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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
4
Knoxville Tenn Journal notes a four room house for sale in a colored neighborhood. The ad hints at a crooked street or attract but provides limited usable details.
A jumble of snippets portrays political pokes at Gov Edwards and a quip filled era. A Cedar Falls record note recalls a finder returning a lost Firestone tire rim and lamp. Irvin Cobb lampoons Ford ads with a Detroit joy ride crash joke about two Chinese laundrymen and a nut and two washers.
A Russian Jewish applicant names Joseph Levinski on a naturalization form and answers Born Yes, Business Rotten. He boasts as a practical farmer and can perform many farm tasks, ending with a heckling question from the crowd asking if he can lay an egg.
Bige, a high grade Belgian stallion weighing 1800 pounds, will stand the season starting April Saturdays in Graettinger and May June Wednesdays and Saturdays, with rest at the farm. Terms 15 dollars to insure live healthy cost and 12 dollars service fee. Care taken but not responsible for accidents.
A collection of old time quips and vignettes with cheeky lines about work, media hype, stock vanity, bad luck, editors fortunes, baby name quips, and a regimental barber’s misadventures. The humor rests on social foibles and dated quips from a bygone era.
At Ames the estate invites every farmer to enter and will furnish complete information about the contest which closes April 10.
Town State College figures show farmers spent 89 cents per bushel to grow corn last year, with 40 bushels per acre required to break even before hauling costs. Land, seed, manure, labor, horses, equipment, storage, and insurance drive costs higher than 1918, leaving slim profits after market delivery. Chicago plant tours confirm practical industrial chemistry study for 10 students led by Prof. H. L. Olin, visiting Illinois Steel, Portland Cement, Standard Oil, Grasselli Chemical, and Corn Products Refining facilities.
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