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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
5
Practical guidance on feeding sow and piglets during farrowing. Iowa State College experts advise using corn, tankage, alfalfa, hay, or milk as supplements, keeping sows warm and comfortable, providing exercise for pigs, and avoiding overfeeding or wet, chilly conditions to prevent scour.
Land sales around Story City bring high figures as P C Donhowe buys the Garrie Henryson property just north of the park for 400 dollars per acre. The 35 acre tract, modest improvements, is seen as an ideal site for a fine residence to serve as a home place.
In a fragment from the Titonke Topic an American, William Linaky, a Chicago boy, is named among casualties. The News-World reports he was twice decorated by General Pershing and by King George for courage. As the King completed medal awards to fourteen heroes, he asked if more could be done, and Linaky’s father and mother called for Free Ireland.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a quirky overheard remark about a baby and a man, noting sly curiosity. The sentence structure is incomplete but hints at a humorous or affectionate reaction to the child.
The writer critiques pacifier and thumb sucking in infants, arguing such habits cause facial deformities and potential mental and physical delays. They question why welfare workers do not campaign to ban pacifier production, claiming profits harm national vitality.
The Dispatch this week purchased a Campbell pony-cylinder press from C I Johnson Mfg Company of St Paul. It can run 2000 impressions per hour and will greatly boost the rapidly growing job department. No better printing machinery in Emmet County exists, enabling handling work this office could not do before. We are turning out good work and want more.
Engiwer Ankrum and Brakeman Scherff of Estherville were killed when their engine left the track on a defective switch. The engineer ran ahead and was crushed between engine and tender as the fireman escaped uninjured. Ringasted Dispatch notes a separate incident where Ring Christianson survived a life and death struggle with a bull after it charged him in a field.
The report details hospital drug usage in 1949 with 40,000 drug orders and 2,500 prescriptions filled at the hospital dispensary. A new dispensary is planned to open in connection with the new children’s hospital. Local residents travel and relocate, with farm purchases and home moves noted among families and individuals in the community.
J. H. Long sold the Al gona Monument Works to Godden and Ballard of Emmetsburg. The new firm will operate the business in Emmetsburg and continue the Algona line, with Godden and Ballard previously dominant in the territory relinquishing it after establishing the Algona works.
A 12 acre apple orchard in southern Town netted 218.09 per acre, with an average annual profit of 346.15 and spraying costs of 128.16. ISU extension demonstrators note the orchard proves profitable with proper care, pruning, spraying, and timely picking, countering doubts about orchards on Iowa farms.
The University hospital dispensed over 280 gallons of medicine and more than 100,000 aspirin tablets to students during last autumn's influenza outbreak. Dobell's solution was dispensed in 170 gallons. The hospital used 875 gallons of squid greens soap and 750 gallons of alcohol in the past year, among other figures from the hospital pharmacist.
The Agricultural Experiment Station offers a three-bushel pack of white oats for farm trials via the agency. Hurry, only 85 lots remained as of March 6. The towar is a pure line variety originating in the state.
Iowa State College forestry reports raw black locust lasts thirty years in normal soil, creosote-treated posts up to thirty seven years, while honey locust posts need treatment to reach about thirty years. Many fear honey locust and black locust posts have similar life spans, but evidence shows black locust outperforms untreated honey locust. Also notes plan for ornamental planting around the farm and a classified mix of sale and wanted items from Graettinger area.
A Iowa Corporation named Farmers Supply Company is organized with principal business in Graettinger. It has $20,000 authorized capital stock, $15,000 to be issued immediately and $6,000 later. The business will involve wholesale and retail dairy poultry and agricultural products and related equipment. Board of directors will be 2 to 5 members, with annual stockholders meeting each January third Wednesday.
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