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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1943
Page
5
Readable OCR shows various items and prices including lettuce heads unknown weight priced per unit, California carrots in bunches, navy beans at 15c 19c and 25c, Sweetheart and G laundry soap in 10 bar packs, oyster shells in 100 lb bags, and a note that cash is paid for eggs at 98c.
Margery Martin of Greenfield files for divorce from Wilford Martin claiming religious persecution by Jehovah’s Witnesses. She alleges threats of divine wrath after refusing sect membership and notes his and his father’s hostile conduct. The item references related military and local civic notes and regional contingencies.
Sheriff Montgomery visited Graettinger and several residents hosted visitors from Emmetsburg Mallard and Fairmont. Red Cross week is April 1 to 7 inviting donations. A baby was born to Mr and Mrs Goodwin Thoreson at Estherville Coloni an hospital. Local teachers attended a North Central district meeting in Mason City plus community notes on local residents and a forest service seedling drive in Cedar Rapids parks.
Grainy OCR reads as a short item about a starch product and a boxer. It mentions pigs feet and a quart for something, with unclear phrasing. The readable fragments suggest a product note or ad style line from a historical page.
Miss Carolyn Modre spent the last of the week with friends at Estherville. W L OConnor was a brief business caller at Emmetaburg Thursday. Miss Marjorie Fink arrived from Chicago for a visit with her parents in Emmetsburg. Several Emmetsburg and Graettinger residents visited friends and relatives Friday and over the weekend, including the Grodlands, Elsenbasts, and McNews, with trips to Omaha Des Moines Chicago and Moose Lake noted. Kenneth Barringer, a Grinnell College student, spent the weekend with his parents in Graettinger.
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