Rifle Practice For COF and Porto Rico Trip
Soldiers report rifle range training by the second battalion with Company F leading averages. The writer notes new shooters, target design, and top scores, while detailing hospital conditions, governor visits, and imminent orders to Porto Rico. Private J B of Company F shines, and a move to Newport News is anticipated as a hospital is completed.
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Porto Rico
Gane Tomas
Lyre
Sergi
Daughtery
Lieut. Walsh
J.B
Co. F
Newport News
Division
Col
Humphrey
Gen
Wade
Deserted Fifth Ki nold Regiment at Chickamauga Inspire Disorder
The community faces sacrifice while the Fifth Ki nois regiment at Chickamauga is ordered back to camp amid widespread mutiny. Men refuse commands, one ties a gun around a tree, and many drift to Chattanooga or nearby stations. Roll calls show fewer than one third responding for days.
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Fifth Kinois
Chickamauga
Mayne
Chattanooga
Death of Private Ned L. Clock in Typhoid Fight
Des Moines Register describes Private Ned L. Clock of Company D 2nd Iowa dying of typhoid at Chickamauga last Friday and buried at his father E. L. Clock’s home in Reeves Township. Funeral drew a large crowd. second death in the company from typhoid with three more ill. Locals fault Chickamauga care and impure water near Crawfish Springs. Clock may be nephew of H. A. Clock, who recently lost two fingers in a shotgun accident. ad copy follows with Sarsaparilla, sanitarium foods, Minnesota lands, and Dineen & Cook promotions.
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Des Moines Register
Hampton
Ned L
Lowa
Chickamauga
L. Clock
Reeve Township
H. A. Clock
Belts on Sale At Dingley and Pugh Store
Dingley and Pugh advertise leather belts priced 25 50 and 75 cents with a bonus skirt supporter included with each belt offered all week.
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Dingley & Pugh
Camp Thomas Notes Include Death At Camp and Letters
Camp Thomas reports show Charley Best and Henry Bruns in camp roles while James Tanner sends home a fragment of an old battle flag. R W Barge travels to see his sick son Marshall as Roy Alcorn improves from typhoid fever. Private Seymour Buck dies of typhoid, remembered as a fine young hero.
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Charley Best
Germania
Camp Thomas
Henry Bruns
Quartermaster’s Department
James Tanner
Wesley
Lookout Mountain
R. W. Barge
Bancroft
Marshall
Division
Roy Alcorn
Bancroft Register
R. D. Grow
Germany Standard
Porto Rico
Spangberg
Alona
Seymour Buck
Fort Dodge
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M. Z. Grove & Son
Langdon & Hudson
Che Algona Milling Co
Walker Bros
F. W. Dingley
Laird
Alfred
Boston Block
Algona
Calumet Po
Ned L. Clock
E.& F. Sarsaparilla
Minnesota
DineuEy & Cook
Rocky Mountain
Spurbeck & Lambert
Sheg Eeeeeee
Minneapolis
Aagh Agata
A. Gilmour
K.P. Keith
J. W. Wadsworth
M. Schenck
Directors. Co
B. Hutchins
Frank Devine
Chas, Wooster
Angus
J. E. Stacy
8. Stussey
the Farmers Milling Co
Stacy & Jordan
Algona Roller Mills
J. B. Hofius
Rue Wu
F. S. Norton
Algona, Iowa
Ehas
Magnusson
Hamilton’s
Wm, Cleary
Algona Marble Works
Shelley & Pettibone
Beate St. Ae
J.B. Waka
G. Samson
Iowa
Orera House
Wesenberg Bros
A. N
Thompson
Burt
Iqwa
Jas. A. Orr
Kalsominer
Havana
Scau & Watrrhouse
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