Amazing Riches in Iowa's Crops Reflect 1919 Returns
Des Moines reports from the Iowa cooperative crop reporting service show farm products, including grain, stock, and poultry, yielding over a billion dollars in 1919. Corn leads wealth at nearly five million. swine valued at about 460,200. dairy products around 113,606,600. wool at 4,500,000 pounds. sugar beet the lowest at 576,000.
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Des Moines
Iowa Co-Operative Crop Reporting Service
Department of Agriculture
Children vs Hogs Scientific Feeding For Both
Fort Dodge Iowa February 13 Miss Clara Sutter home demonstration agent Black Hawk county urged hot noon lunches in rural schools and scientific feeding of children as well as hogs to boost health and strength of farm children addressing Webster county farm bureau She asked why men study many hog rations but women should not study a systematic feeding plan for children The main reason for neglect of children she said is that hogs fatten in nine months and sell while it takes 21 years to mature boys and girls
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Fort Dodge
Clara Sutter
Black Hawk County
Webster County
Des Moines Christmas Seal Funds To Bolster Tuberculosis Fight
Des Moines reports from Feb 13 show 1939 Red Cross Christmas seal sales in Iowa raised 100000 dollars. Funds will back a statewide anti tuberculosis and public health program led by the Iowa Tuberculosis Association, with local groups retaining 50 to 70 percent for community work. The plan includes school health education, nutrition screening for underweight children, public health nurses, case finding, sanatorium referrals, and educational outreach through talks, exhibits, and literature. The executive committee will detail the year's activities in Des Moines on Feb 15.
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Des Moines
Red Cross
Iowa
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Surzeals
Marriages and Births in Butler County 1919 Brief
In Butler County 1919, marriage licenses were fewer than in 1918, based on county clerk records. Births in 1919 were not as numerous as the previous year, with details drawn from compiled files.
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Butler County
Anisuu
First Woman Named Buncombe County School Superintendent
Miss Ethel Terrell, recently chosen superintendent of Buncombe County, is the first woman to head a North Carolina county school system, and perhaps in the South. The report notes shifts in births and population figures from 1418 through 1934, with county totals for girls and boys and related birth statistics.
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Ethel ‘Terrell
Buncombe County
North Carolina
South
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