Iowa Flood Angers Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls Homes Lost
A Cedar River flood caused by a break in the Waverly dam and a washed trestle crippled rail lines near Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls. Property losses run between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars as hundreds evacuated overnight and the river hit a record high.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Illinois Central
Waverly
Great Western
E. B. Soper
Emmetsburg
Kansas City
First National Bank of
Iowa
Dakota
Cornell College
Cornell
Northwest Iowa
Methodist Episcopal Church
Pearl Jane Bram ‘Tle
Dubuque
Clare
M. T. Griffin
County Clare
Ireland
United States
Fort Dodge
Iowa Prairies
Lloyd Tennant
Iowa State Prison
Fort Madison
Tennant
State Board of Control
Second Iowa Infantry
Mason City
Fort Des Moines
Cedar Falls
Estherville
Kenneth Rensink
Des Moines
Methodist Hospital
Plymouth County
Rockwell City
Sylvia Messersmith Boldry
Oakkaloosa
Isaac T. Street
Naval
Center Point
Willard
Navy
Arthur Ruebsam
Washington
Washington National Bank
Ames
Tingley and
Ellstum
Harding Urges War Basis Legislation For Iowa
Governor Harding asks Iowa's 37th general assembly to adopt a war basis including a military census of capable men and a secret state industrial survey with a $500,000 appropriation. The message stresses locating factories and foods for war and calls for rapid legislation in both chambers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
37Th General Assembly
W. L. Harding
Germany
Harding
Senate
Whitmore
Wapello
Appropriations Committee
House
Pitt
First Iowa infantry mobilized at home armories
President Wilson orders the twelve companies of the First Iowa infantry to mobilize at their home stations with equipment ready. The unit may be sent to Rock Island for mobilization, or used to police property within Iowa, as debates over oath requirements and federal integration unfold.
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Hans Geise
Ilving
Geisse
Germany
Des Moines
Alfred Ablett
Ankeny
Dexter
John A. DeArmand
Davenport
DeArmand
David DeArmand
Missouri
James A. DeArmand
L. G. DeArmand
Webster County
John L. Parsons
Iowa Infantry
Wilson
Iowa
Harding
Rock Island
Camp Dodge
John E. Bartley
Tipton
E. C. Johnson
H. G. Utley
John F. Ready
National Guard
Logan
War Department
Brownsville
Fort Des Moines
Crooked Land Agents Halted by Big Bureau
Marquette Mich March 28. The Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan formed by Clover Land landholders promotes honest dealings to lure settlers. Leo C Harmon presides with Marquettes Alton Roberts and August Wallen as vice presidents. George W Rowell Jr servers as secretary and manager handling inquiries from Marquette 100 Bacon Block. The bureau promises free maps soils crops climate railroads water shipping churches schools and other settler needs and tax exemptions for five years to attract newcomers while connecting buyers with trusted land firms.
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Marquette, Mich
Clover-Land
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan
Clover Land
Leo C. Harmon
Manistique
Bureau
Alton T. Roberts
Marquette
August Wallen
Ewen
H. W. Reade
Escanaba
George W. Rowell, Jr
Rowell
Bacon Block
Mr. Rowell
Development Bureau
Methodists to Buy Irving School for Deaconess Home
Des Moines Iowa Methodists consider purchasing Irving school property for a deaconess home and Bible training school with a tentative $35 000 offer. The purchase would expand the churchs real estate holdings near the Iowa Methodist hospital nurses home and adjacent properties.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa Methodists
Irving
Methodist Church
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Prices at Perry horse sale reach high values on war demand
Atlantic fifty head of farm horses and mules sold at Perry auction with high prices. A team topped at 487.50 dollars and a single horse at 247.50 dollars. Several matched teams exceeded 400 dollars, average for fifty head about 185 dollars. Buyers link price rise to English government wartime purchases.
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Wm. Herkelman
Elwood
Lady Devergail
Cedar Rapids
C. L. Fitch
State College
Ames
St. Paul
Kansas City
Iowa Falls
Sheldon
Company E
Second Town Infantry
Des Moines
Hans Geise
Perry
United States
Germany
International Association of Blacksmiths
W. C. Wilder
Grinnell
Cleveland
Willard Rohr
Fort Madison
Ames College
William Howard Taft
Morley
A. E. Faris
Oakville
People’s
United States War Department
Harding
Adjt
Logan
Shenandoah
Guthrie Center
Margaret Harber
George Ju. Hewitt
Santa Fe
Iowa
Farmers’ Club
Atlantic
Prickly Pear Fodder Gains Attention in SA Agriculture
The British and South African Export Gazette reports prickly pear as a feeding cake ingredient for cattle. It reportedly has high food value and helped farmers during a drought keep cattle sheep goats and ostriches alive. Consequently many farmers are replanting the plant they once tried to eradicate.
New Corn Remedy Claim Freezone Destroys Calluses
An ad-like snippet touts Freezone as a cheap ether that magically lifts corns and calluses. A Cincinnati inventor says it dries and shrivels the corn root without skin irritation, and asks readers to ask their drugstore for a bottle or have it ordered.
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Cincinnati
Freeson
Ady
Unclear OCR fragment prompts observation
Fragmentary text yields no coherent event or identifiable entities. cannot determine subject, location, or date from the unreadable lines.
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