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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
4
A historical note on best practices for promoting farm sales. It compares country newspaper advertising with road posting bills, arguing that with increased automobile use, posting bills has diminished in value. It suggests reading local readership to judge effectiveness and notes that most bills go unread. It emphasizes leveraging newspapers for reach.
In a farming community a debate on advertising farm sales favors town papers over posting bills and handbills, noting higher reach and efficiency. The piece also discusses hog disease, touting poor sanitation, muddy yards, and a management program including yard rotations, drainage, clean litter, and sun exposure as better disease control.
Muddy feed yards and poor sanitation are identified as the cause of hog deaths, not cholera. Dr. K. W. Stouder of Iowa State University Extension veterinary department cites necrotic rhinitis and enteritis. diseases known as gore mouth bull nose and sniffles.
The state board of health establishes strict quarantine for Spanish influenza, requiring written physician certification of recovery or three days after normal temperature if no physician. Complete fumigation is needed for death, and recovered patients must change clothing while contaminated garments are aired eight hours in sun. Homes must be aired likewise, with removal only after three normal days and full compliance.
Early Iowa frontier defense details span 1857 to 1865 with about ten protection units including Spirit Guards Frontier Iowa Volunteers and Sioux City Cavalry Company. A 1860 act allowed a twelve man minute men unit to counter hostiles, though full mobilization never occurred and $34.75 was paid to the Army of Protection for Northwest Iowa.
Immetsburg Reporter notes Bethany Church and St John’s Fairfield Township congregations, plus Depew, presented Rev K J Nielsen with a Ford Sedan for easier travel between three congregations. Weather turning cold, enclosed car valued for comfort and duty. Nielsen thankful, gift praised as evidence of valued ministry. Also a humorous note from Successful Farming about a merchant’s painted bridge advertisement and a reader’s irony.
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