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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1933
Page
5
Article discusses reducing the gold content of the dollar to ease debt burden, noting Iowa farmers could gain if produce prices double. Includes church notes from Lost Island, Methodist, Lutheran, and St Paul’s churches with service times, meetings, memorials, and Mother’s Day plans led by Rev. Mandsager and Rev. James P. Christensen.
Simonsen Broad Props advertise City Meat Market in Graattinger Iowa offering a large stock of fresh and cured meats. They promote Sunday dinner specials with ham bacon cream milk bread and a complete grocery stock including fruits and vegetables under low consistent prices. Contact phone number 71.
Quaker Oats Co thanks customers for past patronage and invites continued support. The store advertises fresh flour supplies, Quaker and Mother’s brands, a full line of seeds and salt, and low prices on Blue Diamond and Virglow coal as well as Orient Egg and hard coal. Office and house phone numbers 72 and 2 on 128 are listed.
The note details composer Stephen Cotling Poster known for My Old Kentucky Home who wrote 164 songs including Massa's in the Cold Ground Old Black Joe Old Dog Tray Uncle Ned Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming and O Folks at Home Foster died in 1894 in poverty and debt.
Notes on Old Testament references to fowls such as partridges and the fatted fowl in Kings, with interpretations suggesting goose or duck. Mentions Persian cocks and hens, a Marissa tomb from about 200 B C showing a crowing cock, and sparrows among birds used for food.
Perpetual care means headstones remain straight fences stand taut and grass is mowed and replanted as needed. A lump sum is paid to the cemetery association and its interest funds these services.
A letter signed by Anthony Wayne notes strict grooming standards for soldiers. Each company was supplied a barber and soldiers must not appear with long beards or slovenly hair, reflecting commanding officers' demands for neat appearance.
Woodpeckers gather acorns in California and store them by letting them decay in holes cut into telephone poles. In winter, when digging for worms is hard, they feed on these wormy acorns.
The island Bb na, once a three acre immigration base, has been enlarged over time to about 23 acres. Much of the material used for expansion came from foreign countries as ballast and ship debris, with earth reportedly sourced from various seaboard regions of Europe.
The article notes uncertainty in exact buffalo counts but estimates about 50 million bison roamed the plains between Manitoba and the Texas plains in 1850. It reflects on the vast scale of the buffalo population before drastic declines.
Tornadoes swept through areas causing damage but generally lasted under an hour, leaving scattered wreckage and prompting emergency responses from local authorities and workers in affected districts.
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