New Postal Rates After July 1st 1918
The post office updates set to take effect July 1 1918 raise rates for newspapers, especially impacting distant papers. Graettinger Times readers face higher costs beyond 150 miles with per pound increases for reading matter and advertising across zones through July 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Grachtinger
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Postal Service
Graettinger Times
Graettinger
Grayttinger
Times
Ostmaster Mitchell
Thrift Car Overland 90 Final Rail Shipment to Graettinger
Tuesday the Jensen Auto Co unloaded three Overland Model 90 cars and was told this would be the last rail shipment to Graettinger this year. Mig Jensen must now secure cars at the Toledo factory and drive them home. The Model 90, called the Thrift Car, sells for 1940 in Graettinger with a July price rise of 75. Investors should buy before July to save. The model 90 is praised as the best car on the American market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jensen Auto Co
Graettinger
Mig Jensen
Toledo
Ohio
Gracttinger
Iowa Wheat in Good Shape Report Lists Gains and Conditions
The Junc crop report for Iowa shows spring wheat acreage up about 400000 acres promising a much larger fall yield. Winter wheat conditions are better than last year with reduced winter kill in 1917, and oats barley and rye are also in improved condition. Hay, clover and alfalfa show better prospects while pastures remain similar and fruit condition lags behind last year.
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Iowa
Junc
Chautauqua Guarantors Hold Meeting This Week
A meeting of the Chautauqua guarantors was held at the Wirnt Na national bank Tuesday evening to discuss the event. Preston Fahnentock was elected secretary, A J Johnson will preside and form an executive committee to manage ticket sales. Supt A E Johnson is the focal manager for this year. A five day program is promised with season tickets priced at 1.00 and 1.60 dollars.
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Chautauqua
Wirnt
Naonal Bank
Detnila J
Preston Fahnentock
A. J. Johnson
A. E. Johnson
Graettinger Telephone stockholders meet June 29 at central office
A special Graettinger Telephone company stockholders meeting is scheduled for Saturday June 29 at 2 pm at the central office to transact any necessary business. The Graettinger Chautauqua runs from July 6 to 9.
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Graettinger Telephone Company
Save Wheat For The U S Fighters And Home Baking
A wartime guidance piece lists substitutes for wheat flour to aid the allies and conserve resources. It provides exact cup measures for barley, corn, buckwheat, rice, oat, soybean, and other flours, plus tips on adapting recipes and baking adjustments. It cites temporally and locally specific notes, including Graettinger Chautauqua and dates July 5-9.
Timely recipes and optical advances featured in Times
A collection of home recipe notes includes chocolate and sponge cakes using barley flour and corn syrup with eggs and spices, plus a cornmeal mush serving guide. Separate Des Moines optical equipment story highlights the Revelation cabinet, chromatic eye tests, LaGrange refraction system, and Dr. Hession’s precise eye examinations in northwest Iowa.
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Des Moines
P. J. Hession
Camp Dodge
Lorenz
Hession
LaGrange
United States
Smiling Vincent Kelly Welcomes New Baby at Graettinger
Vincent E. Kelly, cashier of Parmers & Merchants bank, beams as his family grows with a boy and a girl. The newborns and mother are in good condition, with Mrs. Kelly recovering at Anderson hospital in Estherville.
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Vincent E. Kelly
Parmers & Merchants Bank
Graettinger
Cwins
Gladden
Mrs. Kelly
Babes
Anderson Hospital
Estherville
Patriotic Lecture Friday Night at Hawkeye Theater
Rev. McLaughlin of Chicago guest at Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keator home will deliver a patriotic address at Hawkeye theatre Friday evening at 8:80 p.m. No admission charged. Mrs McLaughlin to sing The Star Spangled Banner. Remember the date and attend this patriotic lecture.
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McLaughlin
Chicago
Henry Keator
Hawkeye Theatre
Railroad Pass Policy Shocks Rail Employees
Government orders railway workers to surrender annual passes immediately and face a three cent per mile charge unless a wire pass is secured from division officials. The pass has long been part of the salary, a key perk of railway employment.
More Men for Des Moines Camp Headcount
Palo Alto county lists 26 young men bound for service in Des Moines with 26 names including Wagner Reese Reinders Courn Danstrom Murphy Berkland Darling Berkland Jondahl Kronholm Franklin Shea King Ditch Grove Nyborg Eaton Snyder Hanson Hanson Son Ruthven Rodman Ayrshire substitutes named. Additional names from Grattinger address and several enlistments noted. Also details of a large auction sale at Hoping by Charles Blair with items, ground, buildings, livestock, and Red Cross proceeds.
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Palo Alto County
Michael R. Wagner
Elmer Reese
Henry Reinders
Mallard
Arthur Courn
Herman H. Danstrom
Phillip P. Murphy
Emmetsburg
Ordene Berkland
G. E. Darling
IA. M. Berkland
Cylinder
Louis G. Jondahl
Andrew J. Kronholm
Gerton A. Franklin
Graeitinger
Walter M. Shea
Cyrus V. King
Curlew
Robert B. Ditch
Byron W. Grove
West Bend
Joseph Nyborg
Roland W. Eaton
George L. Snyder
Hans Peterson
Louis C. Hanson
Martinus Jacobsen
Ruthven
Francis T. Foley
Charles O. McClelland
Rodman
Roy Harvey Cox
Walter M. Pierce
Ayrshire
Ephram Johnson
Fred A. Brown
Julius J
Antone E. Johnson
Joseph E. Johnson
Nels A. Rude
Herman D. Worland
Thomas J. Hession
Daniel J. Fitzpatrick
Alfred Cameron
Neils C. Nelson
Walther M. Rauschmayer
Carl A. Christiansen
Melford O. Thompson
Louis C. Montgomery
Theodore J. Suss
Jorgen W. Knutsen
Nick Pappas
Arthur J. Bergum
Charles Blair
Hoping
Blair
Hoping Red Cross
Red Cross
Peiver
M. O. Grodland
Graettinger
John C. Jertson
First National Bank
Simpler Underwear Tips and Olson Brothers Go to War
Domestic art expert of the Times advocates dainty underwear made simply with dimity or flaxen fabrics, bias bands, hemstitching, and teather stitching for easy care. Two Olson brothers Oscar and Albert plan to join U S training camps soon, Albert from North Dakota and Oscar from this county, amid news of their sister’s marriage and a third Olson in France with the U S Army.
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Oscar
Albert Olson
Olson
U. S
Albert
North Dakota
Viola Mason
Grachtinger
Theodore Olson
U. S. Army
France
the Times
Navy Enlistment Opens Upon Local Board Release
Provost Marshal General announces that new registrants may join the Navy once they obtain the standard release from their local draft boards. Since new registrants have not yet been classified they are not in the current quota until classification, and they can secure release upon request. Navy Department.
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Navy
Navy Department
Free Lecture Friday Night At Local Church Pulpit
Visiting speaker fills the pulpit at M. B. church last Sunday evening and will preach at the regular hour next Sunday morning. He will also deliver a patriotic address at the opera house Friday evening as Graettinger Chautauqua runs July 5 to 9. Admission is free.
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McLaughlin
Chicago
M. B
Frida
Bugler Floyd Fleming Enjoying Army Life at Camp Cody
Floyd Fleming of Camp Cody New Mexico writes home cheerfully about army life in the sand dunes near the border. He notes furlough hopes for National Guard units, the one cent soldier fare, and his unit the 109th Ammunition Train guarding camp property. He mentions organizing a band and asks his mother to send his instrument to reduce homesickness.
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Floyd Fleming
Camp iCody
New Mexico
Camp Cody
Washington
National ‘Guard
109Th
Lou
Company A
Truck 1
Auto Crash Near Union Grade Bridge Injures Family
A Velie Six automobile turned over after hitting the railing on the chr ney bridge north of the Union grade river bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, their 17 year old daughter Lucile, and Mr. and Mrs. Lake of Iowa Falls were involved. all but Mr. Lake were pinned beneath the car in a ditch with about a foot of water.
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Spirit Lake
J. W. Briggs
Lucile
W. T. Lake
Iowa Falls
Chrney Bridge
Union Grade River
Government Insurance Checks Mailed From Washington
Government insurance for April pay and dependents of soldiers families were mailed from Washington on Friday May 24. If a check is not received, likely an address error, contact the War Risk Insurance Bureau in Washington. May allotments will be mailed in late June.
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Washington
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Cairns Brothers Stage Cloud and Sunshine Show
Cairns Brothers drew a record crowd Saturday night as their Clouds and Sunshine presented on Main Street. The popular company offered two free noon and evening concerts and was praised as reliable and thorough by attendees.
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Cairns
Cairns Brothers
Main Street
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Jerison
Jerive
C. F. Walden
John J. Sullivan
Texas
Emmet County
Knudtsen
Mr. Knudtson
Palo Alto
America
Vincent Kelly Is
Palo ‘Alto
Don Kahki
Uncle Sam
Germany
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