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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1939
Page
2
The Graettinger Times notes its publisher John J Sullivan and postal status as second class mail matter with its motto The Paper That Makes News Interesting.
A Fortune poll reveals only 1.7 percent favor entering World War II in October, down from 2.3 percent in September, while over 84 percent support England France and friends winning. Officials fear war but public stays wary as business signals improve and firms raise profits. Steel and textiles push toward near-maximum output as consumer trade shifts domestically.
Prompt action by a fellow employee at a Davenport power plant likely saved Morris Marshall. After he slipped and fell toward a live wire, another worker climbed the pole, pushed him away from the hot conductor, and summoned aid to bring him down. Marshall suffered a severe burn along his left arm from elbow to shoulder.
An oldWant Ads pitch urging readers to use the Graettinger Times Want Ads to sell unwanted items or offload unwanted commitments. It emphasizes quick, profitable exchanges and implies both buyers and sellers benefit from advertising.
Ancient regard for flowers bark leaves and roots as cures spans eras and continents. From medieval beliefs that plant shapes matched body parts to Shaker commerce and ginseng myths, herbs shaped remedies and commerce, with some plants offering oils laxatives and others posing risks under medical guidance.
The coco de mer, the world’s largest fruit, grows only on Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles. Discovered by Fifteenth Century Portuguese explorers, its double nut puzzled sailors and fetched high prices in England, with specimens weighing up to 50 pounds and maturing after seven years.
The article describes the green stone or jade as a gambler’s mascot believed to bring luck in games of chance and racing. It notes historical attributions of eye, kidney, and digestive benefits, mentions jade finds in Peru, and cites a belief linking jade to Virgo birth dates.
The article notes that New England and New York colonists used shell beads as money. White beads from periwinkle shells and black beads from clam shells were shaped, polished, and strung into belts. Beads circulated as a prevailing currency for a time before counterfeiting undermined it.
FragmentaryOCR notes discuss United States Constitution clauses on coining money and declaring war. Mentions Congress powers to coin money regulate foreign coin and standard weights. Includes garbled phrases and possible misreadings of historical text.
Stratford on Avon in England links deeply to William Shakespeare’s birth life and death. The simple Henley Street house, owned by the British government, is restored as a museum and library with his room on the upper floor. A garden features plants from his plays and his grave lies under Trinity Church altar.
A London Answers Magazine writer explains that fissure lines in all tubies and curved lines in synthetic tubies distinguish real from imitation stones. Faked emeralds use a crystal core coated with genuine emerald and require removal from settings to reveal the deceit.
The strait of Gibraltar, though often seen as the Mediterranean's chief outlet, is technically an inlet. Evaporation lowers Mediterranean water below Atlantic levels, drawing in fresher ocean water through the strait despite large river inflows from Nile Rhone Ebro Po and flows through the Dardanelles. The sea covers over a million square miles, about a third of the United States, and touches Europe Asia and Africa.
A London Angwars Magazine correspondent recalls Euclid who founded a math school in Alexandria. A royal pupil asked for a shorter explanation. The teacher replied there is no royal road to learning. The anecdote highlights the lasting truth of patient study.
The ancient name Eire Eire for Ireland, used 2,000 years ago, is pronounced Air-a with emphasis on the first syllable. Ireland measures about 308 miles across the island, its outline an irregular oval, likened to a knobby potato nicknamed Irish. The potato is spoken of as Ireland’s adopted child.
Barbara Haver Garblra Fritohie was born in Lan bia on date uncertain. She studied in Baltimore and was connected to John G. Fritehie. Known as benevolent and quiet, she enjoyed flowers and thorough reading. She had no children and lived in West Patrick. Prior to the Civil War she resided in Breederick.
An authority from the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution argues rock evolution is primarily chemical. The magma origin, its basic composition, and gradual crystallization explain how basalt to granite formed, with intermediate stages and occasional reversion to prior types observed.
In 1725 Peter the Wild Boy was found in a wood near Hanover and described as about 13, walking on hands and feet, living in trees, feeding on moss, and speechless. Brought to England in 1726 he was exhibited for King George I and lived on a farmer’s pension, never articulating beyond a few sounds and using animal calls to express feelings. He was observed to have sharp senses and was believed able to understand birds and beasts, drawing interest from scholars until his death in 1785.
Bermuda islands boast a string of oddities including a yellow flowering thistle without thorns edible for rabbits and fowl a travelers tree yielding drinkable water when tapped the monkey puzzle tree with thorny unscalable trunk the air pine vine growing on boards and tin the small rock sample vine brewed as tea or coffee and dried cala bash used by wrens as a home
The name Vincent stems from Latin meaning conquering and has Italian forms such as Vincenzo. Notable Vincents include St. Vincent Ferrer famed as the angel of judgment who preached across Europe, St. Vincent de Paul devoted to care of the poor, Venetian painter Vincenzo Catena praised beside Titian, Vincenzo Campi renowned for small figures and fruits, poet Vincent Espinel whose verses inspired espinelas, and English poet Vincent Bourne noted in his era.
A fragment outlines mammal characteristics. It states mammals nourish their young with milk, are covered with hair, possess mammary glands, and separate heart and stomach by a diaphragm. The text is fragmented and contains several garbled phrases.
A London Tit-Bits writer notes that marriages age with metals from iron at one year to diamond at sixty and platinum at seventy, with popular choices including copper tin crystal china and pearl. Queen Victoria reportedly refused a seventy year mark, deeming seventy-five years the diamond period.
Britannica notes vast northern forests and bustling lumber, mining, and fishing industries north of 60 degrees latitude, housing over a million people and numerous animals. In contrast, the southern polar region lacks permanent human inhabitants, trees, or most life, with whaling as the sole seasonal industry and ice covering most of the land.
The gibbon is the most two legged of the anthropoids, with an upright gait and long legs. He can swing across a 40 foot space between trees with timing like wings. Night roosts in a tree crotch, clasps knees, and uses the back of his hand as a drinking sponge by moistening the fur.
The Washington Post notes American frogs leap farther than European frogs with trained jumpers. Trainers boost jumps by frequent hopping to develop hind legs, though temperamental frogs may refuse to perform. The sport once thrived in Western mining camps where prospectors wagered large sums on a single leap.
The Chatealyda Chil fon near Lake Geneva hosts a famed historic dungeon tied to Francois Bonivard. Between 1530 and 1536, his imprisonment inspired Byron's The Prisoner of Chilfon. Since then countless tourists visit the cell and inscribe pages with names like Lula Singstein and Hugo, among others.
Tenpoth narrates a statue of Lincoln in the Washington Cathedral Washington D C. Executed by Herbert Houck of Harrisburg Pennsylvania and presented by his sister Mrs Wiig T Hildrup Jr of New York. Houck was inspired after hearing his grandfather recount a reverent kneeling procession.
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