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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
6
An editorial laments Sunday shop closing rules and the strain of enforcing a uniform rest day. It argues education over coercion, notes varied local responses in Rolfe, and urges compliance for a humane, lawful Sunday while resisting puritanical rigidity.
A satirical wartime summary notes high living costs in Africa as missionaries shrink, plots emerge mostly ground plots, Sung(a)ry praised, and small investors told to buy war bonds amid spud and bean shortages. It mentions Boy Scouts aiding the commissary and food hogs of war as speculators.
Secretary McAdoo told 600 business leaders in Des Moines and Iowa cities that the West must back the Liberty loan, pledging a push to raise subscriptions from $600,000 toward about $1,500,000 and organize civic groups for swift sales. He rejected any claim the Midwest would withhold support, highlighting the region as essential for food and materials in the war effort.
In Des Moines and across Iowa, strict blue law orders were largely ignored. Sioux City recorded 150 arrests, Council Bluffs 100, Omaha 35, while Davenport Clinton Keokuk and others similarly defied the edict. County attorneys and city authorities offered varied excuses, with Iowa City ordered to close but not followed. Mason City resisted arrests, insisting a formal information filing was required.
Leroy Brammer of Oskaloosa, 20, died at a Methodist hospital from injuries after a "slide-for-life" wire stunt with a carnival company at Dexter. He collided with a tree during descent from the Dexter schoolhouse and died after two weeks of treatment.
Mrs Mary Jouice Hull aged 46 wife of Iowa Representative Harry E Hull died in a Washington hospital from bichloride of mercury poisoning. She had complained of a severe headache and, according to the coroner, took what she believed were headache tablets. Hull’s home is Williamsburg Iowa and he was elected to Congress in 1934.
A large fire in Atlanta, starting in a Negro section, swept through residential areas destroying scores of blocks and hundreds of homes. Early damage estimates range from 2 million to 23 million dollars. Reported life loss includes a single woman.
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