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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1919
Page
4
A crowd clashed with police outside the Lexing ton theatre as hundreds protested the German opera during a wartime ban. Bricks bottles eggs and a truck parade preceded mounted police charges. Two soldiers were injured and arrests followed as detectives detained several youths amid a low turnout for the performance.
Lena vieve Granger an eighteen year old robber in Detroit recounts her downfall in the county jail. She warns other young girls to avoid crime noting the ruin of reputation, remorse, and the loss of a good name. She laments lack of guidance and recalls naivety about street life and education.
Peel and quarter six medium pears, simmer in sugar syrup with cranberry sauce until tender. Remove pears, boil syrup with melted chocolate, thicken with dissolved gelatin. Line a mold with stale sponge cake slices and arrange the pear pieces in it.
The article outlines a halibut dish with pork, onion, bay leaf, butter flour crumbs and lemon parsley garnish baked for fifty minutes. It also describes a Frozen Float dessert: dense custard with milk eggs sugar starch, folded in whipped whites, vanilla, then frozen into bricks and served in slices.
Pop corn treats are shared for children and adults. The home economics department presents sugared popcorn and pop corn balls as practical, affordable snacks amid sugar shortages. The recipes use corn syrup, sugar, cream of tartar, and butter to coat freshly popped corn into balls or a sweet coated snack.
A comic tale warns against borrowing the neighbor’s newspaper. A stingy man sends his boy to fetch a copy, triggering a cascade of mishaps: bees sting, fence wounds, a cow eats corn and dies, churn spills, fake teeth break, a rug ruined, the baby crawls through milk, the daughter elopes, and livestock causes more chaos.
The piece argues coal will cost more if miners win a five day week for six hours and a wage rise totaling sixty percent. It questions limiting supply, questions labor solidarity, and notes both coal buyers and miners depend on coal, urging consideration of others’ burdens.
Thirty two discharged soldiers wounded in action with the American Expeditionary Forces have been assigned by the Federal Board of Vocational Education to the University of Iowa for vocational training. This represents a single assignment and more recruits are expected to enroll.
J. and Lewis of the college of education has been named vocational counselor by Nelson Kerr who has been in Iowa City from St Louis the head quarters of the Ninth district arranging for the work in the university this year About twenty of the thirty two men assigned have arrived to take up their work They are enrolled in every college of the university and receive from the government an allowance of eighty dollars a month for single men and one hundred fifteen dollars for married men in addition to their tuition books and supplies The money is given to cover living expenses The Federal Board for Vocational Education is a civilian board organized to refit disabled soldiers for civilian life The men are being taught trades and professions which will enable them to become gainfully employed upon the completion of their university work from one to four years is the time covered in the courses which the men are to take and the government will bear the expense for the entire period
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