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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1916
Page
4
The savings bank is a reservoir uniting scattered dollars into powerful funds. Deposits from many become a single loan to a borrower for homes and projects, fueling labor and industry. One bank’s mortgage loans circulate, supporting schools, streets, and public works, benefiting the many.
A playful verse imagines Shakespeare as a baby, child, lover, and old man, reimagining his speech with modern slang and comic twists. It riffs on early schooling, courtship, and imagined hauntings, ending with the poet’s ghost critiquing contemporary culture clubs and staging.
A comic verse play unfolds in two scenes as a judge grills a defendant about a stolen shirt. A witless defendant confesses to nonsense alibis while the plaintiff laments a lost suit. The judge mocks the shirt’s absence as court ridicule.
A fragment from Life quotes a shattered reputation describing its motion down steps after a massacre. The speaker recalls asking what it was and learns it is a reputation just released from a female bridge whist party, provoking a grim, ironic image.
A letter from a mother to a teacher grants permission to whip her son Sammy as a method of discipline, describing him as like his father and insisting the teacher should beat him with a club if necessary, ignoring the father's input.
A fragmentary quotation attributes to Jules Payot and Mayme a reflection on temptation. It notes the devil must vary his temptations for sinners while the idle mind errs easily. The snippet ends with an observer remark about a good looking fellow who sat nearby.
The piece blends quips about performers and diplomats with local life updates. It mentions Dr A H Schooley’s new office and hospital, a quiet wedding in Spirit Lake, Elsie Dodge and Ros Winslow, schoolteacher visits, town hotel opening, a push to hire at the depot, flax shipments from Maulsby, and a 500 acre flax effort yielding about 11 750 dollars gross plus net income per acre after expenses.
All work at the Mason City brie and tile works has stopped as workmen go on strike. The stoppage affects production and local supply, with no immediate resolution noted.
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