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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1970
Page
6
A nostalgic记ive piece recalls a younger era with live town entertainments in LeGrand. Gypsies, tramp performers, a dancing bear, and makeshift festivals filled streets and stores while children played ball games and staged productions at barns and woods. The author contrasts such vivid community life with modern TV culture.
A reader compliments Mr. Ennen the Graettinger Times superintendent and his weekly column for reporting items of interest beyond finances. The note also thanks contributors who aided uncle Hap Doerning's crop harvest and mentions a family trip to Cleveland to view autumn foliage.
A Cedar Rapids reader sends a note to Graettinger Times praising the paper and enclosing a subscription reckoning. The letter mentions plans to visit Graettinger in early November, fond memories of Iowa winters, retirement life, and a hopeful nod to a Democratic candidate for county treasurer on November 3, 1970.
An extensive assortment of tools and hardware appears in the catalog style list, including log chains, sprayer pump, two antenna towers, a shovel plow, wrenches, hammers, axes, spades, shovels, tile spades, two handy man jacks, bolts, nails, a 500 lb scale, garden tools, two bikes, a tricycle, an electric grinder, steel traps, a bear trap, hand corn shelter, several electric motors, a blacksmith forge, cistern pump, a steam engine water pump.
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