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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1910
Page
33
A garbled OCR reading hints at an unidentified man claiming to be sp tere and awaiting identification. The fragmentary text includes unrelated phrases about politeness and debts, lacking coherent events or named entities to establish a clear news item.
Instructions describe fashioning a fodder wagon from two 3 by 8 boards 16 feet long two worn mower wheels a hub notch brace five 2 by 6 cross sticks and a set of standards from 1 by 6 with bolted supports. Assemble double trees on the high end and trailing end, add a top board and wheel guards to complete the implement.
Practical gardening notes on early onions and top onions beds for spring use. Tips cover perennial bulbs, autumn planting, seed saving for sweet corn, drying husks, Hubbard squash seed selection, and keeping intercrop crops thriving with tools like wheel hoe and weed cutter.
A simple hanger device assists hogs moving between pastures while cows stay confined. Strap-iron is bent around posts and held by pegs set at adjustable lengths or heights. The gate can be raised above winter snows in the north.
In agriculture new unseen conditions continually present themselves while colleges stand ready to assist. The practical agricultural journal reaches doorsteps, yet there is notable lack of interest among some agriculturists, obscuring the good efforts and progress described.
Detailed instructions for building a concrete culvert include excavation, form setup, wall thickness, arch shaping, core filling, and mixing ratios of sand gravel cement. Additional notes advise on curing, finishing, and early removal of forms. The piece closes with guidance that pumpkins make good hog and cattle feed, with timing for feeding.
Good sod crops include cow peas filnx and millet while the weed spreader is the threshing crew. To reduce corn smut pluck and burn balls and clean seed wheat. Proper seed and plump berries boost next season yield. Machinery costs high and exposure wastes. Clean seed beds and deep ground improve drought tolerance and yield. Potatoes protected by Bordeaux spray reduce rot risk.
In a downtown office a man demanded $25 from a business owner while threatening to drop a bag of dynamite. The businessman remained calm and queried the bag’s contents. The would be vandal revealed his wife’s flour request and fled after realizing he faced a likely explosion. The incident appeared in Illustrated Bits.
Harvest time brings a feast where Giles declines the seat of honor, choosing to sit opposite the hostess. The clipping also skims Red Cross Christmas Seals printing plans with a prize winning design, a Marine Eye Remedy ad, and a humor about a diner and an editor.
An old advertisement warns to check Castoria for infants and children, noting the signature of Lap DOLAAL and claims of over 30 years in use. A separate blurb promotes cheap guns and traps with a request to send for a catalog from 105 N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis.
Local readers credit Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with ending female troubles and backache after doctors failed. Correspondents Mrs George May and Mrs W K Housh share stories of cures and urge others to try the remedy, citing relief from neuralgia and uterine issues.
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