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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1914
Page
1
A miscellaneous page features travel notes on cars and railways, wartime mood, and local incidents. It includes reflections on why passenger cars lack corridors in some systems, observations on foggy weather and Guy Fawkes Day, a fatal dynamite accident on a farm near Belmond, and a narrowly escaped asphyxiation in a car exhaust incident, with brief notes on the ages and families involved.
A gasoline engine gas exposure left a boy unconscious and ill, with doctors noting his youth aids recovery. The piece urges stronger publicity and dealer responsibility to educate car buyers about gas dangers. It also describes a 20 year old alleged stick-up man with brown hair and gray eyes.
Graettinger Farmers Institute set for January 28 29 and 30 with a full three day session. A poultry show may be held if at least twenty entries are secured. Prizes will be offered for corn and other grains potatoes apples fancy work and more. Interested parties may contact secretary C S George or president Ei D Darling or executives S W Briggs Wm Penn E J Newhall or Gus Anderson.
The obituary notes the death of Torsten William Williamson of Emmetsburg township on December tenth at his son John Williamson’s home. Born in Nummedal Norway on September 27 1822 he married Lyner Johnson in 1850 and had eight children, two surviving: John and daughter Mrs Church. He immigrated in 1872, lived in Clayton county and Chamberlain South Dakota before returning to Emmetsburg township where he resided until his death. He leaves a widow, two grandchildren Everette and Orton Church, and many relatives. He was a Lutheran and respected neighbor.
Roy James alias Okey J Cas tool received life imprisonment for murder after pleading guilty to the first degree murder of a Chicago Northwestern freight train conductor Reynolds near Eagten Grove. Clyde Spiker, 17, faces assault with attempt to commit robbery charges and will be tried later. The Abbott community was stunned by the death of a Runaway Boy found near Inwood Tex, body along the track. A new war tax note lampoons the law including stamps on births and marriages, while Christmas gifts from Genoa report notes shipments to Saloniki for Montenegrin children.
Conductor Herbert I. Nichols of Estherville fell from a Rock Island engine in Emmetsburg on a Sunday morning, slipping on icy steps and breaking his right ankle. He dragged himself two blocks through the snow before trainmen aided him. Dr. Anderson, the company physician, met him in Estherville and set the fracture at his hospital.
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