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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
5
A clerk describes marrying Lucy a shy volatile wife with a cottage on city outskirts. When a burglar threats prompted Lucy to fire a gun from the garret, the husband intervened, police arrived, and the thief was captured. The episode ends with the couple moving into the city to escape danger.
A veteran river steamboat skipper recalls a near fatal voyage tied to a childhood pact with his deceased friend Dick Atherton. After sleepless prep for a Cape Ann excursion, he dreams of Atherton warning him to avoid Folly Point, then awakens to a perilous near-miss with a mysterious redhaired man at the wheel. Atherton later reveals he had staged the visit in person aboard the boat to keep him safe.
Readable segments describe the Graettinger Farmers Institute program on February 8 to 10 with lectures by Prof. Rauschmayer and Prof. W. H. Pew, music by choirs and duets, moving pictures, and addresses by county agents. Premium lists detail prizes for corn, oats, poultry, vegetables, crafts, and writing, plus rules for poultry scoring and entry requirements.
An item lists Le'L. Lindsey veterinarian and C. K. Plereua as offices, with Phosre Graettinger Iowa and P. J. Paulsen as the furniture dealer and licensed embalmers. The fragment notes Graettinger Iowa references.
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