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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1917
Page
2
Investigation notes county merchants engaging in gift enterprises tied to merchandise sales. The report warns such schemes may be unlawful under current law, urging law abiding citizens to action if needed. A separate item mentions a report about grading and issuing teachers certificates.
The State Board of Educational Examiners in Iowa claims no state appropriations fund the teachers' examination. Half of each county certificate fee supports paper grading locally, while the other half and state certificate fees flow to the state fund for grading. About 8700 dollars remains in the state examination fund.
This issue features a long advertisement for Jos. S. Pieringer of Bedford praising his sixteen years as a loyal advertiser and reliable optometrist. It also reports multiple local notices: visits and travel of residents, a stock sale near Gravity, illness in Gravity residents, a dramatic play at Gravity opera house, a death in College Springs, and a lost dog with a reward.
The piece questions who sustains merchants during lean times and debt, praising the merchant who feeds, carries, and endures despite hardships, noting social costs from balls and picnics to lodges, with a hopeful nod to a reward on the shore.
Nellie Nelson of Conway recently returned from service with Uncle Sam at the border and visited Hopkins over Sunday. He had previously spent last summer baking at the Lewis restaurant where he was attracted by local young women.
A brief promotion for McDowell's Restaurant promises fast service and a broad menu. It touts first class meals and assurances of satisfaction, highlighting fried and milk-stewed oysters as tasty options to tempt hungry patrons.
A local pharmacist endorses Adler-i-ka a mixture of buck thorn bark glycerine and other ingredients as a simple remedy. He claims just one spoonful relieves sour stomach gas and constipation instantly and notes strong, rapid action surprising users.
The undersigned will sell at Clark's sale Pavilion Bedford on Saturday February 17 starting at 1 30 PM 24 head of stock include horses cattle and hogs listing assorted mares geldings cows calves and sows with bred status and weights all as described by T M Leonard in the usual terms
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