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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1931
Page
3
A Graettin ay postmark dated March 12 1981 highlights concerns over financiers and corporations gaining power at the expense of democracy. The speaker argues governments must curb corporate authority to prevent repeated financial and industrial disasters and to avoid domination across states.
Local brief reports Estherville visitors Mr and Mrs LeRoy Bartleman Monday George drove to Sioux City for business A H Henningsen drove to Des Moines for business Remember the Frank Herke auction sale Friday March 18 sale begins with a free lunch at noon Elsewhere in this week s Times the Frank Herke auction sale ad notes Mr Herke will hold an en
March 18 report notes Mr. Hester's father ill prompting a trip by Me and Mrs Stephen Hester from March 18. Gracttinger boys who visited Plover last week praise Paul Mekkelson son of Rev and Mrs C J Mekkelson as a star basketball player on the Plover team. Paul was a local school student for four years.
School notes report travel for girls basketball to Bancroft on Friday March 18 1931 to enter the factional tournament with Seneca at 3 30 pm joining other teams Ledyard Bancroft Lone Rock Ringsted Graettinger and Seneca Doliver withdrawn Forest Peterson observes Emmetsburg trip to see Abraham Lincoln A history class itinerary Volunteers for cars arranged Preparations start for a high school baseball team with twenty boys practicing Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays eighth period Juniors select their class play Are You a Mason cast to be announced later Edgar Grein reports the Independent basketball team lost 43 to 34 to Union Giants at the high school gym Students with high marks listed for February 27 First Grade Phylis Clemensen Donald Hartman Betty Stevenson Edward Weir Second Grade Dorothy Hoxie Charlotte Howard Alicea Strain Leo Young Third Grade Angela Craven Marjorie Fink Leo Grady Edwin Graettinger Jean Harris Doris Henningsen Roland Luechsinger Richard Spies Dorothy Swift
A list of students by grade names and spellings appears, followed by notes on an operetta practice during the eighth period due to girls basketball travel to Bancroft. Mention of Stanford Raleigh broadcasting a March 6 talk by Hon. P. H. Danson on bill passage and Civil War veterans. Sophomores and Juniors vote on next year’s subjects with ranked Roman numerals.
A jumble of dated quips, jokes, and wordplay presents snippets from Finnie and Duff style humor. It includes lines about sleep, funerals, names, misheard phrases, and light political or social references, followed by verse-like reflections on life and progress.
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