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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1904
Page
5
The ad boasts Defiance Cold Water Starch comes in 16 oz packs for 10 cents, compares favorably to 12 oz and 1 lb rivals, and claims no chemical content and no sticking to irons. It warns grocers may push 12 oz stock, urging customers to demand Defiance with 16 oz packaging and clear “16 oz” labeling.
Wanted in every state, several industrious men to travel for a house established eleven years with large capital. Call on merchants and agents for profit. Permanent engagement. Weekly cash salary 618 and traveling and hotel expenses advanced weekly. Experience not essential. Refer enclose self addressed envelope. The National, 334 Dearborn St, Chicago. Also, Timber office offers 100 good envelopes for 50 cents. Barrel of Money offers booklet The Land of Now by John G. Farmer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The Times and Weekly Inter Ocean one year for $1.50. Get sale bills at The Times office. House and lots with barn and good well on place. For sale at a bargain if taken soon. Inquire of Hugh Stewart, Graettinger.
A discussion of the limits of humor in American weeklies notes stock targets like the tramp and mother in law jokes while calling for restraint on topics such as alcohol and marital insecurity. It argues jokers should show moral responsibility as these subjects shape public attitudes toward vice, divorce, and serious matters.
An old advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a rich blood food that feeds bone marrow and spleen with cod liver oil. It targets pale schoolgirls and invalids, promising to strengthen blood production and improve health, with a free sample offer and pricing details.
The Rock Island System offers very low round trip rates to St Louis on Tuesdays and Thursdays in August and September and also September 4 and 11. Details are available from ticket agents and a Worlds Pair Booklet can be obtained by writing Jno G Farmer, Division Passenger Agent, Cedar Rapids Iowa. The Minneapolis & St Louis Line sells daily round trip summer tourist tickets to St Paul Minneapolis Duluth and other northern resort cities, with return until October 31. For specifics contact local agents or address A B Cutts, G P & T A, Minneapolis.
An advertisement extols The Chutes as Chicago’s most popular resort with a carnival, water cascades, chutes, toboggan and Loop-the-Loop. It invites visitors to enjoy a yearlong gallery of attractions and an array of bargains at Quaim mem & Walden in Wallingford Iowa, urging calendar orders and paint stock clearances.
A promotional notice offering a bundled one year subscription to The Iowa Homestead Special Farmers Institute Editions and The Poultry Farmer plus the host paper for 1.60. It claims superior reading matter and broad rural appeal, urging immediate action before the offer ends and inviting readers to inspect samples at the office.
A chaotic OCR fragment describes Knights Templar trains traveling through the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains toward San Francisco for a September Triennial Conclava. The passage promises large crowds, comfort, and pleasure for attendees, with emphasis on the journey and gathering.
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