Iowa fortifies Camp Dodge plans and rail work unfolds
The Iowa National Guard will use Camp Dodge to mobilize four regiments if diplomacy fails. Adj. Gen. Logan oversees 315 buildings and 6000 soldiers, with blueprints from the war department. Separately, the Milford gravel train advances double tracking toward completion by fall aiding Milwaukee line expansion across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Iowa Military Department
Des Moines
Iowa
National Guard
War Department
Camp Dodge
Adj
Guy E. Logan
Milwaukee
Milford
Chicago and
Council Bluffs
Herndon
Letters Missed As Ice Box Confusion Leadsmistress
Minnie, a new maid, misinterprets orders about lettuce and letters, storing mail in the ice box next to the ice. Mrs. Lane discovers no mail arriving and questions Minnie, who insists she has brought letters, confirming the ongoing mix up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie
Mrs. Lane
National Monthly
Elopement Trick Uses Mountain Sled Escape in Switzerland
In Switzerland a couple eloped after a mountain trip by parents. The lovers hired a bob sled to coast down the slope and vanished on an express before the parents could return by train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Money Is Man's Greatest Trouble If He Has None
A concise moral remark notes that financial scarcity is the chief human burden, framing money as the primary source of trouble when absent.
Happy Now Family of Twelve Drink Postum
A family of twelve reports health improvements after switching from coffee to Postum. A mother, brother, and sister describe relief from headaches, dizziness, heart palpitations, and stomach troubles. Postum is offered in Regular and Instant forms with prices in 15 25 30 and 66 cent ranges and marketed with the slogan There's a Reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Happy Now
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Fortunate Indians and the Free Life of a Boy
A boy reflecting on American Indians notes their simple life and scarce laws, yet comments that those laws were widely broken. The remark highlights tension between freedom and order in native customs.
Hair loss and scalp itching relieved by Cuticura
In Greenwood Indiana C M Hamilton reports severe scalp itching hair loss pimples on face and dandruff. After years of failed remedies he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for three months and his face and scalp improved greatly. Cuticura advertised with order info.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwood
Ind
C. M. Hamilton
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
New German League Forms to Fight Woman Emancipation
A new association in Germany aims to oppose women’s emancipation and has attracted about 20,000 members. The group promotes traditional gender roles and seeks to influence public policy and social norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League For Combating
Germany
Huerta May Quit and Carranza Refuses Armistice
Reports from Vera Cruz and El Paso indicate Huerta may resign with safe conduct to a port on a foreign warship, while Carranza formally rejects mediation calls to halt hostilities. Carranza’s note to Washington argues suspending fighting would aid Huerta and harm the constitutionalist cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Cruz
General Huerta
Mexico
Jose Lopez Portillo Y Rojas
Mexico City
Huerta
Carranza
el Paso
Tex
Washington
Tampico
United States
Nazil
Argentina
Chile
South American envoys seek Washington mediation talks
In Washington on May 4 the three South American envoys pressed for U S participation in mediation with Mexico. Ambassadors Da Gama Naon and Suarez asked Secretary Bryan to name a U S representative for conferences with the mediators. They also telegrammed Mexico City leaders Huerta and Carranza. No subjects or powers for the talks were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Mexico
United States
Huerta
Carranza
Washington
da Gama
Brazil
Naon and Suarez
Argentina
Chile
Bryan
Mexico City
General Huerta
Tampico
Good Roads Day Improves River to River Route
Altoona and Mitchellville road boosters closed all stores for Good Roads Day. Forty workers graded and cleaned the four mile stretch from Altoona to Mitchellville and laid sixty gravel loads by farmers and boosters from both towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Mitchellville
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Hawkeye
Colfax
Epworth League
Peter Ainslee
New York
Edward Gorman
Lawrence de Graff
Gorman
Bill” Richards
Myra Martz
Fort Madison
Virginia Harlan
Stella Gustavicon
Clarence Hagberg
Frank Wallace
Ottumwa
Matthew M. O'Donnell
Keokuk
Mack Groves
Charles Grimm
Estherville
Swan Lake
Emmet
George Cosson
C. W. Mullan
Waterloo
Fts
Bremer County
P H. Landy
Decorah
Luther College
St. Paul
Norway
Iowa City
Jessup
Sons of Veterans
Grundy Center
Louise Klatt
Newhampton
B. J. Engle
Newton
Indianapolis
Engle
Stoddard
Frank H. Laufer
Iowa Cis
John P. Painter
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Laufer
Fifty-second
Iowa Infantry
Painter
First Infantry
Washington Volunteers
Mills County
Iowa State College
C. F. Curtiss
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States
Highland Park College
George P. Magill
Assembly
H. H. Whitaker
Morris Bloomberg
Wilfred C. Lane
Bloomberg
C. PD. Wheeler
Ingward Anderson
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island
Fran Yeverick
Blakesburg
Young Deverick
Orphans
A. J. Bailey
Monroe County
Sioux City
Women’s Club
C. Ewald
Marshalltown
Reed
Dubuque
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Elks
Kester Chedister
Raymond
Pearl
Andy Nalevanko
Albia
State Hospital
Centerville
The
Christian Church
Frank E. Brown
Brown
44Th Iowa Infantry
Colleges of Iowa
University of Iowa
Fred A. Martin
Sac City
Lake View
B'nai Jacob
Charles Ruth
Ames
Silas W. Johnson
Greenfield
Oelwein
Maid
Mistress
REL
Canada
J. Keys
Denmark
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Westernanada
Ottawa
V.M Uwen
Beltramie Co
Ming
AL Iro
Woresb
Lowa
Wilson
Tion Board At Capital
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