Iowa 1917 registration urged as plates to last three years
Secretary of State W. S. Allen will mail letters to motor vehicle owners urging early registration for 1917. The new law requires three year plates with annual fees due January 1 and penalties rising after April 1. Many local notes cover aquisitions, farms, hospital work, and other state matters.
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Lone Tree
Manchester
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Sheldon
Tipton
Wildsea
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Winterset
Ames
Boone
Burlington
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
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Clarinda
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Fairfield
Fort Dodge
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Iowa City
Keokuk
S.eMars
Mason City
Muscatine
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Red Oak
Shenandoah
Sioux City
Washington
Waterloo
Webster City
Plan for recruits two Iowa districts with Davenport and Omaha
Iowa will be divided into two recruiting districts for the regular army. Davenport will cover the east, while Omaha serves central and western Iowa. Each station must supply one recruit per thousand people, totaling about 190 100 annually, with district populations and county tallies issued to the Davenport commander.
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Des Moines
War Department
Iowa
Davenport
Mitchell
Worth
Appanoose
Wayne
Omaha
War News Across Nations and Casualties Worldwide
Dispatches report Austria Hungary calling up fifteen classes previously exempt from service. Canadian casualties reach 52,026 through October 11. Holland coast mines tally 1 217 with 656 British 62 French 219 German and 280 undetermined. Bremen submarine heading to German East Africa. Gallia torpedoed with 2 000 Serb and French troops, many lives lost. Dutch ships sunk by mines total nineteen. German losses through September total 3 556 018. Greece yields to Allies over navy forts and rail telegraph control. Wuerttemberg grants woman lieutenant rank on Lake Constance gun boat. British freighters Strathdene West Point Stephano Kingston Dutch Bloomesdijk and Norwegian craft sunk off Massachusetts with warning.
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Strathdene
West Point
Stephano
Kingston
Bloomesdjk
Massachusetts
World News Snippets From 1916 Era Highlights
The Spanish government bans revictualing submarines in its waters. Berlin’s population drops to 1,790,821 in 1916 after 1,860,484 in 1915. Nine die in a fire at Christian Brothers College in St Louis. First carload of beets leaves Nisland for Scottsbluff Nebraska. Over 100 more beet cars expected from Belle Fourche district. Campbell White urges American Protestant missions to Europe after the European war. Rev Srl R. Hicks, 71, famed astronomer and almanac publisher, dies in St Louis. AP describes 400 offices receiving World Series play-by-play via 26,000 miles of telegraph lines. A public fountain to honor Carrie Nation is planned in Topeka. Boxing: Mike Gibbons and Jack Dillon sign. fight in St Paul between Nov 10 and 16. Story County breeder Carl Rosenfeld stands out with 6,000-ribbon bed quilt. A Bayonne clash leaves a woman dead and several wounded as police fire on strikers. Armour plans a 400 percent stock split. Dunham hints at capitalization rise. Former King Otto of Bavaria dies in confinement near Munich. A cyclone devastates St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. $2 million damage. Boston Americans win the 1916 World Series 4-1 over Brooklyn. five games draw 162,359 attendees and $385,590.50 receipts.
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Christian Woman's Board of Missions
Board of Missions
Iowa
General Convention of Churches of Christ
Des Moines
Elmer Young
Traer
M. J. Kennedy
Dubuque
Brtinson
Shimes
Dubuque Auto
J. O. Rankin
University of Missouri
Iowa State College
Ames
State Board of Education
A. St. Corey
Iowa State Fair Association
E. C. Perkins
Delhi
Waukon
Mexican Trouble Draws In Atlantic City Talks
The Mexican commission at Atlantic City faces new strain as Carranza cannot pay soldiers. Carranza may not seek Mexico’s presidency while consul J J Pesquiera comments. A Villa raid case in Columbus New Mexico leads Luna county indictments. Carranza bans bullfighting amid El Universal push. A small Villista force nears Pershing’s column with Villa commanding 1800 men near Guerrero.
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Wisconsin Guard Members Reach Border in Governor's Request
Governor Philipp asks Secretary of War Baker to release Wisconsin National Guard members now on the Mexican border. Submarine neutrality policy and bread from potatoes appear in other agriculture and foreign policy notes. 66,000 widow pension applications pend, 25,000 allowed, 2,000 daily benefits. Farm loan bonds set at 4 percent interest, with loans priced accordingly.
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