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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
16
Local ads list trucking service by C K Plergeninger in Ioan offer grain tile lumber and livestock hauls. Various sales notes include baby chick orders purebred duck eggs Leghorn poultry and white pecan ducks. Notices urge T D Collins Estate debt settlement by April with interest terms and pasture offers for cattle and horses in Jack Creek township.
Wanted horses and cattle to work a farm with bluegrass pasture and shade. Plenty of water and good fences. Contact J W Crowley Emmetsburg phone 270. Also farm listings for Ray Wadoo and J B Gibgon place section 20 Set Creek township Emmet county. For sale one 11 ft double disc Monitor grain drill in near new condition by Peter Petersen Walnut. For sale Hamilton piano upright new and library table inquire at Times office.
The engineering department of the Red Cross famine relief notes that up to December 8,700 Chinese workers were employed in railroad construction projects. The report outlines labor numbers and the role of Chinese workers in advancing railway development.
Iowa State College engineers report on reinforced concrete fence posts tested for strength using 2½ sacks cement and bank run gravel with quarter inch bars near the surface. Posts with quarter inch reinforcing bars showed double the strength of No 3 wire, with loads between 500 and 1000 pounds to crush. Separately, experiments at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station evaluate phosphates and complete fertilizers with manure and limestone to boost fertility and crop yields.
A fragmented report describes Mme Lubinoff directing a Red Cross relief effort in Warsaw. Refugees crowd a squalid soup kitchen yard near a Russian Orthodox church while working men and former imperial guards perform chores for daily bread.
Minneapolis, Amar Aloyam, self styled king of Arme nia, 18, jailed in Hennepin county on a charge of passing a worthless $50 check to cover poker losses and threatening to summon his clansmen to back him. He told Floyd B. Olson, county attorney, he sought probation to rally tribesmen and reclaim ancestral title from his felon imprisoned rival.
The fragmentary text mentions a local figure and a city official, referencing money units and a political event. Readable nouns point to a municipal context with a possible payment or pledge and a mayoral link.
A petition has been filed in Palo Alto County Auditor's office for the establishment of a secondary road district. The proposed district covers the Graettinger Hoping A B C routes and Hoping Penton A B C D, to be surfaced with gravel, and will include the described real estate.
The Pythian Sisters convene on the first and third Tuesday of each month in Woodman Hall.
Novel neighbors announce lodge nights on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays with George Oracle Emma Shaver as recorder. The ad promotes Reeves Henry Keator Reeves & Keator, Successful Auctioneers, Graettinger Iowa, offering pure bred hogs and farm live stock sales. Contact numbers 2 on 193 and 3 on 11. Date your sale now as dates fill quickly.
An advertisement for a sanitarium run by J. Larsen at a residence offers painless treatment for rheumatism constipation stomach trouble piles bladder issues asthma bronchitis liver and kidney complaints corns bunions ingrown toenails sprains bruises headaches and hair growth restoration listing a wide range of conditions treated.
Engineers at Iowa State College advise checking spark plugs first for tractor ignition trouble. Common causes include cracked porcelain, dirty or spread contacts, damp insulation, and shorts. If the engine misses under load, inspect plugs and adjust the spark gap, typically around 1 32 of an inch, with testing to find the best setting.
W H Lupp Iowa State College extension poultryman advises hatching pullets before June and July to sustain size vigor and productivity. Start hens off nests in early April for earlier chick results and better prices, but avoid nervous frail hens and protect nests from mites lice and rats.
A quip laden piece notes that if every woman had all the clothes she wanted the rest would wear barrels. Panama has dispatched sixty troops under a general. A corporal guard would become a decimal issue at that pace. A plumbers convention paused when the chairman returned to fetch a gavel. A Kane surgeon self operated for appendicitis. At this speed men may become their own undertakers.
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