20 Dec 1900
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR lists city officials including mayor, street commissioner, assessors, and council members. Mentions names such as Berguson Olson and Spies are noted amid garbled text, with reference to a 68 member council or committee.
Our Improvements details improvements on stores and residences in Graettinger for 1900 with totals around 13,600 and 11,000 for various properties. It notes a favorable prospect for a building boom next year and advertises Prairie land distribution and a farm for sale nearby. The farm offers 260 acres two miles north with 146 cultivated, timber, fruit trees, and new buildings.
A fragmented note praises bright eyes as a sign of youth and notes how Cupid may target ten males with such gaze. The quirky line implies attraction and dating notions framed in a light, perhaps risqué, tone.
An advertisement by C. J. Lande, auctioneer, lists contact options in Terri Iowa and promotes a 12x14 inch Atlas of China sold at large stations. It notes pricing 10 cents per copy with postpaid sending at 13 cents, and mentions Cedar Rapids IA and the Pacific & Northern Railway route.
A witness from Kentucky testifies to suffering before giving evidence and credits Kings new discovery with instant throat relief. The remedy, used by the witness’s family for four years and sold at 50 cents and 1.00, is claimed to cure coughs colds and lung troubles and even consumption. Trial bottle offered free at Bills Drugstore.
Advertises on sale the first and third Tuesdays of each month at Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway stations to various destinations at a low rate. Contact Cedar Rapids Route agents or J G Parmer A G Prand T A B Cedar Rapids Iowa. Also quotes a testimonial praising Martwig’s Lung Balsam as the best cough cure for children and throat and lung troubles.
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