Polled Hereford Herds, France Debt Talks Highlight Iowa
Iowa stories note Clarion and Wright counties boast the world’s largest Polled Hereford herd. Keokuk pushes Congress to cancel France’s WWI loans. Governor Harding backs a German goods boycott for fifty years amid local political currents.
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Clarion
Wright
Keokuk
United States
Congress
France
W. B. Barney
Harding
W. L. Harding
R. W. Leeper
Sioux City
Grand
Iowa
Buffalo
West Okoboj
Louisa Hoeltje
London
Webster City
Bronx City
The
Hebrew Institute
Palestine
G. M. Miller
Hazelton
E. F.miller
E. Mackenzie
W. B. Curtis
Cedar Rapide
Iowa State Hospital For the
Clarinda
A. B. Funk
William Toepfer
Audubon County
Red Croes Ag
Carl
Lbrarian
Drake
Small
Ole O. Roe
Atate
Iowa National Guard
American draft and war gains spark optimistic outlook
Amid calls for the May draft and expanded training, U S war mobilization aims for about one million American soldiers overseas by year’s end. Generals promise high intake while air and ground actions yield new victories as Meissner and Hall-Rickenbacher downed German planes near Toul. Hospital recoveries of 113 wounded are announced as Surgeon General Gorgas notes arrival of wounded in the United States.
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América
United States
Norman Hall
Colfax
Edward V. Rickenbacher
Columbus, O
Toul
Gorgas
Washington
War era notices darken streets with large losses and thefts
George Ehret Jr reports his father living in Berlin and offers 340 million in property to alien property custody. A $1 million fire damages several government warehouses in Waukegan Indiana. Florence field near Fort Omaha balloon crew suffers two deaths and 18 injuries. An Oakland tailor gone missing after a mob kidnapping is linked to Knights of Liberty. A Dayton cadet dies in a field crash. McAdoo reports railroad government bonuses totaling over 90 million. A Berlin agent left in the U.S. is jailed in New York on a $15,000 bail hearing May 8.
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Sheot
Aed
France
Buena” Vista
Peterson Electric Light
Alta
Oscar Micheaux
Iowa
Morningside College
Sioux City
Conservatory of Music
German Methodist Episcopal Church
Floyd Brewer
San Pedro
Cal
G. L. Brewer
Northboro
Brewer
Sam
Colfax
A. Wright Hall
Norman Hall
Hall
America
37Th Assembly
Harry Morgan
Willow Township
Monona County
J. J. Gideon
Simpson
Denison
John V. Arney
Des Moines
Supreme Court
Lake Geneva
Wisconsin
Walter St. John
C. SG. Walker
Iowa Division of Military Training Camps Association
Iowa City
Johnson County Fair Association
Buena Vista
Camp Dodge
Anskoo Christensen
Elk Township
Scott Township
Christensen
Wberry
Waterloo
Army
Navy
George Ehret, Jr
New York City
Berlin
Germany
Count von Bernstorf
Carl, von Rodiger
New York
Kingdom of Great Britain
Legal and maritime cases headline an era of conflict
The Victor Talking Machine Company is ruled an illegal restraint on trade by Judge Haad in New York. Eugene Hale Jr., son of a former senator, enlists as a private. Herbert Atkins of Detroit is sentenced to ten years at Fort Leavenworth for desertion. The City of Athens steamship sinks after collision off the Delaware coast with 66 dead and 42 missing. In Honolulu a jury acquits Captain Henry Allen after six minutes. Walter Spreckels is barred from Yonkers sugar factory as an enemy alien.
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Victor Talking “Machine ‘Company
Federal
Haad
New York
Eg Tie
Eugene Hale, Jr
United States
Fred Hale
Maine
Washington
Fort Leavenworth
Herbert ¥. Atkins
Detroit
Custer, Mich. Se
City of
Athens
J. Forward
Savannah
Delaware
Civiians
Walter Spreckels
Claus Spreckels
Yonkers, N
Spreckels
Germany
Washingtons colossal military program outlined to house
Secretary of War Baker explained a plan featuring 19 billion dollars in army spending next fiscal year, massive artillery manufacture, and drafting up to one million registrants to support an eight million strong army in the field next year.
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Baker
House Committee On Military Affairs
France
Trade Talks Dominate Despite Unclear Details
Report notes ongoing trade discussions with limited specifics. Key figures and organizations are not clearly identifiable in the fragment, leaving the outcome and participants uncertain. The text emphasizes negotiation activity over concrete agreements.
Cleve land birth notice for Misa Nancy ends abruptly
A fragmented obituary note from Cleveland states a birth record for Misa Nancy, with incomplete details and no additional biographical information available. The fragment provides minimal context and ends mid-sentence.
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Land
Misa Nancy
Fragmentary Military Service Note in Historic Journal
Incomplete text references a lieutenant linking to Dwende and the Hirst infantry, with mentions of captaincy around 4008 and Cuba, a short stay, war, and service against the Japanese army. Details are garbled and clarity is limited.
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Dna Tee
Ry Outlanion
Cuba
Utica Corporal Robinson Under Fire in World War I Service
Corporal Peter Robinson of Utica New York reported at a British and Canadian recruiting mission in New York about his wartime service. He fought at the Marne Neuve Chapelle Loos and the Somme and survived multiple hand to hand bayonet encounters. He was gassed at Loos and buried by a shell explosion that killed five and wounded three nearby.
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Peter’ Robinson
Utica
N. Y
New York
East
Lancaututre
Mamets
Thehrahe
Loos
Agid
Fragmentary war report lines reveal enlisted man’s wounding
The text fragment mentions a corporal who has received a wound and returned to duty. It references a son and other soldiers in a distant theatre, noting shrapnel and injuries as part of ongoing deployment. The passage is cut and lacks clear names or places.
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Shrappe
Lea Volante
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