Division At Camp Dodge Reaches War Strength Milestone
Des Moines July 19 An order transfers 4000 men from the 163 depot brigade to the division proper at Camp Dodge boosting the 88th to near war strength. Most recruits have shown fitness for overseas duty while a battalion flags training to bring others up to standard. Several hundred men assigned. four companies organized.
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Des Moines
Camp Dodge Ghi
88Th
Camp Dodge
War Department
Canning for Our Soldiers Urges Uniform Home Preservation
The article encourages housewives to can and preserve as much fruit and vegetables as possible for civilian use while noting that canned goods may be supplied to the army or navy. It stresses uniform containers are needed to fit shipping space and that preserved home goods should replace equivalent commercial products to save labor and transport costs.
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Army
Navy
More Wheat in England and UK Production Outlook
The Wheat production in Great Britain has risen but is not expected to substantially reduce U S and Canadian export commitments. In 1917 Britain yielded 64 million bushels and this year’s acreage may rise about 45 percent.
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Great Britain
Great T Britain
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
White Kingdom
Germany plans to seize Ukrainian grain for 1918 wheat supply
German powers aim to secure a large portion of Ukraine and Roumania grain harvests to feed the German people. Central authorities reserve to themselves the right to intervene militarily if Ukraine cannot fulfill purchases. A Reichstag deputy says securing promised bread is a duty and may require force if Kyiv government weak. German press notes grain districts under protection of central troops.
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Germany
Scania
Ukraine
Ers
Reichstag
Garment Shop at Masonic To Close Until August
The Garment Shop at Masonic will be closed until August when work is received. The notice indicates a temporary shutdown pending new orders and materials.
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Masonic
Reduced Price on all Straw Mats at The Drake Clothing Co
Straw mats go on sale at The Drake Clothing Co with reduced prices across the stock. Shoppers can save on a variety of mat sizes and styles available in the store.
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The
Drake Clothing Co
Parson's College Seeks Names Of Students And Room Offers
Parson's College requests lists of all parties seeking student help and all parties offering rooms to rent to students. Contact the College Office at phone 213 for details. Amount £26.
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Parsons College
Roosevelt Is Safe Yet Again at Saratoga Convention
At the New York state Republican convention in Saratoga Colonel Theodore Roosevelt received a thunderous ovation as he entered the hall. He urged a thorough Americanization of citizenship and a united war effort, praising military strength and warning against lenient peace terms.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Quentin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
France
Saratoga
Theodore Roosevet
New York State
Whitman
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Lewis
Teddy
Pussett
England
Women Form Section Gang On Northern Pacific Line
Six married women and one hopeful borrower form a section gang to care for a stretch of double track north of Castle Rock. They work under a section foreman who says the women perform as efficiently as the 15 men who previously staffed the crew.
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Castle Rock
Ash
Northern Pacific
Baseball scores span leagues with mixed results
National League games show Chicago 2 Brooklyn 3 in six innings and St. Louis 6 New York none due to rain while Philadelphia routed Chicago 34 to 14 with New York 1-8 Detroit 4-2 and Boston 2 St Louis 6 Washington 1 Cleveland 6. American League including Philadelphia 14 Chicago 34 and New York 1-8. American Association results list Sehombes 1 Toledo 5 Indianapolis 8 Louisville 1 Minneapolis 10 Milwaukee 1 St Paul missing Kengos City.
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Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Hioston Oy
Louis Free
Brooklyn
Teeennan Erheneenaes
Boston
Cleveland
Washington
Louim Ceserseeesse
Detroit
Coop Peree Eens
America
Kansas City
Columbus
Indianapolis
Sanne Saveses
Jouisville
Milwaukee
Ween Ee
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
American Association
Sehombes
Toledo
Ianapolis
Louisville
Minneapolis
St Paul
Kengos City
One Time Jungle Pastures Cattle in the Canal Zone
The article lauds canal workers converting jungle into pasture to feed 150 000 people with beef and milk, enabling wartime food independence. TR Morris leads the canal agriculture effort, likened to Gorgas in sanitation, aiming to expand tropical farming amid war pressures and idle land nearby.
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Canal Zone
Christobal
C. Z
Canal
United States
Hawaii
California
Florida
Europe
Panama
TR. K. Morris
Ile
Hoover
Latin America
Morris
For Sale Ads Pack Reels of Goods and Land Listings
A column of sales notices lists items for sale including new potatoes at 1.75 per bushel, Missouri land priced from 35 to 85 dollars per acre in 40 to 240 acre tracts, a Jersey cow, a nearly new rubber tired buggy, a house and barn on Howell property in Macon, and a public sale of household goods at I D Jones residence. Also an Oakland eight cylinder car offered as a bargain by Bruce Louden with contact numbers.
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Missouri
R. White & Son
Macon
Howell
West
Washington Street
R. B. Louden
I. D. Jones
East Burington St
Bruce Louden
Wanted ads span housework to housing and jobs
A sequence of small help wanted notices lists a girl for general housework, a six room house for sale, a typewriter for rent or sale, a young man for steady work, and a lady to hire at a West Side restaurant, with contact references and street addresses.
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Track
W.” Care Journal
Oliver Typewriter
Brandall
Tribune
West Side Restaurant
One-Eyed Draftee Sent From North Carolina Board
A draft board in North Carolina sent a man with one eye to Camp Lee Virginia where leg missing and crutch bearing men were already sent, highlighting unusual exemptions and disqualifications in the draft process.
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Camp Lee
North Carolina
Hungarian Diet Rejects Women's Vote Measure
The lower house of the Hungarian diet rejected the government's measure to grant women the vote, according to a Budapest dispatch dated July 19. The vote outcome blocks women's suffrage in the current session.
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Amsterdam
Givne
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