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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1912
Page
10
A lengthy Iowa report outlines a state led program to boost cattle production through improved feeding, silos, and training. It notes a 4 line train schedule over Illinois and Ohio roads, with emphasis on cattle education, employment, and state funding for farming initiatives.
Des Moines reports reveal Superintendent Donohue of the state asylum at Knoxville proposed a new inmate grading system, segregating inmates by class with different foods, provoking complaints and calls for investigation by Governor Carroll. Also covered are proposed auto laws, a finger print record initiative at Anamosa, and various articles of incorporation expanding or renewing capital for several Iowa companies.
Thomas M. Chivington, a prominent western baseball figure, was elected president of the American Association for a five year term with a salary increase. Since 1920 he has led the minor league body, succeeding Joe O'Brien and continuing his influence after a prior stint as Louisville general manager and a background in journalism.
Frank Bowerman of Romeo Michigan, famed for his pea eating with a knife and for catching Christy Mathewson well, threatens retirement if he cannot obtain a release from Kansas City. He has long played in the American Association, once with Indianapolis under Charlie Carr, with whom he later became foes. Carr plans to manage Kansas City this season and reportedly will not include Bowerman on the club. Bowerman refuses to play under Carr, and Mathewson once praised Bowerman as the best catcher he ever worked with.
Ralph Capron star of Minnesota's 1911 football team begins preliminary training for the Olympian games to be held in Chicago next spring. Capron carries an unofficial 0 9 4 6 in the 100 yard dash and has received offers from the New York Athletic Club to run under colored and from a Beattie Sporting Club.
A tangle of brief notes from baseball's winter chatter. Davy Jones buys a Detroit drug store while Wilbert Robinson again handles John McGraw pitchers this spring. Rochester sells Alperman to Atlanta. Kansas City reportedly offers Barbeau to Minneapolis for War ren Gill. Disputes rise over player loyalty and shifts as reports mention Eugene Krapp with a poor record, Hank O Day planning hotel logistics, and talks of War path if New York athletic commission acts.
A Sikeston Missouri reader shares relief after severe menstrual cramps backache and nervous prostration. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health allowing daily chores garden work and social activities. The letter urges other women to try the remedy after traditional doctors advised surgery.
A lawyer asks for grounds for divorce as a pun drives a quarrel with a wife who is a sculptress. The husband cites nerves from constant remarks about love and jokes, while the exchange veers into a humorous, deep-sex themed remark.
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