Work or Fight order reshapes Iowa draft jobs
The Register and Leader reports the new Crowder order enforcing work or fight, reclassifying hundreds of registrants with dependent or nonessential roles. Boards enforce occupation changes, aided by state and federal offices, to boost production and help war labor.
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Register and Leader
Iowa
E. H. Crowder
Frank Lyman
Adjutant General’s Office
Crowder
Major Lyman
Adj
Guy EB. Logan
Selective Service Department
Logan
Claire Le Barr Writes of Sea Voyage to Brest in War Era
Diary style dispatch from Claire Le Barr recounts a voyage across the Atlantic during May and June 1918 aboard a U S ship. Entries describe convoy escort, weather, a missing engineer, new roommates, gun duties, landfall at Brest and Nantes, visits ashore, and routine naval life including sightings of whales and a fatal death aboard. The tone mimics a personal letter home to her mother with vivid imagery of color, harbor sights, and daily hardship.
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Claire le Barr
U. S. S. Charleston
N. Y
Bach
Chicago
Charleston
England
France
Brest
St. Nazaire
St. .N
Nantes
Loire
St. N
Gar Shack
Dog House
Crow
L. Wood
Ten Die As Ruff Building Collapses In Sioux City
Ten bodies are confirmed or believed dead after the Ruff building a three story brick structure collapsed during remodeling in Sioux City Iowa. Fire and entrapment followed the fall with several workers missing or trapped including five tailors on the third floor and owners of nearby businesses. Oscar Ruff escaped after more than eight hours buried in debris.
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Sioux City
Ruff
Louis Schuler
Louis Solseth
Charles Kugel
Walter Nelson
Joy Ostrander
Alfred Hanson
Ruff Drug Company
Herman Feddern
Olof Rossum
John Stutz
John Mouma
Olof Reunning
Oscar Ruff
R. F. Kugel
Merle Kugel
Hans Asper
Frank Harp
Beaumont & Braunger
Ruf
Local Visitors and Travels Highlight Ottumwa Notes
A roundup of visits and stays in Ottumwa includes Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Tally, John Mullenix, Gus Schillerstrom, J. B. Trent, Carl O Roake, Arthur Wilson, Miss Marjorie Brown, the White family, Mrs. J. M. Hammon, Charles E Noble, Miss Goldie Hill, Miss Blanch Brown, Frank Baker, George Tucker, Francis Edmunds, Harry Jones, John Whitmore, Miss Nora Whitmore, Mrs. Willig Green and daughter, John Foreman, Carl Stanford, Nellie Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prouty, the Misses Bessie Prince and Nina Larson, Grace Cook, Mrs. Lawrence Noble, Mrs. Charles Griggs, Mises Myrtle Coop, and local residents. A public wheat restriction notice urges rye use during the week of July 1 7, as wheat scarcity threatens bakers.
War Savings club formed at No 4 Buchanan
Patrons at No 4 Buchanan organized a War Savings society with 25 members. Officers elected include President Sylvester Liblin and Secretary Mrs Frank Liblin. Plan to canvass district for pledges. Lost Aerdale Terrier 10 months old with initials J M on collar. Return to L Q Keesey for reward. Also furniture sale at 307 E Hemstead before Thursday.
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No. 4
Buchanan
Sylvester Liblin
Frank Liblin
J. M. Kk
L. Q. Keesey
City Dog Tax Due at City Clerk Office
Notice that the City Dog Tax is due at the City Clerk's office. Violators under Ordinance 182 face fines from one to one hundred dollars plus prosecution costs and may be jailed at hard labor until fines and costs are paid. Paul Coleson, City Clerk. BUY W. & 8.
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Paul Coleson
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Wwe
Lyman
High Seas
War Shack
Firm
Ocal News
Roy T. Tally
Ottumwa
John Mullenix
Des Moines
Gus Schillerstrom
J. B. Trent
Batavia
Carl O’roake
Rock Island
City
Arthur Wilson
St. Joe, Mo
J. E. Wilson
Marjorie Brown
New London
Charles White
Davenport
Verne White
J. M. Hammon
Wisconsin
Charles E. Noble
Ogden
Utah
Richland
Goldie Hill
Libertyville
Miss Blanch Brown
Mt. Pleasant
Frank Baker
George Tucker
Great Lakes
Francis Edmunds
Harry Jones
John Whitmore
Nora Whitmore
Willig Green
Glendale
John Foreman
Kansas City
Lothridge
Carl Stanford
Rochester
Minn
Nellie Morris
Walter Prouty
Lockridge
Bessie Prince
Nina Larson
Maxwell’s
Grace Cook
The
Lawrence Noble
Charles Griggs
Charles Trail
Mises Myrtle Coop
Washington, D. C
Yeaterday
Mrs. Lafe Coop
Gus Flinspach
Ganize War Saving Club
W. S
E. Hemstead
Fairfield
Palm Beach
Gobble & Heer’s
Meyer
Flershein
Kerrick
Tribune
Griffith
Pierson
Iowa State Savings Bank
John Vogelsang
Fairfield, Iowa
Machine Shop
North Fourth Street
Cruise
Minneapolis
W. A. Blair
Northern Steamboat Co
Wm. S. Cox
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