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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1923
Page
8
A local supplier urges homeowners to begin spring building now, warning prices may rise in fall and material shortages loom. They report a fresh stock of lumber, shingles, cement, brick and steel posts, plus new building plans available for customer use.
A local newspaper owner recounts losing about 1300 in the final year of his operation. Royal, a town just south of Spencer in Clay County, is noted as a strong country town with paved streets. Bowman, four years in charge, ran a solid Northwest paper and kept up demanding work, with fair rates.
A long lament details how Harley and nearby towns rely on catalogue printing firms for job work, sidelining local printers like Bowman who closed his Royal shop due to lack of patronage. He relocates to Hartley, where a second weekly paper is planned, while Royal laments the absence of a local paper and warns against further erosion of small-town merchants. The piece notes broader fears of national consolidation and 1923 newspaper suspensions, with scattered quips on economics, war, and modern life.
A jumble of anecdotes and opinions touches on Prohibition, debt, speed in cars, Bible sales, and social attitudes. remarks range from a bank query about five percent to a mock forecast of lighter cars for pedestrians, with assorted musings on England, Turkey, and the nature of contentment.
Local notes report a $750,000 Congregational church project in Jawa ally with plans completed and funds raised to commence construction. Other items include farmers selling land near Sib ley at $226 an acre and near Oceyedsan at $200 an acre, a truckload of hogs valued at $16000 en route to St Joe, and Sioux s county paving plans totaling over 40 miles.
Advertises low prices on guaranteed evergreens for windbreaks and landscaping. Claims home grown evergreens, fruits, and shrubs offer big bargains. Encourages sending for latest prices and promises hotel grade quality at low cost.
Dr and Mrs F J Hession hosted friends in Estherville Sun ny. Miss Katie Barnhart home from Kremersburg for Easter with parents. $90000 hospital home for Sisters of Mercy in Dubuque nears completion. Dobberstein and Misa Anna McCarty visiting in Bnuetsburg. Iowa City used 1400000 sheets of paper for 1922 university exams. L A Petersen from Jackson MN greeted Gracttinger friends. Rockwell City Pair Association drives to raise 40000 for auditorium and pub. Holger Petersen from Jackson MN in first of the week. Sheep wranglers in Sue county receive 41 to 34 cents per pound for wool. Humboldt Creamery shipped 4000 chickens to Chicago for sale. State bank examiners charged for First Savings Bank at Sutherland last week. Reorganized Misses Gladys Vedder and Titian Malea visited Wort Dodge. Walter Veech of Maxon City given 1600 and sixty days in jail for irregularities in his role as public carrier commissioner.
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