Economic Highlights From The Great Depression Era
AGraettinger Times notes Roosevelt’s policy mix, including the NRA ASDA and a proposed federal non profit to buy and distribute essentials. Inflation debates, bank asset moves, and dollar stabilization ideas are outlined with figures on employment wages steel retail trade and post office deficits. The piece cites Senator Pittman and Treasury plans amid recovery efforts and public works activity.
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Thomas
Senate
Treasury
Pittman
Nevada
Wallace
Dun and
Bradstreet
N. R. A. Best
Midwest
Pacific Coast
Post Office Department
The Most Remarkable Will Ever Made
A probate item reports Charles Lounsbury, declared insane at Cook County Asylum, drafting a dramatic will seeking to distribute his worldly interests to succeeding men while noting his legal property is of little value. The document reflects a historic oddity with strong names and a notable setting.
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Charles Lounsbury
Cook County
Dunning
Ilinois
Legacy rights for children in fields and woods assumed
A fragmentary note invokes a father's wish to devise and bequeath all else to good fathers and mothers, granting children freedom to play among fields and woods per local customs, reflecting a quaint ancestral belief in nature as a shared inheritance.
Fragmentary snatches of verse and prose text
Readable lines touch on wealth and happiness, marriage refusal, unemployment and money’s value. Notable phrases include a woman unnamed refusing a marriage in January and comments on nine million unemployed, plus a prize winner and county officials. The text is garbled with mis-spellings and stray quotes, offering few concrete events.
Last Will Bequest Of Charles Lounsbury Reveals Imagined Worlds
The document bequeaths to children breezy banks of brooks and meadows for play and exploration, to lovers an imaginary world with stars and roses, to young men boisterous sports and fearless kinship, to the elderly happiness of old age, and to all a vast landscape of memories and rights in a final testament witnessed by several individuals.
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Charles Lounsbury
Church Notes First Lutheran and Lost Island Lutheran services
First Lutheran ch notes Divine worship Sunday at 11 a m Sunday school 10 am confirmation class 9 am W M F mission meeting Friday at 10 am with speakers Mrs Hanson Forest City Mrs Sletten Lake Mills and Dean Waldorf college Dinner served in church parlors Prayer meeting next Wednesday at Ole Wicks Lost Island L church Divine worship Sunday 9 am Sunday school 10 am Confirmands Saturday 2 pm W M F Miskioh meeting Friday Oct 13 Prayer meeting next Thursday at Sam Sandvie Land land land hear Gods Word Jeremiah Isa 820. Brain Trust of America our might
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Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Ch
Hanson
Forest City
Sletten
Lake Mills
Dean
Waldorf College
Ole Wicks
Lost Island L
S. S
Sam Sandvie
Jeremiah
America
Word of God That Endures Forever Sermon Note
A religious fragment quotes First Peter and II Peter verses, asserting the word of God as incorruptible seed and everlasting. Rev. M. Mandsager signs off with a sermon-like admonition about UB’s riches not saving.
St Pauls Lutheran Church Graettinger Prayer and Sunday Schedule
St Pauls Lutheran Church in Graettinger holds Sunday School at 9 45 and morning service at 11 00 with no evening service due to a teachers conference in Spencer. The Luther League meets Monday October 20 at Arnold Henning sen s home to discuss improving church work. The topic is A Savior A Sinner And A Churchman and the choir singing enhances worship. Members are urged to bring children and use the question box in the vestibule for questions. Rev James P Christensen signs the notice.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Graettinger
Beign
Spencer
Luther League
Munday
Arnold Henningsen
Verda Show
James P. Christensen
Bartleman Barber Shop Promotes Services and Location
Bartleman Brothers advertise a modern barbershop serving women, men, and children with experienced staff. The shop is located in the Price Motel and Cafe building, operated by Bartleman Bros proprietors. The Shipping Association urges farmer support and outlines meeting months and contact details for W. L. O'Connor as manager with yard, day, and night phones.
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Bartleman
Price Motel & Cafe
Bartleman Bros
the Shipping Association
City Meat Market ad promotes fresh and cured meats
Simonsen Bros. Props. run City Meat Market in Graettinger Iowa. The ad touts large stock of fresh and cured meats, fine options for Sunday dinners, best hams and bacon at low prices, plus cream milk bread and a complete grocery stock of fruits and vegetables. Telephone 71 is listed for contact.
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City
Simonsen Bros
Props
Graettinger
Towa
Quaker Oats Co. Invites Continued Patronage At Low Coal and Feed Prices
Quaker Oats Co. thanks patrons for past support and invites continued business. They stock two flour grades, Quaker’s and Mother’s, plus feeds and salt. Coal options include Blue Diamond, Virglon, Orient Egg and Hard Coal at low prices. Price quotes on grain available. J. H. Swift, manager. Office phone 72, house 2 on 123.
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Quaker Oats CO
Kentucky
J. H. Swift
Mgr
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Roosevelt
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Nines Corporation
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Cornell
BBC
Warren
Jess
Rock Island
Innie
Jean
Bob
Jane
Pheuméia
Saveral
M. E
Arthur Bottom
Iowa Public Service Company
M. Mandsager
Dr.hobson
Emmetsburg, IA
James W. Fay
Emmetsburg, Iowa
A. J. Duhn
L. T. Lewison
Henderson Furniture Co
Iowa
DR. B. E
Dappen
Olene Jacobson
D. V. M. Veterinarian Office
Residence
J. P. McManus
M. D
Home Bakery
Farmers Grain Co
D. ER. McCarty
Graetting
Ee Creamery Co. S
First National Bank
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