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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1967
Page
2
A dated classified snippet lists ad rates and charges for first insertion 25 cents and subsequent insertions. It mentions keyed ads incurring 25 cents extra and references Caras of Thanks with small price notes.
Classified notes list multiple for sale items including a deepfreeze, dining room set, used furniture, two dinette sets, a living room suite, and Hoover vacuum. Also advertised are 100 head feeder pigs, four Holstein cows, 20 head hybrid sows, typing paper, rat killer, and seed corn. Local businesses Duhn's TV and Appliance and Sedlock Furniture appear among ads. Names include Oscar Christianson, Willard Herke, Alvin Petersen, Einer Bisgard, Mrs. Henry Thomas, Vernon Torreson, and Harold's Drug. Continuous sale dates and contact details appear with each item.
Local items report Sunday church attendance by Mr and Mrs Palmer Cody at the Town Press Convention in Hotel Fort Des Moines last Thursday and Friday. Other notes mention Mrs Lloyd Petersen attending an insurance meeting in Sioux City, Mr and Mrs Elmer Iverson moving to Estherville, and the Iversons’ farm move. The Burgs travel to California to visit their sons Patard Gerald and Pvt Joseph P Mahan, with the latter recently transferred from Fort Leonard Wood to Germany. Additional brief items reference Mrs Roy Resh of Bettendorf visiting relatives, a diploma presentation to Coleen Bales, and space program engineering work involving Davenport personnel and the Bendix Company.
Multiple short ads offer garden space for rent in Gradlinger by Mrs Louis Alger and a garage by Mrs Mary Christianson. Job and service ads include a drug show clerk needed by Harold's Drug, a local loan return notice to Graettinger Coop Grain Co, and a person wanted to service and collect dispensers with car references. Also listed are a Singer sewing cabinet for sale and feed and hay dunks from Graettinger Lumber.
Mr and Mrs Pete Petersen of West Branch Iowa announce the birth of their son Eric Thomas born Tuesday April 11 The baby weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces Mrs Petersen formerly Shirley Thompson of Graettinger is the mother Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Wm Thompson of Graettinger and Mr and Mrs Allen Petersen of Botna Iowa.
Expressions of gratitude from numerous readers thanking friends relatives and hospital staff for condolences visits cards meals and flowers after burials surgeries and birthdays. Individuals named include Ernie Knutsen Martin Simonson Fern Thorson White Joe Leonard Otis Hauge and Minnie Schubbe with Pastor Bestul Reitz and others cited for support.
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