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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1904
Page
7
A jumble of notices from Estherville area lists relatives traveling from Chicago and St. Louis, visits by Mayor Cameron and others, and multiple farm and town names. It notes marriages, deaths, and legal notices, plus upcoming meetings of medical associations and local fairs with speakers and exhibitors mentioned.
A short ad blurb touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the fashionable weight gain remedy. It praises tea or tablet form sold by T. D. Collins & Co, emphasizing plump waists and a 36 cent price.
The Chutes in Chicago features a circus, country fair, summer park, concert garden, theater, and miniature world. Attractions include water cascades, Loop the Loop, laughing gallery, midair automobiles, giant carousel, vaudeville, animated pictures, and a dazzling light display.
The letter page includes Theodore Marks ads for low dry goods and millinery in Graest inger, with Emmetsburg Democrat editor rebuked for anti Jewish remarks. Responses defend fair dealing and condemn bigotry while recalling local business tensions and public scrutiny.
Fragmentary 19th century classified style noting horse sale En quire at this office and other notices. Mentions Rocky Mountain Ten and various local printing and advertising services. Contains names and scattered lodging about sales and organ or piano instruction.
In August long trains of knights will traverse mountains to the Pacific coast for the Great Triennial Conclave to be held September 6. The event promises comfort and pleasure for attendees and urges participation, with travel plans and costs noted in a promotional pamphlet.
Private property notice by B F Lillard in Crain Grove asserts rights must be respected. Classified ad from J H Gammon offers screen doors and windows for sale. Also itemizes a Short Horn bull about 18 months old owned by L Tow located 84 miles west of Graettinger.
A. B. Peterson Artist advertises gallery hours on Saturdays and Sundays each week in Graettinger Town.
Wanted for sale or rent pasture at Osgood pasture four miles north of Graettinger. Good grass and water. Cattle eight dollars per head for season, horses four dollars per head. O D Barrett Wallingford. Also 25 head cattle to pasture on Burr Oak farm price three dollars per head Basie Jacobson. The Iowa Homestead Poultry Farmer and Times subscriptions offered at one dollar fifty cents per year. For rent forty acre fenced pasture one mile northwest of Osgood inquire James W Nuian Ruthven Iowa.
A fragment notes a red bull and a person named Thompson with pay or payment details mentioned, suggesting a livestock handling or sale context. The readable wording implies a transaction or claim involving the bull and a person named Thompson.
The Rock Island System was declared the official route by the Epworth League of Iowa to travel from Iowa to Chicago for the convention in July. Officials from the Iowa cabinet endorsed the line, noting its magnified service and reliable schedule as a key link for attendees traveling to the event.
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