Iowa fruit output lags as consumption soars nationwide
Des Moines June 8 report shows national fruit and vegetable consumption nearly doubled in a decade while Iowa’s output rose only modestly. Herrick notes some orchard and grape growing gains since 1920, but 1910 to 1920 orchard decline persisted. Growth in grapes, onions, melons, and plums is mixed, with forecasts of scarce apples and poorer cherry crops.
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Courier Special Service
Des Moines
Iowa
R. S. Herrick
Iowa Horticultural Society
St. Ansgar
Modale
Harrison County
Muscatine
Scott
Mills County
Herrick
Bureau of Railway Economics
Chicago
Ames
Central Life settles factional fight and names president
Des Moines June 8 in an amicable settlement of internal disputes at Central Life Assurance society O C Miller will retire as president and be advisory to the firm T C Denny will become president with Fred P Carr remaining as vice president and general counsel H M Havner will serve as special counsel The agents across the country approve the settlement noting Denny’s 15 years with the society and Dahlstrom vice president of the General Agents association reports 30 agents and 5 000 policyholders in his territory which includes Waterloo Mason City and Marshalltown
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Des Moines
INS
Central Life Assurance Company
O. C. Miller
T.C. Denny
Miller
Fred P. Carr
H. M. Havner
Thompson
Company
Carr
Denny
Havner
Central Life Assurance Society
T. C. Denny
J. T. Dahlstrom
Gence
LY “Denny
Society
Iowa
Waterloo
Mason City
Marshalltown
General Agents Association
The
Central Life
College gambling ruling ends with fines in Cedar Falls
On April 17, 1927 in Cedar Falls Judge G W Wood sentenced Bert Rogers for keeping a gambling house with a $50 fine plus costs. Fat Gould and A L Aderman pleaded guilty to gambling and each were fined $10 and costs.
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Cedar Falls
Bert Rogers
Fourth Avenue
Eighter
Decatur
Ement
G. W. Wood
Division of District Court
Rogers
Fat
Cornell College Grants LL.D to Herbert Hoover
Mount Vernon Ia June 8. An honorary doctor of laws was conferred on Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover by Cornell College here. It is his first such honor from any educational institution in his native state near West Union. Frederick Stock received a honorary music degree. Dr Clyde Wildman and Rev Roy L Smith earned doctor of divinity degrees. One hundred fourteen graduates heard Dr W S Bovard, secretary of the Methodist board of education, speak on four educational creed articles.
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Mount Vernon
Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover
Cornell College
Hoover
Ine
Frederick Stock
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cornell
Clyde Wildman
Syracuse University
Roy Leslie Smith
Independence
Mental patient found after wandering from home near Clarksville
Bloodhounds aided by shores were summoned Tuesday evening in Clarksville to help locate a mentally irresponsible young man who had wandered from home. He was found on Primary Highway No 10 and returned to his residence.
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Hoover's
West
W. 8. Bovard
Board of Education of the Methodist Church
Glasgow Tailors
Welp
Wales
Black
East Fourth Street
Europe
Firank Brothers
York
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Styleplus
Emery
Resisuo
Baker and
Cheney Brothers
Frank Brothers
Srank Brothers Estab Commercial
Ann Endelsons
Coats
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