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Iowa Notes on Soldiers and War Efforts Across Cedar Falls to Des Moines
A roundup of wartime topics and local happenings from Iowa includes four years of college tuition for soldiers with honorable discharges, silver chevrons for those in training, and a large War Savings drive. Also noted are farm sales, civic gifts, influenza impacts, civic efforts for veterans, and a broad roll of Iowa service members reported as killed or wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
H.H. Seerley
Annette
Louise O'Brien
McGregor
Charles Mitchell
Webster City
Charles Singer
Iowa
Atlantic High School
France
American Public Health Association
Chicago
G. &. Summer
State Board of Health
Sumner
E Association
George B. Miller
Waterloo
California
Frank W. Court
Pasor
First Methodist Episcopal Church
John Seliger
Shoemaker’s ‘Bench
Beliger
Austria-Hungary
Johnny
Marion E. Bell
Wellman
Iowa County
Iowa Acre Corn Club
Ames
Young Bell
Des Moines
Jowans
Minne Shafer
Cedar Rapids
C. W. Stephenson
Eddyville
C. M. Pink
Pvt
Clem Hite
Company H
257Th Infantry
Western Terminal Elevator Co
Sioux City
W. M. Forsythe
Griswold
Cedar
Elliott
Ben Muntendam
Ben Slaughter
Muntendam
Elliott Graphic
Slaughter
Green Bay Lumber Company
Boone County Bureau
Boone
G. Goldthwaite
John S. Crook
Bureau
Edith Coffman
Louis Pederson
Loretta Robinson
Olden Clark Robinson
War Department
Harding
Oxford
Irvan B. Lyons
Charter Oak
District Board