Iowa News Roundup Reflects Wartime Mobilization and Farming Growth
Reports from across the state note a rise in cultivated acres this year, including potatoes and food crops, while communities organize Red Cross drives, enlistment campaigns, and garden contests. In Hamilton County the medical reserve corps enrollment leads, and farmers in Des Moines County are urged to plant more this year.
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Ionathe
Red Cross
James B. ‘Weaver
the Red Cross
Chicago
Weaver
Community Club of
Iowa
Fallahaya
Hamilton County Medical Association
United States Government Medical Reserve Corps
War Department
Ames College
Cloud
Afton
Army
Navy
Washington
Boatel
Hamilton County
Nelson
Jews State College
Waterloo
M. L. Jones
Des Moines
Hospital Corps of the Navy
Lake Forest
Crinnell
Grinnell Red Cross
Fort Dodge
B. W. Appleman
Kenyon
Artyn Main
Mt. Vernon
Cornell
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Ft. Dodge
Chas
B. Gotch
Prank Gotch
Clinton
Bellevue
Waukan
Milla
Caerokes
Marshall County
Harvey, & Ittle
Marion County
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Coast Artillery
Plans for Draft to Raise New United States Armies
The war bill projects armies of 2,001,000 with 1,000,000 under draft plus 500,000 first quota and 600,000 for later calls. It sets age 21 to 30 for drafting, allows volunteers 18 to 40, raises pay, organizes machine gun units, and bases draft on population. Prohibition strict at military camps. Three medical officers assigned to France. West Point class of 1918 to supply 154 officers for initial 500,000 draft army. Woman’s Liberty Loan Committee formed in Treasury.
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United States
Centerville
Association of Commerce
Boone
Iowa State University
Davenport
Signal Corps
Towa
War Department
Des Moines
L. W. Ainaworth
Maurice O'Connor
Fort Dodge
Kenyon
O'Connor
State Extension Department
Town State College
Army
Navy
Knoxville
Albert Goldiron
Dubuque
Chicago Great Western
Illinois Central
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Iowa City
Fort Snelling
Cornell
Baray Ross
America
Philip F. Roan
Fort Madison
France
Mra
Kate Robinson
Drake University At
George A. Jewett
Drake
University of Iowa
Ft. Snelling
Minn
Red Cross
Perry
National Guard
Frank Hutchina
Delmar
Chicago
Milwaukee
MacVicar
Mason City
Jame Boyce
Public Utilities Power House
Boyce
Hersey Praas
Waukon
Hugh
Lewis Kidder
Sam
Great Lakes
Lewis
Mr. Pratt
Germany
National Army
Conference Committee
Base
Senate
Regular Army
Nuthwm Guard
Cor
Congress
England
Belgium
Egypt
Balkins
Mesopotamia
Baker
Prince
William L. Keller
Daniel P. Card
George M. Howards
Ris Orangis
West Point
Tnx
Dixon
Indiana
Explaining Workings of New Conscription Law
Washington outlines the universal service law with ages 21 to 30 for draft and 18 to 40 for volunteers. Target 21,000,000, to be drawn by draft or volunteers in two 600,000 drafts, with exemptions for clergy, officials, sect members, and dependents. Selection via presidential registration and camp-based training, with pay scales for ranks from private to sergeant and safeguards around the army amid wartime measures.
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Washington
National Guard
Hederal
Annte
Taspritec of
Nen
Noarest
Ready for Separate Peace Petrograd
Twelve members of the council of soldiers and workers delegates, led by the president, journeyed to Schlusselburg to handle the district committee’s declaration of brack autonomous wit. Skobeleft backed the executive committee report on a Stockholm socialist conference, willing to meet Scheidemann and even the devil for the Internationale and to end the war. Gor ki's Novalu Zhizn shows Russian socialists ready to join the conference even if British and French socialists refuse.
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Stockholm
Scheidemann
Devil
Gorki
War Revenue Bill Aims to Raise 1.8 Billion in Year
Washington reporting the administration drafted a war revenue bill aimed at raising 1.8 billion dollars in a year. It broadens taxes across stock, bonds, deeds, drafts, life and marine insurance, freight, travel, autos, utilities and entertainment while boosting income and inheritance taxes. The plan cites deficits from tariffs and extends a one third tax rise on June payments, with rates for income, surtaxes, and inheritance scaled by income and estate size.
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Stock Exchange
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Pesca
Eeeyeeseees Beale Ceigeidigee
Serneeene
Beeteereeeer
Bioo Ia
Ilcleeitetelegeee
Agen
Cpweeeenrssees
Washington
House Committee On Wills and Means
House
Kitchin
Tiue
Lodging House Geometry Joke From Macklean Axioms
A humorous note on classroom wit from McGill professor Stephen Leavock about two borders on a flat sharing sides and quarrels with landlady. The puzzle claims if the boarders’ weekly bills balance with the landlady’s wrangle, their weeks equal. if not, absurd results follow.
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Thoes
Stephen Leawock
McGill University
On the Job The Sphins Keep Their Mouth Slut Business
The fragment notes a group called The Sphins continuing a business venture described as a mouth related enterprise. No clear dates locations or wider context are provided in the readable text.
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Women Form Committee
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
George Wass
Antiluette Funk
Kellogg Fairbanks
Gilford Dudley
Tennessee
Miss Viereé
Kansas City
Guernsey
John QO. Miller
Pittsburgh
Russian Socialiste
Plana
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