Iowa Troops Train With New Rifle Edict At Camp Perry
Drafted rifle experts join Lieut. Col. Mumma to instruct national soldiers in the operation of the new rifle. Maj. Brookhart named chief instructor at Camp Perry with Capt. Krussler Geist Durcerwald Barnes Loos among Iowa instructors. Bandits flee Valeria after a daytime robbery. $2,000 taken. Eight hundred Des Moines day laborers accept 40c hourly nine hour day. Wheat abstinence drive gains hotel and restaurant support statewide. Nursing candidates total 97. one male from Nevada sanitarium. Sioux City abandons all stations except Northwestern after May 10. Furloughs under spring spring planting show no applications. Mayor Hail of Nevada seeks resignation but council tables. Willard Wing named state city work secretary for Iowa Y M C A. Grinnell votes for new hospital at $75,000. Charles City opens night school for drafted men with eighty three enrollees. Camp Dodge convalescents placed in new convalescent company for light training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton C. Mumma
Smith W. Brookhart
Washington
Camp Perry
Ohio
Mumma
Iowa
Don A. Krussler
Manchester
Edmund i S. Geist
H. Durcerwald
Waterloo
Cedric A. Barnes
Grinnell
Carl E. Loos
Iowa City
W.brown
T. W. McMillen
Jefferson
Des Moines
United States Commission On Piper
Charles Hutchinson
Anold
Valeria
Ottumwa Commercial Club
State Board of Health
Iowa Sanitarium
Nevada
Sioux City
Northwestern
John Krueger
Illinois Central
J. ©. Dempster
Krueer
Wilson
Camp Pat
Charles H. Hail
Willard Wing
Clinton
Cedar Rapids
Wing
Clinton Y. M. C. A
Theodore Storck
Geneva
Franklin County
State Defense Council
Matster
Acm
Grinnell ‘Community ‘Hospital Association
Charles City
Camp
Dodge
Ain
Navy
Tommy Ray Talks War Bond Drive Over There
Tommy Ray a Lusitania stoker recites loss of three brothers and his mother to German attacks while urging volunteers to support the Third Liberty Loan. He promises recruits perks and vows to keep talking to urge bond purchases and public support for Uncle Sam.
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Alice Avon
Vigilantes
London
Tommy Ray
Stoker
Lusitania
Tommy
Stoke Hole
President Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Uncle Sam
If America Lost This War A Vision From Hawthorne
A stark call to support Liberty bonds and Thrift stamps urges readers to ponder a German victory and the invasion threat. It warns the nation would endure brutal occupation, indemnities, and the end of Liberty, echoing references to Yorktown and Appomattox as the moral hinge for wartime unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildegrade Hawthorne
Vigilantes
Germany
France
Belgium
Italy
America
Earth
Yorktown
Appomattox
Temperamental Science Wires Spark a Punny Debate
A playful exchange questions if electrical wires must be well tempered metal and jokes that wires cause mischief when crossed, hinting at scientific curiosity and humor.
Navy miscue during golf outing cited by sailors
Fragmentary chat describes a navallet complaining about a golf mishap where a ball is tossed into sand and recovered, with banter between sailors about duties ashore and cap tain. The scene hints at inefficiency aboard a ship and lighthearted roving duty talk.
War News Erupts Across Europe and Domestic Declarations
Reports reveal a sweeping 1919 U S military expansion plan with 1 000 000 more men sought by Congress as German bombardment targets Paris. Navy and shipping programs expand while food moves aid Belgians. Italian help and British raids and U boat offensives shape a tense war panorama.
Uniforms and bustling offices replace Civil War Washington
In Washington today uniforms fill the streets yet a veteran would find the city muted and dull. Admirals wear gold less, generals are fewer, while vast bureaus and swarms of women on typewriters shape the war effort. The typewriter era replaces hand handwriting in official work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Washington
Boston Transcript
Connecticut Avenue
War Department
Department
Patron of Sand Art Remembers Pictures of the Sea
A narrator recalls a patron of sand art and memories of imagined beach scenes at Atlantic City and Syracuse. Vivid vignettes feature soldiers drawing on sand, Archimedes at a park bench, and a white robed figure writing in sand, with themes of memory and enduring art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Angelo
Nand
Atlantic City
Angela
Canute
Syracuse
Archimedes
Changes Wrought in Washington by the War
The piece contrasts prewar Washington with wartime mobility and crowds. It notes Pennsylvania Avenue crowded with life and commerce, Potomac Park transformed into a busy thoroughfare, and the government mobilizing cars and troops from nearby camps to defend the capital if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Einsylvania Avenue
Capitol
White House
Martha Washington
Pennsylvania
Potomac Park
North Sea
Paris
Secretary of War
District of Columbia
Gallieni
What She Thought About Early Spring Fashion on a Car Ride
Readers observe a fashion scene on a sunlit day with fur coats, gray straw hats, and steel quill guards. Passengers discuss madam fashion and the risk of fashion choices while debating seasonal wear and social pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Jungs
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Lusitania Stoker
Home and Foreign Intelligence
Geass
Congress
Channel Ports
United States
Navy Department
Florence H
Kansas
State Board of Agriculture
Topeka
Nebraska
National War Savings Committee
New York Port
Iy A
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Liberty Loan
Cleveland
Zeebrugge
Ostend
the Shipping Board
Ram Chandra
San Francisco
India
Eric Geddes
Admiralty
House of Commons
Zebrugge
Bruges Canal
Russia
Sthea
Central Powers
Copper
Marysville
California
Red Cross
Baron von Richthofen
Somme Valley
Lake Moor
Major Davis
I. S. Myers
Akron
Gardner
Missouri
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
William J. Stone
Rose Pastor Stokes
J. G. Phelps Stokes
New York
Kansas City
War Industries Board
Crowder
John R&r. Ranson
Chamberlain
Senator Overman
North Carolina
Big Bend
Texas
Nelths
State
Flanders
Brussels
State Department
Federal Court
Oat
Berlin
Uruguay
Argentina
Holland
Federal -Reserve’ District
Fings
Joan
Capital City
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