law. Archie is a World War casualty and has suffered acute kidney infection since returning. Mrs Mary Stewart, a rural school teacher near Dumont, is at home due to the Dumont school’s closure from scarlet fever.
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Clarksville
Herman Hagerman
Ray Betts
Waverly
Carrie Toll
Pierce Thompson
Archie
Tulsa
Okla
Archie Thompson
Mary Stewart
Dumont
Brotherhood to Elect Officers at Trinity Lutheran Meeting
Trinity American Lutheran Brotherhood will elect officers at 7:30 p m today in the church parlors. A special program is planned and refreshments will be served by John Kagebeln Louis Stoffregen and L W Steege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity American Lutheran Brotherhood
John Kagebeln
Louis Stoffregen
L. W. Steege
Fire damages Fre dericksburg home in midnight blaze
A midnight fire at the John Wray residence in Fredericksburg Iowa caused heavy roof and interior damage. The family saved most belongings and plans to live elsewhere while the house is rebuilt. Insurance covered the building.
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Fredericksburg
John Wray
Blott Named Manager of Independent Meat and Grocery
Henry Blott will manage Independent Meat and Grocery Store No 3 at 318 Fourth Street East which will open soon. J C Cohn, proprietor, announced. Morris Stram, manager of Store No 2 at Fifth Street East and Sycamore, will remain at that location.
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Blott
Henry Blott
Meat Sand
Fourth. Street
J. C. ‘Cohn
Morris Stram
Fifth Street East
Sycamore
Cohn
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Detroit
Grove’s
Beauty
D. D. D. Lab
Batavia
Pazoo
Shredder
Brotherhood
G.P.A
Amundsen
North Pole
U.S. Bureau of Standards
Cherine
Safe Anti-Freeze
Repass Automobile Co
Ie Vicks
Chrysler
Fowler-Warren
Plymouth
Franklin Street
Park Avenue
Waterloo
Aaa
Lucile
Paris
Frank Wartey
Brownbilt Shoe Store
Stripes
A. Fs
Coats
Men’s Union
Oxfords
Star Clothing CO
Sycamore St
Wagner Hotel
Meov.t
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