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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
4
An ad promotes Mort-O-Dine Chick Starter at 2.80 per bag promising life and growth with a tasty, nutritious mash. The seller, Al Hurlburt, a Phillips 66 Station representative, also offers quotes on Riverside Tires.
Mr and Mrs Albert Schealler and Mrs Frank Schneller visited at the Carl Frye home in Whittemore Thursday afternoon. The Scheallers and family and Mr and Mrs Tom Corti fan and son James spent Sunday at the Khmer Schneider home in West Bend. T J Kirby of Sioux City attended the funeral of J W Jackson in Emmetsburg with relatives in Graettinger. Fred Jackson of Renville Minnesota also attended J W Jacksons funeral and visited Graettinger with M K Mahan and Jack Jackson family. The page notes a feature horoscope by Norvell in The American Weekly.
Estherville and Graettinger area residents were guests and visitors across several towns including Des Moines Emmetsburg and Algona. Notable mentions include Mrs J P McManus Mrs Woodrow Wilson Mr and Mrs S M Andersen and families and the Graettinger reunion of the Chiiatiangon family with multiple relatives from Illinois California and Iowa gathering.
A local woman continues under a physician’s care three months after pleurisy. Friends express hope for her early and full recovery to health and strength.
Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau reported total Savings Bond sales through March 1, 1940, exceeded 3.86 billion in maturity value with about 1,987,374 investors. The tally notes daily averages since 1934 and lists post office top performers led by New York City, Glen Ridge New Jersey, and Chaska Minnesota in various classes.
About 16 000 post offices sell United States Savings bonds with annual regional purchase reports flowing to postmasters. An Avoca man took his wife and two neighbors to Harlan for Gone With the Wind but the four hours of window shopping stretched the trip. Corwith janitor Charles Erickson found a muskrat in a furnace room and locked it in, only to have it chew a hole and end up in a swamp. Waverly farmer Hudson Case lost his brooder house and chickens in a fire that also destroyed his trailer home. Farmington Gravel pit at Bloomfield reveals gold and mercury promising possible commercial extraction from sand.
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