Fire at Camp Dodge barracks and other Iowa news
Fire destroyed half of Company A barracks at Camp Dodge causing about 5000 dollars in losses and waking 125 soldiers in swanty clothing. Sergeant James Norman Hall survived a crippling Vosges mountain crash with a promotion. Iowa events include library funding for soldiers, fox hunting by a Des Moines woman, Davenport treason trial ties, and coal and farm news across the state.
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Company A
First Provisional Regiment
Dodgs
Paris
James Norman Hall
Colfax Las
Vosges
Hall
Iowa State Library Association
Towa City
Camp Dodge
Lane Vander ‘Linden
Knoxville
Daniel Wallace
Wallace
Will de Smidt
Humboldt
A. J. Hoseman
Am Motte
LaMotte
Dubuque
Frank Gotch
Hot Springs
Ark
Decorah
Des Moines
Camp Dodges
Arlington
Fayette County
Grinnell College
Presbyterians
Leon
Johnson County
Hoover Food Administration
MacVicar
Iowa
Coas
Moherly
Dow Moines
Red Cross Iowa Convention Opens Des Moines October 29
Des Moines hosts the first state convention of Red Cross workers with round tables led by experts. A public meeting is planned at the Auditorium on October 29 with National Red Cross officials, Governor Harding, and others expected to speak. Bruce T. Smith of Chicago and Henry P. Davidson of Washington will attend.
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Des Moines
Patriotic Red Cross’ Workers of Iowa
Red Cross
A. H. Kepford
Great Humanitarian Organization
National Red Cross
Harding
Fort Des Moines
Bruce T. Smith
Chicago
Henry P. Davidson
Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Kepford
Towa
Consolidated World War News Items From Madison to Berlin
S y r on Nelson indicted as a slacker in Madison. Washington advances twenty million to France, lifting allied loans to two point seven eight billion. Farm board approves sixty four million dollar aid across the nation. A Mitchell Palmer named alien property custodian in Washington. Princess Henriette Elizabeth of Schleswig-Holstein dies in Kiel at eighty four. Bob Fitzsimmons reportedly near death in Chicago. Naval air craft report many bombs dropped with satisfactory results at Vlassenmore? Sanders. Four sisters and a boy injured by a Collinsville train. German war loan tally tops three billion one million, not including front subscriptions. Portland wage board settles Columbia river shipyard strike. British troops envelop Mesopotamia near Kisil Rabat, pushing Turks across the Dinlu. Plot to damage a New York transporter allegedly foiled by police arrest. Prisoner is Chiavies Waltman.
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Theodore Johnson
Sloan
Young Johnson
Sioux City
Leavenworth
Daniel H. Wallace
Chicago
Davenport
Wallace
Wade
Uncle Sam
Daniel Wallace
Camp Dodge
Villinea National Bank
FB F. Jones
Jones
J. N. Wilkerson
Villiscaux
Clarke Everts
Henry County
District Board
Clinton
Willam G. Dorgler
Franz Joseph
Charles
Keokuk
Stone & Webster Lines
Decorah
Red Cross
Winneshick County
National Army
Plummer
Sioux ‘City
Aif
Mooreerg
Tle
Grundy Center
Herbert Hoover
Charles F. Curtiss
Iowa State College
State Executive Committee
George Kohl
Atlantic
Kohl
Mississippi River Power Company
Fort Madison
George Alcoltt
Des Moines
S'yron Nelson
John M. Nelson
Madlison
Wis
Washington
France
Federal Farm Jown Board
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Henriette Elizabeth
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Kiel
Amatertium
D. Wi. Johnson
People's Magazine
Minneapolis
Te County
Bob” [Itzsimmons
Michael Reese
Physiciana
Naval
London
Maury Renchetto
Federal
United States
New York
Mana
Chiavies Waltman
Eleven ships sunk by raiders in North Sea raid
London reports 150 lives lost as two German raiders sink five Norwegian, one Danish, and three Swedish vessels in the North Sea. The British Admiralty says 135 crewmen aboard destroyers Mary Rose and Strongbow perished when they were sunk while convoying merchant ships. Aftenposten estimates fatalities by nationality.
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North Sea
London
Mary Rose
Strongbow
Aftenposten
Christiania
Romanoffs Use Food Cards in Petrograd
In Tobolsk district the deposed emperor Nicholags Romanoff and his family must obtain food supplies by the ration card system, the authorities issuing cards for all citizens, including the former royal household.
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Petrograd
Nicholags Romanoff
Tobolsk
Markets Report Mixed Prices Across Grains Livestock and Hogs
Grain prices show a range of values for flour futures and wheat types including spring and winter grades in jute and export bags. Hay prices vary with Timothy and clover mixes, while cattle categories list steers calves cows and heifers with wide price bands. Hog and sheep quotes cover prime light butchers to heavy packing hogs and good to choice ewes and yearlings.
Women Sufferers Need Swamp-Root
Thousands of women report kidney and bladder trouble, with symptoms ranging from back pain to nervousness and despondency. The ad promotes Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a remedy, urging readers to buy a medium or large bottle from a drug store and to request a sample by sending ten cents to Kilmer Co.
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Thalr
Aple
R. Schilfmann Co
St. Paul, Minn
Kilmer
Cure and care for skin troubles advertised item
An old advertisement touts SOAP to cleanse and Ointment to soothe for itch ing eczemas pimples and baby skin troubles promising relief with daily use. A free sample by mail is offered with a book and address postcard to Cuticura Dept Ty Boston. The Royal Society warns against destroying small birds and notes caterpillars rise when birds decline, with farmers in one village attempting to exterminate sparrows to feed nestlings.
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Cuticura
Dept
Ty Boston
aAdv
Tam
Royal Society For the Protection of Birds
Westminster Gazette
Great Britain
Putting It Up to Him Liberty Bond Buyer Conflict
Dialogue captures wartime finance debate as a man balks at another bond purchase while a parent jokes about feeding children. The exchange highlights personal sacrifice during the era.
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Liberty Bonds
Scott
St Paul births and deaths tally past eleven years
St Paul records show 49 878 births and 26 219 deaths over eleven years. A proverb notes men who talk are often short of deeds.
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St. Paul
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Iowa ‘News
Nebraska
South Dakota
State Council of Defense
State Frea Employment Bureau
State Area Employment Agency
C. C. Dearing
James M. Pierce
Paul Junkin
H. J. Metcalf
State Defense Council
Defense Council
R. T. St. John
Riceville
Joseph D. McGarraugh
I. Farrington
Iowa Falls
James Willatt
Tama
J. C. Milliman
Logan
W. B. Barney
State Department of Education
Floyd County
Guy H. Logan
General Assembly
Ita
State Food and Dairy Department
John Morrell & Company
Gilbert 8. Brown
M. E. Flynn
Cronk
Army
Camp Dodge Rate
Flynn
State Department
North Dakota
Camp Cody
Deming
N. M
John Smith
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Field Artillery
Deming, N. M
H. K. Lancelot
State Board of Parole
Ab Thornan
New Mexico
Mason City
Gong Bay
Chia Rowdy
Astimanor
Moi
Bitar Pret
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