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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
3
Joe Sullivan reports on high school life amid Spanish influenza closures, student activities, and staff changes. Veterans, births, church gatherings, and local comings and goings mix with war casualty mentions and a Red Cross note.
A historical ledger lists sponsors and underwriters for the Graettinger Lyceum Course for 1918 19 including Antone E. Johnson H N Osher C A Jensen M J Reidy Th T Nane E S George E Schurmann and many others such as Charley Jensen J A Spies F C Weigmann John Wikert Vincent Kelly J P Jensen Fred Spies Chris Jensen W H Noble R W Andrews John Jackman C Stanley A J Johnson Elizabeth Jensen John O Jertson Harry V Dickey Louis Christiansen W M Knutson and Bartleman Bros.
A vivid portrait of YWCA and USO style hostesses at war relief houses. Women welcome marching soldiers with firesides and music while mothers hide tears and plan surges to surprise loved ones on furlough. The piece highlights US organization, hospitality rooms, nurseries, and the role of American home life in supporting troops abroad.
A writer notes that Russian clerical robes are among the most expensive globally. Priest funding comes via the Holy Synod, with costly vestments in the Kremlin House of the Holy Synod. A jeweled Nicene creed remnant is valued between 200000 and 860000 pounds, among many diamonds rubies and emeralds. The total worth has never been disclosed. A hypothetical buyer paying 45 million pounds for the House and its contents would be a major bargain.
A Lerlin murderess known as the colored eyes woman dyed her eyes brown with poison to avoid capture. The dye faded in jail revealing blue eyes again and exposing her identity. She also tried dyeing her hair black in a futile bid to mislead investigators.
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