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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
24
Feature snippets from a rural paper sketch a mix of humor on a new maid, cemetery quips, and farm inventory. A Estherville farmer advertises a cow yielding five quarts daily plus farm tools. a town poet urges a press slogan change. light social jests about bedtimes, merchants, and household economics appear alongside Irish jokes about rats and biscuits.
Colonel Link of Weat Point describes Will McWilk seeking a cow to yield five gallons of milk daily for twins and triplets, amid a Donnellson review. The spring memories theme follows with verses reflecting childhood scenes and sassafras memories.
A quirky exchange notes a woman obsessed with shopping. A speaker says she even visited a prominent surgeon to price various operations, prompting disbelief. The brief human-interest vignette highlights consumer frippery and sensational prices.
A local merchant reports a foreign woman returned high overshoes saying they were too large for her leg. The scene includes a racist caricature remark and a public anecdote about a merry-go-round rider, followed by a stray transcript fragment and a wide range of disconnected quotes from a Straits Settlement journal.
A grocer in Brokesley confronts a debtor planning to move away, remarking that suing would be pointless since the owed amount may not be recoverable. The exchange hints at unresolved debt and potential fallout as the neighbor prepares to leave.
A collection of brief vignettes and limericks from a bustling shopfront era. A debtor clings to paid goods and a cigar, a pawned suit returns home, and merchants are cast as the steady, unseen backbone. Verses celebrate the merchant’s toll on fairs, churches, and lifelike civic life, with Paris guides and Napoleonic tombs closing the sketch.
A London Tit-Bits quip describes a layered container humorously declaring a very great man lies within. An American replies that if he ever escapes, to cable at his expense, capturing the satirical tone of the period.
An ex captain now managing a new 10 million dollar hotel boasts that all staff are former service members. He notes the desk clerk, floor clerks, cooks, and other personnel are ex-military, with humorous quips about former MPs used as window washers on the eighteenth floor. The passage ends with a nudge to advertise local property and farm items with the Graettinger Times.
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