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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
9
Local college students Ruth Osher Hffee Helgeson Paul Groth Donald Lund and Ruby Jackson returned to Estherville Junior College St Olaf Northfield Minn and other posts. 4-H Embroidery club and lodge events plus circle meetings outline weekly social and civic life in Graettinger with a January schedule of gatherings and officer installations.
Honorary and paying members listed for St Paul Lutheran Ladies Calendar. Includes names by month such as Mrs Hans Woestergart Mrs T J Hendricksen Mrs S K Simonson Mrs Louis Paulsen Mrs John Nelson and many others with recurring monthly entries and social event notes like Christmas Party and Cream Social.
Wanted year round job on farm that is electrically equipped married man ate Times Office for details.
Wallingford resident Clifford Larson of Livermore returned home after visiting his grandparents Mr and Mrs C H Larson. He will depart Livermore Sunday for Milwaukee to resume school duties. Mr and Mrs Lewis Larson and Jami were New Year guests at Alfred McCombs home east of Graettinger. Miss Blanche Maaland Ruthven spent several days with aunt Mrs Theater Anderson during vacation. He and Mrs Lloyd Larson visited Earl Larson near Fenton Sunday.
A miscellany of verse and human notes. Edgar A. Guest laments losing fish and birds, urging care to keep nature's joys alive. Notices recount minor injuries, farming decorations, and local curiosities from Corydon and Denison, plus brief observations on Brittany dances and Alaskan territorial status.
The piece describes Arab customs where equal ranks kiss hands but avoid arrogance by shaking hands. It notes the Ainu of northern Japan rubbing palms and stroking beards, while Negro chiefs snap their middle fingers and Banks Island men crack their linked fingers. It also notes Jamaica’s rivers that vanish into cave systems, unseen by daylight.
Tides ebb and flow twice each minute due to solar and lunar attraction. The moon’s pulling force is about three times stronger, causing uneven water movement across the globe and disrupting equilibrium.
John Sherman, brother of General William Tecumseh Sherman and author of the Sherman antitrust act, served as national representative and senator, was secretary of the treasury under Rutherford Hayes and later secretary of state under William McKinley.
Inscriptions on the black marble Shakespeare statue at Parkway Library show the laywriter’s name in variants like Shakespere Shakspere and Shakespear. Separate notes recount nicotine content of cigarettes cigars and pipe tobacco being entirely in smoke. Sulphur appears in common vegetables and purifies the body.
The fragment indicates Southampton lies 92 miles farther from Buenos Aires than New York, while being 6 miles farther north than the Amppican teetropolig. The text is garbled, but suggests a distance comparison involving Southampton, Buenos Aires, New York, and a referenced city or area.
Descriptive lines praise a mink as a fearless killer in battle and note the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. houses about 95,000 books 50,000 manuscripts 100,000 prints and 250,000 playbills.
The Tintagel people erected a memorial to King Arthur on the northwest Cornwall coast. The text notes artifacts and legends surrounding the sixth century warrior and cites local reverence for his mythic legacy.
An article from Tit bits Magazine describes the king cobra as the most poisonous snake, its size up to 22 feet, and its high intelligence. It notes 20,000 natives die yearly from cobra bites yet many revere and feed cobras, with captives becoming hostile after long confinement. The piece mentions cannibal behavior in another snail-eating species.
No. 10 Downing Street is tied to George Downing the builder of the historic residence of British prime ministers. Born in Dublin in 1622, he migrated to Salem Massachusetts in 1637, graduated Harvard in 1642, then moved to London where at twenty six he became scoutmaster general to Oliver Cromwell. He later received land approval from Charles II in Whitehall in 1077.
The piece notes that Beulah land is not a real nation. It cites Isaiah 42 4 where Beulah means married and applies to Teruel in the verse. It references Dungans Pilgrim's Progress and describes Beulah as a land of rest with singing birds flowers abundant corn wine and perpetual sunshine.
A brief linguistic note discusses two pronunciations for dynasty dal nas t and din as ty. It references historical lexicographers Perry Sheridan Walker Fulton Knight Enfield Knowles Entick Olphinston Jones Jamieson Smart Reidell and notes shifts in British and American usage over time.
The record suggests John Paul added the surname Ericksburg in 1778 in Virginia to hide his identity. A North Carolina family tradition linking the name to Willie Jones lacks contemporary supporting evidence.
The Isle of Pines spans 1,180 square miles with a population of about 5,000. Located roughly 50 miles south of Cuba, it is largely American owned. Chief towns include Nueva, Gerona and Santa Fe. the island grows citrus, pineapples, and potatoes, while cattle raising is the main industry.
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