Local notes as influenza cases rise and visitors mingle
Saturday visitors from Brighton Davenport and Burlington appear as five new influenza cases are reported. Quarantine lifts for Harry Knauss while Mrs Brown aids ill relatives in Mt. Pleasant. Several residents travel for holidays or return from service with prayers and teen trip details. A marriage license is issued to Earl Smith and Edna Parkhurst in Ottumwa as they plan to move to Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Brown
Mt. Pleasant
Earl Smith
Muscatine
Edna Parkhurst
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Missouri
Letters From a Soldier in Brest and Angers 1918
The writer reports arriving Brest France on October 18 1918 and marching to Angers after a week of dock work and coal delivery. He notes quarantine meetings with friends Fred Neibert and Dick Fisher discusses camp life bands YMCA and Knights of Columbus club rooms and free tobacco and cigarettes. He mentions a wounded ankle but plans to stay with the unit and asks about events at Fort Dodge and life at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad
Brest
France
Fred Neibert
Dick Fisher
Angers
K. of C
Fort Dodge
Ottumwa Doctor Promoted to Major in France
Capt J F Herrick in charge of a hospital unit in France has been promoted to major. The promotion dated November 23 adds another Ottumwa physician to the list receiving that commission. Herrick left Ottumwa with Unit A, with many locals serving as orderlies and nurses under Major Fred Clarke of Fairfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
J. F Hlerrick
Ase
France
Herrick
Fred Clarke
Fairfield
Buchanan No. 6 Reports 100 Percent Red Cross Drive
Buchanan District No. 6 reports full participation in the ongoing Red Cross drive. The district includes twenty families with 67 senior members and 16 junior members.
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Red Cross Drive
Buchanan
Red Cross
Italians Begin Air Service Post Armistice
Italian aviation experts move to convert machines for commercial travel after the armistice. Two Capronis, 35 yards long and three motors, flew 640 miles from Terrara to Rome in three hours, carrying 20 passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Terrara
Boeh
Russia's War Losses Reported At Nine Million Plus
Petrograd reports Russia’s total war casualties at 9 190 000 including 1 000 000 killed 4 950 000 wounded and 2 000 000 prisoners with official figures listing broader losses and captured personnel across the conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Russia
Eat Your Christmas Dinner at the Leggett
Telephone for reservation. The fragment notes a dining event at the Leggett with a call to reserve a table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Leggett
Christmas Baskets Urgently Needed in Fairfield
Fairfield ministers warn that about thirty baskets have been promised but few donors have responded. The Fairfield Ministerial Association urges households to prepare food baskets for needy families, with meat donated if possible, and to leave baskets at the room first door north of the Savings Bank by 5 pm Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Savings Bank
Fairfield Ministerial Association
Memorial Trees Proposed For Fallen Soldiers By Heaton
Hiram Heaton urges memorial trees to honor fallen service members. A pine for each death from wounds and a cedar for disease, with three cedars and one pine already planted in Old Settlers Park. The plan aims to keep memories alive and is expected to gain county support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Heaton
Mr. Heaton
Old Settlers’ Park
Corn crop shorter but better than last year
Iowa's corn crop this year totals about 375.6 million bushels from 10.434 million acres at 36 bushels per acre, down from 410.7 million last year though feeding quality is 31 percent higher. Northern Iowa harvested the best crop while drought affected the southwest. 98 percent cribbed. Farm wage data shows monthly and daily rates with and without board.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
I will do your plumbing and heating
Plumbing and heating services offered by C. E. Haynes prompt repair. Located at third door north of Savings Bank with phone contact 357 408.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Haynes
Savings Bank
Stitches in Heart Muscles
Private Abratrat Gannon of the Fifth United States Infantry at Camp Zachary Taylor survived a bayonet wound to the chest after five stitches in the heart muscles were performed at the hospital. The headquarters gave no statement about how the wound occurred.
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Louisville
Dee
Abratrat Gannon
Fifth United States Infantry
Camp Zachary Taylor
Gannon
Germans Stripped Naval Buttons at Camp Sherman
German POWs at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, report authentic news of Germany's defeat. Prisoners, who arrived aboard early war German ships, have removed navy buttons from their uniforms and deny reports of German desertions.
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Camp
Sherman
Germany
Chillicothe, CO
Camp Sherman
Germain
Germaan
German War Casualties Tie To Million Dead Estimate
Cologne Gazette figures cited in New York report project about 2 000 000 German dead once total casualties are published. As of October 25 total casualties stand around 6 066 769 with 4 705 000 Prussians. Naval losses exceed 70 000 with 25 000 dead and 15 000 missing.
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New York
Cologne
SHS
Large War Funds Left Unexpended by Congress
Washington Tec 21 More than 16 billion dollars of cash appropriations and contract authorizations for war purposes will be unexpended, announced by Rep Sherley of Kentucky, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Total expenditures and authorizations for the war run about 57 billion, including 10 million for wartime loans to foreign governments. Loans made now total about 5? million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tec
Congress
Sherley
Kentucky
House Appropriations Committee
Senate F Ratifies Guatemala Treaty
The senate ratified a trade treaty between the United States and Guatemala similar to a Uruguay deal. The convention aims to aid development of commerce between the two nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Guatemala
Washington
Uruguay
United States
Decline in Army Influenza Cases Reported
Surgeon General report shows influenza cases fell to 8,680 for the week ending December 13, a drop of 426 from the prior week. The disease remains widespread in many army camps at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Peasants Take Up Arms Against Bolsheviks Around Lina
Archangel dispatch reports Russian volunteers drive Bolsheviks from Lina region east of Archangel. Local peasants aged eighteen to forty five organize and fight valiantly. They issue an appeal urging northern Russia populations to mobilize against Bolsheviks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traris
Lina
Archangel
Russia
Americans Sentenced to Death as Bolsheviks Report
Stockholm dec 21 the bolsheviki announce that the americans lieutenant colonel fidre aid calamitano have been sentenced to death for plotting against the lenine administration and will be sheer a warden named marie friede whose nationality is not specified is on a list of persons sentenced to five years imprisonment the investin expresses astonishment at the mildness of the sentences
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Stockholm
Bolsheviki
Fride Aid
Calamitano
Lenine
Marie Friede
Investin
Demobilization Surge Dashes 200000 Soldiers from Army
Washington reports rapid troop demobilization as Secretary Baker said over 200000 soldiers have been discharged and returned to civilian life. The War Department aims for 10000 weekly demobilizations and seeks to boost daily releases to about 1000 per camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Baker
Wir
Ships Bring Yanks Home From Overseas Parade Granted
Newport News reports two Army transports the Martha Washington with the Tilth Field artillerymen and the Mercury with 300 sick and wounded aboard have reached port. The authorities permit the artillery unit to take part in a civic parade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Washington
The
Mercury
Newport News
Tilth
Queenstown Invites Wilson to Visit Ireland
At a mass meeting in Queenstown the resolution to invite President Wilson to visit Ireland was carried unanimously as he tours Europe. The meeting referenced Ireland and the ongoing political context, signaling strong local support for the distinguished visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queenstown
Wilson
Dee
Ireland
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