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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1914
Page
2
Valley City Times Record reports voters see potential in candidate Mr Aaker but doubt the organization backing him will help. The editorial predicts his support will be small and unlikely to affect the final returns.
Figures from the Life Extension Institute in New York warn that 650,000 Americans die annually from preventable diseases. Heart and kidney diseases kill as many as Civil War wounds, with mortality rising after age 45 and birth rates falling. The piece calls for a citizen improvement movement to curb this life-waste.
An editorial criticizes dum-dum shells and the idea of civilized warfare. It argues war to be unchristian, urges Americans to pray for an end to war, and hopes for a future when swords are turned to plowshares and conflict disappears. It portrays war as a pursuit of profit and a stain on humanity.
A Progressive party gubernatorial candidate from Far Eoheli speaks for over an hour on his platform at a street corner. The quiet reception suggests the party has faded and the name Progressive has been abused, leaving little public enthusiasm.
The Little Landers of San Ysidro near San Diego form a 500 family cooperative agricultural community with equal voice in governance. Each owns land averaging two acres, with a quarter acre minimum and seven acres maximum, and forfeiture for renting to undesirables or drinking. Profits fund roads, trees, and public works while members share a general store and a community market for produce sent to San Diego.
A reader cites rising prices and alleges speculators inflated costs after the last election. The piece contrasts a 35 cent basket of grapes with a 50 cent Concord grape market, arguing high living costs stem from profiteering and condemning national administration for inaction.
The Hankingon preacher E. D. Getchell will become editor of the Patriot and receive a warm welcome from newspapers and churches. Valley City grows as a church and school center with a temperance tone, and the new weekly is expected to aid the city. Rev Getchell and temperance supporters are anticipated to draw broad support statewide.
Reports state the German army is checked and will defend its own soil, with losses running high on both sides. World opinion grows for peace as the common people of Germany and France favor peace while Britain is slow to respond. The overall trend suggests escalating desire for an end to the fighting.
The report describes a dramatic aerial battle above Paris where three aircraft with rapid fire guns engaged. Thousands watched, enthralled by the spectacle, and observers foresee future aircraft piloted by wireless operators and controlled without human passengers within twenty years.
A reader argues that divine support cannot be claimed in the current royal dispute and that fighting over succession is a human, not a sacred, endeavor. The note condemns invoking Hyme guidance amid death and suffering.
Mollie Best writes from Europe for October American Magazine detailing how women in Belfast endure wartime hardship. She notes paralyzed industry, mass conscriptions, and mothers with hungry children while men go to sea or to fight. Sugar prices soar and many families lose income as wives face hardship without savings.
Walter McDonald informs from California that his 70 year old stepfather Lawrence Newson fell from a ladder on the 11th breaking both legs below the knee. The accident compounds concerns given Mr. Newson is elderly. Miss Amanda Zable departed Sunday for Grand Forks to attend the State University.
A 19th century tale places Haba, an Indian girl named for her musical laugh, at odds with tribes and settlers near MacDermotts. Donald McDermott woos her, their secret meetings by a cliff produce a haunting echo, and a fatal shot ends the romance. Haba dies months later, with the cliff remembered as a sacred trysting place amid lingering legends among both tribes and settlers.
Rotterdam report notes German retreat tied to subsistence problems as troops subsist on spoiled bread and commandeered food while ammunition runs short. Paris dispatch confirms near-annihilation of elite Prussian guards through Meuse Marne Aisne battles, amid optimism reforms will arrive. Customer testimonial lauds Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion and constipation, with pharmacy source.
Announcement states A H Gray and Son will donate five percent of cash gates on September 25 to the Congregational church building fund. The sale preserves the regular ten percent cash discount for buyers while the church receives five percent of sales, encouraging winter supplies purchases.
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