Iowa News Highlights From Davenport to Spirit Lake
A 100000 storage plant planned for Davenport this fall and a 97 year old Red Cross veteran, Mrs. Olarge Volden of Waukon, lead a roundup of Iowa news. Donations to Red Cross rise in Charlotte. an amateur county fair aids the library and Red Cross. Logans celebrates fifty years. Montrose gains electric power from Keokuk with a parade. War, defense groups, coal and strikes, rail incidents, and school projects fill reports from Waterloo to Spirit Lake, including draft concerns, road wrecks, and a new wireless course for Des Moines schools.
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Davenport
Olarge Volden
Waukon
Red Cross
Volden
Charlotte
France
Grace
George Wilson
Missouri Valley
Logan
Montrose
Keokuk
Council Bluff
Iowa
The
State University
Irene Bradley
Grinnell College
Montezuma
First
Iowa Infantry
Charles Price
Levy
Des Moines
Price
Louis Edward Schaar
Schaar
County Officers Associations
Waterloo
William Galloway
Cedar Heights
Spirit Lake
West Okoboji Lake
Havelock
Gridley
Charles Reusche
Clinton
Clinton County District Court
Court House
Iowa Ammunition Train Organized and Ready for Service
Des Moines reports Lieut. Col. Fred Holstein of Burlington arrives to command the Iowa ammunition train and finish organization with Governor Harding and Adjutant General LoGANeed Maj. BE. C. Worthington. Enlistment reached 684. Des Moines provided 300 men. Army officers to inspect and instruct. possible mustering into federal service and training at the fairgrounds camp. Northern Brigade veterans pensioned. 26 survivors eligible for $20 monthly under new act effective April 7. List of ages and residences given. war-era units no overlap with civil war pensions. Heefner re-elected hotel inspector. nurses’ registration board named. Iowa leads U S in crop value per acre with $14.50, $516,700,000 value on 36,575,000 acres. State fair plans include boys and girls club day August 29, $100 county delegation prize, 1500 badges, and club regalia demonstrations.
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Traer
Davenport
Red Cross
Iowa City
Marengo Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Chicago
Camp Dodge
Waterloo City Railroad
Holsteen
Burlington
Stanley Miller
O. J. Brown
Herman Tammes
Sheldon
Tammes
Germany
Agnes Thayer
Council Bluffs
Harry Lovejoy
New Hampton
Joseph Lovejoy
Cherokee County
J. B. Brandt
Clinton
Harding
Town Regiment of Artillery
War Department
Phil Roan
Fort Madison
Des Moines
Fred Holstein
Iowa
Loganeed
BE. C. Worthington
National Guard
Holstein
Motor Trades Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Northern Brigade
Northern Iowa Brigade
Thomas R. Stevens
Adjutant General's Office
States
Robert Bell
Dow City
Salandes Bell
Andrew
Bonner
Jacob Bossert
Webster City
James W. Bradshaw
Decatur
Neb
Jeremiah Crowley
Cal
Ellis Wagshburn
Independence
James Young
Terry
Mont
James A. Sawyers
Sioux City
Lewis H. Smith
Algona
United States
Illinois
Texas
Oklahoma
C. Bishop
Ames
Federal Department
Washington
Troops Readied with Complete Equipment for Deming Move
The War Department confirms Iowa National Guard units headed for the thirteenth division concentration camp at Deming New Mexico will depart fully outfitted. Hats shirts coats breeches leggings shoes blankets rifles belts meat cans cups knives forks spoons and other gear are staged at Omaha depots for rapid issue before departure.
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Towa National Guard
Deming
N. M
Army Depot Quartermaster
Omaha
War Department
Iowa
South
Quartermaster Department
Ordnance
Thirteenth Division
Guards Under Federal Care in Iowa
The Iowa national guard has been placed under federal control, with state command ceded to General Barry in Chicago. Governor Harding and Adjutant General Logan can only issue general orders as equipment shortages leave Iowa troops under Army supply constraints. War Department requisitions flood stores, leaving government warehouses exhausted.
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Iowa National Guard
Uncle Sam
Iowa
Barry
Chicago
Harding
Logan
Towa
Uncle Sams
Hawkeye
War Departments
United States
Vital Statistics Plans and Milk Inquiry Dominant Iowa News
Uniform birth and death reporting blanks under the new vital statistics law were discussed by county clerks led by G H Sumner. Pettit and Blake helped develop the forms. Officials moved to probe the Des Moines milk war, with federal dairy agents and state investigators seeking illegal price or supply conspiracies. Defense council proposals consider housing Belgian war orphans. Iowa state university opens a new isolation hospital for contagious diseases with forty eight beds and sterilizers.
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District Court
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
G. F. Schroeder
Davenport
W. F. Russell
Toledo
Fred 8. Pettit
Waterloo
Pettit
Iowa
State University
Adjetant General Credits Table Drops Three Counties
A distorted section shows the Adjetant General discussing a credits table with three counties not listed. Des Moines and other cities, including Hamilton and Council Bluffs, are named amid claims of shared regular funding and net quotas.
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Des Moines
Hamil
Page Rapids
Bluffs
Euphemia Johnson and the Seabode Line Tale
Euphemia Johnson, aged 80, confronts a confidential colored friend and a railroad conflict over a released settlement. The scene ends with Euphemia musing on remarriage and a future tied to a line along the Seabode Ayeh route.
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Euphemia Johnson
Euphemia
Exemption Boards Named for Iowa Appeal Duties
President Wilson announced the exemption boards for Iowa’s vocational exemptions and appeals of local board decisions. Southern district members include William Cochrane and N D Bly with Harry Hopley Clarence Van Hops and G F Tucker. Northern district appointees include B H M Cassady W J Egloff D M Kelleher Harry B Plumb and T J O Donnell.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Washington
Wilson
William Cochrane
Red Oak
N. D. Bly
Davenport
Harry Hopley
Lewis
Clarence van Hops
Iowa City
G. F. Tucker
Clinton
Drafted Men May Bailet In Washington War Memos
Drafted men may enlist in the regular army or national guard at any time before their examination before exemption boards. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced that they will not be allowed to join the marine corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Regular Army
National Guard
Crowder
Marine
Man's Best Friends Aid in Pest War Says Journal
The Canadian Forestry Journal notes insects' damage and praises birds animals and reptiles as natural allies in pest control. It asserts experts estimate that without these natural friends in three years life on earth could vanish with vegetation first disappearing.
Self Denial Cited By Senator Sorghum Amid Debate
Senator Sorghum claims he has scored in self denial rather than heroism, noting he has not given a long speech in six weeks while addressing a question about setting an example for the country.
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Senator Sorghum
How She Shines and Reflected Light Comment
A brief quotation frames a woman as a moving-picture star likened to a planet shining by reflected light. Life magazine notes the metaphor to describe fame and public gaze in early cinema culture.
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Iowa News
Cherokee
Bull Moose
Dubuque
Clinton County
Herbert C. Hoover
F. C. Whitley
Iowa State Federation of Women's Clubs
Whitley
Max Meyer
Manchester
Frank T. Launder
Garwin
Foster
Dairy Department
State
Barney
Attorney General
Dairy Department of
Adjetant General
Parce Distribution
Gross Tlea
Des Meines Ees ‘Council
Sioux City Sioux
Adair
Allemakee Anoose Ig
Audubon
Buchanan Uena Ata
Jutter
Calhoun
Carroll
Greene Grundy
Quthrie
Ee Wees Hamilton
Hancock
Ordin
Harrison
Henry
Opty
Jackson
Dasper
Erson
Johnson
Eokuk Aecatene
Kosauth
Ereee
Ottawattia
Egold Aee
Scott
Shelby
Ite Blouz
Torg Ema
Nica
Warre Washington
Webster Teense
Winnebago
Inneshigh
Woodbury
Aan Twrig
BH. M. Cassady
Whiting
W. J. Egloff
Mason City
D. M. Kelleher
Fort ‘Podge
Harry
T. J. O’donnell
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