Linn County Receives First Iron Lung in Cedar Rapids
Linn County acquires its first iron lung purchased from funds raised at the presidential birthday balls. The Drinker Collins respirator, costing 1350 dollars, will be kept in local hospitals for free use, with Mercy hospital holding the device for the initial six months. The machine features silent power, multiple respiration speeds, and a movable 470 pound body.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Inn County
Fred Snite
Franklin D. Roosevelt
W. E. Lamey
National Foundation
Mercy Hospital
W. J. Neuzil
Paul Huston
Ray Tyland
Cecil Seger
Steven Smith
Iowa Light and Power Company
All Tommies Reach France In Safety
British troops sent to France have landed safely after uneventful Channel crossings. An eyewitness report notes 1 500 men aboard four transports, high esprit de corps, destroyers patrolling, and a homelike air in the camps with troops joking across the bows and men washing socks and underwear while off duty.
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London
France
Ministry of Information
Luxembourgers Mobilize 125 Troops In Wartime Call Up
Luxembourg mobilizes to reinforce its small army as 125 men are called up by government decree and a 15 man volunteer corps is formed to defend borders amid a German force near the frontier. Army experts estimate German strength at about one million. the move reflects a rare, large-scale mobilization in the duchy.
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Luxembourg
INL
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
U S Tightens Vigil On Foreign Agents
Washington reports the state department issued new regulations strengthening surveillance of foreign agents. The rules require agents acting for foreign governments to notify the secretary of state of their activities, incorporating sections of the 1917 espionage act.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Department
Secretary of State
No Jingoists On This Council
Austin city council votes unanimously against war and notes it has just completed paying off the last war debt. Officials say the budget was off by 20000 during the last conflict and will not restart a long term program of war debt reduction.
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Austin, Minn
America
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Steem Electric
To Electrict and Power Company
Obd Vanta
Vanta
Silk and Wool
Vanta Standard
Killian Company
Lucien Selongs
Tic Jae Toe
Kotex 66
Pereale Sheets
Boca SL
Yee
Doe
de Sales
Jean Joyce
THE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Society
Killian
the Killian Company
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