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Paralyzing illness reported. many local notes
The notice lists C. F. Gardner of Webster City as the year's first infantile paralysis victim, a 62 year old hardware dealer who fell ill in five days. It also details delays at Camp Dodge, weather damage to crops, a deadly aviation crash near Davenport, and various war era incidents, arrests, and civic activities across Iowa.
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Webster City
C. F. Gardner
Newburg
Dubuque
Walter Detra
A. C. Wisebrook
A. W. Lite
Greenfield
Wisebrook
Lite
Ankeny
Earl Krell
First Town Cavalry
Oxford
Towa City Canning Company
Chaddie Ryan
Kelly
Red Oak
Eggert Brown Cresswell
Davenport Aviation School
Lockport
N. Y
A. G. Horn
Herman Webbeking
Waterloo
E. R. Moore
United States
Federal Grand Jury
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Turkey River
Eighty-eighth
Firetown Infantry
J. L. Drake
Drake
Ralph Snyder
Lima
F. R. Mather
Paul Stealy
Lynn J. Kelly
Vilisca
W. E. Mitchell
Conover Beal
Newton
Sam
John L. Gribb
Drake University
Wilson
Cedar Rapids
War Department
State Adjutant General’s Office
Iowa
National Army
168Th Infantry
Fighting Third
Fort Dodge
Clinton
Wyoming
Red Cross
Abe Moore
van Meter
Federal Farm Loan Banks
Dennis P. Hogan
Massena
Federal Land Bank
Omaha
New National Army
Adjutant’ General’s Office
Uncle Sam
Adjutant General
Logan
Mineola