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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
5
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls boys climbing perilous heights to reach hawk nests and imagines safe nesting in the top boughs of tall weeds along streets. A whispered quarrel about a failed marriage surfaces in the damaged text.
John Zingg a former Gravity resident died in Sheridan Wyoming on August 18 1907 at age 70 after cancer surgery. He lived in Iowa and Sheridan County for years building a sizable ranching and cattle operation before illness led to his death. Survived by widow four sons and two daughters with funeral at Baptist church Mount Hope cemetery interment noted. T. P. Hedy visiting Gravity noting sidewalk concerns and plans to move, urging local improvements.
Rev Mr Corbetts mother visits Atlantic and Town friends while his revival in Oklahoma yields 26 cohesions and church organization. Local births, visits, and marriages include Loyd Grimm and Floe Lovitt wedding at Clearfield and multiple relatives traveling or staying with kin across Indiana North Carolina Nebraska and Colorado.
Auction at my residence 84 miles northwest of Gravity on the old Alf Wilson place offers horses including a 11 year old, weight 1440, two yearlings, mules and mares, plus cattle with 10 milch cows and assorted yearlings and steers. Hogs include sows, cows with pigs, shoats and spring pigs. Farm implements comprise mower, rake, disc seeder, cultivators, hay rack, harness, buggies, and harrow. Grain and pasture encompass about 60 acres corn and 50 acres bluegrass. Miscellaneous items list stoves, heater, washing machine, beds, cribs, tents, chicken coops, cucumbers, potatoes, dry wood, and Plymouth Rock chickens.
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