70 Items of Interest Summarized for Busy Readers
Citizens of Dows raise 660 dollars to oil streets. Arkansas merchants tour Iowa to study livestock farms. Camp Dodge restricts late-evening outings for visitors. Overseas casualty list names Reeder Price Anderson. Beacon High School teachers walk home to Cedar Rapids for two cent fare. WaPello townships buy tractors to replace horse teams. Iowa Ladies of the G A R elect officers. First Reformed church at Pella shifts to English services. 336th Negro infantry leaves Camp Dodge. 3000 more Negro troops called. Iowa freight classifications to stay. egg dealers must obtain federal licenses. Grand Army Drum Corps attends Des Moines encampment. Rural schools face reopening gaps. teachers paid 51 to 75 dollars monthly. Correc tionville to receive new concrete factory. large tractor used in Grundy county. Moose convention selects Sioux City as 1919 host city. Keokuk sisters to register as German aliens. Vermin proof suits shipped to Winterset soldiers. Grant graveling pact in Grundy County. Wallace of Marshalltown donates 1000 dollars for a perpetual flag at Grinnell College. Maquoketa finds German war stamp in library book. Four Iowa University ambulance members receive Croix de Guerre. Ida Matera drives farm work at 380 acres west of Iowa City. J M Pierce argues labor and farmers unite. Governor Harding defends English proclamation in public places. Scandinavian churches comply. Bohemians protest. Rowe proposes ex convict army plan. State Board hears proposal.
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Dows
Arkansas
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Cantonment
Charles H. Reeder
Sioux City
John W. Price
Council Bluffs
Jeans C. Anderson
Clear Lake
Beacon High School
Blanche K. Lytle
Mary K. Green
Beacon
Cedar Rapide
Wapello County
Lillian Burrell
Clarinda
Des Moines
Burrell
Mary Jones
Mary Heaton
Greenfield
John Wickersham
Mary Beedy
Marshalltown
First Reformed Church
Pella
First
United States
336Th Negro Infantry Regiment
France
Washington
McAdoo
W. BR. Barney
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Grand Army
National
J. H. Evans
Bert Freeman
Audubon
Towa
Owen Kinsman
California
C. M. Staring
W.H. Irons
Colonel Cain
J.C. Wilson
B. F. Booth
J. W. Huntington
J. H. Haven
H. J. Huskamp
8. S. Mackey
A. M. Moore
O. W. Kinsman
D. Dessart
D. E. Barlow
Byron Bain
H.J. Kellogg
H. M. Brown
Henry Neely
Levi Benton
J. W. Coddington
J. M. Cain
R. P. Wilson
T. B. Wallace
McGorhon
J. A. McIntyre
W. Keldell
N. L. Lataman
A. J. Phillips
J. J. Weedy
W. W. Wolf
Correctionville
Grundy County
Iowa Association of Loyal Order of Moose
W. R. Hamilton
Twelve Sisters of St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital
Keokuk
Order of St. Francis
Winterset
War Department
Dowell
Gilmore City
Humboldt
Robert Bruce Wallace
H. W. Somers
Grinnell College
Maquoketa
Jackson County
Iowa University Ambulance
de Guirre
Willard Dodd, Jr
Carl B. Rancley
Iowa City
Clarence EB. Hamilton
Charles O. Powers
Cedar Rapids
Uncle Sam
Ida Matera
Union Township
Miss Maters
Shea
Nonpartisan League
J. M. Pierce
Iowa Homestead
State Federation of Labor
Mason City
W. L. Harding
Pat €Rowe
State Board of Control
Board of Control
Crowe
European War News From The Front In Sixteen Deaths And Claims
European war reports describe sixteen executions in East Belgium and hints of espionage. The Santa Anna from Bibarta to Malta was sunk by torpedo on May 10 11. Czecho Slovak forces in Siberia claim captured territories and set up a provisional government. Sacking of the American hospital at Tabriz and consulate seizures are reported as possible acts of war. Kiev revolts grow with street fighting and 40000 peasants armed. German offensive widens eastward on the Voronash front.
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Bibarta
Malta
Paris
Bédard
Tabriz
Persia
State Department
Teheran
Austrian premier resigns cabinet to Emperor Charles
Foreign Dr. von Seydler travels from Vienna to military HQ to present his cabinet’s resignation. Dispatch notes hunger offensive against Italy failing and Germany not delivering promised food to Austria, seen as key cause for the resignation.
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Dr. von Seydler
Vienna
Charles
Exchange Telegraph
London
Zurich
Germany
Austria
War Era Draft and War Industry Measures Across Nation
Washington General Crowder announces 8 976 draft registrants slated for general service and training. The Interstate Commerce Commission states it will continue to hear rate complaints and order changes. Treasury taxes lift receipts to 1 500 000 000 with 1 225 000 000 remaining. A war with Bulgaria and Turkey is proposed in the House. Senate panel allows a volunteer legion of Slavic residents for service abroad. Newcomb Carlton of Western Union faces union rights debate. Cabinet discusses government control of telegraphs. Wilson proclaims licensing for all stock yards starting June 2.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Siberia
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
United States
Newcomb Carlton
Western Union Telegraph Company
National
Avar Inchor Board
Telegraph Company
Washington
Allied and European War News from Front and Home Front
A former German liner converted troop transport escaped a German submarine shelling two days out from its Atlantic port. The U S state department reports no progress toward prisoner exchanges due to lack of contact with German officials. Bishop John N McCormick of Western Michigan Episcopal diocese was gassed while aiding American troops in France. Andrew Bonar Law stated American troops are entering the war and that the Thirty second division with Michigan and Wisconsin men is now fighting in Alsace on German soil. Stockholm private messages indicate Berlin Hamburg and Cologne peace demonstrations with workers killed and arrested. Vienna sees rioting over bread ration cuts with bakeries attacked and the Hofburg wing stormed. over 100000 strike at Vienna Volcan arsenal and Warschalowski airplane works per Zurich dispatch.
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Atlantic
John N. McCormick
Western Michigan Episcopal Diocese
France
Grand Rapids
Mich
War Department
Thirty-second Division
National Guard
Alsace
Thirty-second
Michigan
Wisconsin
Draft regulation and war news from Crowder and war fronts
Provost Marshal General Crowder issues new rules on work or fight status for athletes and other classes, stressing games as useful labor. Curtiss strike ends through Andrew A. McNamara. Adolphus Busch III reassigned from class 2A to 1A, married with children. Two soldiers killed and one injured at Aberdeen Proving Ground by trench mortar explosion. Secretary Baker unharmed at 300 feet. Major General Brancker of the British air ministry says American planes should fly to the front by next summer. Schurz steamer sunk after collision with Florida off North Carolina. one seaman dead, others saved. A. D. Smith convicted in Minneapolis for opposing war prosecution. sentenced to one year. Lieut. Joseph Ross killed, Lieut. Floyd B. Davies injured in Texas crash. Davies to recover. J. R. Jackson confesses to murdering his wife near Shelbina. Samuel Gompers reelected president of the AFL at St Paul.
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Crowder
Submarine Threat Shifts World Sea Freedom Debate
The text discusses naval policy and the impact of submarines on global economic unity. It notes that freedom of the seas emerged through collective action against pirates and monopolistic powers, and warns submarines challenge this freedom by undermining merchant shipping, with Germany as the principal user and Britain as a key naval base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nance
Spain
Portugal
Tyo
Britain
German Empire
Great Britain
Germany
Letters to Mother Shape a Soldier’s Character
An Ohio State Journal piece urges boys in wartime to write home regularly to their mothers. It argues letter writing strengthens duty, self-control, and moral growth, transforming youths into braver, truer soldiers through expressed affection and reflection.
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Ohio State Journal
The Japanese Week and the Change to Western Weekdays
The article explains that old Japan used ichiroku holidays per month and abandoned them for a week system. Sunday becomes a holiday with Western names Sun day and Moon day in use, while other days gain names like Mars day Mercury day Jupiter day Venus day and Saturn day.
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Japan
Martyr and Coward Judge Defines Patriot and Hero
A witty judge recently declared that a patriot is a man who refuses to button his wife's blouse, while a martyr attempts and fails and a hero tries and succeeds. He then defines a coward as a man who remains certain he won’t have to try.
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Belgium
Telegrant
Samaranosto
Laevsk
Omsk
Petrograd
London Express
Wien
Braherzog Ferdinand
Delborne
Spedha
Central
Rome
Bruges Canal
Zeebrugge
Thomas J. McNamara
Kiev
Moscow
Exchange Telegraph Company
Poltava
Tchernigov
Russia
Treasury Department
Bulgaria
Turkey
House
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Foreign Affairs Committee
Wilson
Andrew Bonar Law
Exchequer
House of Commons
America
Stockholm
Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
London Morning Post
Amsterdam
Hofburg
Imperial Palace
Volcan
Warschalowski
Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation
Andrew A. McNamara
International Machinists’ Union
Adolphus Busch III
St. Louis
August A. Busch
Milionaire
Aberdeen
Baker
W. Brancker
British Air Ministry
Bchurz
Florida
North Carolina
Navy Department
A. D. Smith
Minneapolis
Joseph Ross
Barrowfield
Fort Worth
Tex
Floyd BE. Davies
Galesburg
Davies
J. R. Jackson
National Film Company of
Kansas City
Burlington
Shelbina
Jackson
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
St. Paul
Mion
Maring
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