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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1914
Page
4
The Graettinger Times lists subscription rates with one year at $1.50 in advance and six months at the same prepaid terms. The publication is entered at the Graettinger Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
The document cites Count Tolstoy predicting a universal conflict starting in southeastern Europe in 1913 and escalating into a continental calamity through 1915. It describes a symbolic female figure named Commercialism and three torches of corruption war bigotry and law. It speculates on a postwar world with federated nations and four great continental giants.
Advertising rates listed 1214¢ per inch for display ads and 1c per word for readers with 50c for Cards of Thanks. The piece notes Europe tourists, cigaret smoke particle counts, Iowa Supreme Court ruling on Sunday theaters, Britain’s horses for Iowa fair, a clay county hog medicine with ashes selling for ten cents, King George releasing militant suffragents, and German cremation practices for dead soldiers.
Representative Connolly addressed delegates at the national convention mail carriers gathering this afternoon. He was not on the program but spoke after accompanying town delegates. The editorial pages debate his fit with Wilson policies and his Dubuque identity, contrasting Iowa politics with national leadership and noting concerns over vast salaries of rulers versus U.S. presidential pay.
The piece laments Sunday rest turning to danger as reckless driving and speed claim lives. It contrasts devout worship with free thinking, cites fatal accidents from highways, and notes daily fatality reports across states would shame battle casualties in Mexico.
The article traces origins of the war to century old religious and national divides in Europe. It argues Russia defends Serbs for kinship and Orthodox faith, outlines German expansionism and fears, and notes alliances shaping the 1914 crisis, including Austria Hungary, France, England, and Serbia. It emphasizes population growth, naval arms, and territorial ambitions as key factors.
In Craetlinger Palo Alto County Iowa the town council amends section 1 of ordinance 84 by replacing ten with fifteen in the 7th line to set the speed unit for motor vehicles at fifteen within the incorporated town. The change was read and published with the mayor Thos. A. Ginger noting the clerk pro tem J M. Thompson.
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