Iowa News Roundup From Estherville To Camp Dodge
Six Estherville youths escaped a dance party crash with injuries after a high speed rollover. Camp Dodge advances show completed barracks for infantry and artillery with all equipment to be shipped from Chicago. Various Iowa events include food conservation day in Waterloo and a transfer for pastor Cybulski amid draft tensions.
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Estherville
Camp Dodge
Washington
War Department
Chicago
Egtal
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
United States
Hoover
J. J. Carrigan
Sioux City
Michael Cybulski
J. Catherine’s
Father Cybulski
Iowa
Black Hawk
Brown-Camp Hardware Company
Des Moines
Tone Brothers
Harding
Wilson
C. S. Grant
City
Clarence van Epp
Southern District
Grant
Epps
Officers’ Medical Reserve Corps
Ft. Riley
Frances Whitley
Webster City
National Council of Defense
Keokuk
Lee County
Emma Anderson
Cedar Rappode
Yan
Minneapolis
Iowa City
Bat
J. L. Beer
Iowa University
Army
Elve
Heart of Phyablaia
Harkins of
de Witt
Uncle Sam
Sorvere
Eystuss
Government to regulate wheat futures and fuel use during war
The Chicago board of trade will stop wheat futures after August 25 1917 as the food administration begins interior purchases. Congress may be asked to authorize 9 billion dollars more for war expenditures through June 30 1918 with 5 billion already approved and a 2 billion tax bill pending. Buying agencies, licensing elevators and mills, and price regulation to curb middlemen and futures trading will be established. Director Van H Manning warns drivers to curb nonessential car use to meet gasoline needs for the war.
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Union News Service
Washington
Herbert S. Hoover
Chicago Board of Trade
McAdoo
Congress
Senate
Food Administration
United States
van H. Manning
Bureau of Mines
Rapid rise in livestock market stirs prices and bets
Market excitement in South Omaha as hog prices climb with forecasts of 17 dollars. Bombing at Southend, Essex, kills 23 and wounds 50 amid German raids. Canada and U S labor pact to safeguard grain and potato harvests. immigration rules to ease border crossings. rail break near Richmond, Neb saves Pacific Limited with a cornstalk signal. Former emperor Nicholas II moves from Tsarkoe-Belo amid banners. Suffrage protests in D C face ongoing clashes. Eggs may hit 1 dollar a dozen next winter per Harry Wilson. Washington Supreme Court upholds Clallam county ruling in Richards case. Lincoln man sentenced to prison.
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South Omaha
Chicago
Olympia
Washington
Draft Call-Ups and Policy Moves Disturb World Stage
The article notes 200000 of the first 687000 draft men to be called up by September 1 and sent to camps by September 6 with training planned in October. It also covers a papal peace proposal, food control measures in Canada, liquor crackdowns near camps, and diplomacy outlooks amid wartime tensions.
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Pope Benedict
War News From Around The Globe In Short
Dispatches report Allied relief in Hamburg as 180000 residents rely on municipal soup kitchens. China declares war on Germany and Austria Hungary. Peking legation confirms. Essen miners mobilize over coal, food, and wages seeking peace by agreement. Swiss exporters face Berlin payment rule in marks after peace. Peking ministers recognize Feng Kwo Chang as president. Odessa battle signals German strategy to seize the port and push into Bessarabia.
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China
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Washington
Peking
Essen
Paul May
Feng-Kwo- Chang
Foreign Office
Feng
Volunteers Organize 1917 Apple Harvest Drive
Government Food Administration urges nationwide volunteer pickers to harvest the 1917 apple crop. Growers should coordinate with chambers of commerce, train pickers, and ensure careful handling and rapid storage to preserve quality and aid Allied food needs.
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Government Food Administration
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Joke Punch caption about a bottom boy in class
A mother chastises a boy for being the class bottom. Peter explains the bottom boy is away ill, so he cannot help his rank. The joke hinges on a play of words and illness as the absent factor.
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Peter
Recognition of Women as Equal in Factory Labor
A Century excerpt recounts a munition maker foreman praising women workers. He argues women can perform mechanical work as well as men, often better, recounting experiences of hiring women over men in Ohio plants and urging respect for women's labor.
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Donald Wilhelm
Welch
Mornig
Ohio
Father’s Weakness Hints at Absence Excuse Boy
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald item recalls Johnny B aged eight who developed a fondness for hockey. After several offenses, the teacher demands an excuse from his father for future absences, but the boy says his father is poor at excuses, noting his mother catches him.
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Johnny B
Johnny
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Scotland Opens Radium Factory by Scotch Chemist
A Scots chemist opens a radium producing factory in Scotland. An awkward remark recalls Gladys in a bathing suit and someone says she should have seen her. The oddly phrased dialogue contrasts with the industrial news.
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Gladys
Scotland
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