11 Oct 1917
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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
1
Rural districts report wartime activities and shortages. Indian festival appearances, watermelon incidents, and clothing thefts color the state news. Enrollment booms at Penn College and Camp Dodge notes, with troop mobilization and Red Cross drives shaping daily life.
General orders explain how aliens may obtain release from the national army by proving not U S citizens and showing noncitizen status on home district registration. Draft movements shift for the third contingent delay to Oct 26 or later, likely consolidating third and fourth contingents and delaying depot brigade movements. Captain A A Brown appointed division personnel officer to plan educational and occupational census for reassignments.
State Fuel Administrator C W Webster, back from Washington, outlines a state led effort to prevent coal famine, curb dealer profiteering, and ensure fuel for communities. He cites 8 percent of US coal in contracts and proposes local organizations to enforce government orders and monitor car shipments, with rail cooperation and biweekly dealer reporting. The Iowa Defense Council urges broad society participation to aid war efforts, while the railroad commission prepares a regional atlas and volunteer engineering company seeks 250 men.
A Lima woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with restoring her health after displacement, praising its use by others. The item also notes a Lynn telephone prank using digit dashes to avoid profanity, ending with a joke about the dispatcher.
A wounded Tommy writhes as a masseuse presses and kneads his injured leg. He protests with a sharp exclamation, then asserts control by pulling his leg away and muttering that it hurts. The masseuse reassures that the kneading is proper.
An Irish recruit misinterprets sentry duty on his first spell in the trenches and jokes with an officer. In Pennsylvania, Little Italy is to be relocated to mine coal beneath it, while a proverb notes that cowardice can marry, but staying married takes a hero.
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