20 Dec 1918
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
1
Last Friday noon a loud humming roar startled residents as an electrical short circuit erupted on a pole east of N. C. Keen’s, with 33 000 volt lines arcing along the crossarm. The sight frightened nearby cows and poultry while the writer witnessed the blaze from the pump area. A cautionary note warns youths against attempting experiments on the high line.
Marion E Bell of Wellman wins the 1918 Town County corn club championship with a 119.1 bushels per acre yield from a 16 percent moisture sample. The contest saw 908 entrants and 156 finished. Records verified by Iowa State College officials, with details on cultivation and seed profit.
Many influenza cases are reported in town and nearby, with several in the county. Illness touches families and individuals including Elias Sherland, Miss Deana Olson, Otto Greating, and Mrs. Pemberton. Local activity notes stock shipments, travel, and community charity amid the flu period.
A patient from Harwood Auburn reports relief from distress after eating headaches and fatigue due to indigestion and torpid liver after taking Chamberlain's Tablets. Two bottles restored health and energy, with gratitude expressed for the remedy.
The American Red Cross aided King Albert's army in Belgium with dining rooms reading rooms and recreation spaces in Le Havre and Calais. It provided meals canteens for munition workers and military personnel and equipped showers tents and libraries. It funded medical kits for surgeons and supplied 60,000 enameled plates and cups to soldiers in trenches. The effort extended to cinema films books and a day nursery for French workers, funded by about 1,250,000 francs.
Sir Thomas Watt of the South African Union ministry reports that the captured German Southwest Africa is not a desert but rich land fit for cultivation and grazing. He notes good grasses fat cattle splendid horses and first-class sheep, believing British occupation could unlock its potential with money and energy.
A man charged with habitual drunkenness faced the magistrate. Asked for defense, he replied nothing except habitual thirst. The exchange highlights the defendant’s plea as reported in the court noting his bibulous characterization.
Philip Marx of Marshalltown and Dillon dies at the Red Cross hospital from pneumonia after influenza. Born 1878 in Ober-Rosbach Germany, he came to the U.S. in 1881 and worked for local farmers. Survived by an uncle and three cousins in Marshalltown. Carrie Gunderson, wife of Albert Gunderson, dies of pneumonia after influenza. Born Carrie Huseboe in Gilman Feb 28 1890. Survived by husband, son Justin, sister Mrs. Henry Halverson, and half brother Marion Huseboe. Funeral at home Friday, burial at Dunbar cemetery.
An 19th century style ad offers one hundred dollars reward for a case of Qatarra cured not possible by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J Cheney Co Toledo signs attest to trustworthiness. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims blood and mucous surface benefits with testimonials. Price 73 cents per bottle available from druggists. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
American soldiers in Great Britain can now read a daily bulletin service created by the Red Cross. Officers say the service fulfills a need by delivering home and sporting news not found in English papers. A Red Cross worker in England warns that if the bulletin is discontinued, soldiers feel it will be a court of partiality in end slots.
A fragmentary note reflects on gardening and luck, quoting a whimsically misspelled line about how garden plans always surprise, dating back to the biblical era. The passage captures a timeless view of gardening as unpredictable and shaping human effort.
The E H Harrison estate sale last Friday drew strong interest in local real estate. Ole C Stangeland of Dunbar bought the 62 acre tract south of the Harrison land at 276 30 per acre, aiming to merge both parcels into one. The sale restores the property to near its original government quarter shape once bought for 200.
Benton county requests Federal aid to gravel a segment of the Lincoln Highway from Vinton toward Van Horne and connecting with the Lincoln Highway three miles south and three miles east of Van Horne. The plan would extend to Tama county for Federal aid work on the Lincoln Highway from Tama to the Marshall county line.
The Tehuantepec National Railway company is dissolved with its valuable assets transferred to the Mexican government. The isthmus route, supplying a shorter Pacific and Atlantic passage, has long attracted interest since Cortes, with prior surveys and engineered efforts by Eads and S. Tearson & Son, now shifting from British to Mexican control. The strategic advantage lies in proximity to the United States, reducing the distance from New Orleans to San Francisco by about 1,800 miles compared with alternatives.
A brief cartoon caption presents a quip about a ventriloquist who talks without moving his lips versus a speaker who cannot open his mouth without speaking, capturing a caustic clash of wit in a Springfield context.
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