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The headlines were DILLINGER
TRAPPED BY A WOMAN IN RED
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A personalized
haircut, shampoo and finger wave cost 75 cents at the Fair in Ames.
Bologna was 20 cents a pound and Wheaties were two packages for 19
cents. |
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And the
Gilbert news column in the Ames paper read as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Fairly, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dickinson from Ames
spent Sunday evening at the A. L. Dickinson home. |
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July 10th,
1934........ MERCURY
SOARS TO 108
Iowa sets its
all-time heat mark and the City of Gilbert sweltered along with the
rest of the country during the summer of '34 ...Water shortages sprang
up around the state and many local communities took pains to conserve
the precious liquid. |
In 1934, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Woodruff and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Anderson spent an evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Noble Partlow of near Dayton Park.
You could get a new
suit for $14. A house dress cost $3.99 at Tilden's in Ames.
A depression and a drought
In 1934 the nation was
in the midst of a great depression, the summer brought dry, hot weather
after a fiercely cold winter, and the crops were not good, pasture was poor,
cinch bungs damaged the corn, and raw milk was sold ...... rigid inspection
laws were urged. And when the rains finally came, they came in cloudbursts
that flooded the land, swelled the rivers and creeks and 380 farms in Story
County sold for $40.00 an acre.
A super-highway
conference was planned.... the new road from Canada to Texas would become
known as Highway 69. The road was a WPA Project.... the government's stab at
releasing the economy and the population from the doldrums of the
depression.
Bond drives and gas
rationing
The pupils at the
Gilbert Consolidated School are enjoying an extra vacation this winter due
to blocked roads....
Mr. Warne and Mr.
Swenson, instructors at the Gilbert Airport, and Patricia Cooper,
bookkeeper, are attending the Aerial ground school at the Airport in Des
Moines.
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