Four of five Neilson sons serve country in wartime
The article lists multiple local wartime cases and civic notes including the drowning of Francis Gates in the Iowa River at Iowa Falls, the death of Sunday school teacher C A Legke during a rescue attempt, Norman Hall in a German prison camp hospital, and various other war related updates. It mentions charges of desertion, exemptions, food hoarding, and civic actions across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Neilson
Greenfield
Francis Gates
Iowa River
Iowa Falls
C. A. Legke
Norman Hall
Colfax
Martin Hansen
Ringsted
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Kossuth County
Burt
Lewis Larson
Mike Zimmerman
Lone Rock
Uncle Sam
Des Moines
A. P. Sherwood
Department, of Justice
Iowa
George M. Parsons, Jr
Bac City
National Army
Camp ‘Hancock Augusta
Parker
Sac City
Maj
George M. Parsona
National Guard
George, Jr
Shattuck Military Accademy
Faribault Minn
Wilbur Emery Robinson
Dubuque
Mr. Robinson
Jell” Schurman
Sutler County
United States
Frank A. Oconnor
Camp Dodger
France
Camp Dodge
L. R. Farrall
Paria
B. W. Edwardson
Frank Perkins
L. H. Martin
Lincoln Highway
State Center
Chicago & Northwestern
Rede Crossing
J. P. Franke
Albson
Neb
Nebraska
David Lunde
Jackie
Lunde
San Diego
Lunde Eufly
Air and naval incidents mix in scattered 1919 notices
A jagged blend of events lists Cadet Willis Rodgers killed in a Chanute air accident, a fishing schooner loss off York Spit with 27 men believed dead, Ensign P. J. Barnes setting a blimp endurance record, and a Baltic port flag exchange for Finland. Additional items cover a shipyard blaze, Dayton Wright’s thousandth De Haviland, a Gary rooming house crackdown, and indictments in New York for raincoat contracts and German propaganda claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manda “Lewis
York Spit
Cape Charles
Sten
Navy orders issue large reserve calls for duty on ships
Washington reports say orders call thousands of reservists into active service on ships built under the shipping board and navy programs. An airplane flare device will be released from a parachute, ignited by air friction, for use in eight bombing expeditions. Senate and house committees warn deferred class draft expansion is not imminent as class 1 wears thin. McAdoo cites wage increases for 500000 shopmen to spark productivity and curb strikes. Senator New proposes a separate department of aeronautics under a cabinet member as secretary of aeronautics to oversee all air craft activity. Open aliens’ property of half a billion dollars has been seized, with proceedings noted by Mitchell Palm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Prescott
North Liberty
France
Eighty-fourth Company
Sixth Regiment Marines
Kingddin
State Board of Health
Council ‘Bluffs
Clifford Wolffe
Donald MacRea
Wolffe
Coast Guard Service
Jacob F. Zahn
Company B
Ninth Infantry
War Department
Jacob Zahn
America
King’s Dragoons
Germany
Zon
United States Regular Army
Davenport
Omaha
Middle Weat
J. I. Gibson
Iowa
National Food Administration
J. &. Neil
M. A. Hauer
Woodbury County
Salix
Neff
Polk County
Carl Kennedy
Food Administration
State Council of National Defense
Public Utilities Commission of Five
Des Moines
J. F. Ford
Fort Dodge
Dean W. D. Raymond
Iowa City
Clarence Nichols
Vinton
Truman A. Potter
Mason City
J. H. Ingwersen
Clinton
Iowa Pharmacy Board
State House
Harry Eaton
California
Edgar Harlan
H. H. Polk
Polk
State Historical Department
Jowa
Harlan
Navy Department
Washington
Shipping Board
Navy Building
Ordnance
Senate
House
Wash'ington
New
Department of Aeronautics
Sattoertes
A Child's View Of Liberty Bonds And Thrift Stamps
Five year old Jamie Bliss lives on a Wisconsin farm with his mother and father. He hears a discussion on Liberty bonds and thrift stamps and tries to understand saving, money, and patriotism shaping his early view of adulthood and civic duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamie Bliss
Ives
Homme
Papa
Haw’ Otaire
Wis
Jamie
Italea
Unclear text fragment reports strikes and incidents abroad
Fragmentary report cites Moscow district communists and Petrogrid, mentions Duke Nicholas and Rudattin, police dispatch to Amsterdam, a new strike in Kalk Prussia, Belge guns suppressing leaders, embassies leaving Vologda for Archangel, evacuations to Kaladataski, Lapland, and an explosion in Shimonoseki Japan with at least thirty killed and thirty injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thallies
Vologda
Archangel
Kaladataski
Lapland
Personal Clarence Brown Dies in Toledo
Clarence Brown, attorney and publisher of a state wide periodical, known as a capitalist and politician, died in Toledo Ohio. The obituary notes his influence in law and media and his prominent role in the region’s political and business circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Brown
Icience
Rereal Times
Toledo
European War News From the Italian Front to Aerial Victories
Reports from the war office in Rome note brisk fighting at multiple Italian front points. Sub-Lieutenant Boyar gains five aerial victories bringing his total to 29, while Lieutenant Maden increases to 88. Lloyd George warns the war will stay tense for another month as anti submarine gains are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Office
Rome
Boyar
Paris
Maden
Hig Atring
E Eoes
War update expected from Pershing on casualties
Secretary of War Baker announced at Washington that exact information on losses in the present offensive will be released to the American people within a few days. General Pershing is obtaining complete casualty data and will cable details as soon as possible. Joint action with Japan and other nations is assured, with Japan finding the American proposal acceptable to aid the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pershing
Waltington
Baer
Japan
Siberia
Washington
Fragmentary verse note from an old column page
A damaged OCR fragment presents a niche verse line about a maiden and a scene in a crater with elided phrases. The text is unclear but centers on a waltz and a maiden figure, suggesting literary miscellany rather than a complete story.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Willis Rodgers
Ark
City
Chanute
Fieers
New York
P. J. Barnes
Aval
Aires
Atlantic
Republic of Finland
Iti
South America
Howard Ship Yards Company
Es Ky
J. B. Binley
Dayton-Wright Airplane
Dayton,c
de Haviland
Porter
Gary
Ind
Aubrey W. Vaughan
Quartermaster’s Corps
United States Army
Felix Gouled
D. L. Podell
Federal Grand Jury
George Sylvester Viereck
Teuton
George Ruple Wallace
McAdoo
United
Atetes
Mitchell Palm
Ftuman
Ube
Welf
Vernment
Owere
Middlesex
Fia
Moscow
Pétrogrid
Seciarie
Nicholas
Driili
Shimonoseki
Lloyd George
London
Bt. Read
Eric Gedden
Wwe
Orenburg
Copenhagen
Bolshev‘iks
Tremsevik
Turkestan
Baale
Switzerland
U.S
King Victor Emmanuel
Neviawivei
Walt
Sadist
Diesel Hun Music Ree
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