02 Apr 1903
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1903
Page
1
Announced church schedules show Methodist services at 10:00 A.M. and 7:30 P.M. on Sundays, Catholic Mass at 10:00 A.M., Norwegian Lutheran weekly, and alternate Sundays at M. EB church. Sunday school noted for 10:00 A.M. at MW church. pastor KRoeH listed with updates for changes.
A man giving the name B L Young approached W R Rice, a stock buyer, promising to deliver eighteen hogs in Dickens on the following Tuesday. After advancing five dollars for the hogs, the man disappeared with no sign of either hogs or him. The suspect posed as an honest farmer and likely sold hogs to other buyers in the county.
The Rock Island system lowers passenger rates from 34 to 3 1/4 cents per mile with effect April 1. South Dakota remains at 4 cents per mile due to state law. The change saves travelers, for example, the Graettinger Emmetsburg run from 35 to 30 cents.
An advertisement notes that old pictures are copied and enlarged by A B Peterson. Work is ready for inspection and can be supplied with photos or prints upon ordering.
A fragment from a Chicago weekly interovera promotion outlines a one-year deal priced at $1.50. The notice hints at a joining advantage and urges readers to act during October, though text quality is poor and several words are garbled. The ad mentions cooperation with another paper to secure the arrangement.
A sardonic piece mocks public figures and daily vanity. It riffs on jury justice Roosevelt politicians and false pretenses in love, then shifts to a grim meditation on time, fame, and the oblivion of death as society moves on.
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