Iowa War News Highlights From Des Moines and Across State
Iowa communities report loan subscriptions to Liberty bonds, large Red Cross totals, and many enlistments amid WWI mobilization. Ottumwa banks subscribe to bonds. Ames medical units prepare for France. Webster and Cedar Rapids join war efforts. divisions form in Iowa colleges, hospitals, and farms, while accidents, elections, and public notices color the home front news.
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Ottumwa
Liberty Loan
Green
Millitary Service
Wwwa
France
The
State University
D. W. Garner
Glidden
Algona
Wapello County
Red Cross
State Agricultural College
Ames
Cherokee
Sioux Valley Medical Society
Des Moines
Nat C. Edenburn
Katherine Ohlsen
Ida Grove
Clifford Cole
Webster City
Bali
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Strawberry Point
Addie Donahue
Iowa
Oliver Kelso
Company E
First Iowa Infantry
Fort Des Moines
Kelso
Charles City
Lyn G. J. Kelly
Logan
Culliean
Fifteenth Judicial Court
Webster County
J. E. Wooten
Grinnell
W. A. Evans
Evans
United States
Iowa State College
Uncle Sam
Hancock
Treasury
War Department
Iowa State Agricultural College
H. P. McCain
Washington
Vinton
American Red Cross
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Waterloo
B. J. Carney
First Iowa Cavalry
Odebolt
Columbus Junction
Dubuque
Ankeny
Polk County
Charles Edward Largent
Adair
Sac City
Wilson
Fort Snelling
Ambulance Corps
University of Chicago
Grinnell College
Allentown
Pilot Mound
Council Bluffs
George Hughes
Iowa State University
Jessup
R. D. Bush
Shenandoah
Farragut
Great Western Road
E. E. Shoup
M. F. Arey
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Fort Dodge
Teachers’ College
Volunteer Food Producers’ Association
Ruth Paxson
China
Miss Paxson
Cost of Owa coal mining report shows costs and output
Iowa's 1916 mining report notes production of 7,217,979 tons and total labor cost of 10,259,008 dollars. Mine cost average 1.42 per ton, while coal sells at 5 to 6 dollars per ton. Polk county led output with 1,697,097 tons. 243 mines operated statewide employing 13,195 workers. Also reports on crops, asparagus maps, and draft-related plans and quotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Mining Department
Monroe County
Polk County
U S Teutonic War News and Enlistment Record Pace
Washington reports 2 967 men enlisted in one day setting a record while total enlistments since April 1 reach 2 686. Dirigo sunk by a German sub with crew landed except third mate who drowned. Margaret B Rouss sunk near the French Italian coast with crew robbed. Wilson urges action at memorial exercises in Arlington promising America will serve mankind.
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Washington
London
John Ray
Margaret B. Rouss
Fred L. Foot
France
Wilson
Arlington Cemetery
America
Washington War Tax Provisions Drafted for Revenue Bill
Senate finance committee in Washington fixes a graduated car tax and new consumption taxes to raise about $80 million. The plan taxes autos by value and imposes duties on coffee tea sugar and cocoa while eliminating the existing munition tax. The espionage bill is amended to remove press censorship. A food survey bill authorizes $14.5 million for procurement and production stimulation.
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Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Senate
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Carranza executes officer for arming Villa forces in Juarez
Maj. Esuteric Soto of the Carranza army was paraded through Juarez and executed by a Carranza firing squad after being charged with supplying ammunition to Villa forces. Carranza troops move to strike the Villista force that seized Ojinaga opposite Presidio Texas after a surprise attack.
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Juarez
Mex
Esuteric Soto
Carranza
Villa
Villista
Ojinaga
Presidio
Tex
Emperor Charles Opens Vienna Reichstag Amid War Talk
The reference to a people's rule and the Teutonic allies being mighty marks Charles’s Vienna Reichstag address as he honors the late Francis Joseph. Budapest reports Charles named Julius Andrássy premier of Hungary. Brazil’s chamber passes first reading to end neutrality in the German U.S. war by 136 to 3. Petrograd employs widespread strikes to paralyze production in over 120 large war factories.
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Wilson
Washington
Francis
Petrograd
Charles
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Zurich
Switzerland
Budapest
Julius Andrassy
Hungary
Brazil
Germany
United States
State Calendar and Pharmacy Examinations Report
A. R. Corey of the Agricultural society receives many requests for the 1917 State fair calendar. The calendar includes a map showing 78 automobile highways and county road routes. The State Pharmacy Commission held a meeting at Iowa City for students seeking pharmacist certificates.
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A. R. Corey
The
Agricultural Society
State Pharmacy Commission
Iowa City
Iowa Crops Hold Up Despite Cool Weather
The weather and crops bureau reports crops in Iowa in good condition with light damage despite unusually cool conditions. Frost touched several areas for two to three nights while barm covers only a small area. Heavy rains slowed corn planting in the south, but most corn is in and being cultivated. Some cur worm danger noted despite an excellent stand statewide.
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Iowa
State
Federal Agricultural Department
Muscatine
Sinc
Missouri River
Towa
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Sioux City
Weather and Crops Bureau
Tornado Hits Mineral Point Killing Seven and Injuring Dozens
A tornado nearly demolished Mineral Point Missouri area, killing seven and injuring 22 or more. Other items note Liberty loan subscriptions reaching 1,450,000 and aviation instructor Gene Zimmer dying in Buffalo after a hydroair crash, plus Seymour Knox Jr. injured. Navy yard officials closed New York harbor port on their own authority without stated reason in the official report.
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Mineral Point
G Ene
Washington
New York Harbor
New York Navy Yard
European War News From Frontlines and Kronstadt Stand
The delegates of workmen and soldiers take control of Kronstadt by 210 to 40 vote defending Petrograd. Italy's offensive incurs heavy Austrian losses estimated at 300000. Captain Guynemer adds five German planes to his total of 43. British raids east of Richemond see two German planes down, six driven down, five British aircraft missing. French troops seize a German post near Vacherauville. Russian Black Sea fleet lands at Chivi and destroys a Turkish post, burning grain stores and two boats. Two vessels taken to Tresond.
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Kronstadt
Petrograd
Baltic Sea
London War Office
Richebourg-L’avoue
Vacherauville
Verdun
Paris
Chivi
Samgun
Tresond
Carry On War Bonds Appeal and Liberty Money Message
A wartime plea urges readers to buy government bonds as the sinews of war. The author argues bonds protect value and support Allied efforts, urging personal investment to sustain currency and aid victory.
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Stricklang Gilliitan
America
Explosion at Cleveland frame store injures thirteen
Reports indicate a large dynamite blast demolished a frame store and an apartment building in Cleveland Ohio injuring 13 people with three in hospitals. Separate dispatches from Marble Hill Missouri claim at least 25 killed and over 100 injured by a tornado in Zalma Bollinger County.
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Cleveland
Marble Hill
Zalma
Bollinger County
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Iowa News
Lead
Mining Department
Camp Dodge
Havner
George £. Call
Alfred E. College
LéMars
Smith Brookhart
James F. Harvey
Leon
R. B. Wallace
W. H. Stellmacher
Iowa National Guard
Selective Service
Ora Williams
Mr. Williams
Woodbury County
Linn County
Scott County
Davenport
Dubuque County
Pottawattamie County
Blackhawk County
Clinton
Webster
Lee
Wapello
Marshall
Cerro Gordo
Appanoose
Boone
Mahaska
Fayette
Jasper
Johnson
Story
Monroe
Dallas
Sioux
Clayton
Benton
Harrison
Kossuth
Marion
Plymouth
Tama
Hardin
Winneshiek
Keokuk
Carroll
Jackson
Crawford
Hamilton
Poweshiek
Wright
Cass
Buchanan
Jones
O’brien
Delaware
Guthrie
Warren
Floyd
Butler
Calhoun
Henry
Cedar
Monona
Allamakee
Montgomery
Buena Vista
Union
Decatur
Sac
Bremer
Jefferson
Shelby
Taylor
Greene
Wayne
Chickasaw
Fremont
Franklin
Pocahontas
Madison
Lyon
Lucas
Palo Alto
Mills
van Buren
Clay
Mitchell
Grundy
Howard
Winnebago
Ringgold
Davis
Humboldt
Louisa
Audubon
Ida
Emmet
Worth
Adams
Clarke
Osceola
Dickinson
Total
A. L. Urick
Commercial Club
State Free Employment Bureau
Foster Road
Boards of Supervisors
U. S
Teutonic War News
Brazillian Senate
Gregory
Wall Street
Fred W. Zimmer
Buffalo
N. Y
Seymour H. Knox, Jr
Ais
Italy
Rome
George Guynemer
Lester P. Barlow
John Clarke Black
Continental and Commercial National Bank
Chicago
Black
Middleburg
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