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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1951
Page
3
A 40th anniversary profile recalls how installment selling began with the first car sales in 1911 and transformed American life. The system fueled mass production, lowered costs, and expanded consumer access, reshaping cities, recreation, and the economy with broad employment and industrial growth.
A reader recalls a dubious want ad promising a guaranteed mousetrap. He buys it for a dollar, imagines dramatic devices, and, after his wife sketches a plan, receives a heavy wooden block and a lead pipe with odd instructions. A stray line notes Lake Tanganyika’s depth at 4,700 feet.
Baltimore born Gary Moore, formerly Inez Gerhard Thomas Garrison Morfit, rose from continuity writer to television star after a last minute radio substitute impressed audiences in 1939. A public haircut incident sparked protests and a new permanent style supervised by Perry Como.
A compact list of crossword style clues with numbers and terse hints. Includes entries such as four letter Employ and six letter Ritter of Tunis, six letter Piece of work, seven letter Hallowed, archaic Old times, 11 letter A branch railroad, 13 letter Ventilator, 18 Not any, eight letter Soar, six word Short haircut, and more. Also includes 92 and 83 as numeric markers and 35 Noblemen with lump of earth as a final clue.
An Iowa farmer, starting with nothing, saves to buy 160 acres of cornland in ten years through frugality and thrift. He later owns 460 acres, provides for his widowed mother, and demonstrates opportunity through self-reliance. The piece contrasts self-help with promises of government aid and notes automobile deaths outpacing war casualties.
The 70-150 Winchester, a rare old experimental cartridge for the Model 1887 shotgun, was long baffling experts. Only 25 to 35 exist, with recent notes by Paul Foster and references in Gun Digest and Carl Logan's Cartridges. Also covered is Ocean City’s EZ CAST backlash control for saltwater reels, praised for self containment and compatibility.
Wisconsin head waters country promotion reports 842 muskies caught in Vilas county through week six of a 22 week season. an average 140 per week could total about 3000 muskies, with weights and lengths tracked and a 50 pound 56 inch tiger musky from lac vieux desert noted among top catches.
Dorothy Barclay offers home canning tips with summer surplus fruit. Learn to pickle watermelon rind and spiced peaches and pineapple using vinegar sugar and whole spices. Follow steps to blanch peel cook seal jars for winter treats.
Fairborn switches from weekly to daily as the town near Wright Patterson Air Force Base expands rapidly. Population has risen from 4,500 pre WW II to 16,000 in five years, with 70 percent connected to the base. The new daily replaces the 84 year old Fairborn Herald.
Kentland Indiana undertook a campaign against mosquitoes and other pests after record rainfall caused heavy infestation. The town board funded and supervised spraying while residents were urged to remove water containers where insects breed.
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