News-Telegraph raises mail rates to four dollars per year
The News-Telegraph announces an August first mail subscription increase from 3 to 4 dollars per year for Atlantic rural routes and domestic mail, with five dollars for Canada Alaska and overseas. The paper will drop the three month advance rate in Atlantic, urging readers to renew by August first at the current rate. The editor defends the raise as necessary due to rising costs and post office rates, pledging continued quality service and new equipment.
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News-Telegraph
Atlantic
Canada
Alaska
Overseas
News- Telegraph
United States
Denison M. E. District Conference Denounces Tobacco for Soldiers
A Denison based M. E. district conference passed resolutions condemning tobacco distribution to soldiers. The action reflects temperance and moral concerns within the church community amid wartime or civic duties.
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M. E
Denison
Germany at the peace conference judged by public voices
A reader notes that Herr Bernhardt once known for pan Germanism now urges conciliatory policy urging Germans to deport themselves to win friends at the peace conference. The piece compares German popularity to a deaf and dumb man at a wake as reflected in a Chicago Tribune line.
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Herr Bernhardt
B. LT
Chicago Tribune
PRESS COMMENT on TROOPS FROM THE SOUTH AT CAMP GRANT
Report from Camp Grant Rockford NL cites alarming disease and disability among large numbers of drafted Negro troops from the south. A provisional company discharged after venereal disease. 1800 recruits on brigade books deemed unfit. Northern training pools thousands yet officers condemn the lax exemptions and chronic conditions.
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Camp Grant
Rockford
Saving Habit War Poem Encourages Thrift and Patriotism
A 1918 verse urges thrift during wartime, contrasting wasteful spending with saving. The speaker recalls past folly, notes neighbors’ wartime saving, and vows to curb spending, grow savings, and bolster national effort against the foe. Copyright 1918 Geo. M. Adams.
YOUNGSTERS ENJOYED LIFE AT CRYSTAL LAKE
Council Bluffs Iowa June 24 the Council Bluffs M C A boys finished a ten days camp at Lewis with other Y clubs from southwestern Iowa autos ferried the boys back most tanned and sunburnt they report a perfect trip and unani mously say they enjoyed the experience
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Council Bluffs
Lewis
Iowa
Draft Reclassifications and Training Open to Des Moines Recruits
The provost marshal general orders training opportunities for 103 and 104 registrants in telegraph wireless operator and carpenter roles with concrete work in Trains for July 1 enlistment and July 15 instruction. Local boards, employers, and citizens must aid in enforcing the work or fight law, with all first four draft classes to be reclassified. A Cass County drive will mail questionnaires starting tomorrow to June 5 registrants, with daily allocations for four days. Sergt Fred G Wasson sends word of his safe overseas arrival with the 89th division’s 341st Machine Gun Battalion trained by Gen. Leonard Wood at Camp Funston.
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The
U. S
Red Cross
Denison
Atkins
M. CG. A
Ior
Logan
Upsn
Adj
Guy Logan
Greater
Cass County Draft Board
B. R. Wasson
la Vista Place
Sergt
Fred G. Wasson
Leonard Wood
Camp Funston
Cemetery Association Meeting At Wiota Cemetery
The Ladies of the Wiota cemetery association will meet at the cemetery Friday afternoon at 1130. A brief local gathering notes the group’s ongoing care duties and plans for future upkeep.
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Cemetery Association
Ladies of the
Wiota
Births Reported From Camp Jackson Station News
Birth notices list several new arrivals: a son to Rev and Mrs Frederik W Simpson of Atlantic born at Camp Jackson on June 22. a daughter to Glen Lackey and wife on June 24. a son to John L Starlin and wife Edna in township on June 22.
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Camp Jackson
Columbia, D. C
Frederick D. Simpson
Frederik W. Simpson
Atlantic
Glen Lackey
Lewis
Food Administration
John L. Starlin
Edna Township
Local men enlist for service and draft quota set
Month and Young Simpson enlisted about two months ago. Glen Horton left for Omaha this morning to proceed to Ft. Logan for service after enlisting last week. Glen Howe of Johnson county visits before entering service. Mr Hope is in the current county quota. He farmed in Johnson county for five years. Cass county asked to furnish 400 colored men for military service with two colored drafts available. The 400 men to be inducted over five days starting July 15.
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Glen Horton
Omaha
Ft. Logan
Glen Howe
Johnson County
Ihe Atlantic
William J. Slope
Mr. Hope
Cass County
Sugar Sale Change And Camp Outings Featured In Local News
The town news notes a sugar purchase change allowing granulated sugar only to be taken, and reports three Methodist Sunday school classes planning a camp outing between here and Lewis with Pastor Frederick W. Simpson. Other items include large attendance at Congregational church children’s day, a Des Moines talk by Himil Roth, and a marriage at the M E parsonage of Melvin E. Williams and Lenla Margaret Highley with plans to work for the government in Washington.
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Ws. S
Methodist Sunday School
Here
Lewis
Frederick W. Simpson
Congregational Church
Dean Minger
Tabor College
M. E. Parsonage
Melvin E. Williams
Lenla Margaret Highley
Methodist Church
Ruby Highley
Williams
Washington
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E P Chase
Pershing
South
Richard Harding Davis
Jimmie
Hopper
Collier's
Floyd Gibbons
By Walt Mason
Seve
Royal
Geo. M. Adams
Crystal Lake
H. N. Cate
Anita
Besse M. Cate
E. S. Halton
Cate
Tom Slilyard
Denver, Colo
M. F. Stults
Des Moines
M.D. A
A. E. Patrick
Grand Rapids Show Café Company
Garden Theatre
L. Oransky & Son
Young Simpson
Himil Rothjschild
Jewish Welfare Association
W. ©. Williams
Casey
Max
Grant
Wirthmor
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