Grandma's Brag Corner oddities and mishaps recap
A San Francisco driver mourns his new car after a broadside in a parking lot. A tough toilet tissue wins a quirky award for resilience. A store mannequin supposedly kicks a customer. Cattle wander for tastier fare, trample a fence, and trigger a ransom threat. A bearded Milwaukee patron scorches his beard with Flaming 'beer' and a seltzer spritz saves him.
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San Francisco
George Whipple
Adtnachim
ASPCA
Milwaukee
Stooges
Acti
Booster Bucks winner misses $25 drawing in Graettinger
Booster Bucks recipient Glenn Reeves of Terminal Co op Graettinger failed to claim a $25 prize at Saturday’s drawing. Next week’s drawing increases to $50. The 1977 Ladies Organizational Meeting set for April 5 will be rescheduled to a new date.
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Glenn
Butch) Reeves
Terminal Co-op
Graettinger
Zany Insurance Claims From Aetna Life and Casualty
Aetna Life and Casualty recounts quirky cases from last year. Tales include a butcher attacked with a frozen chicken leading to a fracas and a petrified rooster injuring a worker, a Bicentennial reenactor choking a Redcoat, a New York motorist hit by stray dogs, and a driver trapped by a car wash dispute in Chattanooga.
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Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company
Bunker Hill
Tammed Ao
New York
Chattanooga
Garden Talk: Spring Work and Planting Tips
Garden Talk outlines spring moisture effects across the plains and Midwest with warmer days and budding fruit trees in California and Arizona. It guides pruning, ring-barking for fruit set, soil amendments, nursery stock timing, seed sowing indoors, and container planting for shrubs and flowers to boost spring displays.
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Plain
Midwest
California
Arizona
Mesa
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Hillcrest Country Club
Market Report
Amos Mammen
Teresa
Kelly
Richard Mammen
Dodge City, Kansas
Kay Helvig
Fort Dodge
Helvig
Galesburg, Ill
Jim
Tim
Iowa
Booster
Zany Insurance Claims
Hillcrest Supper Club
Jeleo
Clover Farm
Dairyland
Swanson
Nabisco Oreos
Swift
Wilson Certified
Braunsweiger
BRAND
Hteners
Tare
del Monte
Pillsbury's Hot Roll
Hollum
M & J Clover Farm
Nester
Joe Gabrielson
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