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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
11
A jumble of 19th century notices reports cars spilling gasoline and a backfiring engine causing minor loss of 700 dollars in Falls City Nebraska. The page includes testimonials about advertising results, odd job ads, and brief quips from various wire-service style columns and local humor.
A lazy newspaper reporter meets a fellow reporter and learns of a restaurant death rumor. The tale jokes that a man choked on horse meat after someone shouts whoa, suggesting a comic misinterpretation of a choking incident.
A humorous column notes adding machines entering printer shops as Times explores better receipts. The passage parodies the 23rd Psalm and mocks overreliance on technology while hoping for improved office equipment. The writer wittily blends satire with everyday business change.
Poem-like piece urging modern advertising over old methods with lines about old devices, pride in progress, and a call to action. Includes a short ownership statement for Graettinger Times dated 1920 and a notary certification summarizing publisher and staff.
Letters to the Insurance Bureau from Washington show Navy recruiting station inputs concerning a wife of Nick Campana and an enlisted man See M President and Uncle Sam Claude Wright. The writer asks about insurances, addresses, alleged births, and whether John filed for a wife and child. The text reveals wartime era confusion over dependents and deployments, with references to Germany and a “constipation camp” in error.
The speaker contrasts bygone comforts with 1920 life, noting higher costs yet greater value. Eggs cost 10 cents a dozen and butter 20 cents per pound in the past, while modern homes use living rooms, electric lamps, and cars. Workers earned more today, but nostalgia frames the past as harsher.
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