This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1928
Page
8
A Plymouth resident states the Lydia W Pinkham Vegetable Compound enabled her to complete housework and garden chores while caring for a three year old. She has recommended it to others and offers to answer questions about her experience.
To ease pain in joints and muscles, Joint-Enge is promoted as rapidly absorbed. The ad urges frequent application for quicker results and claims availability at druggists across America. It lists uses from sciatica to back ache and chest colds, priced at GO cents.
extension horticulturist Glenn G Rondal of North Carolina State College outlines four key steps for transplanting vegetable seedlings. Protect roots by lifting soil with plants, soak the rootball, prepare soil well, and harden off plants before field planting to ensure vigorous growth and better yields.
Revision of express regulations to ship poultry takes effect January 1, 1929. Cages must prevent overcrowding, tops slatted or wire screened with 1 inch mesh, and coops over 160 pounds with contests rejected. Charges based on gross weight at shipment line. Carrier delays helped shippers prepare, reducing head crushes.
Alfalfa may be sown in early spring or on ground after a crop harvest in summer. August sowing is possible on well prepared soil. Prepare and harrow fields to control weeds before sowing 12 to 15 pounds of seed per acre with shallow wheat or drill. lime soil if sour, inoculate, and apply stable manure plus 400 to 500 pounds of fertilizer containing 12 percent phosphoric acid and 6 percent potash for poor land.
Agricultural hints emphasize weed control as main cultivation goal. Sweet clover's rising popularity noted. comments on asbestos shughes walls and seed corn printing. In northern Wisconsin, heavy gall yields doubled. sweet clover with small grain plowed under boosts corn yields by ten to twelve bushels.
Frank Fontana unveils an 18 by 18 inch clock claiming to be the most intelligent timepiece on earth. It displays time for 29 cities including San Francisco and provides the moon phase and tide data. The inventor spent seven months building the device with 500 visible parts.
Detroit News describes Blackfeet funeral rites around the Missouri headwaters where a father tolls earth upon his head to summon mourners, relatives strip possessions and clothing, and some cut fingers to show sorrow while others weep and are scorned.
A quirky dialogue from a London Tit-Bits style piece opens with a jokey exchange as a crash survivor meets a doctor named Peter. The banter pivots on mistaken identity and a light humorous tone about medical roles.
In Reserve Marie the inked exchange questions marrying a thrifty man. She would marry one but not be engaged to one, illustrating a playful Berlin Ulk moment on money and marriage. Read as light social satire from the period.
A humorous exchange mocks a magazine purchase, featuring a jab about a miserly judge and a photographer’s front-page girl image in Life magazine. The fragment highlights playful banter and cultural references of the era.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.