Transit tale of travel delays to Cuba in 1919
Letter recounts a winter journey from Graettinger Iowa to Cuba via Minnesota Tennessee Alabama and Florida. Describes railroad strikes in Cuba prior to passports delays in Chicago and Jacksonville and passes through Tennessee cotton motifs Birmingham timber coal and turpentine regions with notes on time zones and Jacksonville attractions. Also mentions St Augustine oldest house tour and church announcements and a Spirit Lake basketball tourney plan for March 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Sullivan
Cuba
Chisholm
Minnesota
Graettinger
New York
Chicago
Jacksonville
Florida
Kentucky
Tennessee Line
Milan
Tennessee
Alabama
Birmingham
Pittsburg
South
Georgia
Columbus
Washington
Havanay
Santiago
Maine
United States
St. Augustine
United ‘States
Ponce
Ponce da Leon
Subscriptions and Social News Roundup
Local families spent Sunday visiting relatives. G E Moore shipped five carloads of cattle to Waterloo for sale on February 25 and 26. A box social at Hilda Anderson school raised 92.10. Sermon at Riverside Church and a visit from Mrs Joe Kiingel were noted. Dr Naae treated a patient in Graettinger.
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Wallingford
L. BE. Crim
Crim
McTigue
Estherville
G. E. Moore
J. O. Overholt
Havelock
Iowa
Hilda
Anderson School
Roy
Paulsrud
Riverside
Joe Kiingel
Sheldon
Town
Naae
Graettinger
Frank
Eneidee
Saturday Specials at the Auction House
Readable catalog style items list Pure Sorghum per large pail one dollar twenty maple syrup per quart eighty five cents Virginia Sweet Pancake Flour eight packets buck wheat flour ten pounds sack ninety cents Rice flour ten pounds sack forty cents Outs flour ten pounds sack eighty five cents Corn flour ten pounds sack thirty cents Brooms your choice one dollar Goblin soap six bars twenty five cents note: several OCR fragments appear unreliable and pricing listed where legible.
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Virginia
Death Notice and Local Arrangements in Sherburn
Mrs Chas Neidecker of Sherburn Minn dies after influenza and complications aged about two weeks of illness. Survived by husband four brothers and four sisters and three young children. Funeral held at Riverside church with Rev Paularud officiating. Community mourns as casket adorned with flowers. N O Osher travels to Waterloo for cattle sale on 25 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Heidecker
Sherburn
J. QO. Kasa
Ruby
Norris
Paularud
Wanted Land te lint and other small ads in 1919 Iowa paper
A mixed mercantile notice page lists Wanted items including land, an Anpene bev hung heed te mall, and a Grachtinger area mailing address. Small ads announce for sale Rhode Island Red cock erela Mia and four Poland China boars, plus six tons upland hay and potatoes. Found pair of mittens and a bungalow for sale are noted alongside a lost heifer notice. A school district meeting notice for Graettinger Iowa sets March 1919 election times and budget figures for 1919, with financials and board forecasts.
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Wotica
Grachtinger
Palo Alto
Iowa
Graettinger
Chris Henningsen
Financial Statement
General Fund
John O. Jertson
Farmers Supply Company Organizes in Iowa
Mnato corporation named Farmers Supply Company is formed in Iowa with $20,000 authorized capital, $15,000 issued initially and $5,000 optional. It begins business immediately for 20 years, to trade dairy, poultry, agricultural products, livestock, and related goods, with real estate and a two thirds debt limit. A. J. Johnson serves as president and J. P. Jensen as secretary-treasurer until the first election on the third Wednesday in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mnato Corporation
Iowa
Farmers Supply Company
Grachtinger
A. J. Johnson
J. P. Jensen
Rare sawhet owl captured by student in Iowa region
A rare sawwhet owl, a small arctic bird, was captured by Russell Hendee of Dubuque, a University of Iowa student. Professor Homer R. Dill, museum expert, notes only one other such capture in twelve years. The bird's name comes from its sawlike call and it migrates southward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Hendee
Dubuque
University of Iowa
Homer R. Dill
For Sale Two Black Colts
For sale two black colts one three years old and one yearling advertised by T Bullivan Gracttingoz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Bullivan
Gracttingoz
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Rita Rey
Cathcart
Oriente
M. E
Gradlinger M. E
H. C., Riley
Spirit Lake
Williams
Amoa St Inten
Armes
Algona
Maida
Sioux City
Rock Rapids
Milford
Lake Park
Lin Grove
Sneldon
Spencer
Hartley
Gractiinecs
Armstrong
Rockwell City
Merch
Iowa High School Athletic Association
Snpt
Asley
Charley Jemson
Maxine
Buster Brown
C. A. Jensen
Lewis Lippold
Ganettinger
Rhode Island
Red Cockerela
Mia, ‘Tyndall
Saly
Poland
Rich Alyward
Times Office
M. T. Axelton
Graedttinger
H. FE. Wilert
Sam Christiansen
I'Allow
W. I. Stevens
The
Times
Estray
James McCarty
Main Street
Polly
Frank Johnson
Henry Appel
John Bondhus
Jorgen Andersen
V. L. O'Connor
Farmers’ Brain Co
Farmers’ Grain Co
V.L. O’connor, Yoreurbany
T. D. Collins
Bealer
Sherwin-Williams
Chevrolet
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