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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
4
The LeGrand Publishing Company lists editor and staff names and announces advertising rates on application. It notes subscriptions and duty of advertising retention until ordered out, with details entered at LeGrand post office as second class matter.
Mrs E E Wade is on the sick list this week. Mr and Mrs W M Gaunt visited in Shulltown. A B B Adair family were Sunday visitors near Lee Stanfield and family have moved into the Lamer property. J M Gaunt vacating his buggy while fourteenth day Mrs Julip Davidson of Marshalltown visited her son Arthur and Ruth. Miss Hossie McCorel at St Thomas. Mrs Win McAltieter and daughter with her mother at Waterloo. Abee wain? The town notes report a new tenant, a birthday post card spree, and a Robet Meyers succession drawing attention. Eye procreds that the town purchases?
A midweek sale includes 70 items with horses and cattle, plus hogs and farm machinery. Catalog lists geldings and yearlings, 194 head of cattle with defined ages, several crop implements, wagons, binders, mowers, plows, harvest gear, tack, and a DeLaval separator. Free lunch at noon. Also notes a patent remedy for croup promoted by Mrs. Rose Middleton of Greenville with testimonial.
The Spokane Chronicle notes the annual boxing of 12,000,000 apple boxes and other fruit packing facilities consume vast lumber. Each apple box holds 4.3 board feet, totaling about 81,600,000 feet yearly for apples alone. mills must process 160,000 feet daily, with log value delivering $359,000 to $540,000, urging standardization to curb waste and 12 inch lumber basis practices.
A fragmented report describes Caine recounting a day of troubles and misery. After lengthy narration he shifts mood, urging a quick effort to begin anew as tension rises.
A woman inventor credits her practical fender design for cars, extending from beneath one doorstep around to the other, providing a protective barrier for wheels. The concept aims to safeguard homes and vehicles, depicting ingenuity in early automotive hardware.
A tense exchange questions a new waiter’s loyalty as a German agent, contrasting him with a former waiter who collected tips politely. The dialogue hints at hidden motives and potential espionage within a dining establishment.
The dialogue features a vicer saying there are no men in heaven and a humorous back and forth about enlistment, marriage, and odd topics like five cent coal drops and frozen fish as legal tender. It reads as a clipped, playful newspaper exchange with dated cadence and light sarcasm.
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