Iowa War News Highlights And Dark Toll Of Deaths
Iowa items report a long list of local men killed in action or dying of wounds and disease in the past week. Other notes cover war production shifts, women farm workers recruitment, Studebaker plant closure, and political tensions over Liberty Bonds and labor disputes.
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Paul Delinger
Henderson
Edward Romelfanger
Aplington
Sanford Severson
Kanawha
Victor Frist
Villisca
Bob Tribby
Mount Pleasant
Clarence Nesheim
Clear Lake
Thomas A. White
Linden
Edwin I. Hites
Des Moines
Ben Adkins
Fairfield
James T. Goggin
Bernard
Micheal Wolfe
North Buena Vista
Jose E.kilmartin
Rembrandt
John W. Thompson
Floris
Chester R. Perkins
Charles Christianson
Graettinger
Alfred M. Kant
Moville
George L. Foulk
Merican
Ernest Richardson
Burlington
John R. Wingate
Waterloo
Charles S. Brown
Robertson
Cornelius H. Bents
Parkersburg
Herman H.lesline
Logan
David G. Lydell
Aurelia
Homer J. Price
Eagle Grove
Harry W. Swanson
Chillicothe
Iowa
Dixie Cornell Gebhardt
Knoxville
Daughters of the American Revolution
Red Cross
War Relief Fund
F. W. Grimwood
Laura Patterson
Elizabeth Neale
U. S. Employment Service
Boston
A. C. Woodruff
Storm Lake
Woodruff
War Service Board
Carl Erickson
Camp Dodge
J. J. Rainbow
J.H. Rigdon
Washington
Harding
J. H. Allred
Redfield Review
Allred
Moravia
Francis E. Whitley
State Council of Defense
New Jersey
A. L. Urick
Urick
Unconditional surrender rumors, wartime notes flood press
Reports from reliable sources note imminent Austrian Hungarian collapse while war monitors track Liberty loan tallies, influenza actions, and diplomatic moves. Highlights cite President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt birthday, Pershing victories, and German political shifts amid ongoing campaigns.
Patriotically Save Fuel With Compartment Cookware
An article urges Americans to conserve fuel as a patriotic duty during war time. It promotes using a compartment vessel to cook multiple vegetables on one burner, steam over a kettle, and turning down flames after boiling. It also advises oven planning and using a fireless cooker to maximize fuel efficiency.
Planning meals cuts fuel use and boosts meals
The text notes that meals planned ahead are better and lead to surprising fuel savings. It emphasizes careful planning to reduce consumption and improve outcomes.
Saving and wasting sugar in household use guide
The passage outlines how to save sugar by using dates raisins figs to sweeten puddings and cereals and by cutting sugars in beverages and desserts. It contrasts waste from leftover sugar dregs in cups leavings in bowls and spilled sugar in cooking with methods to avoid scorching and wasteful cooling.
Sauerkraut Making Tips From Old Time Guides
Practical home instruction outlines selecting mature cabbage, removing outer leaves and core, shredding, and packing into a clean barrel or tub with salt. Proportions of salt are given, with pressing and brine management to aid fermentation, plus a closing note about avoiding garbled stock phrases.
Three Wonders Of Loch Lomond And Floating Islands
In Loch Lomond Scotland there are said to be three wonders fish without fins waves without wind and a floating island The note compares Loch Lomonds floating island to those on the White Nile called sudd or scudd and to ones once seen in Lake Gatun Panama Canal Zone These islands form from vegetation and soil loosened by rising water and carried on the surface composed of sticks leaves and grass The largest observed in Lake Gatun covered about three acres Most Gatun islands have been towed down the Chagres river to the Atlantic, with a few still seen drifting past spillways
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Loch Lomond
Scotland
White Nile
Lake Gatun
Panama Canal Zone
Atlantic Ocean
Chagres River
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Instant Indigestion Relief
An old advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin tablets as an instant cure for stomach upset. It claims relief from belching gases acidity heartburn and dyspepsia after a single tablet. The tone mirrors a period ad with a kids joke about a club and a jolly father at home.
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Pape
Proving It. Trouble Never Comes Single.
A witty line set in a daily humor page noting misfortune doubling from last year to this year with a joke about double pneumonia and twins. The piece uses colloquial dialogue to convey resilience. It reflects lighthearted community voice and local humor tone.
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Belgium
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London
Wuel
Garfield
The
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Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Germany
Paris
Karl Leibknecht
Berlin
Bullard
Woerre
Pershing
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Highn
G. NH. Sumner
Iowa State Board of Eealth
America
HH. W. Duffy
British-American Gas Service
New York
Congress
Martin
Virginia
United War Work Societies
San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
All Republic
National Wheat. Growers’ Association
General Pershing
Edward V. Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
Omaha
Army Y. M. C. A
Elia Flagg Young
United Mine Workers of America
Verdun
Lynn Canal
Juena
Alaska
Wyoming
State Board of Health
Lewis
W. Schuetz
William H. Cook
Anamosa
Pearl W. Dickerson
Williams
Verne Willy
Mitchell
Otranto
Kaiser Bill
England
Italy
Fl. M. House
Admiral Benson
Navy
France
General Bliss
Food Administration
Chicago
Victor Berger
Wisconsin
Socialist’ Party
Milwaukee
McAdoo
Special Information Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Mrs. Whitenack
Dean
Florence Whitenack
Armatrong Ave
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Robert King Seidel
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Lake
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