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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1955
Page
3
Gracttinger gym revealed official basket height had been nearly three inches low since the late 1930s. The correction brings baskets to regulation height and raises questions about other gyms with undetected mis measurements and darked lanes.
Frosted second growth sudangrass or sorghuma is highly toxic to cattle and sheep. Only about 60 percent of those qualified voted in the 1952 election.
A garbled OCR fragment provides a long list of personal names and multiple church affiliations including Immaculate Conception Maynard Methodist Church First Lutheran Our Savior s Lutheran Paul Tele st Paul s Lutheran South Walnut Church Wallingford Lutheran Immense Lutheran and C B Gundersen, lacking clear context or a verifiable event.
A devotional note references scripture from Luke 7 922 and Romans 8 3159 for Sunday services. The fragment highlights a religious reading plan and aims to guide personal reflection.
The text argues Jesus’ miracles were acts of power done for good, not showy or aimless. It contrasts divine acts with magic, noting miracles were for healing, feeding, raising, and bringing good news, always for others and never for self-display. It cites Luke 8:46 and Acts 10:35 to reinforce the benevolent intent.
Early Thursday hours saw an intruder break glass at Nelson Service station and steal $6 in silver. A fire at Ray's Cafe near Graettinger prompted a swift response. Other notes report a heart failure death, a Ford fire loss, fine fall weather, and corn husking progress alongside school lunch menus.
Graettinger Nursery shipment to Evanston near Chicago prompts manager HR Bink of Graettinger Telephone Co to report pipes in Graettinger are energized. Grounded radii cause widespread trouble as power leaks through water mains create noise on telephones. Linemen cannot locate the short causing the charged pipes.
An unknown hunter shot a 600 pound Hereford calf on the Ernest Luth farm near Walnut. The calf lay in a bluegrass pasture before it was killed.
Home gardeners are advised to check soil moisture by digging to the roots with a trowel. If the soil around the root zone is dry, proper watering should be applied to protect trees before the first frost.
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