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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1903
Page
4
Gracie contends with marital doubt as Bruce Conway declares lifelong love and a plan to win Grace, while Paul Connery confronts betrayal and social ruin. The scene unfolds with tension over marriage, wealth, and a proxy reunion as the couple faces an uncertain future.
British navy strengthens with a new gun called the hollowvetnch steel and wire gun claiming supremacy at sea. It weighs fifty tons, fires 850 pound projectiles up to twenty miles, with a 16,000 yard effective range and 2,467 feet per second muzzle velocity. Each battleship will carry four. the breech is simple enough for one man to operate. An American rival gun weighs 124 tons, nearly fifty feet long, fires 2,870 pound projectiles, and has a range claimed to exceed the British model with four-year development and $500,000 machinery. Both weapons symbolize advances in naval firepower.
Geese raising offers profit with careful care, especially Embden stock. Goose incubation, gosling nutrition, and weather sheltering are outlined alongside wide 1900 poultry counts and values. Separate notes discuss milk yield differences from skilled milking and garden cultivation for income and home sustenance.
An illustrated design for a chicken coop with a slanted light frame and muslin covered run attached to the coop. It keeps chicks outdoors yet sheltered from sudden showers, hooks at corners allow quick attachment, and the setup can be scaled to desired dimensions for brooders or open runs.
An expanding German dried vegetables industry reports a West Germany factory with a 20 percent dividend, processing 1,076 tons of produce including French beans, carrots, beets, celery, potatoes, cabbage, onions, and turnips. Nearby farmers now cultivate 125 acres for the company and another 50 acres nearby. The piece also notes farm tips on fence-post lifting and asparagus cultivation, highlighting early sowing, weed control, and nitrate use.
German authority recommends fallowing and deep harrowing in fall and early spring to destroy perennial root stocks. Afterward rake and burn to eradicate weeds. For horsetail and related invaders a thorough drainage combined with cultivation is advised to reduce spread.
Judge Foster of the Court of General Relations in New York denounces the idea that marriage reforms a man. A young man charged with larceny faced a suspended sentence due to an engagement with an "estimable young lady." Foster refused, sending him to six months in the penitentiary after noting a bad record. He urged the woman to reconsider her promise, a stance praised by Leslie’s Weekly for challenging the outdated belief.
In Garnett Arkansas Mary Dunlop endured kidney trouble for 18 years. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a remarkable cure and now tells friends of the relief. A Texas woman named Mrs Garrett also credits the remedy for saving her life from cerebro spinal trouble.
The text describes Lord Kitchener replying to a British officer who boasted after shelling Boers. The officer claimed the Boers were "dropped from their saddles" in several engagements. Kitchener answered with a curt telegram implying the Boers did not harm themselves.
Suffered from ever failing eatarrh and found relief with Flys Cream Latin claims. Testimonials from Oscar Ostrom and others praise cure of entarrh and headaches. Product sold by druggists at 50 cents or by Ely Brothers in New York.
An American wintering in Naples rents a first floor from a noble family of diminished means. Each day a servant carries a door up and down the stairs. The riddle behind this sight is solved: the family shares a carriage with others, but keeps separate doors bearing their coat of arms to fool friends into thinking they own carriages. Allen's Foot Ease advertises a powder to relieve foot pain and improve shoe fit, priced at 25 cents with samples by mail through Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y.
A fragment from a Washington Times item describes a chaotic zoo scene where a giraffe and a flamingo moved erratically. Keepers nearly witnessed a dangerous entanglement as staff tried to separate the birds without harm.
The Washington Star quotes a politician saying he never went back on a friend while critics claim unkept promises. The bland reply asserts the people he undoes promises with are not friends but enemies. Also notes creameries use butter color with Jund Tint Butter Color.
Fragments show a dialog about a conflict with a servant-girl profile and a mention of a Minnesotan figure Wigslow. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR but imply a discussion of domestic or social strife and public life in a comical or sensational tone.
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