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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
11
Fragmented OCR reads as a Salvation Army appeal urging support for the needy. It paints scenes of poverty and degradation and calls on readers to donate to aid women and children in tenements, promising relief through national fundraising and ongoing work.
Governors of 22 states pledge help for the Salvation Army campaign to raise funds for home service work. The official remarks praise the Army’s wartime service and express confidence in the drive’s success across the United States.
The Salvation Army will open a free employment bureau in Chicago to supply farm help for the Western states. A portion of the 2,000,000 to be raised in late September will be devoted to this effort.
In a daily summer rite youngsters on Atlantic Street await the street sprinkler. When it arrives they strip to bare feet and rush into the cooling spray. The crowd grows as the water advances toward Dull Avenue, drawing about a dozen children at a time to play in the street water.
During a walk with a friend in Chicago a man wearing a skirt raised his hat and helped me onto the sidewalk at a high curb. The incident left me flustered as I debated how to respond and watched him pass by.
Fragmentary report notes Mesopotamia benefiting from engineer work linked to wartime prosecution. It claims substantial value to the country’s peaceful development and stresses the long term advantages of the high level engineering carried out during the conflict.
A brief note explains yawning relates to calming the brain and regulating oxygen flow. It suggests yawning signals arousal and heat in the body as blood vessels respond to the breath.
The report notes strong US demand pushing prices up for a commodity labeled as Say beans. An offered rate of 25.0 per 100 pounds is cited, reflecting market activity.
Western governors and U S senators join a national drive to fund Salvation Army Home Service work. Prominent leaders from multiple states express support and accept or promise committee positions, pledging efforts and names to the campaign.
For the six months ending March 31, 1910, the Salvation Army reports distributing shoes, milk, bread to 1,821 people, food for 487 buckets, meals to 4,280, lodging to 451, clothing, 200,900 pounds of coat, and transportation to 10. If the Home Service drive succeeds, it could double these efforts in the next six months and help more needy, asking for support.
The Salvation Army spent over 40000 sending telegrams to soldiers families in New York City to notify them of arrivals. Western Union noted strong interest in the system as troops landed while many soldiers had no cash to pay for messages.
Fragmentary text presents a puzzling archaic style. The fragmentary lines include unclear references to towns people strangers drink and visitations with historical language and possible misreadings. No coherent events, names, dates, or places emerge for a factual summary.
The Salvation Army Industrial Homes open to men willing to work offer shelter, meals, and clothes while they engage in tasks like upholstering, sorting, repairing furniture, baling paper, and rag work. The program restores men to wage earning life, with operations noted in Minneapolis and St Paul and hundreds of thousands of meals and beds provided.
The Salvation Army is presented as a relief squadron aiding the hungry, naked, and distressed. In winter it distributes food and clothing, and during summer it helps mothers and babies through recreation and vacations. Immediate relief is followed by investigation, aiding many through critical times.
A call to action asks who will be the first local man to sell a pig and donate proceeds to the Salvation Army service fund. Each pig sale promises 275 meals for the poor, fruit for 1,000 hospital patients, milk for 1,000 babies for a day, and care for ten girls at the Rescue Home, with the appeal urging a yes today.
At a Marinette Wisconsin July 4 ceremony a Salvation Army member known as Ma Burdick was presented with the Croix de Guerre in honor of returned soldiers and sailors of Marinette County. The award was presented by Brigadier Smith on behalf of the French government.
President Woodrow Wilson praises the Salvation Army stating its main object is human betterment by shaping better citizens. He says no observer of world progress can fail to feel deep interest in the organization’s work.
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