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Title: $25.00 Reward
Description: Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12530

Title: Administrative Rulings Relating to Corn-Hog Reduction Contracts
Description: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Adjustment Administration Corn-Hog Section rulings on corn-hog reduction contracts. Form C.H. 20, dated December 19, 1933. Printed by the U.S. Government Printing office, document number 16-1629.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30056

Title: Alex Moffett Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Alex Moffett was born in 1905 in Suzhou, China, to missionary parents. He lived in China until 1923 when he attended Washington & Lee in Virginia for college and then went on to Vanderbilt for medical school. He and his wife, Virginia, returned to China in 1935 where they did medical missionary work until 1940, including during the Sino-Japanese war. After returning to the U.S., he had a private practice in Taylorsville, North Carolina, for twenty-nine years. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26717

Title: Annual report of the Poweshiek County Farmers Mutual Insurance Association 1933
Description: Annual report for the year ending December 31, 1933. Includes Insurance report, financial statement, disbursements, general statement and report of the directors.
Date Created: 1933
PID: grinnell:21199

Title: Chevrolet Order from Hagen Bros
Description: Order form from Hagen Bros, Grinnell, Iowa, for one Chevrolet sport sedan, dark green, to be delivered as soon as possible to Raymond Pilgrim, of Grinnell, Iowa. The salesman was C.L. Pilgrim, Raymond's brother. Dated March 31, 1934 with a total price of $774.10.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30022

Title: Des Moines General Hospital Receipt
Description: Receipt from Des Moines General Hospital to Estell Pilgrim for $10 for surgical clinic, dated July 8, 1932.
Date Created: 1932
PID: grinnell:30023

Title: Dorothy Pinder Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Dorothy Watts Pinder, the daughter of a newspaper editor, grew up in Storm Lake, Iowa, during the depression. Her father later moved to Grinnell and bought the Grinnell-Herald Register where Dorothy worked for many years. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26714

Title: Eighth Grade Rural Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Sunday, May 27, 1934, at the Montezuma High School auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Emma P. Denham was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12459

Title: Elizabeth Schultz Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Elizabeth Pfund was born in Jewell, Iowa. She came to Poweshiek County in 1927 as a rural school teacher. She married Ervin Schultz on Nov. 27, 1929. They raised their two children on the family farm in Malcom Township where she lived for over 65 years. She was active in 4-H, the Farm Bureau, and she served as a Sunday school teacher and in other positions at Trinity Lutheran Church. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26710

Title: Farm Bureau Fun Night, Farm Bureau Spirit Song
Description: Program for the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau Fun Night. Lists the cast of the play, "The Nervous Wreck," and includes the text of the Farm Bureau Spirit Song.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:30031