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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1897
Page
3
A faded ad seeks trustworthy and active men or women to travel for an established Iowa house. The position offers monthly sixty five dollars plus expenses, steady work, and references. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope to The Dominion Company Dept. Y Chicago.
Warm spell will reduce frost danger for corn with about half already safe. Bank of England reportedly agrees to fold one fifth of its silver reserves, stirring continental excitement. A sheriff in Hazleton, Pennsylvania ordered deputies to fire on rioting miners, leaving twenty dead and at least forty wounded. Klondike rivers are freezing, halting navigation. hunger and missing grain bills loom as miners report bread and food scarcity. Advice urges early seed corn harvesting, dry storage, and damp grain handling using bricks to pull moisture, a practice billed as low cost and effective.
A farmer’s prosperity is judged by his property as seen from the road, with neat buildings fences and thriving stock signaling success. The text also notes widespread catarrh as a chronic illness once deemed incurable, and promotes a supposed constitutional cure marketed from Toledo Ohio.
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