Insi Training at Camp Dodge 1918 Intensive schedule and reforms
Camp Dodge Iowa June 26 1918 intensive training fills days from reveille to retreat with drills school of the soldier and lectures. Soldiers from Missouri and nearby states learn English French and basic schooling while preparing for trench warfare. Reorganization plans aim to use the camp as a mobilization and training center for drafted men and new divisions after the 88th sails overseas.
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Camp Dodge
France
Missouri
Ishakt
Prounda
W. J. O'Connell
Camp Podge
Atrest
Eighty-eighth
Baker
Minnesota
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
One Hundred Sixty-Third
National Army
Harape
Loyal Citizens Urged to Sell No Liberty Bonds
The Mills County Council of Defense urges citizens to avoid exchanging Liberty Bonds for industrial stocks or other securities. It warns such actions undermine war finance and emphasizes conserving money, food, and resources to support the Allied war effort in France and beyond.
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Council OF Defenses OF
Mills County
France
Great Britain
Italy
America
United States
Dre Snot
Miemieau
Council of Defense
Millis County
Mother's Day in France Aboard the Front
Arthur Embree writes from somewhere in France on Mother's Day May 12, 1918. He recalls the contrast to the previous year, when church and music filled the day, now the roar of guns and the rat-a-tat of machine guns mark the holiday. Rain, wind, and shell fragments punctuate the scene as the war continues.
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France
Fritz
Iowa farmers to gain wheat price rise amid higher freight rates
Food Administrator Deems announces Iowa farmers will receive a wheat price increase to offset June 24 freight-rate hikes. Announcement planned around July 1. Threshers seeking summer labor urged to contact A L Barkman, US Employment Service in Kansas City. About thirty counties have reported threshing machine owner names. government certificates to all registered threshers this year. W T Harper of Ottumwa named to handle milk and ice matters before the U S Food Administration for Iowa. Live stock in England on rations.
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Iowa
Towa
A. L. Barkman
United States Employment Service
Grand Avenue
Kansas City
United States Food Administration
W. T. Harper
Ottumwa
England
Food rules and wartime economy across nations
Rural schedules set food rations for farm animals and humans while Canada enforces loafing penalties. Britain urges potato planting. Utah Mormon stores send wheat to the Food Administration. Belgium relies on potatoes and improvised laundering with potatoes. Arizona bans wheat in many eateries. sugar waste is stressed and home canning is encouraged to aid the Army and Navy.
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Grasa
Canada
Woburn
England
United States Food Administration
Lloyd George
Scotland
Wales
Mormon Church
Food Administration
Mormon
Utah
Belgium
Iowa
Arizona
Peraon
Herbert Hoover
Tdeems
Burlington
Europe
Army
Navy
Ford Load of Joy Riders Crashes Near John White Place
A Ford carrying two women from Omaha veered during a Sunday flight returning from Griswold. The car flipped, leaving the vehicle bottom side up on a hill near the John White place. Dy. StephensProvided prompt relief before the travelers continued home.
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Treynor
Omaha
Aittle
Griswold
John White Place
Stephens
Guld- Auce DE Oye Asiver
Karl. Kaz
Giant Goodrich flag tours across the nation
The mammoth American flag used by B. F. Goodrich Rubber employees has raised over $10 000 in visits to three cities. It started in New York last May during the Liberty Loan parade, then Cleveland and Toledo, with large sums tossed onto it. Now en route to Oklahoma City and later St. Louis, the flag has covered about 5000 miles with its custodian.
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B. F. Goodrich. Rubber Company
New York
Lberty Loan
Goodrich
Fifth Avenue
Cleveland
English Services Strain Mineola German Parish
In Mineola the Librian church faces hardship as older German parishioners struggle with English sermons and songs. Rev Sitzler translates all materials, but language barriers stop devotion for first generation Germans, while English songbooks and worship aids are now needed. War era Germanism pressures worsen the situation, and comprehension bottlenecks affect community cohesion.
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Silver City Times
Lieran
Mineola
Sitzler
Ice Making Plant Installed by Mineola Family
The Charles Nipp family of Mineola installed a new electrically operated ice making device connected to their ice box. The system uses rapid evaporation to chill tea and automatically maintains a set temperature, with small cubes formed in the lower refrigerator for table use. It’s described as a fine little ice plant.
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Silver City
Charles Nipp
Mineola
Cheerful odds and ends mix with market notes
A rambling Satirical line about two chances in life contrasts with a cattle and hog market recap from Monday's St. Louis Market. Receipts show cattle 7600 head and sheep at $4,000, with cattle prices down about 1 to 1.50 per hundred, range $9.60 to $37.55. Hogs fell about 4 per hundred, with top notes unclear and several garbled items in the tail of the report.
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St. Louis
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