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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1920
Page
2
A fragment discusses pride and medicinal tonics Jaudanur and poi tonous medicines, noting small doses can help but large quantities injure. A quote from Frederick Suun emphasizes personal satisfaction before pleasing others.
Advertises an epitonic tablet claimed to boost appetite and energy in hot weather. Promises relief from fatigue and feverish mouth and stomach by taking tablets before and after meals. Suggests a big box at druggist’s for a trifling cost and a few days’ use to feel better.
Fragmented notes show incoherent slang about desert life, jive talk, and advertising in a rough column. The text mentions Loulaylile Cour nal and references retirement, heat, dryness, and tales of “Cutlura” and “Talcom” in a mistyped, garbled scene.
An antiboat asks Mother Ocean for a dream and the sailboat recounts a tranquil dream by the sea. Children on the shore build a vast sandcastle while promising kindness, no gossip, and true friendship, hoping the dream will come true.
A distorted cartoon caption shows Gould and Josephine characters in a street scene. Josephine refuses to go straight, claiming to lie around the corner as Wise urges her home. The fragment hints at comic timing and a streetwise exchange.
A historical overview of ribbon use in dress and home textiles highlights sashes, elaborate overbodices, and tailored girdles. It notes simple satin ribbons for waistlines, decorative ends, and rose sprigs. The piece also covers holiday cloth books for children, embroidered items, and small home businesses in needlework, candle crafts, and floral sales, with tips on market opportunities.
The article describes soaking gray doeskin gloves in petrol to loosen dirt. Do not squeeze. let dirty liquid drip away. Lay on a clean cloth and wipe with a dry rag from fingers to wrist. Repeatedly renew the cloth and surface, air the gloves after cleaning.
A bright woman in a small city has found steady holiday earnings by specializing in making rag dolls and cloth animals for holiday shoppers. She builds a following who return year after year, producing dolls of various sizes, often using recycled printed cotton, and sells them at shops and markets with good profits.
The colored linen handkerchief with sheet frill is the latest Proud novelty. White linen handkerchiefs feature borders woven in colored stripes and hems crossstitched in the same thread.
Howell questions a new pilred man as unprofitable while Powell counters by labeling him one of the heavy eaters and light workers. A Lady Candidate is quizzed about being ruffed but replies she wore a tailored model. Misc notes reference bolts, sorehead, and New York Sum with fragmentary chatter about a professor and wages.
An odd fragment discusses a 200 pound cornfed girl in a tin bathtub to illustrate height. It references Egyptian mummy cloth famed for durability and a vegetable dye from an Afghan juniper tree, with quirky asides about the artifact and its makers.
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