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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
8
A cluttered note offers light sayings about conserving food with corn and a jokey line about marriage. It also lists several lost and found notices for various items and a room for girls at a tending school, with contact directions for Mrs. L. L. Wheeler and Clarence Lande.
G C Coolidge P J McCarty and E J Mitchell were at Emmetsburg on Monday. Spirit Lake reports heavy rain and a gale Sunday evening about 6 30. A unit of the Women s Council of Defense will be organized at Mallard August 24. Mallard gains authority to organize independently and Mrs Francis J Whitely advises a cooperative, trouble free effort to help make things better.
A column of opinion from Cedar Rapids to Sioux City rails at wartime exemptions for wives, mocks Kaiser rhetoric, and notes Iowa’s liquor policy fight. It blends Danish connections, a Rasmussen niece tale, and a French general staff report on troop strength, casualties, and shell production in a sweeping wartime summary.
A compact civic exhortation urges residents to support local projects and uplift the community. It advocates encouraging both poor and rich entrepreneurs, boosting home goods commerce, avoiding negativity toward outsiders, and courteous participation in town improvements.
In a Washington letter from August 8, M. Andre Tardieu quotes France’s war strength at about 3,000,000 men by the end of the third year, 1,000,000 more than at the war’s start, noting low casualty percentages in early 1916 then rising to 128 percent in the latter half of 1916, aiming to present France as she is amid carnage.
Quote notes that objectors in Oklahoma should be well trained before joining cantonments, arguing that true peace makers are in the trenches. The remark emphasizes practical readiness over rhetoric as war looms.
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