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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
8
A Graettinger Times item describes dairy cows suffering from fly annoyance in summer and offers a DIY fly spray. Ingredients include coal tar dip fish oils coal oil whale oil oil of tar and laundry soap. Spray morning and afternoon to quiet cows and protect coats, using a portable two wheeled half barrel.
Advertisement notes sale of spraying equipment and promise of mass application at one cent per cow per day, with thirty gallons serving forty cows twice daily for ten days. In Milford area, Chas Heldridge awoke to four wolves attacking his sheep. three fled, one attacked his shoulder but was repelled by his dog.
A collage of comic quips and rural anecdotes from a small town. Plumbers, vacations, weather jests, babies, and misread headlines populate a humorous page. Warily, residents rib each other about silly misadventures, horse wrangling, and a mock stock company pitched from Park City, Montana.
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