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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1919
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR notes show a marine-related event at STONY with references to higher seats or locations and a large vessel. Details are unclear, but the item appears to note a gathering or decision affecting rank or placement aboard a ship or facility.
Natick Massachusetts notes three sons serving with General Pershing in France. The article recounts Pershing’s Arizona plains days as a lieutenant and describes recruiting aims to make seafaring careers attractive to American youths, contrasting U S mercantile seas with foreign commerce.
Iyn McLean, a building worker, has been brought into court by owner Mrs. Mary J. Gilleland over a house theft dispute. The case details remain partially obscured but concern property loss and legal action.
Evidence shows McLean wired with Mrs Gilleland to dismantle a house after a building inspector condemned it. Mrs Gilleland denied any agreement and accused McLean of stealing the house. The court postponed the case to allow the principals to settle the matter.
Hundreds of girls aged sixteen to eighteen employed at the ministry of food registration clearing house receive daily instruction during work hours. London county council oversees education with one and a quarter hours daily except Saturdays, offering classes in bookkeeping French shorthand and optional recreation in elocution and singing.
Washington reports fewer than 4000 shell shock cases to treat as U S Army argues recovery rates after Germany's surrender. Col Peace Bailey cites field hospital cures 98 percent of cases, with many patients returning to duty or being reassigned to camps for observation and discharge.
Porto Rico’s war effort boosted Liberty bonds and War Savings, aided Red Cross home service, and saved food amid earthquake damage. Coffee planter Antonio Arbona helped raise over ten thousand dollars in bonds. Four-Minute Men and teachers organized mass mobilization with 2,000 meetings. Puerto Rican youth joined Red Cross, gardens formed 26,003 homes, and 108,000 youths registered for the draft as volunteers aided the Panama Canal defense.
North Adams Massachusetts veteran Peter MacPhail returned from two years and one month of service as an 8 gunner in the Royal Field Artillery of Britain. Shell shock and prolonged combat left his hair whitened and features altered beyond recognition. He fought in major engagements including Ypres Cambrai and Combles at thirty seven years old.
Marié Gipper twenty two of this county strode into the clerk of courts office and paid a dollar for the first marriage license ever issued to a woman in Davis County. She then left to see the municipal judge while her fiancé claimed he was too busy to meet the range.
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