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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
6
A flood of short notices details visits from Martin Tinghlin and others, a Sanborn baseball tourney upcoming, and local travel to Lost Island Lake for picnics. Residents from Estherville to Spirit Lake attended gatherings, visits, and church events while weather hazards and a windstorm impacted crops.
A severe storm toppled a shack trapping two women inside their claim until neighbors freed them. The wreckage crushed crops across the area, leaving fields ruined as reported by the Armtrong Journal.
Alfalfa hay is praised for horse feeding but requires careful use. Do not exceed one pound per hundred pounds of live weight, equating to ten to twelve pounds daily for a typical farm horse. Feed only high quality mold free alfalfa, preferably mature when cut, sometimes fully in bloom. For weaker digestion, mix half alfalfa with timothy.
A humorous piece reflects on small debts owed to a country editor by readers who pay their other bills while neglecting the editor. It contrasts tiny repayments with the reader’s own bills, noting how many small sums could build a sizable bank balance if collected.
Joseph Miller, a farmer three miles west and two miles north of Whittemore, lost his horse barn Sunday forenoon to a blaze sparked by lightning while he prepared to cut grain. Fire consumed the structure with no stock inside except one calf freed by Miller.
Dickenson of Moline Minnois left for Mason City Wednesday evening after a week with old friends at Osgood and in Emmetsburg. He notes corn is lagging in the Moline vicinity, with better progress on the Rock River bottoms but prairie land harmed by excessive rain and cold. He was accompanied by his grandson and visited his son Albert in Mason City.
Excellent Plan lays out wooden sign posts with red paint and four arms in the business district to guide traffic. Left arm reads Slow, right arm Keep to the right, top a red lantern kept lit at night. The measure reportedly reduces risky moves as even children and motorists follow the signs.
A St Louis Post Dispatch report notes a Perasin custom allowing an executioner to seize over 700 tomans from victims’ families after performing his duties. If payment is refused the killer may be punished for life, leading to the sentence often being commuted as the executioner refuses to work for nothing.
Aunt Maria, a cook in boarding houses and private families, notes harsher quarrels in families than in boarding houses. She joins a private home where Beate reigns, and she wonders if the family is truly kind. The mistress asks why, and Matt replies, Nobody would have thought it. They act so nice to one another that they seem perfect strangers.
A noted arithmetician is described as deeply devoted to numbers, so much so that with no problem before him to solve he rests his eyes on figures. The anecdote highlights his singular preoccupation and the quirky charm of mathematical fixation.
An odd vignette recalls a man living in Fulton labeled a bandit who hoards a single book and a box of cigars as he observes the limits set on reading. A London Globe reference notes clever retorts and a character who questions whether books and newspapers should be refused.
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