14 Jan 1897
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
1
General local notes report Preston Bahne Stock Co and related firms offering underwear stockings Christmas wares and holiday items. Mentions Preston Falnestock Co and Pahnestock firms selling flour cranberries apples and winter goods with a car load of handpicked New York Winter Apples noted as received.
Hoovercovers and Tanrate promote low rate round trips to Northern Western and Southern states with One Fare plus $2.34 for the round trip. Dates include June February 2 and 10 March and April May 4 and 18. Tickets valid 21 days from issue date. Also notices for the National Cycle Show in Chicago January 23 to March 8. Health advisory warns keeping up health to prevent disease, urging care and proper remedies.
A garbled historical OCR entry lists scattered places and names such as Cedar Rapids Kansas City San Francisco and Omaha. The text blends travel references with nonsensical terms and names, offering no clear event or outcome.
A garbled passage presents scattered references to California travel, radio and cheap transit guidance, and a Cedar Rapids address. It includes misread court or county notes, mentions of Iowa county supervisors, and fragmented lines about expenditures and road work, with no coherent narrative or clear dates.
The record lists multiple road grading projects between Great Oak Emmetsburg and Avent Onie with officials Pat O Brien Mike Molloy and John Hand, plus bridge work on Des Moines river at Union grade crossing. It notes bids, fiscal details, and adjournments of the Bala Alto county supervisors in early 1897 with resolutions to construct safters and establish highways under specified conditions.
The piece extols Rev Hicks and his journals Word and Works and Ama Inae for a decade of steady growth and rising national regard. The 1897 Almanac is announced as the finest issue yet, with 168 pages, color illustrations, and comprehensive content for office and home use in America.
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