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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
6
The Red Cross promotes the seal sale season with cheerful volunteers selling Christmas stickers to support fighting tuberculosis. Proceeds fund the war on the white plague as seals cost only a penny and are placed on letters and packages mailed during December.
Fragmentary text describes mothers in distress seeking support to raise their children and secure daily care. Mentions a grim decision about a mother and child, and a figure named Valine supporting or separating them. Overall, a plea for assistance and personal sacrifice is implied.
Logwood for dyes rots on New York piers as hundreds of logs drift along the Brooklyn waterfront. Prewar logwood sold for about seven dollars per ton, with a wartime surge to seventy three or higher. Speculators hunted South American supplies as shipments arrived, but a crowded market left hundreds of logs and hats idle while New York debates what to do with the obstructive wood along miles of waterfront space.
A New York detective attached to the Metropolitan tower patrol astonished Magistrate Breen by theatrically performing ballet dance positions, juggling hats, and acrobatic stunts to illustrate the defendants’ stage acts at the 116th Street New Fork theater. The complaint involved managers William Berhelm and Clapp facing Sabbath violation charges for allowing performers to juggle, bend, dance, and wriggle on stage before a large audience, while lawmen presented the improvised demonstration to explain the theatrical arts.
In a 1914 Western Newspaper Union story a crew sails to Mexico in search of gold guided by a priest, while an iron cross of legend sinks with the Gulf voyage. A stormy voyage tests faith and fate as an oil barge fights for survival and an anchor miraculously grasps a colossal iron cross from the sea bed.
A fly saved 14 year old Carl Kneppler from a bullet while hunting near Bay Bluff Creek. Willen Stret lick, a 9 year old nearby, accidentally fired a rifle. The bullet pierced Kneppler's forehead but did not kill him due to the fly diverting the shot and the bullet hitting the boy’s hat.
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