Citizens organize to fight flood as two hundred houses inundated
In Waterloo Cedar River flood floods two hundred homes across Sans Souci Chautauqua park and River View areas. Volunteers mobilize with sandbags pumps and boats as mayor appeals for help. Rescue crews evacuate families from Park road Edwards street and Columbia street while dikes struggle to hold back rising waters threatening Westfield Avalon and Logan avenues.
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Waterloo
Cedar River
Charles City
Nashua
Waverly
Waterloeans
Sans Souci
Chautauqua Park
Park Road
Westfield
Lower Commercial Street
Riverview
Lower East Side
Riviera Theatre
Sans Souec
Sans Baucl
Sans Souci Park
M. J. O'Keefe
Gatrs Street
Sans Souci Road
American Legion
Gates Street
O'Keefe
Gheney
Campbell
Riverside Drive
Conger Street
Sans Souci Bridge
Chautauqua
Cedar River Park
Black Hawk Creek
Westfeld Avenue
Avalon Avenue
Briggs, Witty
Duryea
Westfield Avenue
Galloway
Logan Avenue
Virden
Mhab
Join Deere Tractor Company
Eighteenth Strees
la Porte Ropa
Northwestern Bell Company
Tibbitts
Viver’ Points
Cedar Iron
Rock Island
First Street
Belmont Avenue
Randolph
Wellington
Keritzelman Court
Edwards Street
Virden Creek
John Deers
City
AIL Deere
West Bank
Miller
Belmont Street
Kentzelman Court
Tibbits
Chautauqua Grounds
Utica Street
Columbia
Federal increases cattle tuberculin indemnity in Iowa
March 16 report says effective Feb 19 the federal government boosts maximum indemnity for cattle disposed after tuberculin tests. Indemnity rises from 25 to 365 on grades and 50 to 70 on purebreds with state limits at 56 and 75. Average producer loss drops from about one fifth to even lower due to salvage and shared payments.
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Courage
Des Miciliies
Iawa Department of Agriculture
J. A. Barger
Iowa
State Department of Agriculture
Seattle
Barger
Tree Rings Tell of Ancient Life
Washington March 16 A National Geographic grant of 5000 funds a study on dating southwestern prehistory by counting tree rings in Indian pueblos. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor announced the project, led by Albert E. Douglass, aiming to extend ring records back to 1260 and bridge a 150 year gap with Pueblo Bonito beams.
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Washington, D. C
Southwest
National Geographic Society
Gilbert Grosvenor
United States
Puebla Bonito
New Mexico
Albert E. Douglass
University of Arizona
Pueblo Bonito
Keep Swine Crop Own Prices Up Advised By Quaife
Swine producers expect better hog prices in 1929 based on Agriculture Department surveys. B L Quaife warns against widespread increases, noting hog cycles push profits down after brief highs. He advocates a stable plan: fixed sow numbers and conservative corn use to smooth production.
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Department of Agriculture
Early History of Orange Highlighted at Township Meeting
Pioneer Orange township notes recalled farm land worth ten dollars an acre and long residency. Attendees included J. J. Berkley 65 years in the township, Samuel Fike 60 years, and talks covered first church plans in 1856, early telephone and mail service, Evergreen Sunday school, and farm histories. Next all day farm bureau gathering set for April 19 with a men’s program.
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Orange Township
Farm Bureau
Orange High School
J. J. Berkley
Samuel Fike
Orange
H. J. Lichty
W. A. Trin- Teather
H. W. Miller
A. G. Miller
Evergreen
A. B. Zuck
Ira Fike
J. L. Uban
Robbins Flock Production Records Highlight Trap Nesting and Feeding
H G Robbins operates a 1,400 bird Castle Hill poultry farm where trap nesting guides breeding. The flock includes 800 pullets and 600 hens with two strains Tankard and Young Breeding, weighing all hatching eggs at 25 ounces per dozen. Production averages 60 percent, improved from 25 percent due to better feed turnover and careful management. Eggs and mash are weighed and fed. plans target a Chicago trade as volume rises.
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H. G. Robbins
Castle Hnl
Robbins Neck
Altho
Robbins
Castle Hill
Oscar Grow
Altha
Mgr. Robbins
Hobbins
Chicago
North Tama dairy group posts February gains in fat production
North Tama county herd improvement association, state champions for February, report 60 cows producing 49 or more pounds of fat and 49 over 54 pounds. A Purebred Holstein from Robert Mitchell herd leads with 74.1 pounds fat from 1798 pounds milk. Despite bad weather, the group raises January's average by two tenths, finishing first in the state. 335 cows milked, 68 dry, with several farmers purchasing or adding stock to boost future averages.
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Traer
North Tama County
North Tama
Robert Mitchell
Miith
C. T. Mitchell
North Tama Association
Buena Vista
GC. T. Mitchell Held Those of Roy Berry, R. G. Wood
Abe Lincoln
Abe Mitchell
Toledo
Robert Stark
Herbert Koepke
Bremer County Herd Improvement Meeting Elects New Officers
Waverly March 16 Bremer county herd improvement association held at W Orth farm. New payment plan sets 3 B per month for 12 cows or less 3 50 for 12 to 24 and 4 for 25 to 46. W Loveland resigns as president. Charles Bush of Denver elected. J K Lynes Plainfield new vice president. Floyd Johnston Iowa work head cites 62 percent of state associations now under per day plan.
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J. K.lynes
Plainfield
Wiliam—Hoffman
Janesville
Arnold Strottman
Denver
F. A. Chester
Floyd Johnston
Held Improvement Association
Iowa
Bremer
Farm-Owned Produce House Pays Way in Lamb Quartet
Farmers near Farragut in Fremont County benefited from a new 1928 cooperative produce plant. The venture started with 500 dollars capital and now shows patronage refunds from 50 cents to 26 dollars per patron, with eggs bought on a graded basis and a total patronage of 800 dollars last year. In news from W E Rothisberger nearby, a rare quadruplet birth in a ewe produced four lambs, only one surviving, marking the first such quadruplet report in the area amid a year with 22 lambs from 10 ewes and a mix of triplets, twins, and singles.
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Lamb
Fremont Experiment
Fayette County
Farragut
Fremont County
W. D. Termohien
Iowa State College
West Union
W. E. Rothisberger
Rothlsberger
Rathlisberger
Dysart Farm Sells for 185 Per Acre in Indiana
Dysart Indiana March 6 1930 Adolph Moeller 160 acre farm one and a half miles north of town sold Wednesday to August Hark for 185 dollars per acre. Possession will transfer March 1 1930.
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Dysart
Adolph Moeller
Here
August Hark
Hark
Editor’s Farming Questions and Comments
Letters from readers to the Waterloo Evening Courier discuss farming topics with inquiries and remarks addressed to the Editor in the Farm Department. The brief exchange reflects community interest and local agricultural matters in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo
Towa
Japanese Royal Heir Lives Simple Life of Soldier
Prince Chichibu heir presumptive to the Japanese throne leads a plain life as a student officer at the army staff college. He eats a modest 12 cent luncheon of rice fish and vegetables, rises before 4 a.m., and walks two miles to the college each day, arriving by 8:30.
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Tokio
Prince Chichibu
Japan
Army Staf College
Seek $58 000 to NND Labor Board
Washington March 16 AP the farm labor division of the federal government asks for an appropriation of 100000 hands and 58000 annually to extend harvest help from Missouri Arkansas to Texas Oklahoma and northward. The report shows 1929 labor supply at 94 percent of normal and demand at 87.7 percent with the service directing transient labor to definite channels to meet harvest needs.
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Washington, D. C
Farm Labor Division
Secretary of Labor
Altho
Central
Wheat Belt
Imere
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
North Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
North Dakota
New England flood threats ease after heavy rain
Boston reports that heavy rains have eased, with a light drizzle and a slight temperature drop reducing flood threats in New England. Rivers and tributaries are slowly draining toward the sea. Dynamite blasts disrupted Shelburne Falls as a dam on the Deerfield River broke.
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Boston
New England
Shelburne Falls
Deerfeld
France Could Pay Debt From Tobacco Profit
Paris reports that France could cover its war debt to the United States from tobacco monopoly profits. Government receipts soar as tobacco sales rise, aided by women’s increased smoking and efficiency gains. France’s unadjusted Berenger plan discussions spurred reforms benefiting the state budget.
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France
Paris
United States
America
Andre Cltroen
Prance
Injured Brakeman Reported Better After Amputation
Mrs Henry Craft reports her husband Frank lin street central brakeman is improving after losing his right arm in a Grant City accident Sunday night. He was treated in Dubuque and then Findley hospital where doctors say he passed the crisis and is out of danger. He likely will be brought home soon. The man attempted to signal another train when his lantern dropped and his arm went under a wheel before being amputated at the elbow.
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Henry H. Craft
Franklin Street
Ilinois
Grant
Dubuque
Findley Hospital
Craft
Dubuque Hospital
Seek Two Women on Larceny Charge
Jefferson March 16. Mrs. Mott Gilson is under afresh accusation as police seek her half sister Mrs. Carrie Renslow and her daughter in law Mrs. Will Gilson on larceny charges. They will be questioned over hundreds of dollars in dry goods taken from stores in Des Moines Adel Perry Guthrie Center and Jefferson found in their homes. Also discussed are votive figurines from ancient Babylonia believed to honor the birth of a child.
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Jefferson, II
U.R
Mott Gilson
Carrie Renslow
Will Gilson
Des Moines
Adel
Perry
Guthrie Center
Jefferson
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H. A
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Cibbitts
J. A. Young
George Huntley
A. Morris
George B. Miller
Fort Dodge
Nauman
Nauman Company
Cedar Street
Waterloo Boat Club and River Improvement Association
Joseph Currie
H. A. Maine
C. Edward Truair
Truait
Friends
Walter Dudley
Fred Winslow
Columbia Street
George Wood
Bratnaber
Herbert Clausen
Crescent Place
Burton Avenue
Central Waterworks
Third Street
Rath Packing ‘Company
Sycamore Street
Alstadt & Langlas Bakery
Mulberry
Elm
Franklin
Lane
Elm Street
Ellm
U.3
Selp
Fitchburg
Mass
Charles H. Scott
Elizabeth
Richard
Charles
B. L. Quaife
Town State College
North
Tama Ring
High Association
Prugh
Willand
Shipp
West Park
Art Bergum
C. A. Helland
Enideese
M. H. Kimball
Dan J. O'Neil
M. R. Leaf
Schulte Realty Co
Waterloo City
George Moranet
Peter Wermer
Eva Fsbi
Minnie Wittenmeyer
Merman B. Meinders
Brown & Overyman
Cedar Pals
GA. Andrew
Stity W. Ebrig
W. Houser
John Beltinghaws
Gedar PaWe
Madigan
Sillmen
Ely
Vaughn
Fally Avenue
Falls & Mullan
Mittan Invenue Plat
Waterina
Belangee
Joseph Grieger
Fraye
Vucinds Oh. Kellogg
FL W. Knipp
W. A. Lane
Nick Weber
Sear
Harry G. Esher
Inc
Sr Porte City
Heath
Ba Porte City
AJ. Titus
Ei . Phelps
Soash Park
Waterlon
Thomes Lanigan
Clifford
F. Toonan
Hudson
Lows
Henry
Ts Esch
John
Haberkamp
Cooley
Watertoo
Pat Waldron
Orran
Harwood
Howrey & McWilliams
James Nck Ory Geotts Co
James ‘Black Realty W Investment Corp
Mis
J. E. Ferguson
Roy OD. Hartong
Buckingham Place
Pana
Solon
W. Thomas
Kather Lu Thomas
Cooley’s
Ferson
Vena Blanche Vich Ctux
John Rorzter
Prospect Hisls
Succes
Besh and Lynes
Bremer Association
NND Labor Board
Babylonia
Countries
Cal. Miller
Robert’ Drug Co
Quest & Smiths
VL Leste
Mr. Quick
Dioyiston and Rath Sts
Jones Brothers
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Matt Gruben & Sons
Sark
Waverly, Ta
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