French War Losses in World War Described in Current History
The Des Moines Capital notes J Ellis of Barker summarizes an extensive report on France’s losses in World War I. It cites 1,825,000 French soldiers killed and 690,000 crippled, with vast destruction of towns, post offices, railways, canals, schools, and farms.
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Des Moines
Current History Magazine
J. Ellis
Barker
France
Germany
Mr. Barker
Bence
Suffering in Germany letter from Berlin outlines hardship
A La Verne News reprint shares a Berlin letter describing acute German hardship under high taxes and living costs. It claims shoes cost 10 000 marks and a monthly salary of 18 000 marks, about $2, with many families starving. It notes an elderly couple found dead by starvation and warns more will follow before spring.
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Paul Rechner
Li Verne
Berlin
Germany
America
la Verne News
Paul Fechner
Brother
France
William Dudt
Gust Mechner
Ellington Township Girls Club Program Delights Farm Bureau Meeting
Ellington Township Farm Bureau hosts Girls Club program at the center schoolhouse with over 100 attendees. The lineup includes songs, a newspaper piece in Ellington Tatler, and multiple short drama dialogues and recitations led by group members.
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Ellington Township
Ellington Township Farm Bureau
Girls Club
Ellington Tatler
Lucille Hersom
L. Ditch
B. Packard
Marie Ditch
Sniggles Family
L. Hersom
R. Perkins
N. Perkin
N. Ditch
E. Benckendorf
E. Funz
EB. Crawmer
M. Jolliffe
FP. Crawmer
M. Kendal
Leuer
Ruppert
L. Crawmer
I. Crawmer
R. Drama
M. Kendall
Sonte
Freedom Township Farm Bureau Holds Goal Meeting
A large crowd attended the Freedom Township Farm Bureau meeting at the Blairgowrie schoolhouse on Tuesday January 16 with about 126 people present. The program featured music by Emmetsburg Boys Band a lecture on Raising Of Baby Chicks and an Evening on the Farm by Linequist Sextet plus a Boys and Girl Pig Club talk by H S Fain and a reading Deaths Disk by Lettin HookHex. The meeting closed with a business session and refreshments.
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Freedom Township Farm Bureau
Blairgowrie
Parn Bureau
W. R. Schroeder
Bernard Schroeder
H. S. Fain
Merbers
Emmetsburg
Rastus
Pastus
Vl F. Glidden
Linequist
West Freedom
Lettin HookHex
Dramatic Company
America
All
W. J. Breatonridge
Burety Pederai
Des Moines
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Graettin
United States
Mail 5
Sant
Salle
Eee
J A. Spies
Fos Howie
John Deere
Hayes
Titan
Ite Club
Farm Bureau
Alfred Krieg
Lillian Trieg
Virginia
Johnson Grocery
Oury Palvanage
Joe Amdahl
Prop
Farmers Creamery CO
Graettinger
Main Street
SAME
Bartel Geil
the Farmers Creamery CO. OF
Graettinger Creamery
New Windsor
NTO
Henry Hagerman
Graver
Chicago
South
Col
Ben Reeves
Foshier and Keator
First National Bank
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