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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
3
Absent minded professor learns his colleague had been in love. He recalls a long courtship and a proposal met with acceptance. Days later he visits again and, forgetting the earlier proposal, proposes once more.
Four Indians rode into town in an old car for a night of revelry. After heavy drinking they returned along the road. One Indian said they were nearing the reservation because they were seeing more Indians on the way back.
A distressed child tells her father that her mother drowned one of the family kittens. The father consoles and questions the reasoning, while the child insists the mother promised to do it. The scene depicts tension and a troubling moral dilemma within a domestic setting.
A dieter and her friend enter a butcher shop after four weeks of dieting. The woman asks for exactly twenty four pounds of meat. The butcher confirms the weight and jokes about sending it or showing what losing weight looks like in one piece.
A woman browses blankets in a department store asking a patient clerk to take down each blanket. She confesses she was not there to buy items but to find a friend, joking that if her friend were hidden in the last blanket, the clerk would gladly remove it.
A customer asks the price of bread and the grocer explains a ten cent loaf versus a twenty cent loaf. The customer questions the difference and the grocer clarifies that the higher price simply reflects the more expensive loaf.
A brief grocery exchange notes tomato prices, with the shopper asking about discounts and the grocer confirming a rise from thirty cents yesterday to thirty-five cents today, illustrating a small market fluctuation.
A terse police encounter interrupted a young governess pushing a baby carriage along a shady park path. The brief exchange occurred as an officer approached the woman and the infant, revealing tension and concern during a likely routine welfare check.
Classified items list electrical equipment drills pumps hog troughs and machinery for sale. Entries show sellers J D Minear Earl Davis Evenson Motor Co and more with locations in Des Moines Sheldon and Sutherland Iowa. Also job ads seeking automobile mechanics and a home circulation position for a magazine.
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