For Sale and Wants Classified Items From Graettinger Area
A long list of local ads includes farm tools for sale such as corn knives hooks and hoes by Sam Watson. livestock and farming items from Browns Stock Farms and John Carlin. oats straw by the bale. live hens priced by size. rental requests for farmland in 1976. books on science and psychology. a rummage sale at Merle Clipperton’s. baby carrier and babysitting services. a church cleaning job. cotton rags buyers. a giveaway collie-shepherd. a four-bedroom house for sale. various buy/sell wants including tractors cupboards and builders’ items. a weathered note ends with a World Book Encyclopedia fact about Chinese naming.
Assumption of Risk Governs Damages Not Fearless Acts
A public service feature from the American Bar Association and the Iowa State Bar Association explains that adults who knowingly take dangerous actions assume the risk of harm. Courts often bar damages when the victim could foresee danger, though obscure risks or reasonable customer warnings can alter outcomes.
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Melvin
American Bar Association
Iowa State Bar Association
Iron fortified formula use in infants improves health
A pediatric nutrition committee notes iron fortified formulas prevent iron deficiency while many formulas lack iron. Few American infants receive formula after six months and whole or evaporated milk supplies iron only in trace amounts. Early iron intake helps prevent anemia, infections, and pale, listless babies. Mead Johnson Enfamil with Iron offers ready to use Nursettes and cans for a daily supply, encouraging early nutrient start to support health. Nicotine is named for Jean Nicota, French ambassador to Portugal who planted tobacco seeds in France.
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Committee On Nutrition of the
American Academy of Pediatrics
Mead Johnson
Nicotine
Jean Nicota
Portugal
France
Lackadaisical origin traced to alackaday exclamation
The term lackadaisical came from early English alackaday an exclamation that dismissed care with lighthearted abandon.
50 Years on Bus: Delos Garrity Retires
Delos Garrity ends a half century as a school bus driver in Iowa. He never had an accident though he faced blizzards, recalling 1936 as the worst year for heavy storms that shut schools for a month.
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Delos Garrity
Literature Coma Golf. Anybody
A reflective poem by A. Carter on learning golf missteps and frustrations. The speaker notes each hole from 1 to 9 with self deprecating humor, describing bad shots, scoring totals, and the mental toll. Despite the scramble, the piece ends with gratitude for community and a serene view of the town.
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A. Carter
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Commission Roster Note
A list fragment shows the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Commission with names Ruthven Holmgren Graettinger Prather and Eldon Macreary and their contact numbers 837 5247 859 5247 and 857 3526 for Graettinger West Bend respectively. The readable text presents a roster style contact note for potential members.
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Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Commission
Vor Holmgren
Ruthven
Bob Prather
Graettinger
Eldon Macreary
West Bend
January Weather Memory by Dorothy Appel
A nostalgic reminiscence on a harsh January snow season of 1975. The narrator recalls heavy snowfall and repeated thaw hopes that never came, followed by a wet spring, then a hot spell. The piece ends with a wish for mixed weather to ease farming life.
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Dorothy Appel
The Farmer and His Modern Plowshare Burroughs Conover
A detailed farmer portrait argues the cost and risk of modern agriculture. It cites a $1500 seed and chemical fill, a single 11 hour workday, and $10,000 to $40,000 machinery needs. It stresses droughts, pests, market volatility, and store hours as pressures, praising the farmer’s independence and pride in making things grow. It also notes the burdens of debt, gear on the road, and public ignorance about farming costs.
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Las Vegas
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Sam Watson
John Carlin
Wallingford
Iowa
Perry Sihora
Marty Brennan
Merle Clipperton
Wanda Thoreson
Msgr
Joynt
Beaz
Roger Krieg
Graettinger Times
Collie- Shepard
Danny Naig
Chevy
IHC
John Deere
Frank ‘Christensen
Martin Norris
Leamark
Norway Mars
Anderson's
Lindsborg
Kansas
Fushi
the Fiy Te
Lawyer
Will Bernard
Mee
Toots
Fairway
Donald
Bob
Paul
Palo Alto County Courthouse
Estherville
The
Flan Time
Capri Cosmetology College
Capri
Federal
Mason City
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