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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
9
In a windy meadow tale Mr Tom Ont spots Mr Mouse atop a barn weathercock. Wind swirls, Tom tumbles to the ground as Mouse clings on, claiming the wind favors him. Mouse escapes into a roof hole while Tom vows to meet him on the ground for dinner.
Mr Mouse boasts of spry climbing and races to the weathercock of a barn while Mr Tom Cat scales to the barn summit. Tom taunts the mouse and asks him to climb down quickly, leaving Mr Mouse in a perilous high position and unsure of escape.
A public note discusses the faulty use of verbal and oral in everyday speech. It argues verbal means written or spoken words and oral means by word of mouth, yet common usage often treats verbal as a synonym for oral. Authorities note the distinction but concede broad adoption is unlikely.
Beauty Chats extols daily baths as luxury and health, urging homes to install sanitary baths with running water and heating. The piece argues a bath energizes the body, clears weariness, sharpens the mind, and increases a house’s value, noting modest costs and practical payback.
A noisy dispute unfolds as a neighbor describes a man planning to marry, threatening to use a woman and harboring anger at a friend. The letter recalls a beating, a screaming woman, and the writer’s intent to intervene, with doubts about the reality of the danger and the narrator’s own actions.
Dialogue excerpt shows Mrs Willa whispering to her husband about the Osh fork amid a refined dinner setting. Mr Willis responds with familiarity, noting repeated fades of a gravy tree reference. The snippet captures domestic humor and social dining cues from a Houston Post page fragment.
The South-bound tourist season rises as October through February bring fashion conscious visitors. New designs emerge at winter resorts guiding spring apparel, with hand made lace, black satin, velvet ribbons, and wide brim hats influencing designers and smart shops.
Pajamas grow more decorative as designers create feminine nightwear with ribbons, chiffon, furbelows, and satin details. Styles move away from masculine models to airy, glamorous gowns with filmy yokes, satin tabs, and ribbon trims. Fabric choices include wash satin and mercerized cottons for durability and drape.
A fragmented note describes a Basque style fitted coat among new cast models. It mentions a drop shoulder line and a novelty feature associated with shoulder styling, but the legibility is poor and names or clear facts are missing.
A U S Department of Agriculture report details that in 1919 rural roads and bridges cost over 400 million dollars. Expenditures include labor materials supervision and administration, with recast totals around 1.6 billion across measures. State highway departments gained control of about 200 million of the funds.
Snow removal from highways grows in importance due to heavy motor truck and automobile traffic. Some states fund snow clearing with appropriations while others lack dedicated money. vital commodities must be hauled next winter, stretchening railcar limits and arguing for state funded road maintenance to keep trade routes open.
Fluctuations in market prices arise from mismatches between local production and annual consumption. Some counties, hindered by poor roads, face four to one inbound to outbound shipments of foodstuffs, suggesting that road improvements could enable self-sufficiency and allow counties to ship products to other markets.
Letter argues that thinning two or three dozen large maples along a graded road would look better and keep it usable. The writer urges shading and less dense rows, blaming the current planting for road obstruction while naming horticulturist Roy Cady of the University of Warm BR Paul.
If you reside on the southern side of the road plant shade trees to shelter hot travelers. In a few years people will say he lives on the farm where those big oaks shade the route.
Farmers profits hinge on no gap between production and transport costs and the market price. Production should stop when transport costs erase the price gap, ensuring no profit or loss.
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