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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
2
A wartime appeal urges every town farmer and farmer-experienced resident to work on nearby farms during the summer and fall. It argues that food production depends on widespread voluntary labor from communities, warning that failure by any state or town weakens the whole war effort.
In a county town dispute over a gambling bet, Central National Bank vice president HL Norbern challenged Willow Duvalier, stock broker, to complete 25 holes by crawling on hands and knees. The wager, settled with an exchange for a $2,000 Lubarty band, prompted a dramatic wager acceptance and costly prep.
Pittsburgh businessman Ralph W. Harbison led a YMCA mission to France with the Rainbow division. He described high morale and pep among American troops, contrasting quiet trenches with Yankee energy. The YMCA rep noted rapid front movement, mobile canteens delivering chocolate, tobacco, and hot coffee to troops en route to the front.
Anniston Alabama soldiers who advertise as lonely in newspapers magazines and other periodicals face court martial and severe punishment from provisional headquarters at Camp McClellan Open military investigators found some soldiers have used public advertisements seeking companionship and have sent replies to those solicitations through regimental post offices
President Filson appeals to Americans to practice thrift and support war financing. He urges unity, expanded production, and the purchase of Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps to back the army and navy. He asks all to pledge by June 28 to save daily and buy government securities, ending a key enlistment period in the home-front effort.
Paris officials press for a potato bread solution to extend food-card coverage. A communication stresses the paste from potatoes as a feasible 70 percent mix for bread, citing economy and supply pressures amid transport difficulties.
A damaged OCR fragment hints at a debate about method or policy. Mentions "Totedy widene" and references to a "double" and "thax" suggesting a discussion of two regidatime approaches. No clear persons or organizations are identifiable.
President Wilson’s Director General McAdoo issued a wartime order raising freight and passenger rates about 25 percent on many classes, with increases also applied to sleepers and parlor cars. The changes affect interstate and state rates, with exceptions for veterans and certain travel, and include substantial retroactive wage increases for nearly two million railroad workers.
Rates for passenger and freight services rise across multiple categories. Passenger fares increase with specific exceptions for ORVGI lines and certain authorities. Freight charges climb, with percentage hikes cited for various routes and regions, including river and land corridors, amid an overall expansion of pricing.
Fragmented text mentions several global references to telephones and communication. It references regions like West Africa and the United States, plus unusual phrases about natives and families. The readable sections are garbled and do not present a clear event or reportable fact.
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