Influenza cases and visits in Brighton area report
Saturday notes mention Mrs Cecil Pauls and Miss Carrie Spielman visiting friends in Brighton and nearby, with five new Spanish influenza cases reported to the city clerk. Other items include quarantine release for Harry Knauss, visitors from Davenport and Burlington, and a marriage license for Earl Smith and Edna Parkhurst in Ottumwa.
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Carrie Spielman
Brighton
Earl Smith
Muscatine
Edna Parkhurst
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Missouri
Herrick Promoted to Major in France Service
Ottumwa November 23 word has reached that Capt J F Herrick in charge of a hospital with Base Hospital Unit A in France has been promoted to major This advancement adds another Ottumwa physician to the list who entered the service and received this commission Major Herrick left Ottumwa with Unit A where many locals serve as orderlies and nurses under Major Fred Clarke of Fairfield He has remained with the unit in France.
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Ottumwa
De 23
J. F. Herrick
France
Herrick
Fred Clarke
Fairfield
Service letters from Brest to Angers in World War I
A soldier writes on November 24 1918 describing duty in Brest France moving from Brest to Angers camp life in quarantine time spent on docks loading ships and delivering coal and wood a leg injury on a truck and the calm of camp life with friendly clubs Y M C A and K of C comforts he mentions friends Fred Neibert Dick Fisher and a Fort Dodge convention in passing and signs off as Your son
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Dad
Brest
France
Fred Neibert
Dick Fisher
Angers
K. of C
Fort Dodge
Buchanan No 6 Reports 100 Percent In Red Cross Drive
Buchanan District No 6 reports full participation in the Red Cross drive now under way. The district includes twenty families with 67 senior members and 16 junior members contributing to the effort.
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Red Cross Drive
Buchanan
Red Cross
Italians Begin Air Service After Armistice Flight
Immediately after the armistice was signed Italian aviation experts studied adapting machines to commercial travel. Their first effort succeeded with two Capronis, 35 yards long and three motors, flying from Terrara to Rome in three hours, covering 640 miles. Mach carried 20 passengers.
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Rome
Terrara
Mach
Russia lists 9.15 million WWI casualties
Petrograd reports authoritative wartime totals for Russia. Killed about 1 million, wounded 4.95 million, prisoners 200 thousand, with total casualties reaching 9.15 million.
Eat Your Christi Dinner At The Leggett
A brief restaurant note invites patrons to dine at the Leggett with a phone reservation line provided for seating.
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the Leggett
Christmas Basket Drive Urges Fairfield Help Needed
An urgent notice from the Ministerial Association requests donations of Christmas baskets for Fairfield's needy. Call for baskets, meat if possible, and delivery to the room first door north of the Savings Bank by 5 pm Tuesday afternoon.
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Fairfield
Savings Bank
Memorial trees urged for fallen soldiers by Hiram Heaton
Hiram Heaton advocates memorial trees to honor service members who died in the line of duty. The plan, already underway, calls for a cedar for disease deaths and a pine for those who died of wounds or were killed. Three cedars and one pine currently stand in Old Settlers' Park representing the fallen, with broad public support anticipated.
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Hiram Heaton
Mr. Heaton
Old Settlers’ Park
Iowa corn crop dips from last year but quality up
Council Bluffs reports Iowa’s corn crop this year totals about 375,624,000 bushels on 10,434,000 acres, down from 410,700,000 last year due to reduced acreage and yield. Despite 1.5 bushels above the three year average, the crop is largely cribbed and fed well, with 98 percent cribbed and early frosts inked. Northern Iowa produced the best, while drought hit the southwestern portions. Farm wage data show monthly board wages around 50 dollars and tasks yield daily rates of about 3.65 to 4.30 dollars.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Ilowa
I Will Do Your Plumbing and Heating
An anonymous advertisement offers prompt repair work for plumbing and heating. It lists C. E. Haynes at the third door north of the Savings Bank with phone number 357 and address 408-28.
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C. E. Haynes
Savings Bank
Stitches in heart muscles at Camp Zachary Taylor
Private Abraham Gannon of the Fifth United States Infantry at Camp Zachary Taylor survived a bayonet wound to the heart after being found in his bar rack. Doctors performed surgery and took five stitches in the heart muscles. Military headquarters gave no details on how the wound occurred.
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Louisville
Abraham Gannon
Fifth
United States Infantry
Zachary Taylor
Gannon
Huns Wake Up At Last In German Defeat Report
Chillicothe O Dec 28 Prussian prisoners at Camp Sherman admit Germany’s defeat as authentic after long denial. The POWs stripped navy buttons from their uniforms worn since internment and were taken off German vessels at the war’s start.
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Chillicothe, O
Germany
Camp Sherman
German War Casualties Totals Forecast in Cologne Gazette
New York reports German casualties may reach about two million dead, per the Cologne Gazette copy received. As of October 25 total casualties stood at 6,066,769 with Prussians above 4.7 million. naval losses listed at 10,000 include 25,000 dead, 15,000 missing and nearly 29,000 wounded. Casualty list No. 1284 cites 1,611,104 dead, 3,688,153 wounded, 772,522 missing, with 180,000 of missing possibly dead.
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New York
Cologne
Unspent War Funds Total Over Sixteen Billion Dollars
Washington reports that more than 16 billion dollars of cash appropriations and contract authorizations voted by Congress for war purposes will remain unexpended. Representative Sherley of Kentucky, head of the House appropriations committee, said total wartime expenditures and authorizations reach about 57 billion dollars, including 10.9 billion in wartime loans to foreign governments. Loans actually made amount to about 8 billion dollars.
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Washington
Congress
Sherley
Kentucky
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Ratifies Guatemala Trade Treaty
The Senate ratified a trade treaty between the United States and Guatemala similar to the Uruguay agreement. The accord aims to aid development of commerce between the two nations and strengthen economic ties.
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Senate
Guatemala
Washington
Uruguay
United States
Fewer influenza cases in army camps decline seen
Washington reports a drop in influenza cases for the week ending December 13 across home camps. Surgeon General's tally shows total infections at 8,680, down 426 from the prior week.
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Washington
Peasants in Timа Region Rally Against Bolsheviks
Russian volunteer forces say Bolsheviks driven from Timа area east of Archangel. Local peasants aged eighteen to forty five have organized and fight valiantly, sending calls to northern Russia populations to mobilize against the Bolsheviks.
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Paris
Tima
Archangel
Russia
Americans Sentenced to Death in Bolshevik Plot
Stockholm December 21 reports Bolshevik authorities sentence Americans Lieutenant Colonel Bride and Calamit to death for conspiring against the Lenine regime and to be shot. A woman named Marie Friede is listed for five years imprisonment. Isvestia notes the mildness of the sentences.
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Stockholm
Dee
Bolshevikkii
Bride
Demobilization in World War I Increases to 10000 Weekly
Washington report says 10000 soldiers are being discharged weekly as the army pushes to step up demobilization. Secretary Baker notes the effort aims for 1000 daily discharges and faster civilian return.
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Washington
Weilaver
Ships Bring Yanks Home From War Parade Granted
Two army transports reach Newport News. The Martha Washington carries the 118th Field Artillery and the Mercury carries sick and wounded personnel. The unit has been given permission to join a civic parade in the port city.
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Martha Washington
The
Mercury
Newport News
118Th Field Artillery
SOU
Queenstown invites Wilson to visit Ireland
At a mass meeting of citizens in Queenstown a resolution was unanimously carried inviting President Wilson to visit Ireland while he is in England next week.
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Queenstown
Wilson
Irelang
Eugloud
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