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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
4
Community notes from Burt narrate birthdays, military updates, hospital visits, and travel. Residents like Mr. Grover and families including the Fairbanks, Grover, and Mescher clans attend gatherings and trips to Algona, Des Moines, Camp Dodge, and Fort Des Moines while others visit kin in Lincoln Nebraska and Armstrong.
Miss Hazel Valley and other visitors stayed with local families while several residents went to Camp Pike Georgia. News of visits includes Miss Zella Handy Miss Edna Lackere and many from surrounding towns with frequent trips to Des Moines Moline Sheffield and Burt. A family reunion honored Henry Patterson before draft and numerous relatives were seen at several homes across the area.
Port land area residents recount a weekend near misses with a car headlight glare and describe threshing machine prep. Del Fitch Alf Graham and families visit farms, while LIL Miss Luetta Hoffman prepares to teach District No 6 starting Sept. 2. Local residents attend soldier send off and share household duties and errands.
The report tallies Red Cross celebration receipts at 1426.36 with expenses 684.07 leaving net 742.29 and four chapters sharing 185.67 each. Local farming and civic life include Nelson Bros. property, Ford Sedan sale, and harvest scenes. Military calls and Liberty Loan media activity frame the era notes with local residents enlisting or awaiting orders.
The text notes public resolve to meet war-time financial needs and the role of banks in funding government through U S Certificates of Indebtedness. It cites a $6,000,000,000 target to cover expenses to November 1 1918 and urges banks to educate customers to invest in this Treasury financing plan ahead of the next bond sale.
The Livermore Gazette laments haste while recalling past speeds. A man speeding to avoid a train crossed Main Street at about forty mph and nearly hit the cow catcher before chatting with bystanders. A motorcycle rider arrived at fifty mph, parked, lit a cigarette, and talked ten minutes, wondering how fast he reached the next mile.
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