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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1930
Page
6
The piece mocks wasteful spending on dinnerware and fashion mania, noting women paying $260 a dozen for plates and the futile wish to undo month end expenses. It contrasts typhoid and TB as ancient scourges and jokes about tax advances and a King Tut fad sparking female rebellion against restrictive styles.
Finder returns to Wm. Lammers at 8-00-2-x for a lost trick endgate between Ben Petersen place and Graettinger. The brief notice seeks the owner and offers return.
Multiple notices announce candidacies for public office. S W Sandvig seeks Republican nomination for Fourth Supervisor district pending June primaries. P 3 Paulsen also runs for Fourth Supervisor district. H E Barringer of Ruthven announces bid for State Representative from Palo Alto County pending Republican primaries on June 2 1030.
Dwight G. McCarty declares his candidacy for State Representative from Palo Alto County on the Republican ticket at the June Primary. This formal announcement names McCarty as the party choice seeking to represent the county in the upcoming legislative session.
Local directory listing for Graettinger Iowa services includes Justice of the Peace real estate insurance and collections. farm land and town property sales. non resident property management. multiple barber shops with modern facilities and patronage appeal. APE eatery offering beef and pork sandwiches coffee pie home cooking and short orders with ice.
Local Graettinger listings promote Frigidaire services, a livestock shipping association with regulars meeting every second Wednesday, and several merchants. The Farmers Grain Co emphasizes home ownership of business, highlighting feeds, flour, and reasonable prices. Quaker Oats Co notes fresh flour, seeds, coal, and grain prices. Amdahl’s Meat Market upgrades to a new building offering meats, fish, produce, and groceries with contact numbers.
City Meat Market Simonsen Bros Prop Graettinger Iowa offers fresh and cured meats groceries and staples with low prices plus bakery items from Graettinger Bakery open Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Raepe Proprio M. Raepe promotes home bakery goods and courteous service in Graettinger.
Dr T Nare and Dr J P McManus list medical offices above local stores with hours 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. Residence and office contact numbers, plus funeral director L T Lewison licensed embalmer at Henderson Furniture Co in Graettinger Iowa.
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