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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1916
Page
3
A historical critique argues that sending youths to war is cruel, contrasting untrained, ill prepared soldiers with those trained to defend themselves. The quote emphasizes moral responsibility to prepare boys, rather than condemn them to slaughter, and questions which fate is truly more cruel.
The article argues that natural faculties guide career success and urges individuals to discover their aptitudes early. Parents push generic paths for money, but many choose wrong fields after starting law, medicine, or theology. It urges thoughtful self assessment to match talent with vocation.
The article argues that an embargo on interstate shipment of prison made goods would raise crime and idle the prisons. It warns states with prison industries stand to lose large investments in machinery and profit from markets such as hinder twine. It claims such restrictions would curb industry and raise prices for farmers.
Opinion argues that only land value rises with public spending and that taxing only site values, after deducting improvements, is fair. It warns that taxing nonland property to fund services robs individuals of lawful possession, regardless of wealth.
The speaker insists the nation must be ready to defend free principles, echoing the Minute Men heritage. He asserts the government’s founding ideal that all men are created equal remains an ongoing experiment and that nations look to the United States to prove its truth through action.
In Randers Denmark, butchers exporters merchants and farmers unite as Randers Export Slaughter House to slaughter stock for shipment abroad after the war. Denmark reports grain purchases totaling 60 000 tons rye plus 40 000 tons American rye with more expected. livestock census shows horses 516 000, cattle 2 290 000, milking cows 1 142 009, swine down 309 000, sheep 254 368. Sweden reports knighted nobleman Gyllenpalm confessing to bank double murder. Daylight saving moves take effect in Sweden and Denmark. Swedes aid German war orphans. Norway journalist notes Sweden neutrality amid WWI. Mrs Britta Hultenhein bequeaths 1250 dollars to Stockholm Serafimer hospital.
The Norwegain dispatches detail Heliodorus, the Mad Monk of Tsarytsin, now a refugee in Christiania, claiming a Russian palace plot to murder Rasputin and emperor. The tale includes a 60 000 ruble murder contract, an amnesty bargain, and alleged court betrayals. Also noted is the death of Dr Henrik Greve Bleasing and a Norway-wide lockout threatening 77 000 workers.
The Iowa Highway Commission bulletin reports 1915 road and bridge expenditures totaling 5.629 million dollars with bridges receiving 4.629 million and county and township roads sharing the rest. It notes substantial increases over 1914 and details permanent versus temporary grading, accounting corrections, and local fund discrepancies.
Fragments from an old newspaper page feature ads for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Hanford’s Balsam plus short quips. A note on a dry goods firm’s ascent from entry-level work, and a tale of a Cleveland horse reacting to ragtime as a Wells Fargo wagon is dragged away by its driver.
An Indianapolis teacher spent two years untangling the unpronounceable name Jeup, the city engineer. She tracked his identity through misread mail and repeated mentions in viaduct troubles, discovering his brother-in-law Yorp spelled differently as the same person.
Many former tea and coffee users have discovered a pure food beverage made from wheat with a delightful flavor. The note highlights growing interest in wheat-based drinks as a coffee and tea alternative.
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