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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1903
Page
10
Local notices detail visits by Glenn, Grauttinger, and A. J. Hourt to nearby towns. residents travel to Sioux Falls, LeMars, and Emmetsburg on business and social calls. The Woodman picnic, county land deals, and new toll-free connections are noted, along with school staff changes, a church meet in LeMans, and preparations for fall advertising.
Reports from Chicago hospitals describe Tolifson as resting comfortably after a neck operation revealed no lumpy jury. Doctors suspect a possible liver abscess and weigh another operation. Condition worsened briefly Monday but improved again by Tuesday, with hopes for recovery.
Classified notice fragment seeking sale or rent of house and lots with barn and well. inquiries directed to Huer Stewart in Graettinger. Additional incomplete line offers pasture and stock grazing, seeking reasonable prices, contact I. P. Manan in Graettinger.
Public notice advertising employment for young men to fill government posts and merchant contact roles. Offers permanent engagement with weekly cash salary, travel and hotel expenses advanced, no experience needed. Includes self addressed envelope and references. Also promotes a wheat and barley food product claiming strength and vigor.
Hote Real Estate Bargeing solicits exchanges for farms and land in Iowa and nearby states. Listings include Emmet County plots of 100 to 240 acres with improvements, timber lots, and houses with lots in Estherville and Ratherville. Also noted are parcels in South Dakota Nebraska North Dakota and Colorado with various sizes and improvements. Contact A. M. Soheil?nhor, Estherville Ia.
R Speer and wife with J H Giddings and wives attend the Woodmen picnic at Storm Lake. Osgood forms a Gun Club with C H Giddings B Chadwick J Graettinger J Pixley Fred and A 2D Dickanson as charter members, rifles only. Dr Adams and family visited by old friend Mr Morebeiser. E Chadwick sold wolves to Frankie Smith A Butler trains a fast horse daily. Grave fears of race track fever affecting Butler not the horse. Mrs Pixley visits Cedar Rapids. Mr and Mrs O Wells visit Dolliver.
A fragment notes numerous alum baking powders in circulation. It criticizes products advertised as cream of tartar based but containing alum and mentions CALUMET and CHAPMAR'S among those labeled as reprocessed or misrepresented.
The list shows numerous local subscribers from Ringsted Ruthven Wallingford Osgood and nearby towns who have paid their subscriptions in recent months including Briggs C Christensen 7 K Craven G and John Nelson P.P. Also noted are several households in Medina N D Curlew Iowa and additional donors and organizations contributing to the periodical.
The notice advertises half fares to Boston on June 24 45 and 26 with extension to August 1 available by depositing a ticket at Boston and paying 50 cents. Open to all on the basis of the First Church of Christ Scientist annual meeting. Rock Island offers arrangements for officials. details from Rock Island ticket office or Jno G Farmer D P A. Fireworks for sale at Dalen's.
Extraordinary low round trip rates from Graettinger to Danver and Colorado Springs and Pueblo for July first ten days. Return validity until August thirty first. Rates honor annual Christian Endeavor meeting but open to all. Special folder with full details available from Rock Island ticket agents or by mailing Inc. G. Farmer Des Moines IA.
The excerpt notes travel from California from July 1 to 10 via Rock Island and return by August. It also mentions a housekeeper hearing about alum and a cheap baking powder priced at two cents per pound versus cream of tartar at thirty cents. The implied quality is linked to price.
A garbled ad describing a back ache remedy named De Geta box of Kidney-Btt offered at 26 cents. The readable text signals a small patent medicine style promotion with unclear branding and pricing.
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