Local residents in Ottumwa and nearby towns noted
Tom Cochran and C. G. Sparks visit Ottumwa while several residents travel for business or leisure. Theodore Case ill near Glasgow. Rebekah Lodge suspends meetings until further notice. Travel and family visits include Marion Swayzee Burlingon and Nellie Evans returning from Des Moines. Miss Spencer departs for Keokuk and Buffalo Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Evans
Des Moines
Jessie Spencer
Keokuk
Buffalo
Kansas
Fayette Spencer
Washington IA Journal absorbs weekly Press
The Washington County Press, founded in 1854 as the Argus, merges into the Washington Journal after the Journal buys the Press plant and equipment and suspends the Press with its next issue. The consolidation reflects widespread newspaper suspensions and consolidations as print costs rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington IA
Journal
Weekly
Washington County Press
State of
Iowa
Col. S. W
J. L. Brookhart
Anna Dawson
Washinton, Ia
The
Argus
Washington Journal
British Troops Occupy Aleppo After Light Opposition
The War Office announced British cavalry and armored cars took Aleppo with slight opposition. It marks another Allenby victory as British forces push east and north through Palestine and Syria. Aleppo lies 185 miles north of Damascus and 70 miles east of the Mediterranean. Turkish defenders began last week with 12 4 men before retreating north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
War Office
Aleppo
Allenby
Palestine
Syria
Damascus
Mediterranea
Austrian Emperor Balky in Peace Offer Decision
Berne Switzerland October reports say Professor Lammasch was asked to form an Austrian cabinet and would accept only if Austria Hungary makes a separate peace. Emperor Charles reportedly declared a separate peace impossible, honoring a vow to the German emperor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berne
Switzerland
Lammasch
Austria-Hungary
Vienna
Charles
Bandit shoots self after fatal police attack in Lima
A gunman cornered by police and civilians after wounding a policeman and a civilian, strangling a 13 year old girl, and terrorizing a Lima residence district, fired his last shot into his head and is dying. A Springfield Illinois draft card bearing the name Charles Robert Turner was said to be stolen from George Robert Turner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Charles Robert Turner
Springfield
Til
George Robert Turner
Croatian troops revolt seize Fiume port
Basle dispatch saysCroatian infantry attached to the Austro Hungarian army have revolted and taken control of Fiume, an Adriatic port city in Hungary with about 48 000 residents and a once large commercial trade sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sieze
Fiume
Basle
Switzerland
Croatttan
Adriatic Sea
Hungary
Margaret Ann Miller Rises From Eldon Family Tragedy
Margaret Ann Miller daughter of Harvey and Jessie Miller was born March 22 1914 in Eldon Iowa and died Oct 23 1918 at her grandparents home aged four years seven months and one day after a brief illness. She leaves her mother one sister Mary Glenn and her grandparents H Le Scott Wilbert Miller in Eldon with many friends who will remember her bright smiles. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon in Eldon Cemetery beside her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Ann Miller
Harvey
Jessie Miller
Eldon
Iowa
Mary Glenn
H. le Scott
Harvey L. Miller
Wilbert Miller
Margaret Ann
For Sale Wool and Felt Weather Strips at Cable Yard
For sale wool and felt weather strips at Cable Lumber Yard. Delivery available. Three cents a running foot. Protect windows and doors from cold. Also available sow and pigs. Call 4527 for details.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tom Cochran
Ottumwa
Jack Wisecarver
Theodore Case
Glasgow
C. E. Nieukirk
Batavia
Nancy Frost
Mollie Liblin
Mrs. M. Chilcott
Walter Prouty
Lockridge
C. G. Sparks
City
Hugh Bennett
C. M. Redich
M. M. O’laughlin
Mt. Pleasant
Helen Hammon
J. G. Browning
California
Gilbert Mumper
Davenport
Richard Gentry
Fairfield Rebekah
Marion Swayzee
Burlington
Blanche Banta
Cty
Board of Supervisors
Court House
E. D. Y. Culbertson
State Examiner of Auditor’s Books
J. E. Cohagan
Raritan Arsenal
Metuchen, N. J
Guy Smith
Cedar Rapids
Mrs
Otto Smith
Ben West
Ernest Bennett
Painsville, Ir
Willis Bennett
Ralph Allard
Great Lakes
W. C. Jones
Cantril
Ida Roberts
Martinsburg
F. B. Spiers
United States
Washington
Mesopotamia
Kaiser
Bandit
Chivillian
Illinoison
Louis Easton
North Main Street
Ada Barbara
Albert Clarence Nelson
C. L. Tennant
People’s Column
Nex
Spaulding and Kearns
Grimes Street
East Stone St
South Fifth Street
South Second
Fairfield
South Second Street
South Depot St
Samuel Culler
J. C. Leonard
Civil Service
Kenois Buldng
Ballard Hall Parsons College
Journiag
Lowa
France
Nation
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