National Army Training and War News Roundup
Wartime measures push for officer commissions as National Guard and regulars prep for roles. Austria and allies potentially edge toward war with the U S over Italy aid. Navy reports the first American naval flyer killed in France, George H Manley, in a fatal crash. Captain Cyrus W Crooks recalls a German commander’s reluctance to sink American ships after the submarine attack near the Azores. Harvard alumni catalog shows 5400 graduates in war work with many marked as killed in action. Wilson rejects broad class exemptions for agricultural workers due to potential hardship. National Guard units parade. 1,000,000 New Yorkers bid them farewell. Chicago clash with a counterfeiter Ends with Wheetle captured. Automaker industry indictments for price fixing under Sherman Act. Antiwar activists detained. pacifist convention plans disrupted. Fire deaths in Bad Axe Michigan and payroll bandits in Chicago. Military and industry contracts advance including 1,074000 gas masks and armor plate plant. Daniels proclaims war for democracy and the German people's liberty. Canadian arrest warrant targets Byron Nelson over alleged snack trade. Red Cross membership reaches 3.6 million. suffrage activism grows in New York. President Wilson expresses hope for suffrage victory in New York.
Washington Navy stance on Mare Island explosion report
The Navy league accepted the naval board report on the Mare Island explosion and expressed regret for insinuations that the investigation was hampered by the Navy department under labor influence. Also noted are subsidies for soldiers dependents, Japan’s wartime pledge, and U S plans for a strong destroyer fleet plus export control proclamations by President Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy League
Washington
Naval Board
Mare Island
Navy Department
Italian and British Monitors Bombard Trieste Front
European War News reports Italian General Cadorna’s artillery pummeling the Hermada fortress while Italian and British monitors shell Trieste. An Italian account notes the Verdi submarine loss with six dead after sailing August 12. Britain and Japan speculation, Manchuria troop concentrations, and Austro Italian front gains on the Bainsizza plateau with 247 airplanes in action.
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Trieste
Washington
Cadorna
Her- Mada
Verdi
Bainsizza
Rome
Goritz
Russia backs death penalty for army units amid Moscow council
In Moscow the Russian government and council members decided to restore the death penalty for soldiers immediate action. President Wilson’s message to the Moscow conference electrified the assembly and his pledge of American aid with moral and material power was met with thunderous cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
National Council
Wilson
America
New
Russia
Loyalist music dealer closes Hubbard shop amid pro German pressure
Vic Knowles a music dealer in Hubbard forced to close his business due to pro German influence cited by Postmaster Boeke and local People’s Council members. His partner H F Boeke faces boycott claims as dissolution of their music and furniture stores proceeds amid tension and threats of loyalty demonstrations.
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Des Moines
Kaiser Lovera
Hubbard
F.C
Knowles
H. F. Boeke
Bogs
Ifwo
People’s Council ‘For
Boeke
Organized State for Prohibition Effort in Iowa
Des Moines reports twenty counties are fully organized to push the prohibition amendment on October 15. Ex-Mayor J R Hanna leads the drive aiming for an active unit in each county by October 1. No organized opposition yet, with Clarke Dallas Dubuque Hancock Jasper Jones Linn Lucas Mahaska Marion Page Poweshiek Sioux Union Monona Appanoose Johnson Monroe Worth counties listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Allied Temperanure Committee
J. R. Hanna
Clarke
Dallas
Dubuque
Hancoc, Jasper, Jones, Linn, Lucas, Mahaska
Marion, Page, Powestiek
Sioux, Union, Monona
Appanoone
Johnson, Monroe and
Worth. Counties
Interurban praised for service to Camp Dodge
J Gormley general agent of the American Railway Association toured Camp Dodge and praised the Interurban line between Des Moines and the camp. He told Maj Butler and Ralph Bolton that the service is better than at any other camp, handling eighty nine trains on ten miles of track in a single day. Nearly 4000 men are daily transported.
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Interurban
Des. Moines
Des’ Moines
Gormiey
Name swap corrected as Aldus Braugherd enlists in navy
A fragmented notice recounts a boy known as Girl Waterloo having his birth record corrected. His guardian objected, birth name recorded as Alles Braugherd, now Aldus. Uncle Sam’s navy enlistment approved, Aldus vows to prove himself a man, with Alice mentioned in passing.
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Waterloo
Uyy
Alles
Braugherd
Aldus
Sam
Alice
Prize Hard Luck Tale: Sioux City-AU Hard Luck Run
A farmer from Kimball reports a hay mowing accident where a sickle on a machine set grass alight. Flames reached a horse blanket and frightened the team, causing a hasty retreat home as the mower machinery operated.
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Sioux City
He W. Bovey
Kimball
Fort Dodge Train Wreck Injures Many Near Janette
A Minneapolis and St Louis passenger train wrecked one mile north of Janette injuring multiple passengers. A woman and her child were killed. Victims include Charles Weasel of Fort Dodge with injuries, Elvin, John, and Rene Anderson among others. Conductor Pat Feeney sustained a head wound and brakeman Olaf Frogsland suffered crushed ribs.
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Charles
Weasel
Fort Dodge
Elvin
John
Mebonula
Babiera
Rene
Anderson Dayton
Figer
E. Footes
Rockwell
Buty
Olaf ‘Frogsland
Énbrakeman
Pat Feeney
Minneapolis
Not to Pay Soldiers in Gold Des Moines United States
A discussion notes that soldiers in the field may be paid in gold, a practice to be abolished. It cites John Victor as a leading critic and mentions a monthly loss of about 1.5 million dollars in gold from the treasury when redemptions occur by weight rather than coin. Banks and offices near the camp are described as handling this shift, with officers opening checking and savings accounts as a result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des’Moines
United States
John
Iee
Snes
Hugh
Treasury
Des Moines hosts farewell for Iowa’s Third Infantry unit
A large crowd gathered at the state fairgrounds amphitheater to bid farewell to the One Hundred and Sixteenth United States Infantry, with Governor Harding witnessing as Colonel E. R. Bennett presented the regiment. Thousands more from Des Moines joined out-of-town visitors to lines along the parade route as about 4,000 men marched in olive drab jackets, marking Iowa’s first major show of wartime mobilization.
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Des Moines
State Fair Grounds
United. States
Iowa
Harding
Des’ Moines
Citigens
Kuabt-End
Olive
Jowa
Des Moines Concert Draws Homer Appearance
Madame Homer has been secured to appear in concert here this year. The event is part of a teachers convention and will feature special performances in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Foirte
Cieiléal
At- Potton
Othis
Amd
Homer
Fragmented OCR News Note Lacks Clear Story
An incomplete OCR excerpt mentions names and events with garbled phrases. Key details such as person, place, or date are unreadable, yielding no cohesive incident or outcome to summarize beyond noting a damaged text fragment from the county page.
Winners Named in Baby Beet Contest at Town Fair
The Town State Fair announced winners in the Baby Beet contest with Clifford Tague Kirkman first and a list of top finishers including Donald Hil Corning George Rosenfield Kelley Homer Towns and others. The event drew 75,000 Iowa boys and girls involved in building the fair grounds and supporting activities as weather and corn prospects loom for the season.
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Whnners
Clifford
Tague
Kirkman
Donald
C. Hil
Corning
George A
Rosenfield
Kelley
Homer Towns
Oskaloosa
yAlth
Howard
Anderson
Ross
Nis
Raymond
Buckland
Mapleton
Shirteenth
Raleu Mae
Bine
Roy
Lamgteliow
BloéXton
Ye Tote
Evand
Roscoe
Eishteenth
Otte
Rash
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U.S
Teutonic War News
National Army
National Guard
Regular Army
Austria
Germany
Italy
France
George Herbert Manley
Cyrus W. Crooks
Christiane
Azores
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Cambridge
Harvard
Representative Shouse
Kansas
National Guardsmen
Rainbow Division
United States Army
Chicago
Edward Wheetle
Winslow
Poice
Wheetle
William M. Webster
National Association of Automobile Accessory
Federal Grand Jury
New York
People's Peace Council
Hudson
Wis
Spokane
Wash
Wilkins
Troy
Mont
Thomas P. Flynn
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Andrew Lupe
Lupe
Bad Axe
Mich
Winslow Bros. Company
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Columbus
N. M
Houston
Hamilton Detective Agency
Philadelphia
Daniels
Charleston
W. Va
German Empire
Tener
The
Nationale
Byron Nelson
Jol
Nelson
Madison
Canada
A. C. Wolfe
Canadian Northwest
American Red Cross
New York State
Woman Suffrage Party
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Japan
Viscount Ishii
United States Senate
Senate
Finance Committee
London
Paris
Lucien Robert
Farghani
Roumanian
Petrograd
Manchuria
Bavaria
Neuere Nachrichten
Munich
Admiralty
Wen
Vie Knowles
Bac
Mara
Alfred
Ofethis
Patty
Ely
Tate
Pheboeniear
aUpreme
Towa
Wuklig
Popaldrae
Oorc
Wille
Chiipliea
Thals
Maton
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