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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text notes a market focus and money in small traits. Mentions washing market, snow, and heat-producing stimulants, with references to a difficult twill and a wonder tier. Entities and clear facts are sparse due to garbled source.
A damaged OCR fragment references "second-class" notices, mall rates, and poetry lines. It mentions advertising rates with display and possible monetary figures like 60e or $1.00, but lacks coherent context or full names, places, or dates. The readable bits suggest a late-era classifieds or notices page fragment.
The article stresses soil preparation in equal hills before planting as crucial for fruit farms. It advises mowing alfalfa pasture at least three times yearly to encourage regrowth. It notes corn as a strong hog feed but only valuable when used with other feeds.
A large hunt for fugitive Ralph Lopez continues in the Utah Apex mine where a maze of tunnels sits. Despite a day of digging to noon, officials report no sign of Lopez, who is alleged to have fled toward Chicago with ties to Mexican police informants. Miners crowd cliff shelves near the Andy tunnel as odds against his capture rise.
Mrs Jepson wife of Dr. Aabarhasat Tat files divorce action in Sioux City. The complaint cites irreconcilable differences as the basis for the suit and seeks alimony and custody arrangements as applicable under state law.
The snippet lists several married women by name including Mrs. John Mowett Mrs. Gus Peterson Mrs. John Bosold and Mrs. Boyd Crimrina, suggesting a column of social notices or wedding announcements from an old newspaper segment.
Mrs Cunningham of High Lake township died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning from the Catholic church of this city. Full obituary to be published in next week's Times.
A Fresno special dated Jan 7 reports 135 unemployed men marching thirty five miles toward Bakersfield with one settlement en route. The group crossed Terra Baja to Delano, entering Kern County, while Kern County supervisors pledged to aid the marchers. Advance agents have reached Bakersfield seeking free food and shelter.
A fragment lists individuals and dates across Emmetsburg Graettinger Wallingford and Hoping Iowa towns. Entries include Anton Nelson Jan 7 14 and Jan 14 14, Pat Montgomery Jan 8 14, M K Traeford Jan 12 14, L D Mitchelltree Jan 13 14, John Mowitt Lewis Paulsen Jan 14 14, M W Curry Jan 20 14, H P Jorgenson Jan 21 14, V L O Connor Feb 4 14 to Feb 10 14, Jackman Derrickson Feb 12 14, Joe Swift Feb 23 14, W G Hutchings Feb 24 14, A Spencer Feb 26 14, J T Michaels March 3 14. The list appears as a local register or mailing disbursement.
An exhortation argues that a merchant who advertises in the home paper offers a true written contract of good faith. It urges readers to prefer advertisers, suggesting nonadvertisers may be old fogies or afraid of something and warning against doing business with back numbers.
Local post office parcel post figures show carrier No 1 J C Molison carried about 1500 packages on the big route while carrier No 2 Ward Noble delivered about 2000. The note predicts much higher totals for 1914 due to raised weight limits in zones and across parts of the United States.
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