Organize at Home Mobilizes Guard for Eight-Hour Drills
Des Moines. Adj. Gen. Logan orders Iowa national guard mobilization at home stations to drill eight hours daily. Recruits receive 75 cents per day for meals, mustering at armories for training including rifle ranges and practice marches through July 15. Vaccinations planned. aim to boost recruiting as possible moves toward concentration camps approach.
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Des Moines
Adj
Guy FE. Logan
Iowa
Logan
War Department
Medical Department of the National Guard
Guard
State heads discuss cement purchase probe and Sunday laws
The legislature learns of a probe into cement purchases by Stone County with a $5,000 appropriation and potential federal action. Attorney General Havner may appoint a special investigator after July 1. Havner also issues Sunday activity guidelines, permitting public utilities and traveler aid but banning theaters and speculative commerce. Veterinarians urged to organize for disease prevention and bond purchases. Flour sacks fixed at forty nine pounds from January 1 1918, and gooseberry quarantine affects interstate shipping. State contracts raise fruit can prices by 30 to 40 percent.
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Stone
State Highway Commission
James B.weaver
Gene
Weaver
Havner
Federal Trade’ Commission
Attorney ‘General
J. I. Gibson
J. 8. Koen
Thirty-seventh
General Assembly
State Department
State Food and Dairy Department
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Liberty Loan Week Proclaimed by Iowa Governor 1917
Governor Harding designates May 27 to June 2 1917 as Liberty Loan Week urging citizens to subscribe to the Liberty Loan bonds. He emphasizes sacrifice over wealth, calls on banks and bond houses to receive subscriptions, and sets the period with the state seal and signatures.
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Hsee
Iowa
Eppy
Farmers Must Pay Tax Campaign in Iowa
Des Moines reports a statewide effort led by Revenue Collector Murphy to collect income taxes from Iowa farmers. The campaign targets farmers and city dwellers who may not understand the law, with an estimated 10,000 delinquent farmer taxpayers potentially adding 200000 to 300000 dollars to federal coffers.
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Des Moines
Murphy
Uncle Sam
Ambulance Company Plans Expand Amid Iowa Field Hospitals
Iowa forms two field hospitals with Major Van Buran Knott at Sioux City. A second Ambulance Company aims to recruit five officers and 150 men in Dubuque, under Major Roy D. Smith of Roland. Interested recruits should contact Major Fairchild or Major Smith to join.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Sioux City
van Buran Knott
David ’. Fairchild
Clinton
Roy D. Smith
Roland
Mejor
Smith
Coe
Registration Proclamation Calls Iowa Males to Register
The document proclaims a June registration day for all males reaching twenty one who have not yet turned thirty five by that date. Officers of the armed services and reserves are exempt while in service. Des Moines note closes with the governor’s seal and secretary of state attestation.
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Iowa
Meyer
Des Moines
Tom Fairweather
Des Miones
W. L
Harding
W. 8. Allen
State of Iowa
Regular Army
Navy
Marine Corps
National Guard
Naval Militts
U. States
O Reserve Corps
Reserve ‘Corps
Des Moines Urges Census Day Recruiting Drive
On June 5 registration day National Guard recruiting officers plan to interview prospective recruits as residents move between booths. Placards from the Adjutant General will be posted near booths and guardsmen will be on duty in uniform. Street meetings and citizen groups support efforts to boost enlistments on this patriotic day.
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Des Moines
National Guard
Adjutant
LeMare Red Cross Seeks 1000 Members in Plymouth County
LeMare Red Cross society has grown to 120 members without solicitation. An organized effort is now underway to add at least 1,000 members across Plymouth County.
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LeMare
New Elevator at McGregor Completed at Monona
Gilchrist & Co launches a new electric elevator in Monona. The McGregor firm’s facility runs on electricity with an elevator crew handling about 1,000 bushels per hour and a loading capacity of 2,500 bushels per hour.
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McGregor
McGregor Etail
Gilchrist & Co
Monona
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Iowa State University
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England
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Marne
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J. M. Focht
Cedar Rapids
C. M. Kelsey
Iowa Falls
John Hoare
Kirkman
Webster County
H. R. Richardson
Postville
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Villisca
George van Evera
J. C. Johnson
Johnson
Roscoe Harrison
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
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