Iowa News Roundup Highlights War Efforts and Local Events
Clinton’s David Fairchild Jr. to become sanitary inspector with Iowa National Guard in France. Newton hosts large Labor Day celebration for draftees. Des Moines mayor relieved from active duty. Mixed incidents include a Nevada murder trial, a Delta fire threat, and diverse wartime notes on aviation, defense, and local health actions.
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David 8. Fairchild, Jr
Clinton
Iowa National Guard
National Guard
France
Newton
County Safety Committee
Eugene Dunning
Fort Dodge
MacVicar
Des Moines
United States Army
Hurlington Society
Red Cross
J. Bert Carhart
Chicago
Laura M. Slater
Muscatine
Carhart
Detroit
Tama
William Elsburg
F. R. Ramsdell
Rockwell City
League of Humanity
Funda
Daniel H. Wallace
League
Rock Island Arsenal
Chas. Plukett
Waterloo
Elmer. Pickens
Sing Lee
Quan Sue
Nevada
Story City
Foster
Delta
Secret Service
W. A. Jessup
Andrew (. Wright
Morton C. Mumma
War Department
Iowa State University
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Congress
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Plummer
Iowa Drafted Men Assigned Infantry and Artillery
Iowa draft plans assign 42 265 drafted men to two regiments in the 58th division. The 350th Infantry and 339th Field Artillery Brigade will be Iowa units with Northern counties in infantry and southern counties in artillery. Des Moines honor men will join the 350th Infantry. Separate county lists designate troops for each unit.
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Iowa
339Th Field Artillery
Camp Dodge
Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery Brigade
Polk
Des. Moines
Lyon
Osceola
Dickinson
Emmett
Kossuth
Sioux
O’brien
Clay
Palo Alto
Plymouth
Cherokee
Buena Vista
Pocahontas
Humboldt
Webster
Calhoun
Sac
Jda
Woodbury
Monona
Crawford
Carroll
Greene
Boone
Story
Marshall
Tama
Benton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Clinton
Scott
Muscatine
Louisa
Washington
Johnson
Cedar
Poweshiek
Jasper
Dallas
Guthrie
Audubon
Shelby
Harrison
Hancock
Cerro Gordo
Floyd
Chickasaw
Fayette
Clayton
Alamakee
Butler
Franklin
Wright
Hamilton
Hardin
Grundy
Black, Hawk
Buchanan
Delaware
Dubuque
Pottawattamie
Cass
Adair
Madison
Warren
Marion
Mahaska
Keokuk
Mis
Montgomery
Adams
Union
Clarke
Lucas
van Buren
Davis
Decatur
Ringgold
Taylor
Page
Fremont
Three Hundred and Forty-ninth
Minnesota
Winnebago
Worth
Howard
Mitchell
Winneshiek
Iowa Fair Board Sees Debt Drop Amid Strong Attendance
State Fair Board Secretary E R Corey smiles as attendance and receipts rise. The board reduced debt from $61,000 in 1914 to about $20,000, with total costs around $180,000 and next year expenses set at $20,000. Separately Adjutant General Logan reports over 1,000 slackers ordered to report to avoid desertion. a $60 reward is offered for returning a clacker.
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Grundy Center
Neta Stok
School of Aviation
Davenport
Tri-cities
Winterset
Gordon
Omaha
J. H. Henderson
Indianola
Board of Health
Mills County
Malvern
Albert Nelson
Otha Hyde
J. P. Jones
Ray Jones
Muscatine
Des Moines
Ames
Lisbon
United States
Marshall Wood
Columbus Junction
Wood
Raymond A. Pearson
Iowa State College
Walter Palmer
Keota
William Conger
Palmer
War Department
Grinnell College
Clarence Hedden
Raymond Matthews
Moody
Mt. Pleasant
Cincinnati
Harrison County
California Junction
Edna Potter
Wellman
Wilbur Wasson
Ida Grove
Deming
N. M
Leo DeCloedt
DeCloedt
Belgium
Kaiser
Iowa Fair
Sec
E. R. Corey
State Fair Board
State Fair Association
Corey
Gert. Logan
National Army
Logan
Allied losses and mobilization amid World War I draft
The report notes German air attacks on American hospital units in France, US officer deaths and American wounded, and German submarine actions against Allied merchant ships. It covers the Army mobilization, active service figures, Pershing in France, and congressional moves on war bonds and taxation.
Washington approves war revenue plan amid protests and raids
The Senate adopted a major finance package to raise about 842 million dollars in revenue, with 482 million from individuals and 340 million from corporations. Preliminary reports show large railroad July revenues rising above June. Washington authorities raid IWW and Socialist Party offices nationwide to curb antiwar activity.
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Senate
Washington
Finance Committee
Mrs Bleey Corlisa Dies at 101 in Monticello
Mrs Bleey Corlisa, aged 101 and a niece of William Seward, former secretary of state, died at Monticello Rag. The obituary notes her connection to Seward and places the event in the historical era.
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Anne D. Chishol
Muntingdon
Occoquan
Bleey Corlisa
William Seward
President Ncoln
Monticello
Rag, Woos
France and Britain Leaders Rally at War Anniversary
Premier Ribot declares Alsace Lorraine off limits to diplomacy and frames reparations as France's only claim. Premier Lloyd George, speaking at Birkenhead, vows America will triumph, drawing a large crowd to their display of resolve.
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France
Alsace-Lorraine
Ribot
Marne
America
Lloyd-George
Birkenhead
England
European War Updates From Londor Fronts and Air Attacks
September 4 German bombs hit three hospitals as Riga offensive captures prisoners and guns. Russians retreat while a German fleet nears the Gulf of Finland for a possible Reval Kronstadt strike. Nga front breaks near Us Kull. British ships sunk. air raids on England injure and kill dozens. Hindenburg to send Bavarian divisions to aid Isynzoo defense. Submarine sinkings leave many seamen stranded. casualties rise in London raids.
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London
Selsingfors
Finland
Gulf of Finland
Reval Unt Kronstadt
Nga
Us- Kull
Riga-Vennen
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Hardin Wae
Ll Mahaska
O'Brien Wa
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St. Louis
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Cambridge
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Pershing
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Oliver
Campana
Delaney
Roop
Kline
Jacobs
Brandenburg
Prussia
Representative LaGuardia
New York
Signal Corps
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
American Alliance For Labor and Democracy
Minneapolis
Minn
Margaret Fotheringham
White House
Buffalo Public Schools
Buffalo
N. Y
Henry P. Emerson
Gibson
Watervliet Arsenal
Troy
Nace
Eveaders
Hie
Las Emocracy
Sam
Wes Gompers
American Federation’ of Labor
Sai
Wilson
Batiler
Deborah Knox Livingatone
Maine Suffrage Campaign Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Factuatrial Workers
Socialist Party
Industrial Workers of the World
Londor
Riga
Berlin
Chatham
Persia
Constantinople
Geneva
Innsbruck
von Hindenburg
Amster
Holland
Atlantic
James Potter
Malden
Mass
Kongall
Sheerness
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