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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1934
Page
5
Painstaking reports from The High School Times describe Homecoming week at G H High School. A pep meeting and program are planned for Thursday night ahead of Friday’s game with Royal, inviting former students to join the celebration and show support for the team.
In a Concord to Salem coastal journey Alvin Johnson describes visiting key New England sites. Highlights include the Old Manse and Hawthorne’s Mosses, Walden Pond and Thoreau, Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, and the Lane family era rooms. The Wayside Inn grounds, Mary’s school scene, and Mary Had a Little Lamb origin are noted, then Salem’s Pepperidge mills, Old Witch House, Hawthorne’s House of Seven Gables, Rope Memorial, and Peabody Museum. The Cape Ann coast visits Gloucester lobster workings, Mariner’s Statue, and Lobster tanks near Lanesville with Nova Scotia shipments and 47 degree holding tanks. Henry Ford’s care of the property is mentioned.
A compilation of political solicitations for county treasurer and auditor for Palo Alto County, a sheriff's sale notice for real estate in Emmetsburg, multiple advertisements for sales of farm equipment and produce, and a thank you card from the Mills family following a family bereavement.
A travelogue recounts Maine to New Hampshire and Vermont journeys. It describes Warren's Standard Paper Co. in Westbrook, pulp production, and a caustic process, then chronicles climbing Mt Washington, Tuckerman Ravine, and Carter Dome with scenic overlooks, forest rangers, and camp life in the White Mountains. The narrative moves to Vermont’s Barre granite works, Camels Hump, Montpelier, and Ethan Allen Park before noting a quiet Fourth of July in Burlington and a meeting with Dr. Eckhart at the University of Vermont. (Continued Next Week)
Funeral of S K Speer held with large turnout. Boxing night in Emmetsburg with Reed defeating Hagen in Estherville. Local harvest sees corn ahead of frost and prices for corn oats hens and butter noted. Various residents travel, study plans, and sales announced with October 4 household goods sale.
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