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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
8
Recipes for mixed pickles include Ohio Mixed Pickles and Variety Pickles with peppers onions and beans, plus Ripe Cucumber Pickles and Baltimore Pickle with tomatoes cabbage onions horseradish and vinegar. Local names and towns appear in a list of residents and voters from Estherville and surrounding townships.
Instructions describe picking over berries, layering with sugar in jars, letting them stand overnight in a cellar, then cooking juice and berries gently with a sugar syrup. Fill cans with fruit and juice, seal, invert briefly, then cool to ensure berries stay intact and colored.
Pick over currants wash drain and stem them. In preserving kettle combine currants sugar raisins and vinegar then cook until thickening. Add cinnamon cloves allspice and vinegar continue cooking to a thick sauce.
The list names Petit Jurors for Emmet County including locations Estherville Ringsted Dolliver Armstrong and Estherville townships with multiple docketed residents such as John J Hanson H L Carroll and Otto Wold, among others. The period document enumerates juror candidates by town and ward with several entries from Armstrong and Estherville.
A Youth's Companion line argues persistent effort matters more than mood, suggesting the strongest path to achievement is to work whether or not inspiration strikes. The quote emphasizes steady habit over immediate desire.
A collection of classified items includes lost property offerings rewards for a small account book and a request for a white rage suitable for press work, plus a 60 acre improved farm near Graettinger with easy terms. Also notices seeking land to list and a church ice cream social August 14 1915. The file ends with a probate notice for Christina Knudison with hearing set October 11 1915 and district court clerk E M Thompson signing.
In Palo Alto County on June 17 1915 District Court appointed O Sande as Special Administrator of the lands chattels and estate of Christina Knudtron deceased with full power to take possession and perform all duties under the law Witnessed by Clerk E M Thompson and the court seal on June 17 1915
B J McCarvill aged 31 was killed instantly while crossing the tracks at the head of Illinois Central No 52 eastbound six miles northeast of Welo. A brake team was thrown against the guards and both horses died. McCarvill leaves a widow and four children.
Secretary Daniels requests Thomas A Edison to pursue a wave defence bonus and Edison accepts. Reportedly he has nearly completed an electrical invention that could ignite explosives aboard a submarine or battleship from 25 miles away, signaling a potential wartime device pending patent.
The Muscatine Island melon crop failing for years is blamed on a lack of honey bees. Beekeepers once supported pollination for long vines, but the industry declined, cutting bee numbers and ending pollination. Researchers note vines ten to twelve feet without melons, supporting the theory.
Notice to landowners in Palo Alto County Iowa that T R Martin M C Larsen and J S Martin have filed classi fication and assessment reports for drainage district 83. Hearings set August 23 1915 at Piersons Land office Grant Town to inspect and object before noon. By order of the Board of Supervisors W F Bagi
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