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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1951
Page
6
A witty exchange turns into a note on love as a man outlines how a second husband entered the picture by a fateful street collision with the first husband. The narrator suggests romance blooms from unlikely events and hints at surprising marriage plans.
A spinster reported a problem after two workmen repairing wires near her home used coarse language. The foreman described the scene, noting he was on the pole when hot liquid fell and struck Bill Smith’s neck, prompting a caution to be more careful.
A nine year old boy David rushes to Sunday school with breakfast on his face. The teacher scolds him for not washing and asks what she would say if she had egg and jam on her mouth. He replies that she would stay quiet and polite.
A Kentucky colonel directs his cook to bake ham with whisky then rum then brandy for successive hours. The cook jokes the gravy will be wonderful. A stockbroker seeks clerks and tests them with a question about who formed the first company. A bright youth answers Noah floated a company during the world’s liquidation.
Report from Sing Sing describes an inmate walking to the electric chair while surrounded by attendants and reading a copy of Quick. The scene captures a stark moment before the sentence is carried out.
A humorous exchange centers on a town court where an officer testifies he is certain the defendant was intoxicated after witnessing the man perform a penny meter gag and shout a pun about losing fourteen pounds. The line captures a comic tone rather than a case outcome.
A clergyman visiting a village home spent the afternoon with his hostess when a boy burst in with a dead rat. The child claimed they killed it, then, lowering his voice, said the clergyman had been called home by God.
The seven member President's water resources policy commission urges a single national water policy law, federal leadership, and an overall program including reclamation, irrigation, flood control and hydro electric power. It argues development must encompass entire basins and that hydro power is essential to the program's feasibility, with strong implications for private power interests.
The commission urges stronger public water power development and private cooperation to meet national needs. It estimates a 93 million kilowatts capacity rise and 400 billion kilowatt hours annually over 20 years, calling for federal licensing, transmission rights, and marketing flexibility to include public and cooperative systems in a shared power future.
State legislatures and city councils are urged to pass laws licensing baby sitters, private kindergartens, day care agencies, and nursery and play schools. Proposals favor regulatory over revenue aims, citing health and safety risks from unstandardized care and calls for examinations and moral character verification.
A vintage style ad describes a ready mixed cough syrup made with granulated sugar or corn syrup, water, and Pinex in a pint bottle. It promises rapid relief from coughs due to colds, loosening phlegm, soothing irritated membranes, and easing breathing with a money back guarantee.
A Cro Magnon male, famed as a tall handsome figure of Europe in the Stone Ages, lived roughly 30,000 to 10,000 BC. He was clothess conscious and learned to craft better garments by cutting skin and sewing pieces together.
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