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Des Moines Leader Dies at 82 and War Era Notes
C B Hall aged 82 died at his daughter Martha Hall's Des Moines home after eighty years in Iowa, reputedly the oldest noted in the state. The Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters held their annual Iowa sessions in Cedar Rapids. Other items report a Crawford County fair at Akron with dress exhibits, war labor demands, Camp Dodge soldiers, and health campaigns in Muscatine.
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C. B. Hall
Martha M. Hall
Des Moines
Hall
Iowa
Grand Ludgs of
Knights of Pythias
Grand Temple
Pythian Sister of
Cedar Rapids
Crawford County
Akron
168 Infantry
Ottumwe
Ames
H. J. Metcalf
Public Service Reserve
N. A. Smyth
United States Employment Service
Washington
Webster City
Burlington
Camp Dodge
Cantonment
Committees On Public Information
Great Lakes
A. E. Newman
Knoxville
B. E. Lewis
Iowa City
Des Moines Perenta
Muscatine
Ralph J. Reed
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Towa
Central West
Davy
R. 8. Culp
Chamber of Commerce
M, W. Byers
Scorpion
Constantinople
R. W. Longworthy
East Cedar Rapids
D. L.lotts
Independence
Otto Nordmann
Plainfield
Waverly
State Council of Defense
National Council of Defense
Councils of Defense
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Bremer
Tama
Butler
R. B. Christopher
United States
Buchanan County
Jane McIntyre
Gladbrook
Leander Clark College
Leander Clark
B. G. McNeal
Stats
Association
McNeal
McMcNeal
Ben Weinberg
Weinberg
Harry
France
Harry Weinberg
Sioux City
John Coverdale
Clinton County
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harcourt
Peasion
Thomas Nicholaon
State Food Administration