Iowa War News And Local Homefront Notes
Iowa readers learn names of war casualties across towns including Pleasantville Diagonal Council Bluffs and others while Story county reports on war aims training and compensation. Polk county closes a coal dealer’s store for overcharging and eastern Iowa farm groups set a corn husking price cap. Camp Dodge resumes routine amid quarantine and tax men survey Poweshiek and Grinnell counties.
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Sam H. Bridge
Bondurant
Louis Mueller
Clinton
Fred C. Passick
West Side
Reno Pister
Promise City
William R. Aldrich
Davenport
Melvin D. Baird
Cedar Rapids
Thurlow W. Ball
Bloomfield
Edward R. Johnson
Marshalltown
Story County
J. F. Martin
Board of Instruction
Tom Fairweather
Polk County Fuel Commission
C. W. Bowers
Des Moines
Bowers
Bureau of Military Affairs
Adair County
John Ersham
Bureau
Council Bluffs
Farm Bureau Associations
Iowa
Camp Dodge
K.'C
Liberty Theater
Poweshiek County
Montezuma
Grinnell
E. E. Brammer
George T. Brammer
France
Stars and Stripes
Clarence E. Jacobs
International Bible Students’ Association
Conscientious Objector
Judge Advocate Court
The
Service League
Jebaletons
Influenza, War News Dominate Broad Dispatches
United States reports show influenza subsiding in camps as 2,000,000 soldiers go overseas. California bans theaters, Wyoming towns establish quarantines, and draft movements are delayed due to the epidemic. Military spending, relief efforts, and European front developments fill the day’s briefings.
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Public Health Service
Washington
Wyoming
Evanston
Kemmerer
Afton
Diamondville
Nebraska
War Department
Fruit pits sought for gas mask carbon drive
The U S government through the Red Cross asks households to save fruit pits and nut shells. About 200 peach stones provide carbon for a gas mask. Pits should be dried and delivered whole to Red Cross centers to aid war effort and supply carbon for frontline protection.
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United States
Red Cross
Monte
Emallness
United States ‘Department of Agriculture
California
Home Made Grape Juice Processing Tips
Instructions describe canning grape juice using clean well ripened grapes. Guidance covers selecting fruit, extracting juice, and basic processing steps for safe preservation.
Fragments From The Daily News Onus List And Public Notices
Digest of scattered phrases mentions a 2 Haarlem Oil claim and a Gold Medal reference, a prison and Sinn Fein inmates, and concerns about New York subway and street travel conditions. The readable text shows ad like lines about health remedies and a stray note on a 200 year old aration.
War Nursing Women Should Study Nursing For War Effort
An advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce remedies for women health and wartime nursing. It claims the 1000 page TM Medical Adviser teaches First Aid Bandaging Care of the Sick and Wounded and urges use of Favorite Prescription for nervous weakness and Golden Medical Discovery for blood and liver issues. Mrs T M Hooves of Council Bluffs Iowa endorses the products.
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Main Street
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
Iowa
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