Random musings and odd facts from a turn of century page
A string of disparate notes includes a Kansas City bricklayer bragging 36000 bricks daily, readers urged to read to hens, King Tut's tomb questions, Europe paying debts via taxes on visiting lecturers, and quotes on diction, Luxor truths, and a rising price for men’s hair trimming in New York. A Wis. fish contained a diamond.
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Kansas’ City
Tut
Europe
Ltalk
North Pols
Luxor
Graettinger Post Office Listing and Rates Notice
A brief 1926 newspaper item notes Graettinger Iowa post office mailing designation and subscription prices. One year nine dollars? Six months one dollar. dated Thursday February 26, 1926.
Check Forger Kronstadt Reported Selling Hog Remedies
Harold Kronstadt, a debonair alarmist for a Storm Lake motor company, vanished after confessing forgeries totaling 3387.00 and is now believed selling hog remedies in a northern state. Sheriff Merritt Hoffman and County Attorney Charles Pendleton pursue tips. Kronstadt may be brought back for the February term. Relatives in Forest City think Europe, but locals say he left with 22 dollars for a Chicago ticket.
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Harold Kronstadt
Storm Lake Motor Company
Merritt Hoffman
Charles Pendleton
Kronstadt
Forest City
Europe
Strom Lake
Chicago
Lutheran and German Church Notes for February 28
First Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran church and Lost Island congregation announce English services on February 28 with Sunday school at 10 and 2 30 p m or 11 a m. Rev M Mandsager invites all in Jesus name. German Lutheran notes state a Lutheran service in the Methodist church next Sunday afternoon at 8 o clock with Lent focus on Christ’s substitutionary death led by Rev Otis L Lang.
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Lutheran Church
First
Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lost Island
Eglish
Rev
M. Mandsager
Otis L. Lang
Bizarre Observations on Hunters and Publishing
The passage notes a horse shooting by hunters tied to rabbit scarcity and possible eyesight defects. It contrasts a millionaire funding archaeology with a dirt farmer trading produce for a carload of it. It also mentions 8,800 American books published, implying the critic will review many jackets to write his critiques.
Bank notice from Graettinger Iowa 1926 claims due
District Court of Palo Alto County Iowa ordered that all claims against Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Graettinger be allowed as depositor claims without further proof and that claimants file with the examiner or district clerk by April 10 1926 to participate in asset distribution. L A Andrew Superintendent of Banking acting as receiver.
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Barmers & Merchants State Bank OF
Graettinger
Iowa
Palo Alto County
L. A. Andrew
Tows
Farmers & Merchant State Bank of
Farmers & Merchanta State Bank
Grasttinger
District Court
Terra
Honle
Banking of Town
Hareog
Methodist Church Notes Sunday Schedule and Meetings
Sunday school at 10:00 AM followed by Morning Worship and a sermon We Would See Jesus with special music at 11:00 AM Epworth League meeting at 6:45 PM Evening worship with sermon The Pursuit of Happiness and special music at 7:30 PM Bible Study at Jess Fleming home Thursday 7:30 PM lesson from John 9 Ladies Aid Society next meeting at George home Thursday March Ath hosts Mrs E S George and Mrs Cecil Sampson All are invited
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Methodist Church
Jesus
Epworth ‘League
Jess, Fleming
St. John
Ladies Aid Society
George
Also Mentioned on This Page
Amdahl Meat Market
Simonsen Bros
Jacobsen Meat Market
Wallingford
the Graettinger Times
John J. Sullivan
Nancy
Hawkeye
The
Hawkeye Theatre
Poland
Theodore Knutsen
P. J. McCarty
Gerhart
J. A. Flaming
Steler
Jensen Hardware
Selmer Nelson
Fallon
Tom Barran
Leghorn
Chas. Henningsen
Eine Metsburg
Plymouth Rock
Farmers Supply Co
Emil Anderson
F.C. Wiegmann
First National Bank
Grachtinger
Lloyd Gardner
Times Office
Farmers Grain Co
W. I. Stevens
C. Ieming
Graetlinger
Ll. A. Andrew
Prattenki
Bank of
P.j.mccarty
Emmetsburg
Emmetsburg Rendering Works
Windsor Hotel
Vv. R. Reeves
Prop
Woodman Hall
Iowa Trio Orchestra
Howe
B.S. George
Tom Conway
Graellinger
John Herke
Fonda
Armers Grain Co
Ag Ttosad
Dver Post Giliee W
Stevens
Hrap
TIE First National Bank
D. C. Bakkngei
United States
Montgomery, Ward & Co
C. A. Selee
Wiegmans
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