Two Items of Interest From Iowa War News
Reports from Des Moines note Col E R Bennett of the old 168th Iowa disqualified for active service in France. In Iowa, independent oil firms face near collapse due to government rail control and reclassification. A gold medal is awarded to Miss Chioris Shade of Kingsley for an essay on American history at the University of Iowa.
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United States Bank
Dyersville
Herbert Kaethke
St. Ansgar
Stanley Smith
Mingo
Des Moines
Col. E. R. Bennett
168Th Iowa
France
Iowa
Chioris Shade
Kingsley
S U. I
Iowa City Dar
Maquoketa
Elie of
Ottumwa
Camp Dodge
Dowell
General Staff
Iowa State College
Ames
Homer R. Dill
Sehumann
Schaller
Auburn
Wall Lake
Lytton
Col
D. F. Jones
Casey
State Council of Defense
Jack Pershing
Jones
Red Cross
Weeley Greene
State Horticultural Society
Catherine Belton
Polk County
Janesville
Black Hawk County
H. H. Polk
Eighty-eighth Division
Polk
LeRoy Dunn
Alson Secor
England
World War Update From The Atlantic Fronts
A brisk digest notes German U‑boat activity off the Jersey coast shifting outward to routes from West Indies and Gulf ports. Allied actions include air raids on Cologne, a large American mobilization of 200000 men, and ships saved after a President Line transport was torpedoed and sunk with several missing and a prisoner taken.
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West Indies
Gulf Aiele
Navy Department
Aick
President Line. Com
EB. V. M. Isaacs
Plane crash claims Roerig Sse member in Worth Texas
A Roerig Sse member from Worth Texas was killed when a plane fell during landing while he rode a motorcycle. In Kansas City Missouri volunteers for harvest increased sharply with more hands signed up at a Wednesday tabulation. Federal farm loan board withdrew offering bonds after $860 million sold, funding loans into November. Only 18,000 Chicagoans registered under the selective service act with estimates suggesting 80,000 to 85,000 total. Liberty motors deliveries to government reach nineteen thousand by September 1, 1918. President Wilson urged California Governor Stephens to pardon Thomas J. Mooney in a second letter.
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Felix Ae Roerig
Ir Worth
Tex
Kansas City
Federal Farm Loan Board
Charles Warren Fairbanks Dies in Indianapolis Bedside Brief
Personal Charles Warren Fairbanks former vice president and senator for Indiana died in Indianapolis from nephritis. Family present except Maj Richard Fairbanks in France. Benjamin Chester Chapin moving picture actor and scenario writer, famed for Lincoln likeness, died in a Liberty New York sanitarium.
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Charles Warren Fairbanks
United States
Indiana
Indianapolis
Maj Richard Fairbanks
France
Benjamin Chester Chapin
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
N.Y
Eee
European War News Ase temporary measure announced in London
Official report from London announces Bir William Robertson to command forces in Great Britain. A German four-motor plane, larger and more powerful than prior models, was brought down on June 1 near Nantment t Je Hall. A Bavarian general, Prince von Buchan, is reported killed on the Marne. The Russian soviet in Moscow calls up workers and peasants in several districts. A counter revolutionary plot is exposed and 18 Belgians are shot at fortress Vieux Dieu.
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London
Bir
William Robertson
Eastern Command
Imperial Staff
Great
Britain
Frech
Nantment
Mader
Washington
Switzerland
Prince von Buchan
Marne
Russian Soviet
Moscow
Petrograd
Kuban
Don
England
Aebbe
Emmeline Pankhurst Arrives Quietly on US Liner
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst leader of English militant suffragists arrived in an American port aboard a French liner convoyed by US destroyers claiming a surprise visit The piece notes a large dam break on the Iowa river a railroad gridlock a cadet killed in Atlanta and a New Jersey transit strike with 4000 workers affected
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United States
Emmeline Pankhart
England
Washington nurses cheerfully volunteer for hospital work
Washington Miss Jane Delano, head of nursing for the Red Cross, asserts German hospital bombing will not deter American women from volunteering. She says frightful tactics will drive more to support their brothers in battle for liberty.
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Jane Delano
Department of Nursing
Red’ Cross
Washington
Women Wardrobe The War Opens New Roles For Emily
A paragraph argues women should prepare for home front service in 1918. It urges learning telegraphy and typing, bookkeeping, and filing, explaining women can fill clerical, agricultural, and instructional roles. It stresses initiative, practicality, and patriotism for national effort.
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