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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1922
Page
2
An unclear fragment references Pickwick Papers and a local effort to boost a native town. The text mentions old fashioned views and a character labeled a hick, plus a hypothetical rifle on the map. The readable parts suggest a discussion of hometown pride and literary references influencing local identity.
After Natchez Miss received hundreds of army tents from the government to shelter flood refugees the lack of directing personnel forced the Natchez American Legion to act. Legionnaires built a tent city with sanitation planning by a Legion doctor and M L Gelsenberger named commandant, caring for over five hundred people in the initial days with praise nationwide.
The American Legion Weekly weighs a New Zealand paper's use of legionary to describe a member. It argues legionnaire better reflects sentiment, noting legionary recalls Julius Caesar and the French Foreign Legion, while legionnaire seems better established for American Legion members and allLegions fought in France.
A terse exchange between a director and star features the line about leaping into the final scene. The American Legion Weekly presents the dialogue as a vignette reflecting on film making and risk in the closing moments.
Fragmentary notes describe a Doughboy’s experiences during training and service. The text hints at death, endurance, and the peril of “over the top” combat, reflecting on duty, sacrifice, and the cost of war.
Amy Kaukonen of Fairport, a former war-time volunteer medical corps member, serves as mayor and participates in the American Legion auxiliary. She emphasizes the Legion as an American, non-political group built on liberty, fraternity and service, pledging support to national unity and veteran causes.
A plan for caring and training French war orphans, devised by the Argonne association, is reportedly functioning well enough to inspire a similar U S program. Formed in 1918 by Americans aiding French orphans, the group aims to provide homes, health, education, and livelihood training, with three training centers in France and a policy against farming out children.
Ernest R. Hall, Arizona secretary of state acting as governor, welcomed Marshal Foch during his U S tour. Hall, once Corporal Hall of the Twenty seventh Engineers, had met Foch before in uniform and now serves as a proud Legion chaplain and secretary.
Tyron Nebraska 26 miles from a railroad hosts a $2800 American Legion memorial hall dedication despite incomplete text. Massachusetts Legion raises funds to equip five hospitals with radio receiving sets for injured service men. Traveling libraries are provided in Oklahoma. The American Legion education department promotes post activities including scouting and boy scout adoption.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines late blight control for potatoes caused by a fungus that rots tubers and damages stems. It notes field spraying with Bordeaux mixture and disease-free seed as key defenses, with regional risk areas and storage guidance for reducing decay.
The essential step is preventing seed maturation. In infested corn, cultivate carefully killing all plants with the cultivator and finishing the rest by hand or hoe. Thick crops like Sudan grass sorghum soybeans and clover reduce the weed. Mow and burn poorly tested areas. watch fences rows and waste spots for stray plants that mature seeds.
A fragment describes rat killing as profitable when rain prevents field work. It mentions lining up boys, men, and dogs to hunt rats and destroy nests in holes, straw stacks, and rubbish piles. The text references feeding measures and control actions against the pest.
United States Department of Agriculture explains dockage and foreign material in wheat reduce milling quality and market value. It outlines sources of contamination from growth, thrashing, storage, and handling, and notes careful seed selection, cleaning, and crop practices lessen presence. Public copy available from the division of publications in Washington, DC.
A small car hauled a 20 ft load of lumber when no long wagon was available. An improvised setup used a light automobile and a hand truck borrowed from a grocery. A rope from the car’s rear axle pulled the load while another rope kept the truck off the ground, illustrating the makeshift long-wagon method from Popular Mechanics.
USDA guidance notes that hens require animal proteins for optimal egg production and that high vegetable-protein feeds can replace only part of meat feed. Cottonseed meal tops vegetable options, with peanut meal, soybean meal, and velvet bean meal following, while excessive cottonseed meal reduces yield and egg quality.
Farmers are advised alfalfa should not be grazed when young shoots first appear as crowns can be permanently damaged. Do not graze closely during the season. allow growth for at least one hay cutting each season for better yields.
Mrs. Frank Wilkie of 220 Cedar St Syracuse says after eight years of chronic stomach trouble Tanlac restored her health. She describes relief from heartburn, improved appetite and sleep and states she had been near starvation. She formerly ran the State Reformatory at Industry N Y and now praises Tanlac as wonderful.
A playful exchange frames an Indy delegation pressuring a Chiggersvilla Clarion editor to defend a Woman in Politics piece. The editor reflects on their entrance and exit, concluding the group may have no real power in politics. A closing proverb about growth and responsibility appears.
Cumberland Md woman reports long relief from menstrual and childbirth pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she was between thirteen and fourteen when symptoms began, later bore seven children, and now has easy childbirth and strength. She invites any woman to write for guidance.
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