02 Mar 1905
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1905
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows a mayor, city officials, and council members including names like W. Cameron, T. Collinge, M. Axelton, and Wm Blom. Roles such as mayor, commissioner, marshal, and council members appear obscured, with multiple garbled fragments around titles and names.
Listings show Methodist Church holds services at 10:00 AM and 7:80 PM. Norwegian Lutheran Church announces Sunday services per Pastor. M B Church offers alternate Sunday services. Methodist and Norwegian Lutheran sections note regular and special worship times.
Mary Asenath Cooper Lowe was born in 1852 in North Adams Massachusetts and moved with her family to Iowa as a child. She married James M Lowe in 1868 and raised ten children. the family settled in Bowbells in 1903. She died February 9 1905 after a short illness, leaving a devoted widow and mother and active member of the M E church. Funeral services were conducted February 12 at the Bowbells M E church with burial in Bowbells cemetery.
Advertisement notes rail passage rates for settlers traveling via Minneapolis and St Louis to California Oregon Washington Idaho Montara. Tickets available daily from September 16 to October 15 with departures each Thursday to San Francisco. Credit and contact details for A B Cutts, G P & T A, Minneapolis Minnesota.
In Palo Alto County Iowa a 1905 notice announces T D Collinge a registered pharmacist seeking a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquor from a Graettinger address upon a city lot on Robins Avenue. The application will be filed with the district court clerk by March 1905 and heard at the March term.
The morning session centers on stopping catalogue competition. M L Corey urges stronger local advertising and higher home trade, arguing merchants build communities while mail order savings harm towns. He calls for doubled advertising contracts and local loyalty.
Notice to qualified electors of Graettinger district Palo Alto County Iowa that annual meeting will be at Donion's office on the second Monday of March 1905 at 1 pm closing at 6 pm A director will be elected for a three year term to succeed Wm Mueller and another for three years to succeed A Axelton Graettinger Iowa Feb 28 1906 T Larson Secretary
The Transportation Committee of the Iowa Epworth League selects the Rock Island System for travel from Omaha to Denver for the Grand International Epworth League Convention in July. A special low fare of 15.00 is authorized with routes Omaha via Rock Island to Denver and return. For full information contact Geo. I Hauffman or GQ. Farmer, Des Moines Cedar Rapids Iowa.
The Times advertises 1905 calendars produced in office for immediate pickup. It promises quality work at lower prices than competitors and no mail order needed.
A cominent singer has offered a tombstone in a gesture described as a positively last farewell. The report notes little press attention but hints at a solemn, definitive endnote to her career.
A palmist claims to have foreseen Kipling's rise and suggests his WWI era fame might have eased public anxiety. The piece brushes past malaria microbes as tiny, powerful life forms and questions whether eugenic cruelty watchdogs should condemn those harming tiny beings.
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