Des Moines Gas Rate Request and Local News Roundup
Des Moines city council considers a twenty five cent per thousand feet gas rate increase or a fifty cent monthly flat meter charge with reduced candle power. The report also covers wartime arrests, accidents, court verdicts, local fires, library dedications, school staffing issues, and community notices across Iowa towns including Ames, Waterloo, Denison, and Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Des Moines Gas Company
E. L. O’keefe
350Th Infantry
Camp Dodge
Elizabeth
Washington, D.C
O’keefe
Regular Army
National Army
Baee
Iowa State College
Ames
Chicago
Northwestern Railroad
Fairfax
Tony Nikalaski
Des Moines Invites Enlistments And State Aid Plans
Des Moines reports open enlistment in aviation signal corps medical and infantry branches for draft age men through local boards with training at Kelly field Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley Camp Joseph Johnson Camp Green. Some branches halted due to supply shortages and Negroes are excluded from voluntary enlistment. Also coverage of eight Iowa towns eligible for Smith Hughes federal aid for trade industry and agriculture, coal price fixes in Des Moines, fire marshal push for stricter building enforcement, and Iowa crop values led by corn and potato yields with bank deposits rising despite war demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Army
Logan
Aviation
Signal Corps
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
Land Division
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Medical department—Medical Officers
Ft. Riley
Quartermaster’s Corps
Joseph Johnson
Jacksonville
Infantry
Camp
Green
Charlotte
N. C
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Engineering Corps
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Newton
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
Grinnell
Okoboji Township
Dickinson County
Spirit Lake
Orange Township
Sioux County
G. Smith
Ames
State Board
Trade and Industry Plan
Federal Fuel Commission
Chas, Webster
MacVicar
Webster
George Messenger
Happenings of the Past Week Highlights From War Timeline
A roundup notes men enlistment drives as thousands of bricklayers are sent to recruiting offices. Baker signals vast government spending on explosive plants and a 25 000 strong auxiliary guard. Pershing reports German advances and captured American troops. A naval council coordinates allied war efforts. Construction of concrete ships is planned with the Bureau of Standards. Seventeen U S Army engineers are missing since Cambrai. House denies Pence mention at Allied conferences. A war council coordinates home and overseas supply. Spinal meningitis cases are down with no deaths. Denver labor exams show few rejects for service. New York suffers a record coal shortage. Canada re elects Union government with conscription. Cleveland factories shut amid fuel scarcity forcing 100 000 job losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick O'Donnell
Denison
Fred Orth
New York
Wilson
United States
Orth
Uncle Sam
Hans
Nick Wulf
Cummings
Wulfs
Woodbury County
Rudolph Holmung
Edwards & Bradford Lumber Company
Iowa
Holming
Iowa State College Extension Department
City Boys of
R. K. Bliss
Bliss
Morris
Sioux City
Mgr
Brinsmaid & Company
Des Moines
Brinsmaid Company
John B. Hammond
Hayner
Red Cross
Marshalltown
Hammond
A. W. Vaughn
Adel
Vaughn
Adel Record
Vaughn Press
Denver Harvey
East Fifth Street
Harvey
East Des Moines
Merridith
William Carpenter
Bertha Peck
Sutherland
O’brien
Logan
Wm. Simpson
Centerville
318Th Engineers
Camp Dodge
Iowa City
Holy City of
Jerusalem
University
Jennie Slocum
Mra
Ed Slocum
Scranton
Congress to outlaw buying federal bonds below par
Washington notes report Congress is urged to pass a resolution making it unlawful to buy or offer to buy any federal bonds dated after April 6, 1917, for less than par plus accrued interest. Other items include farm loan rate cuts and fuel administration measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Bandits rob state bank of La Grange for 25000
Four bandits robbed the state bank of La Grange NL taking 25000. The British Red Cross donated 125000 to Halifax sufferers. Incendiary fire destroyed John D Rockefeller's 100000 mansion in Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bank of
la Grange, NL
British Red Cross
Halifax
Ryx
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
Ohio
European War News Highlights From Front and Seas
Reports from the European war front describe the German submarine bombardment of the Spanish steamship Claudio with eight sailors killed and others wounded. Swiss travelers claim immense preparations for a western front offensive. Austria Hungary lists about 1.19 million troops in 79.5 divisions. Norway reportedly lost 65,000 sailors. London notes Bolshevik recognition as a political move to shield Russia from German influence. Japan’s Shoda says dispatching troops to Europe is futile. Britain and neutrals suffer losses at sea including a British destroyer and several merchant ships. Armistice talks involve Russia and central powers. truce ends January 14. Torpedoing of Austrian battleships is reported amid Italian torpedo craft actions.
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Iowa State News
Commonwealth
Highland Park
Waterloo
W. R. Law
L. J. Tilden
Ed Grote
George
Katie Stallings
Near Doon
Orin Chabot
Near
Red Oak
Wilkins Red Cross Society
Carnegie
Sibley
H. S. Emmert
Arthur Thorwick
Ottumwa
Lone Trea
Avery
Gilman
Marshall County
Carson
Mitchellville
City Board of Health
Medical Department
Ole Roe
John MacVicar
George M. Chappel
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Chappel
State Agricultural Board
State House
Blue Cross
W. L. Harding
Courcil
Bismarck
North Dakota
Lincoln
Washington
Iowa Council of National Defense
Martin J. Wade
United States Federal Court
State Council of Defense
Wade
Defence Organization
Malcolm
Clarksville
Dexter
Harding
Baker
United States Guard
War Department
Pershing
Navy Department
Western Front
The
Shipping Board
United States Bureau of Standards
San Francisco
United States Army Engineer Corps
Cambrai
Pence
Paris
Supreme War Council
Versailles
Col
Kk. M. House
England
France
Europe
War Council
Funston
Denver
New York City
Canada
Washington Notes
Federal Farm Loan Board
Federal Land ‘Banks
Garfield
Michigan
William Alden Smith
United States Fuel Administration
Senate. Co
Fuel Administration
Nebraska
Union
Food Administration
House of Representatives
Senate
General News
Gaston B. Means
Concord
Maude A. King
Frank A. Gotch
Humboldt
Gotch
Victor Hugo Duras
Wilbur, Neb
Liege
Belgium
Russia
Nicholas Romanoff
Tobolsk
Siberia
Cox
Northwest
National
Claudio
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Vrerich
Norway
Christianian Reports
London
Alles
Shoda
Japan
Tokyo
Ales
North ‘ Sea
Est
Tussia
Pawera
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