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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1931
Page
6
A Storm Lake Register report details a punch board scam in Iowa where slickers pose as customers to buy 10 cent punches. A marksman hits prize numbers from 20 to 25 cents, winning 40 to 60 dollars while leaving the shop owner with depleted capital prizes.
Mrs Henry Hauge, after three weeks in Rochester, returns home and shows health improvement. Mr and Mrs Iyer Oppdahl visited Mimmetsburg. Olu Olann and C B Sampson called on Ruthven and Ea Therville residents. Florence Wilson spent time with parents in Eartherville. William and Ralph Mason visited Batherville to see an ill relative. R Nelson, formerly local, suffered a stroke. family hopes for recovery at Birney Hospital.
Local notes recount visits by Myra and Mrs Will, Robert, and Miss Carrie Hanson to the Alting home in Ruthven. Many relatives and neighbors, including the Thoresons, Hansons, Christiansens, and Larsons, visit, travel, or attend church and community events across Ruthven Estherville Graettinger Ringsted and nearby towns.
Statement of ownership for Graettinger Times lists publisher editor and business manager as John J. Sullivan and notes owner is Sullivan. Also contains a tax sale notice regarding Graettinger Corporation land in Palo Alto County with redemption period of ninety days from service, dated September 1931.
Notice to Tofila M Dorris that Lot 4 Block 6 Consignys Subdivision Emmetsburg Iowa was sold for taxes in 1924 1926 1927 1928 to Julius Skow. The certificate of sale is owned by Skow and redemption will expire upon service of this notice. A Treasurer's Deed will be issued if not redeemed by date of service. Dated September 21 1931. Julius Skow.
In Palo Alto County Iowa the North Half of the Northwest Quarter in Ormsby’s Second Addition Emmetsburg was sold for taxes in 1922 28 24 26 26 27. Julius Skow currently holds the sale certificate and redemption must be made within ninety days from service of this notice dated September 21 1931.
Sheriff R. L. Shea announces a foreclosure sale under a 1931 deed with Metropolitan Life as plaintiff and multiple defendants. Real estate described includes parts of section 6 and section 29 in Palo Alto County, sale date October 16, 1931, at the Emmetsburg courthouse between 9 am and 4 pm, to satisfy $5,861.02 debt plus costs.
A dense, era newspaper local commerce section listing barber shops meat market and grocery offerings. Includes City Barber Shop Bartleman’s Barber Shop Quaker Oats Co Graettinger Bakery Farmers Grain Co and other merchant notices with contact details and brief service notes.
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