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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
2
Editorial praises good losers who return stronger and inspire others while lauding North Dakota trainees at Fort Snelling for ready service. It urges support for servicemen, denounces anti Americans, and notes the troublesome price of hard coal with a call to accelerate lignite backfire plans to warm the state.
The Eau Claire Leader argues La Follette should relocate to Minnesota after his Senate term with New Ulm perhaps his only feasible post, while calls for recall provisions for Congress grow amid war worries. It notes Wisconsin weariness over draft exemptions, urges home trade support, and comments on Pope’s aims and Miss Rankin.
Washington August 20 plans outline immediate expansion of the U S department of agriculture and state colleges extension work with about 1 400 men and 500 women agents. City agents will aid in urban areas, focusing on food conservation, canning, drying, and home economics while bankers and clubs assist in agricultural production and youth programs.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive exam on September 6, 1917 in Valley City North Dakota to select eligibles for first grade or clerical positions in the customs service internal revenue service quartermaster corps and other field service branches. Open to U S citizens meeting requirements applications must be filed with the district secretary in time to arrange the exam. Application blanks (Form 1371) sent to the local civil service board or the Highth WU 8 Civil Service District in St Paul Minnesota.
The Valley City Red Cross seeks workers for surgical dressings hospital garments and other needs. The KP hall rooms between 2 and 5 30 pm serve as drop spaces with Monday afternoons for committee work and other days open to the public. Volunteers urged to donate time weekly and bring scissors. Also notes a land grant sale by Oregon California Railroad Co with a map and soil data, postpaid for $1.
Laurence E Garber of Jamestown and Miss Sophia Wasserman of Minneapolis were married today in a courthouse ceremony performed by County Judge Nemt. The couple will reside in Jamestown.
A fragmentary reader page mixes verses and poems. It includes “SOME READABLE VERSE WE'RE IN A FIGHT” with a fight scene and patriotic cadence, plus “TRAITORS OF TRADE” criticizing market greed. Also features “A NEW AMERICA” urging democracy and liberty and “THE TWO TOWNS” a children’s dialogue.
Hastings Times reports the death of Ole Arves at his northwest Ransom county home at 73 after Brights disease. Born April 8, 1844 in Tyne Soga Norway, he married Matea Erickson in 1871 and moved to Mickegon Michigan before homesteading near Hastings in 1882. Surviving children include John, Helena, Anna, Cartle, Jacob, Anton, Milla, Mary, Henry. Janna died in 1904. Funeral Sunday August 12 at 3 p.m. at North LaMoure Church conducted by Rev. O K Anderson, pallbearers C T Smershammer, B Smershammer, A E Rockswo l d, A Kielby, John Menns, A A Gergan.
Washington reports an agreement to suspend immigration rules allowing twenty thousand American harvest hands to cross into Canada and replace Canadian workers blocked by a domestic labor shortage. Nearly half as many Canadians will dig potatoes in Maine as compensation within a broader cross border labor plan amid Canada's anticipated 300 million bushel wheat yield. Dr. C J McGurren urges North Dakota school officials to enforce mandatory vaccination before fall term, warning penalties for noncompliance.
The National Army reflects American character with equal access for all. It rewards merit, promises promotion from early contingents, and stresses three core soldierly qualities: loyalty, obedience through discipline, and physical fitness. It stresses the need to earn the title American Citizen Soldier and to develop these traits through rigorous training and adherence to military law.
The fragment presents a playful verse about a wife earning affection and praise at home. The speaker repeats questions about a spouse described as a dependable partner who comforts and teases with intimate, domestic imagery.
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