Iowa War Era Notes Signal Broad Home Front Struggles
Arrangements near complete to register about 22,000 Iowa men for military service in June. St Marys Iowa City German school languages changed. banker Joseph Marwick of Story City reportedly wealthy shot himself amid son’s illness. Napier consolidated school building destroyed. loss over 50,000 with partial insurance. Otto Ludtke jailed in Des Moines as a dangerous alien ordered internment.
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Iowa
St. Mary’s
Otto Ludtke
Kaiser
Des Moines
The
State University
Iow
Episcopal Church
Oskaloosa
Iowa Banker's Association
Council Bluffs
Charles Krouse
Teddyville
Sam
Krouse
Red Cross
New Haven
Mitchell County
Riceville
Thomas Morris
Grand Jury
Cendar Rapids
France
Morris
John S. Bowie
Masonic Lodge
Cincinnati
Bowle
Scotland
David
Keeruth
Emmet
United States Survey
William H. L. Schuetz
Beoth Grove Township
Band Hill German Lutheran Church
Auxiliary Defense Committee
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Harding
Schuetz
U S Teutonic War Testimony and Draft Calls Reported
Testimony in 1916 U S Teutonic War discusses German plans and socialist threats as Baron von Dor and others are cited. Aviator Frank Baylies from New Bedford reportedly shot down an enemy aircraft. Lt Gu French ace wounded. A new large type U boat reportedly unsatisfactory after a Paris report. An American plane crashed in the Toul sector killing two. Two draft calls totaling 311 000 men are issued, moving troops May 20 24 and May 29 June 7.
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Frank Baylies
Newford
Mass
Paris
Provostarshal
Various World News Notes From California to New York
A super wheat with 14 percent gluten appears after 11 years of trials by Burbank in California and could be grown from Hudson Bay to Patagonia. Twin City Rapid Transit workers win wage increases. Columbia University opens a camouflage course claimed to be world first. Mrs Potter Palmer’s will files in Chicago affect $20–$30 million. estate to Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer Jr. Italian pilot Resnati killed in Hempstead flight. German internees near mutiny over moves to Forts Oglethorpe and McPherson. Northwestern drops two German professors from payrolls. Third Liberty loan totals $4.17 billion with 39 percent oversubscription and 17 million subscribers. Wooden ships launched at over a daily rate. 60,000 tons added this month. Three men killed by nitroglycerin blast near Pleasant City. Howard De Weese seeks commutation for wife murder. Warren district officials, businessmen arrested in Bisbee on IWW deportation probes.
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Ratem Pleasant
Ee ' Willett A. Whitacre
West Liberty
M. Mortengen
Iowa State College
W. D. Armstrong
Perry Superior
Iowa
J. W. Hallowell
Hoover
Deems
Secret Service
State of
R. W. Snell
United States
State House
Towa
Henry D. Jump
Washington, D. C
Greater Des Moines
Jump
West
Army
War Department
Archie McPeak
Harvey McPeak
France
McPeak
Vera, Diestler
Plainfield
Diestler
Dean W. ¥. Barr
Polk County
Samuel J. Buck
Grinnell College
Congregational Church
Grinnell
Buck
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Burbank
California
Santa Rosa
Cal
Hudson Bay
Patagonia
President Wilson drives wartime funding and reforms in Congress
The piece notes appointments including Thomas D. Battery of Covington and Henry Behrendt of Detroit as U S attorneys for Kentucky and Michigan. an amended post office bill increasing clerk salaries and rural carrier pay. Hoover requests 7 million for county food offices. Wilson asserts defense act powers to control farm equipment imports and distribution. Hughes to assist in aircraft inquiry. house approves pension bill. German bill to reorganize government agencies passes 205 to 2 with Sterling and Gillett opposing.
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Witeen
Covington
United States
District of
Kentucky
Henry Behrendt
Detroit
Michigan
Wilson
Charles B .Hughes
Gregory
Hughes
Aviation Service
Congress
House
Sterling
Tupols and
Gillett
Massachusetts
German emperor aide placed under internment in Iowa
A presidential warrant directed the internment of Otto Loo Lidtke described as a fine personal bodyguard to the German emperor, with the document arriving in Des Moines Iowa. Porto Rican laborers are slated for shipment to the United States within a month to work on farms in the south and in shipyards and other war industries along the Atlantic coast.
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Otto Lidtke
Des Moines
United States
Atlantic Coast
Russian and Italian naval actions and deaths noted
The report recounts Ruselan naval assaults near Hango in Southwest Finland with Italian officers present and British subs blown up. It mentions a 20 000 ton battleship countering orders and Russian forces in the Don region. It also notes deaths of James Gordon Bennett in France and John Grass in Fort Yates North Dakota.
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Ruselan
Hango
Finland
Ibero
Io London
German Agents Push for Peace, Warn of America’s Downfall
A period piece argues that German agents and pacifist voices urge Americans to lower defenses. The author warns that yielding would deteriorate U S power, inviting Germany to expand and Russia to ally with ease. The piece stresses national military preparation as essential to survival.
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Germany
America
South America
Mexico
Tern
Russia
Weber
Fields
United States
Assussia
Foreign policy calm as nations cling to neutrality
President Irogoyen reiterates Argentina's neutrality while Britain signals openness to proposals from belligerents if properly presented by accredited delegates. In Vancouver BC a major shipyard fire destroys Coughlan's, causing 1.5 to 2 million dollars in losses and killing one fireman. German and Austrian emperors reportedly name monarchs for Lithuania Courland Esthonia and Poland.
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Great Britain
Balfour
House of Commons
Coughlan
Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
London
Copenhagen
Lithuania
Courland
Esthonia
Poland
Unknown ruins reveal ancient weapons and fortress remains
Fragmentary text describes stones and weapons found at a fortress site. It mentions hostile forces and a shell surrounding walls. The passage hints at a guiding oracle or ruler connected to the people but the context is unclear.
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Lincoln Highway Association
Cedar Rapids
Benenenditeienet
Reyes
U.S
Teutonic War
Néiys
Gerttisnilsi
Gly
New
Zurich
Toul
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Minneapolis
Minna
Columbia University
Antonio Silvio Resnati
Royal Italian Flying Corps
Washington
New York
Hempstead
Hot Springs
N. C
Thomas F. Holgate
Northwestern University
Evanston, NH
George Edward
Edward T. Asling
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Shipping Board
Pleasant City
John Huey
Howard D. de Weese
Salt Lake City
Warren District
Bisbee
Ariz
Federal Grand Jury
Post Office
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Pellegrini
Mastinowat
Pedi Poltava
Don
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Evening Telegram
John Grass
Fort
Yates
N. D
Ae Grass
Irogoyen
Journal
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