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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
3
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Advertising rates are listed for display ads by the inch with readers charged per word. A reminiscence highlights a newspaper’s value through a consumer’s tale of saving time and money by reading local ads, noting weather, prices, and increased demand as Iowa land prices rise before winter.
Iowa tightens liquor enforcement with bootlegging now a misdemeanor on first offense and a felony on subsequent violations. Penalties include jail, state penitentiary if repeated, and muled tax liability. Injunctions cover the entire state and railroads must log all liquor shipments for police inspection. Continuous violators face prison on a second offense.
A man and a woman arrived in a small Missouri town and stayed at the best hotel. The next morning they canvassed farmers asking for a chicken for an orphanage in St. Louis. After two days they sold the effort to a produce man for $30 and departed. Another variant involved a badge claiming Health Department authority to inspect farmers’ flocks and condemn birds, with offers to buy condemned fowl for removal.
The first year of the Great European War features heavy naval action. German U-boat campaigns sink British cruisers Hogue Cressy and Aboukir, and later Audacious is torpedoed. Emden is destroyed, and the Dresden escapes before being sunk later. Britain’s Channel blockade tightens, provoking American protests over neutral rights.
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