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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
8
A visitor asks about the man with a lantern in daylight, recalling Diogenes and the search for an honest person. The Spar tan derides the notion as press hype and vaudeville potential. In a schoolyard vignette Sydney avoids bad company by choosing Stanley, who picks him in return.
A Cincinnati authority claims freezone can lift any corn or callus with a few drops applied to the spot. The drug dries instantly, does not irritate surrounding skin, and a small bottle is available at drug stores for a modest price. If a pharmacist lacks stock, they are advised to obtain a bottle from wholesale suppliers.
Dialogues reveal a strained household as a mistress scolds Mary for attending many funerals. Mary asks for an hour off to see her sister's newborn, highlighting family duties and workplace restrictions in a terse exchange.
The text notes oil production from birch park growing as an industry in southern states. It also hints at concerns over infant safety and whether mothers would permit such behavior, indicating social attitudes toward child welfare.
A patriotic meeting in Onawe drew about 1500 people despite poor roads. Maj. Donald Macrae and W R Orchard spoke with Forty five local youths already serving in the US armed forces. Sioux City fife and drum corps and the Onawe band led a four block parade directed by Miles W Newby with civic groups and schoolchildren participating.
Reports from France and England note day and night tractor plowing to save time. In State Center, George and John Nowlan and their father press a 24 hour schedule with automobile headlights, averaging 20 acres daily. They split the day into two 12 hour shifts beginning at midnight. Want to Leave School. Iowa State College students petition to leave now for agricultural or government service with full credit, following actions by Illinois, Missouri and Ohio State colleges.
Federal suits totaling nearly half a million dollars were filed in Missouri against the Burlington by relatives of victims of the Cromwell Breach and injured passengers. Burlington seeks to move cases to Union County Iowa court and block Missouri courts. In Wisconsin a missing Dubuque case details a Benton mine shaft drowning, a three week submerged body of an 18 month old child and the mother.
Malcom Taylor a former Dubuque boy serving with a Canadian contingent in France is wounded in battle. His sister Mrs. G. P. Gotschalk of Dubuque has been notified from London that the injuries are probably not fatal and that he is in a London hospital.
Algona churches pass resolutions urging national war prohibition and commend it. Kos suth County Ministerial union adopts resolutions, wired to President Wilson and Senator Kenyon. Council Bluffs police equipped with ten Winchester rifles for defense and riot control.
Iowa State College extension urges farmers to grow sorghum and revive molasses making to avert a sugar shortage and profit from yields. Hundreds of deserted mills could boost cooperative local production, with last year’s yields 30 to 69 gallons per acre and molasses selling at 90 cents to $1 a gallon. Also reports Willis Maviland, a former Iowan in the Wrench aviation corps, earning dispatches from Paris for fights with German aircraft. Haviland, who spent part of his youth in Marshalltown, is noted for forcing an enemy craft to 4,000 feet before it fell after a gunfire duel.
Coroner H. Barnett of Moergich presided in LeMars over the inquest into Oscar Anton Peterson of Beach North Dakota who was killed by a St. Paul passenger train in the railroad yards. Railroad workers testified Peterson intentionally laid face down on the track as the train neared and the jury ruled death by own action. Will Norton of Weatfield identified the body. Peterson was a Swede with relatives in Sweden.
Des Moines resident Salinger sues the Des Moines Capital for 16000 dollars alleging damages. The suit stems from an editorial in the Capital on February 27 titled Justice Salinger Suggests Another Supreme Judge.
Nearly seven thousand dollars will be spent near Traer for bridges and culverts this season. Denison buys a new fire truck costing five hundred and fifty dollars and fully equipped. Union Prairie farmer receives five hundred dollars for a team from a Postville farmer. Tracer sewer extension contract awarded to Dearborn Construction of Waterloo. Maple City tournament set for Lake City June 20 with about twenty towns eligible. Mayor John Jacobs mobilizes vacant Lake City lots for gardening by youths. About 2 400 men aged 18 to 45 in Allamakee county. Musty corn fodder blamed for six stoer deaths near Emmetsburg. herd vaccinated. Forty children enroll in Shenandoah garden clubs. Burlington railroad sought for school garden right of way. Passville finances show indebtedness 26 103.53 with 24 000 for sewer bonds. Dr Robert Ricnow to address Traer graduating class on June 1. Unknown hobo aids fire near Green Island bridge. Cresco Masonic lodge buys lot for new temple. June vote on bonds for Tracr school building. $30 000 life insurance payable in fall. Santa Fe railroad distributes 2000 to Fort Madison union members for overtime since January.
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