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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
2
Titonka Titonka News reports on local harmony in Titonka and Algone, the first Algone Community Choral Society concert at the Opera House, and upcoming town beautification ideals. It highlights measures on Sunday amusements, theater, and park legality, plus a poetry bit on poultry care and farm tips.
The article notes Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin voting on the war resolution to prove her femininity is unfounded. A law passed in the legislature requires towns and cities to publish their proceedings in a local newspaper. It allows posting in three places, as in many towns.
A patchwork of historical dates marks April wartime starts from Lexington to 1917 while local Swed school discussion notes teachers staying, salary boosts, a four teacher plan and a push for a balanced Sunday observance blending reverence with wholesome entertainment. The Titonka topic lists ownership and editor details as part of a weekly nonpareil notice.
A scanned document fragment lists security holders holding 1 percent or more of bonds or other securities and mentions Mer senthaler Linotype Co New York. It records a signature by Lee O Wolfe sworn before a notary public with a 1917 date and a notary seal and expiration in 1913.
By order of the Governor this Iowa wartime appeal urges all citizens to boost food output. Farmers should plant large potato patches on rich soil, grow forage crops, and preserve staples like potatoes corn onions turnips. Towns, merchants, and schools are urged to activate vacant lots for cultivation and maximize livestock production to aid the war effort.
Local items record visits and social events in South Buffalo. Names include Hailer, Petersons, Christenden, Turner, Kline, Klenk, Buffington, Ennen, Reynolds, Christensen, Turner, Oesterreicher, and Lamoreux with frequent calls to homes in Burt Titonka and surrounding areas.
Readers recount Sunday visits and dinners at multiple homes. Neighbors travel to Algona and Titonka for shopping and church, with updates on appendicitis recoveries and new residents moving in this week. Local farms resume field work as spring activity rises.
The document records Governor W. L. Harding urging agricultural production to support the war effort. It stresses not boosting prices, notes wheat failures in Kansas and Nebraska, suggests corn as substitute, and calls for increased recruitment of soldiers while promoting patriotism. It also mentions local social notes about visitors and ill children.
The writer taunts Mr. Merchant about relying on reputation, noting a Chicago mail order house likely as old and suggesting most readers own its catalogs. They argue advertising remains valuable and unavoidable for business.
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