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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
7
An wartime appeal urging soldiers sailors and farmers to grow food for the war effort. It highlights the need to feed fighters and allies, appeals for agricultural enlistment, and notes opportunities in the United States and Western Canada with patriotic language and cross border cooperation.
The excerpt shows a frequent offender pleading for another trial to a judge who replies that another trial can be granted only if the defendant returns to court, then imposes ten dollars and costs. It captures a courtroom exchange and a monetary penalty in a single moment.
A marketing note touts Warner's Safe Nervine as a remedy for nervous exhaustion sleeplessness and irritability claiming direct action on nerve centers and no narcotics. It notes prices 50 cents and 1.00 with free samples from Warner’s Safe Remedies Co Rochester NY. A second item states a new Interior Department building in Washington will cost 2,000,000.
In the Music Mountain country near Sleepy Cat, the Morgan gang controls the Morgan gap and Calabasas stage operations. Henry de Spain becomes stage-line manager and clashes with Gale Morgan and Dave Sassoon over enforcing discipline after a man is put off a stage. Nan Morgan appears at Calabasas. De Spain pursues a wary courtship as tensions rise.
In Calabasas tensions flare after De Spain announces stage-guards. Sassoon seeks Elpaso with a knife during a cardgame at the inn. Elpaso survives a perilous recovery, while Lefever plans to pursue Sassoon with De Spain and Scott joining if needed. Continued on page 7.
A young city teacher, fresh from kindergarten work in the East, gave each child a cheap picture and asked they hang it on a wall. One foreign child returned the picture explaining his family lived in a large shared room with four other families and had no wall space to hang pictures in the middle home.
South Africa has laid the foundation of a large egg trade with Great Britain. A very large arrival of South African eggs to London has occurred recently. Several small consignments have been shipped previously, but this is the first marketed shipment. The eggs are said to be of exceptionally good quality.
A fragment speaks metaphorically of a rope equal in strength to steel and warns to beware virtue that uses a press agent. It implies skepticism toward public spin and PR in moral claims. The terse note contrasts raw sturdiness with manipulated image.
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