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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1911
Page
2
Readable portions describe rebels and clashes, referencing a university, editor, and geographic mentions like Mexico and Germany. The text includes disjointed names such as Wesley W. Stout and scattered figures, with stray financial figures and animal terms mixed in. The overall fragment hints at political unrest and violent events without coherent narrative.
Fragmentary text shows a debate involving branding and committee of Federation of Labor in Washington with references to organized labor, legal questions, and Indian pressure of business. The document mixes quotes and incomplete phrases about agreements, statements, and public response.
A compact digest from the globe covers Red Cross reports in Washington Taft reelected officials and a treaty termination debate with Russia. It notes a Philippine land sale proposal to ease deficits, navy strength concerns, and federal finance gaps. Also stories on trade, oil, banking suspensions, and notable trials.
The Persian national council telegraphed for aid to the American Congress and to other parliaments worldwide. Ted Schrivver, an American aviator, was killed in an exhibition crash at Porto Rico, falling twenty feet and dying on the way to hospital. Mexico weighs reciprocity with the United States once its internal conditions are settled. David L. Bence Brown of New York City won his second straight grand prize in Savannah automobile event, setting a world record for length in a 24 lap race. Freddie Welsh and Ad Wolgast Set for match nearly after Wolgast’s appendectomy in Los Angeles, Packey McFarland defeats Harlem Tommy Murphy in San Francisco.
Governor Carroll names delegates to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington early next January. Iowa counties report new homes and major building projects including a $40000 Western Old People’s Home and a $16000 Chilattan Juhl block. Farm sales, public notices, and local elections dominate state headlines with smallpox quarantines in Fairfield and a proposed Cedar Falls theater project.
James B McNamara and his brother John J McNamara were sentenced to life and 15 years respectively after pleading guilty to dynamite attacks on the Los Angeles Times building and Llewellyn Iron Works. Judge Nordwelt declared murder in the first degree for James. The courtroom was crowded as the confession was made public and prosecutors signaled a major parallel investigation into a broader dynamite plot.
Fragmented romantic verse shows a speaker in a Breton setting lamenting love and longing. The muddled lines reference transported feelings, a heart, and mistyped names, implying a personal, emotional plea within a stylized, imperfect text.
Fragmentary account shows a brother injured by a vehicle and rushed to a hospital. The text is garbled with misspellings, but indicates an automobile incident and medical attention seeking.
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