Iowa News Roundup Highlights Liberty Bonds and Camp Dodge Events
Iowa headlines span Liberty bond drives by Atlantic students and Des Moines teachers, a Camp Dodge aviation prep order for 5 000 men, Red Cross nurses, and a grand Odd Fellows meeting. Other items note a spanking of bootleggers, a seized cigar invention, juvenile crime concerns, and a massive Camp Dodge athletic carnival with thousands of troops.
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Joe Hood
Fort Davge
Atlantic
J. H. Ruthmann
Irwin
Cottage Grove Church
Des Moines
Iowa Presbyterian Synod
Ames
Camp Dodge
Signal Corps
Iowa State College
Keokuk
Washington
Judge Leaming
Woodward
Roy Hutt
Mason City
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows
Sioux City
Liberty Loan
Davenport
Frenchi Hewiit Steel Works
Firemen’s Pension Fund
Association
Scott County
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Dubuque
Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Red Cross
Boys Are Well Fed and Trained at Camp Cody
Des Moines dispatch details Battery F of the 146th field artillery at Camp Cody near Deming New Mexico. Corporal West writes of drills, real gun and pistol practice, and meals with milk, bacon, Beefsteak, hash and soup. Notes chilly nights, dust, mirage, and overall good conditions. also reports on vital statistics law, Prohibition history in Iowa, Camp Dodge remarks, smallpox reports, and Iowa coal shortages.
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Des Moines
One Hundred and Geaty-Sixth Field Artillery
Camp Cody
Deming
N. M
Roger Clarke West
Officers Watch Quist in Des Moines Art Movement
State Council of Defense and civilian authorities monitor W H Quist for organizing a farmers league pro German in mood. Chamber of Commerce leaders urged suppression and to bring him before authorities. Quist says movement targets five counties to resist capitalist war. Also notes appeal for hard coal and a field day by the 350th regiment with band, speeches, boxing, and a Liberty Loan rally.
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Quist
W. H. Quist
State Council of Defense
Des Moines
North Dakota
Chamber of Commerce
H. J. Metcalf
Fuel Administration
Webster
Form Home Guard Enlistment For Six Years In Iowa
Des Moines reports Iowa cities including Burlington Iowa City Cedar Rapids Mason City Fort Dodge Sioux City Council Bluffs Red Oak Shenandoah Fort Madison Ottumwa and Des Moines moving to form national guard style home guard units under War Department authority. Each infantry company will have three officers and 100 enlisted men with six year oath terms and weekly drill. units may be drafted into federal service if needed.
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Soma
Monica
Camp Dodge
Marcus
Waterloo
Myrtle Barr
Sherif
Hartie
Blackhawk County
Decorah
Oscar Johnson
Charles A. Joseph
Farley Advertiser
Dubuque County
R. B. Wallace
Council 'Bluffs
Primghar and
Primghar
Iowa
Columbus
Ohio
Iowa State Dairy
Ames
E. B. Nelson
Boone
C. A. Marsh
Dexter
W. N. Donahue
Red Oak
Burlington
Three Hundred and Fiftieth Infantry Regiment
Morrison J. Price
Sheriff Behrke
Eldora
Hubbard
Kidora
Francis J. Spedter
Frank J. Martin
Iowa Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Camp Cady
Des Moines
Willis
Havland
Lafayette Estadrille
Haviland
Sam
Paris
Guy Logan
War Department
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Ghenandoah
Fort Madison
Ottumwa
Frank L. Love
Iowa National Guard
Logan
National Guard
Home Guard
National Army
Reserve
Army
Government orders Omaha depot for Camp Dodge purchases
An order directs the Camp Dodge Eighty eighth division quartermaster to buy all department supplies through the Omaha government depot. Des Moines merchants may still supply perishable items only if needed. The move aims to curb emergency Des Moines purchases and create mailings of government proposals to local vendors.
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Camp Dodge
Eighty Eighth Division
National Army
Omaha
Des Moines
Camp Quartermaster
State Economists Meet in Grinnell
The Iowa State Association of Economists and Sociologists held its second annual meeting in Grinnell with large attendance from all state sections. Delegates and instructors from nearly every educational institution in Iowa attended sessions on economics and sociology.
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Grinnell
Iowa State Association of Economists and Sociologists
Wilson Urges Food Economy Systemwide in United States
President Wilson called on every home and public eating place in the United States to pledge support to the food administration and comply with its requests. The appeal marked the start of family enrollment week as the nation seeks broad cooperation in food conservation. He urged public sentiment to rally behind the food program.
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Wilson
Washington, D. C
United States
Food Administration
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