Iowa News Roundup Reveals War News and Local Trials
Clarence Gruver, a Montrose boy aboard the New Orleans, recounts narrowly missing a torpedo during convoy duty. Camp Dodge reports show fit soldiers with few hospitalizations and some fatalities, while venereal disease rises. Local trials include J N Leaming acquittal for manslaughter and Ebert's spy internment. Hundreds in Cedar Rapids aid Red Cross, labor unrest noted in Sioux City and Davenport.
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Clarence Gruver
Clermont
Iowa
United States
New Orleans
Camp Dodge
J. N. Leaming
Woodward Marshal
Adel
Leaming
Roy Hutt
Woodward
Futt
E. H. Hardy
Edmonton
Alberta
Cedar Rapids
Hardy
New York
Woolworth
John C. Ebert
Ebert
McGregor
August Sase
Chris Gebers
Ida Grove
Liberty Bonds
Army Y. M. C. A
Tom A. Metcalf
Near Dysart
Charles Hall
Milton
Lloyd
Clinton Chapter
Red Cross
United States Postoffice Department
Blackhawk County
Whittier
Fly
Sioux City
Union
Coal price probes in Iowa urge federal action
A Des Moines telegraph to President Wilson argues coal mine price abuses in Iowa yield over 100 percent profit on investment. Governor Harding and three mayors urge action. if no response, Harding vows further investigation. The report covers mine costs, car shortages and labor cooperation.
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Des Moines
Harding
Committee of Mayors
Iowa League of Municipalities
Wilson
Iowa
John MacVicar
N. B. Snyder
Council Bluffs
R. S. McNutt
Muscatine
Washington
Fiines
Iowa Leaders Press for Coal Information and War Aid
Governor Harding demands coal operator C A Williams submit information for a census of men and resources to aid war needs. Rural Iowa faces 150 closed schools due to teacher shortages, with measures to suspend normal training requirements. German study declines rise as 200 schools still offer German while seed corn price probes begin.
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Gillespie
United States
Storm Lake Fire Destroys Post Office and Masonic Temple
A 4 am blaze fueled by high winds devastated Storm Lake destroying the post office and Masonic temple. The fire spread from the Obanion building to nearby structures including the Storm Lake Lumber company and the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul depot. Losses total around 150000 with many businesses and libraries damaged or destroyed. insurance covered about half. The Commercial National bank building caught fire but was saved.
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Storm Lake
BE. L. Obanion
Masonic Temple
F. P. Faville
Obanion
Storm Lake Lumber Company
Blugosch
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
E. L. Obanion
B. B. Fiscus
George Sattermole
T. H. Chapman
A. L. Whitney
James Deland
F. F. Faville
G. M. Triplett
Eb. J. Schultz
Steffen Bros
R. Reynolds
J. C. Cleveland
L. S. Blugosch
Park Bros
Masonic
Mary Scharz
Commercial National Bank
D. G. LaGrange
Thanksgiving Day Tragedy in West Liberty
On Thanksgiving morning Albert Dunlap shot his wife Mrs. Albert Dunlap as she carried coal from a cellar. He then killed himself after a drunken dispute that had already led to a thirty day jail sentence for assault and battery.
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West Liberty
Albert Dunlap
Dunlap
Monument for Martyr Merle Hay at Carroll Court House Square
Carroll citizens plan a monument to Merle Hay the first Iowa soldier killed in France. It will bear the names of Carroll county soldiers who died in the war and will be placed in the courthouse square with backing from the Carroll county defense council.
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Merle Hay
Carroll
Carroll County
Merle
Hay
Iowa
France
Germany
Court House Square
Carroll County Defense Council
Slacker Indictments Flag IRS Draft Evasion Case in Des Moines
United States federal court charged two men from Iowa with failing to register for the selective draft. Indictments name John Jenkins of Valley Junction and John Munco of Davenport as defendants in the drive against slackers.
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Des Moines
United States
Federal Court
Federal Grand Jury
John Jenkins
Valley Junction
John Munco
Davenport
Reminiscences on Civil War Indian Fighting Era
Mrs Emily O Brien of McGregor now in Denver prepares a publication of civil war reminiscences. She recalls her husband Col O Brien and his command of troops from McGregor West Union and other Iowa points on the western plains during the Union Pacific buildup. Mrs O Brien accompanied him across Iowa from McGregor to Council Bluffs.
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McGregor
Emily O’brien
Denver
Colonel O'Brien
West
West Union
Iowa
Plains
Union Pacific
What neighbors in Iowa say about a new discovery
Local readers testify to Anuric from Doctor Pierce of Buffalo for kidney and bladder disorders and rheumatic pain. Mrs. Erne of Wakeman credits it with relief after years of suffering and urges others to try the double strength formula and Doctor Pierce’s Invalids Hotel mail offer.
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Iowa
Anuric
Doctor Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
Erne, Wakeman
22Nd Street
Counci
Buurrs
Rabbit Jake and the Schoolroom Prank on a Reporter
Brown county solicitor John G. Allison carrying a rifle for rabbit hunting was teased by local school children on route No. 2. They placed a stuffed rabbit near a white oak, hid as he fired 18 times at the inert animal, then revealed the ruse as laughter broke out.
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Shenandoah
Fong Yee
San Francisco
Iowa Potato and Truck Growers’ Association
Davenport
Iowa Vegetable Growers’ Association
B. F. Farrell
Irwin
Kellogg
Sioux City
Camp Dodge
National Army
Weston
Iowa
Humboldt
Frank Gotch
Dunlap
Army
Navy
Edith M. Curtiss
Dean
F. Curtiss
Iowa State College
Ames
Chicago
Curtiss
Wapello County
Cvounty
Jake
John G. Allison
Brown County
Indianapolis
Allison
Green's August Flower Aims at Digestive Ailments Ad
August Flower marketed as a gentle laxative for disordered stomachs and inactive fever symptoms. It claims to regulate digestion, clean the stomach and intestinal tract, and stimulate bile production to purify the blood. Sold in 80 and 90 cent bottles in many countries.
Advice Desired from a Faithful Kinfolk Swarm
A rustic exchange quotes a speaker asking for advice as kinfolk allegedly swarm, with a neighborly reply about reacting to swarms. The segment includes a notarized 19th century style deponent affidavit offering Hall’s Catarrh Medicine with a $100 payment promise if cure not found, and an advertisement copy claiming internal action and mucous surface impact.
Fragmented dialogue scene from a literary work
A mother confronts Edith about a kiss with a young Frenchman. Edith laments her inability to speak French, explaining why she could not tell him to stop. The exchange reveals social mores and language barriers in a delicate domestic moment.
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Billa
Edith
Mamma
Fragmentary note on quinine effects and dark secrets
The text mentions quinine with head discomfort and nausea, a laxative effect, nervousness and ringing in the ears. It cites a box with W. Grove signature and jars of advice about hiding truths that will emerge. It also notes the paradox of a hat and a woman’s preference.
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Rome
W. Grove
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