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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1922
Page
18
A tiny squirrel Miss Chestnut loves her warm burr home high in a tree. When Jack Frost arrives with winter, her house falls and she confronts him in a quarrel over the weather and her comfort before warmth returns and she forgets the danger.
Helen Ferguson Hazen Ferguson, a versatile young performer born in Decatur Illinois, rises to the high point of her career in a late popular production. She writes paints and acts, and began her career in Chicago about six years ago following early film work. Best for the Weary.
Winter baby layette and apparel guide highlights cozy knitted items. It urges scarves hats gowns stockings and booties in wool and silk blends, detailing four gowns four underskirts three dresses and a coat plus snug caps and mittens for cold outings.
A nostalgic tobacco promotion urges readers to join the Edgeworth Club by trying Edgeworth Plug Slice or Ready-Rubbed through free samples. It promises a sense of camaraderie among Edgeworth smokers, outlines product formats, packaging, and ordering details, and invites retailers to contact Larus & Brother Company for prepaid samples.
A quirky etymology piece traces the name Winifred from Gwenfredd or Gwenffrewy, linking Welsh legend and St. Winifred to popular forms like Winnie. It notes Welsh cultural prominence, Saxon variants, and cross-Atlantic preferences, plus charms around the name and its lucky associations.
In a McChire Newspaper Byngate column the piece stresses promptness in social duties. It contrasts good manners with neglect, citing delays in replying to invitations, sending condolences, or returning borrowed money. It highlights the habit of timely correspondence as essential and notes one busy young woman adopting this practice to avoid overdue letters.
An analysis explains why 1g pure wood alcohol differs from potable alcohol by its poisonous effects. It notes rapid conversion to harmless water and carbonic acid for ordinary alcohol, while wood alcohol forms formic acid, damaging the brain and organs, causing blindness or death.
A young woman, seemingly in her twenties, reflects by a city monument and muses on how John Paul Jones would react to the modern traffic around the statue, imagining the shade of Paul Revere witnessing today’s autos.
In a European battlefield scene a rough Yankee sergeant gathers German prisoners including an officer. The captured German officer expresses bewilderment saying he cannot understand why these were the Kaiser’s storm troops, while the captor retorts that the hunter comes from Kansas, a land of cyclones.
The Modern Interest raises a cryptic query about a poem titled Sho Wan With tha Hae, noting odd phrasing and unreadable lines. The brief remark hints at confusion or linguistic distortion in the text.
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