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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1926
Page
3
The article argues that rich men often began with small earnings and disciplined saving. By depositing weekly or monthly into a Savings Bank, tiny expenditures become growing wealth, supporting a comfortable life, family security, and eventual independence. It stresses industry, frugality, and economy as the path to wealth.
A Graettinger Times item from 1926 advises readers how to assist editors by providing timely, newsworthy items and avoiding careless submissions. It stresses proper spelling and punctuation and the importance of presenting news with clarity rather than copying raw drafts.
A fragmented guide on how rural editors should handle copy and run a paper, stressing honesty, editor relations, early submission, and understanding the printing process. It contrasts spoken word with cold type and encourages editor openness about profits and feedback to improve the paper. Includes a separate note on Pottawattamie county planning to hire a motorcycle deputy to curb farm thefts and patrol rural roads.
Advocates press for earlier California daylight saving legislation to align the state with eastern cities. The plan aims to reduce handicaps for businesses connected to eastern markets and improve parity with major urban areas already observing the schedule.
Sunday school at 10 for Methodist and 1:30 for St Paul Lutheran, no morning or evening worship due Conference Sunday. Lutheran services in German at 8:45 at Methodist church next Sunday. pastor Rev Otis L Lang. St Paul: Sunday school 1:30, English worship 2:30 at Grachtinger. South Walnut church English services 11 with 10 am Sunday school. choir practice tonight. Various Ladies' Aid and Missionary meetings October 1-16. Take Bible and small catechism to class. Estherville meeting October 16. pastor Rev. Axel M Andersen.
Wallingford residents report visits from Elmer Osher in from Chicago with relatives, Burt Kent from Estherville, and Wm Helgason guests. George McAdams plans to relocate to Estherville. Mrs. Hugh Bradshaw visits Washington DC kin. A new guard rail line is installed along the highway by Envetsburg workers. A farm sale above 200 per acre is noted at Armstrong through the First National Bank. A misc shower honors Tennis Strid. the couple will move to Superior. Miss Ullensvang, High Lake School No. 6 teacher, sustains injury but safely returns to duties.
The area reports a light attendance for a Jesse James play at Hawkeye theatre and notes fall wood deliveries in Graetlinger. Hunters active since September 16, a Ford and pony collision injures a boy, WHO Des Moines reports poor reception, and Mayo Clinic aided L. E. Conway in Rochester while bank robbery at Rowan yields $2,100 in cash and bonds with no explosives or suspects observed.
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