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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1927
Page
13
Mrs Charles H Blackwell of Rapid City dominates bee farming winning the title of state champion. She harvests 0 000 pounds of honey annually from her bee farm despite previously fearing bees. After her mother’s death she invested 75 in her business and now manages 75 colonies with swarms reaching up to 75 000 hives.
An advertisement extols Fletcher's Castoria as a safe, vegetable remedy for infant ailments. It claims quick relief from colic, constipation, and fever without harsh drugs, praising its taste and gentle action.
A list of questions covering diverse topics including ethnography, science, geography, literature, theater, and history. Questions ask names, origins, definitions, distances, measurements, and identities such as the Indian girl guiding Lewla and Marke, spontaneous combination, the billiard champion, an opera, New York to Philadelphia distance, Concord school members, walnut value, next congress, sun’s surface and volume, a New York Evening Post writer, the city nicknamed Pittsburgh of the South, the first man to swim the English Channel, the first Thanksgiving in New England, fingerprint identification, a theater incident involving Lincoln, the Italian city on a marah, the author of a work, frog egg count, current secretary of the treasury and state, and Earth’s equatorial diameter.
A scrambled OCR list includes questions and answers about physics, astronomy, biology, geography and notable names. Items reference General Fred J. Unston, Thomas, Sammy Mandell, The Hudson river, several US cities, a mountain, the Erle Barge canal, Selma Lagerlof, and terms like harvest moon.
An Liberty feature notes Camilla as the world's greatest emotional role. It cites Eugenie Doche as the first to stage it in Paris and lists stars such as Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, Helena Modjeska, Clara Barton, Fanny Davenport, Nance O'Neill, Olga Nethersele, Margaret Anglin, and Ethel Barrymore as having graced the part, underscoring its enduring prestige.
A short extract contrasts secular and sacred music and priestly roles. Secular derives from age and refers to worldly affairs. It explains secular priests remain in the world while sacred music belongs to the church.
In Cuero Texas the turkey season ends with a large public market drive where up to 8000 fowl travel 19 miles over two days. A wagon leads, corn is scattered to move them, and lame birds are placed in the wagon to town. Night roosts are under trees before ceremonies and a turkey king presides in a parade.
A nostalgic poem celebrates Thanksgiving as families reconvene from far and wide to a bountiful feast. Vivid imagery of open kitchens, fragrant pies, and lantern light frames a tribute to home, heritage, and the Pilgrim legacy guiding a nation’s season of gratitude.
The piece celebrates Thanksgiving as a symbol of national unity and prosperity after war. It praises traditional American dishes from oysters to pumpkin pie and urges enjoying the festal board without shame while reflecting on peace, abundance, and the return to better selves. It calls for a Bacond turkey feast and cherishes the American way.
The message centers on the gospel of the first presidential call to thanksgiving and a new dispensation of freedom and justice. It describes ideals planted deep in the heart, nourished through years, growing stronger despite wartime storms and shaping wisdom and vision.
A new device aids painting of mile-long electric cables across a river near Tacoma Washington. Two semicylindrical brush blocks fed by a tank paint the wire as a small car runs the length of each cable with two workers aboard. The system uses a hand crank and rubber rolls to move and press the device along the line.
A health note warns that excess dietary acids can overwhelm sluggish kidneys causing backache headaches and rheumatic pains. It recommends four ounces of Jad Salts dissolved in water daily for a few days, plus plenty of soft water, and visiting a physician if symptoms persist.
A fragmentary line reads as cultural and physical allusion with color metaphors about mood. It juxtaposes physiology with culture and hints at a playful yet nonsensical exchange. The text is fragmented and lacks clear news value.
Advertisement touts Cola's Arborisalve as quickly resisting and healing burning skin diseases with no scars. Bo and Boo at druggists or J. W. Cola Co. Rockford Ill. promote the medicine.
In a Vancouver Province snippet young Clarence asks about a pest harming cotton, and his father answers it is the silkworm, framing a rural learning moment about cotton troubles and silkworm pests.
A philosophical reflection on facing fear with faith, suggesting that the best outcomes arise when effort and belief align, and that perseverance yields positive turns in time. The sentiment echoes classic quotations on courage and hope.
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