Plans for New Barracks at Camp Dodge Expanded
Plans quietly advance at Camp Dodge to house up to fifty five thousand men with 400 more buildings, many barracks, delaying completion by at least a month. The expansion aims to support a potential second national army division as the cantonment capacity nears seventy thousand soldiers and shifts dormitory space from regimental units.
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Camp Dodge
Quartermaster Service
War Department
Betts
National Army
Bootlegger Leaps From Train Near Des Moines
Des Moines reports an unknown bootlegger leaped from a Wabash train at forty mph to escape Polk county deputy sheriff John Griffin who arrested him after finding twenty five pints and five quarts of liquor in a suitcase. The suspect vanished during a train tour of the cars, passengers recalling he left the coach and the train did not stop. The sheriff indicates the man escaped serious injury.
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Independence
United States
Keokuk
Dennis C. Crowley
Ankeny
Ankeny Congregational Church
Rockwell City
Secret Service
Delta
Fort Omaha
Logan
Lincoln Highway
Dubuque Electric Company
Lewin
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Iowa National Guard
Deming
N. M
Browneville
Dubuque
Keokuk County
Webster City
Leonard and
Carson
Northwestern Stock Yards
Omaha
Montana
Ames
Iowa City
Iowa League of Municipalities
Des Moines
Board of Education
Johnson Station
Camp Dodge
Plummer
First Iowa Infantry
Fairfax
Charles Pacita
Cedar Rapids
Pachta
Missouri River
Clay Township
Harrison County
Polk County
Sherif John
Griffin
Moberly
Iis
Reserve Signal Corps Called Out in Des Moines
Members of the U S Reserve Signal corps recruited locally last May by Captain L W Ainaworth have been notified by the Chicago central signal officer that a reserve unit will proceed to service on October 5. The notice directs the unit to report to the central department for initial instruction.
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W.L. Harding
Crowder
Signal Corps
Des Moines
U. S. Reserve Signal Corps
L. W. Ainaworth
Central Department
Chicago
Will
Central Deee Cantonients
Secret diplomacy and war funding amid U S effort
Reports detail German and Austrian hopes for peace, Pope Benedicts proposals, and a Washington drive to raise 3 750 000 for army and navy morale. Ambassador Bakhmeteff backs continued war against German autocracy as U boat losses rise and 274 800 men mobilize.
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Bakhmeteff
Washington
America
Pomerene bill to fix steel prices noted in senate hearing
President Wilson sent nominations to the Senate including William C. Adamson to be general appraiser at New York Port Byron R. Newton to be New York customs collector and Daniel Roper to be Internal Revenue Commissioner. An international sugar distribution committee was announced and sugar prices promised to drop. The 11 billion credit bill’s conference report was adopted, authorizing 4 billion in new bonds for Allied loans. Maj. Clarence S. Ridley becomes Wilson’s military adviser. Costa Rica severed diplomatic relations with Germany over the German-backed Gonzalez plot. General Alexeiff resigns as chief of the general staff under Kerensky. The Quebec Bridge center span was bolted into place, marking a major engineering milestone.
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Wilson
Senate
Washington
William C. Adamson
Georgia
New York
Byron,Rt. Newtoni
Daniel ©. Roper
South Carolina
Internal Revenue
White 80 Percent Clinches Pennant In Ten Inning Win
The White 80 percent team clinched the pennant by defeating Ome at Bok in a ten inning game. Chicago won the opening toss. Officials announced dates for the world championship meeting in Cincinnati.
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Ome
Bok
Ato
Uok Ge Chuchgo
Gine Loe
oFid
Ries
Nat HL. Gan
Cincinnati
German retreat and burning villages reported near Riga
A fragmented dispatch notes German positions east of Belgium being penetrated near Zonnebeke and Ghent, with 1,250 men daily killed or wounded. It cites Doctor Hérberger leading a peace bloc in the Reichstag as German forces fall back on the Riga front and burn villages, according to Commissioner Muntz reporting from Petrograd.
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Germany
Maathing Beabers
Oler
Hérberger
Reichstag
Riga
Vilages
Petrograd
Muntz
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Grasce
Schnecktoth
Red Cross
Marengo
Rank B. Thayer
Conger Reynolds
Iowa State University
J. N. Woodworth
State Banking Department
Grinnell Savings Bank
Davenport
Wapello County
The
Isabella
Ottumwa
Fred C. Willett
Burt
Fort Dodge
Grand Jury
Winterset
Boone County
Hoover
R.C. Travers
Claude Evilsizer
Company A
Douglas
Arizona
van Burne Knott
Sioux City
Roy Smith
Waterloo
Camp Cody
R. F. Plumb
T. M. Cox
Tennant
Shelby County
Carney
Five Mile Hmit
C. B. O'Neil
Springfield
Mass
O'Neill
W. C. Hayward
Scott County
Kiron
Carroll County
Webster County
Ft. Dodge
J. L. Clumly
Springville
Train School
Food Conservation Club
Traer
Loyal League
League
State Board of Control
State Fair Management
W. B. Barney
State Food and Dairy
Dairy Department
Barney
Teachers’ College
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
H. J. Metegu
State Defense Council
Seerly
Metcalf
Sta Élinica
Ical County
Hitohs
Kepford
H. V. Scarborough
Oakdale Sanitarium
Cunningham
Charion
Dr. Kepford
Wayne County
S. C. Wymer
Mr. Wymer
Agriculturaist
State News
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Git
A. Bernstorff
Berlin
Congress
Organichis Organization
Austria-Hangar
Pople
Benedict
Amsterdam
Pope Benedict
Charles of
Austria-Hungary
Vatican
Baker
Daniels
Army and Navy
Platuria
John Leslie
Jersey City
General Crowder
Harold Willis
Boston
Paris
Atlantic City
N. J
Federal Trade Commission
Mlegal
Alfred Bonhaupt
Sixth United States Infantry
General Pershing
Mexico
Fort Oglethorpe
Robert W. Bingham
Judge Bingham
Louisville
Henry M. Flagler
Standard Oi! Company
Woody
Oakdale
Wilmington
John J’urrey Mitchel
John F. Hylan
William M. Bennett
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Elberfeld
Dortmund
Hague
France
Myron Bertman
North Vernon
Ind
Edmund Squire
Industrial Workers of the World
Los Angeles
Cal
Joseph Davies
Federal Trade
Senate Interstate ™Mmerce Committée
Pomerene
Food: ‘Administration
Joans
War Industries Board
Clarence S. Ridley
Engineer Corps
State Department
Admiral Lindman
Sweden
the War Department
Senate Appropriations Committee
Costa Iucan
San Jose
Tinoco
Gonzalez
Alexieff
Kerensky
Quebec
Ani jOver
Canada
Deane
Tish
Pune
Tae
Zonnebeke-Ghe
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