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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
8
The chapter describes a summer of aviation training with makeshift equipment and improvised repairs, detailing wind, maneuvers, and danger as an early pilot learns to fly. It also reports on Warren Dale, a parolee with a troubled record, accused of stealing, arrested after suspicious money changes, and held to proceed to a grand jury on a $2500 bond.
Sunday morning around three to four o'clock a lightning sparked blaze on the 90 acre Clay farm owned by Geo R. Hill and H. A. Prazier destroyed all structures except the house. A 60 by 84 foot barn and a 40 by 40 foot barn vanished along with four horses owned by P. D. Strong and four horses tied to Frank Cutler. The house withstood the flames after neighbors pumped water from a cistern as the wind shifted. Total loss estimated at about 3000 dollars. buildings and livestock were insured.
Last Wednesday a fatal burn occurred near Badger in Humbolt County. The accident resembles the earlier death of Miss Roeber of Whittemore. Edna Chrisin is named among involved parties, with details incomplete from the readable text.
Notices invite land listings and mail order film work from The Ground Floor Studio Emmetsburg IA Also egg hatching offers from A J Lande Graettinger IA Route 1 plus a probate notice for Christina Knudtson deceased with hearing set for October 11 1915 in Palo Alto County Iowa Clerk of District Court M Thompson provides official seal and signature
Palo Alto County District Court appoints C. Sande as Special Administrator of Christina Khudtson deceased. Authority to take possession of goods and estate and perform all duties required by law, seal and clerk acknowledged. Dated June 17, 1915.
A 22 year old woman teaching at a Lutheran school near town attempted to hasten a kitchen fire with kerosene. The flame exploded, she jumped into a nearby tank to extinguish it, and later she summoned neighbors and a physician. She died that evening.
Nivision fled Sunday evening for Grand Rapids Michigan to escape as W A Linpe alias Cochran a C N W Ry agent at Gridley suspected in robbing the C and N W and American Express. He will go to Des Moines to secure requisition papers from Governor Clark. He schemed express money orders and freight bills, absconding with about two thousand dollars. Sheriff and railway officers pursue. a Grand Rapids arrest may identify him and send him to Estherville jail.
A terse, garbled OCR snippet mentions dinner and kind people in a fragmentary passage. Specific names, places, dates, or events are unclear, leaving a brief snapshot of casual conversation without identifiable people or locations.
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