Local News and Social Notes From Gractinger Iowa 1919
Alfred Show traveled from Fort Dodge to Gractinger on Sunday Miss Julia Anderson visited Ivanhoe Minnesota resident John Paulsen called on Estherville visitors Mildred Mahan returned home from Denis Viola Michaels came back from Wallingford and Estherville trip Mr and Mrs Thomas Hurd toured from Minnesota to visit relatives J D Barber and wife visited Gractinger friends by auto Art Bergum left for Indianola with Walter Petersen to run a moving picture show they recently bought there
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Alfred Show
Fort Dodge
Julia Anderson
Ivanhoe
Minnesota
John Paulsen
Estherville
Mildred Mahan
Denis
Viola Michaels
Wallingford
Thomas Hurd
Notable Local Arrivals and Visits Across Graettinger
Don Martin returns to Eagle Grove while Miss Millie Knutson visits from Emmetsburg. Mrs Bailey hosts friends in Emmetsburg with Mr and Mrs Vincent Kelly driving there Friday. Dr Ballheim, a Mason City eye specialist, called in Graettinger Tuesday. W W McCulloch travels to West Bend. his mother resides there. For sale seeks buyers for a Seeker and buck rake in first class shape at reasonable price. Theo Buchanan visits Town Falls to see Miss Lydia Sulman. Gilbaughs travel with Roy to Swea City to visit relatives. Dagmar Petersen returns from Sioux City where her mother is hospitalized. Roy and Merle Gilbaugh work for J A Spies near Dolliver. Families of Joe Klinvel and Merklins attend Nicholas Merklin’s funeral. Two Overlands, relatives of Lars and Halvor Hycsos, sail to Norway after six years in Alaska. Capt T J Hession leaves for Manly for Rock Island auditing work for several months. Wm Duhm returns from France, thinner but fit, after army of occupation in Germany. Mrs L J Clark of Laporte City visits daughter Mrs Fred Levell, with extended family visits from Mrs Perkins and Mrs Tripp, making for an enjoyable day.
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Don Martin
Eagle Grove
Millie Knutson
L Emmetsburg
John Nelson
Theo
Buchanan
Town Falls
Lydia Sulman
Gilbaugh
Roy Gilbaugh
Swea City
Dagmar Petersen
Sioux City
Roy
Merle Gilbaugh
Dolliver
J. A. Spies
Spies
Joe Klinvel
Sheldon
Ed Merklin
George Merklin
South Dakota
Nicholas’ Merklin
Overland
Lars
Halvor Hycsos
Graettinger
Norway
Alaska
T. J. Hession
Manly
Iowa
Rock Island Company
Duhm
France
Army of Occupation
Germany
L. J. Clark
Laporte City
Fred Levell
Harry Perkins
Superior
Hull
Adams
Minnesota
R.B. Tripp
Levell
Funeral Oration on Liquor by Bibulous Prohi
The passage stages a mock funeral for Liquor with Mark Antony style oration by Bibulous, praising Prohi while critiquing liquor’s effects and calling out hypocrisy. It blends political quips and workingman perspectives, referencing New Year revels, the need for restraint, and the abstract fate of alcohol in society. It also includes stray local notes about eggs prices and a funeral of Nicholas Merklin in Iowa, with practical advice on egg storage.
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Balloon Lands Near Algona In Experimental Flight
Balloon flight over Algona described with Lieutenant J B Jordan of the Balloon Service School aboard. It landed on Partello farm southwest of Loxton after passing Storm Lake, then transported to Omaha. government experiments study winds, with flights twice weekly and ballast adjustments noted during the journey.
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aAlgone
West Bend
Algona
Des Moines
Partello Farm
Loxton
J. B. Jordan
Sergica School
Mort Omula
Jordan
Ford
Omaha
Storm Lake
Lake Milla
Jim
Storm Jake
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Charley Jensen Graettinger
the. Graettinger Times
John‘ J. Sulliving
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ZOE Isplay
Boston
Rock Island
Bryan
Prohi
Woodrow
Bibulous
Mrs. Blakely
Macey, Towa
Nicholas Merklin
Poultry Husbandry Department
Iowa State College
Janly
Wildey
Wildey's Phi
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FISK
EAGLE
H. Leslie Wildey
Earben Ray
OPERA
C. A. Selee
Lowa
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