Iowa Soldiers Expect Border Return by October Fifteenth
Des Moines dispatch reports Iowa militiamen on the Mexican border anticipate leaving for home around October 15. A Ft. Brown colonel hinted horses and mules issued to troops will stay behind for disposal by mid October. Commissaries note ration cash draws reflect underconsumption as food leftovers remain abundant.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Ft. Brown
Brownsville
Quartermaster’s Department
Increase in Hunters Licenses in Iowa
Des Moines reports rising hunter numbers despite spring shooting bans and stricter game laws. Licenses sold indicate 14 000 more hunters last year, with receipts rising from 176 000 to 204 000 for the biennial periods ending July 1 1914 and July 1 1916 respectively, suggesting an average 88 000 hunters in 1913-14 and 102 000 in 1915-16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Secretary Fleming served seven Iowa governors since 1869
William H. Fleming has been secretary to seven Iowa governors, never seeking the post and knowing nearly every governor personally. He began in 1869 under Samuel Merrill, with all but one governor he served through two terms. The lone exception was Stephen Kempsted.
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Des Moines
William H. Fleming
Iowa
Stephen Kempsted
Samuel Merrill
Williams Sentenced for Murder and Attempted Murder
Robert J. Williams, 28, was given life imprisonment for the murder of Mrs. Matilda C. Steward, Foote housekeeper near Dillon, and thirty years for the attempted murder of Wendell P. Foote. Williams confessed to both crimes in district court.
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Marshalltown
Robert J. Williams
Matilda C. Steward
Wendell P. Foote
Dillon
Cummins
Foote
Williams
Consolidated School at Sheldahl Progress Report
Work on the new consolidated school at Sheldahl is progressing rapidly. The three story building measures 52 by 74 feet and costs about 30 420 dollars. Modern construction features include fire proof corridor and stairs, light from windows on one side of each room, and ventilation by fans.
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Consolidated School
Sheldahl
Wheat Brings Record Price for Wheat Bagged
Waterloo reports A Vosberg who arrived in 1884 penniless and worked for $1.10 daily on the Rock Island line at Winslow. He carried home a bag of gold and silver totaling $1,028 after selling a carload of wheat. The season’s best wheat yielded 40 bushels per acre and brought a record price of $1.38 per bushel.
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Waterloo
A. Vosberg
America
Rock Island Railway
Winslow
Bryans Pay Reduced for Fort Dodge Talk
William Jennings Bryan spoke at the Fort Dodge Chautauqua and left town with a $149.50 check, the smallest he has ever taken for Fort Dodge appearances. Last year the check was $510, and earlier days drew even larger sums as farmers and merchants gathered for the Commoner event.
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Bryan
Fort Dodge
William Jennings Bryan
New Orleans Tour to Study Iowa Farms for Louisiana Farming
About 100 agricul turists, business leaders and reporters from New Orleans will visit Iowa to study crop conditions and advanced farming and dairying methods in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. Dr. W R Dodson of LSU arranged the trip. four days include stops at Waterloo Des Moines and Ames with tours of Iowa State College and local farms.
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Baton Rouge
Iowa
Waterloo
Des Moines
Ames
Iowa State College
Plan Great Church Convention in Des Moines
Des Moines will host the international convention of the Churches of Christ from October 9 to 14. It is the largest event in the state or denomination and is expected to draw about 10,000 delegates and visitors, a turnout not seen in the central United States for some time.
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Des Moines
Churches of Christ
The
United States
Los Angeles
Cal
Atlanta
Toronto
Canada
Baby Beef Contest Offers Trips for Iowa Winners
Ames Iowa boys and girls who raise the best baby beef in the state will win free trips to Washington DC or to Chicago in 1917. The top statewide winner gets a paid trip to the capital, while fifty two county winners receive trips to the International Livestock Show in Chicago. Entries should be mailed to BE C Bishop at Iowa State College Ames for instructions.
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Ames
Iowa
Washington, D. C
Chicago
BE. C. Bishop
Iowa State College
Many Boys Enter Contest Hampton
County Superintendent F J Henderson and R B Berry of the extension work at Ames College led a week long drive to enroll the largest number of contestants in the boys baby beef contest in the state. They visited nearly every district to spark county participation.
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Hampton
F. J. Henderson
R. B. Berry
Ames College
Heat Victim Koontz Struck Down At Circus
Iowa City Mayor George W. Koontz aged over seventy collapsed in a circus tent from heat for the second time this summer. He revived after being carried outside and taken home by auto, where his condition improved. Koontz later served as minority leader in the Iowa House of Representatives.
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Iowa City
George W. Koontz
Koontz
Iowa House of Representatives
Telephone School a Success at Iowa State College
The first year of the telephone engineering course led by Prof. C. A. Wright attracted seven electrical engineering seniors, six of whom already secured employment with Iowa telephone companies. Due to high demand the program will expand with new equipment.
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Ames
Iowa State College
C. A. Wright
Iowa Telephone Companies
Newton Public Schools Add Agriculture Course
Newton public schools introduce an agriculture course aimed at high school boys with many rural pupils already enrolled or seeking enrollment. The program is seen as practical and among the best offerings for agricultural study.
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Newton
First Infantile Paralysis Case Reported in Perry
The first local case is a 4-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Riley. Doctors diagnose infantile paralysis and the Riley home is quarantined as a precaution.
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Perry
R. C. Riley
No Spring Shooting Cedar Ravids
Spring duck shooting will be banned in Illinois Iowa Missouri Nebraska and Kansas. The recommendation proposed a special fall season and an extra spring season from Feb 10 to March 10 for those states while other states received one open season with spring shooting barred.
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Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Pay for Damaged Parcel Post Claims
In Des Moines insured parcel post packages received damaged will be paid according to the damage extent up to the insured value. Claims must be filed at the receiving post office and will be handled promptly with less delay than before.
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Des Moines
Post Office Department
Big Liquor Seizure at Iowa State Fair Raids Depot
Iowa Anti-Saloon League agents led by W C Barber seized five carloads of beer and whisky from the Rock Island depot amid warrants by District Judge Utterback. Over 800 beer barrels and 100 whisky cases were moved to a warehouse as cadets from Ames College detachment aided in the operation intended to prevent sales at the fair. One drunken man was jailed.
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Des Moines
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
M. S. Odle
W. C. Barber
Utterback
Rock Island
Barber
Chicago
Ames College
James Rush Lincoln
Burlingame Wins Race Against Death For Daughter
Waterloo banker C H Burlingame of First National Bank raced to his dying daughter Harriet six with a high powered car after receiving news at 3 am during a Pythian event. She survived briefly until 6 20 am when the candle of life went out after an eight week illness from appendicitis.
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Waterloo
C. H. Burlingame
First National Bank
Iowa Falls
Fort Dodge Strike Scare Hangs Over Local Factory
Following a partial victory for Quaker Oats workers a 300 employee walkout threat loomed at Lehigh Sewer Pipe and Tile in Fort Dodge. Several clay products plant workers were discharged for union activity while many favored immediate action as negotiations continued for reinstatement of unionists.
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Ft. Dodgey
Fort Dodge
Quaker Oats
Lehigh Sewer
Fhle
Villisca Sends Funds to Company F Third Town
Villisca citizens donated to Company F of the Third Town. Captain Casey in Brownsville received a letter with two checks totaling 583.50 for the company mess fund. Businessmen contributed 500 dollars and Villisca young women 83.50 dollars.
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Villisca
Villisca Company
Casey
Brownsville
Company
Eight Hour Day Debate and Submarine Action Report
The railway executives subcommittee reported to President Wilson backing an eight hour day with a conditional “string” to secure guarantees of new legislation and travel wage protections. British and German naval actions include sinks of Nottingham and Elmouth by German submarines and torpedoed ships off the English coast with corroborating admiralty statements from Berlin.
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Washington
Wilson
London
Nottingham
Elmouth
North Sea
Admiralty
Ymuiden
Holland
Reuter
White Bank
Berlin
Sayville
N. Y
England
Japan Gets Canal Land Feud Draws U S Intervention
Secretary Lansing ordered investigation into Panama reports that a 60,000 acre land concession at the Atlantic end of the canal is sought by a Spaniard named Fernandez for Japanese interests. Havana agent Fernandez is said to have used Ramon Valdes, recently elected Panama president, as part of the deal amid fraud allegations. Admiral Cones of Spain is listed as canal dispute umpire and accused of leaking canal details.
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Washington
Panama
Atlantic
Canal
Fernandez
Lansing
Havana
Ramon Valdes
United States
Admiral Cones
President Wilson Nominates Postmasters in Several States
Washington August 24 President Wilson sent to the senate on Tuesday nominations for postmasters in Illinois Clayton Corydon Corydon Longwood and other towns. Names include Duff Hugh Ike mire Boyle McCoy Forward Fintey Mortland Ladd and Van Tassil in various states.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Ilinois
Robert BE. Duff
Clay City
Gilbert L. Hugh
Clayton
A. J. Ikemire
Louisville
L. L. Boyle
Roberts
Iowa
J. N. McCoy
Corydon
J. W. Forward
Longwood
T. L. Fintey
Missouri Valley
R. A. Mortland
Montezuma
Michigan
Joseph I. Ladd
Warril
New hospital completion relieves city hospital crowd
Iowa City reports the new state university isolation hospital nearly finished to ease congestion in the main hospital which runs near its limit of 317 patients and serves the area.
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Iowa City
New State University
Clarinda Girl Wins National Tomato Growing Title
Clarinda Eloise Parsons, 15, of Clarinda, named champion girl tomato grower in the United States at the Iowa state fair. She canned 5,518 pounds of tomatoes from one tenth of an acre last year, doing all planting, picking and canning herself, earning federal Agriculture Department recognition and wide press attention.
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Clarinda
Eloise Parsons
United States
Iowa
Whoise
Federal Department of Agriculture
Prize Butter Scores High at Iowa State Fair Display
Butter entries won top honors with 96 percent score. First prize went to cream from J. H. Bakken Ridgeway, followed by E. A. Gudpangen Hanlontown, and J. H. Hagen Joice. Whole milk butter awarded to F. W. Bremer Sumner with J. J. Bruner Strawberry Point and M. Quincy Tripoli earning second and third respectively.
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Iowa
Appoints U S Mexico Commission Members
Secretary Lansing announced the appointment of three American members to the commission to treat with Mexico. Franklin H. Lane Justice Gray and Dr. John R. Mott were named and have accepted. Lane is from San Francisco Gray from Delaware Mott from New York.
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Lane
Justice Gray
Delaware
John R. Mott
New York
Washington
Lansing
Mexico
the Interior
Franklin H. Lane
San Francisco
Bavarian King Ludwig II Stricken in Grave Condition
Paris dispatch says King Ludwig II of Bavaria has been stricken with napoplexy and the illness is grave. A report from Switzerland cited by a Rome dispatch to the Petit Parisien.
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King of Bavaria
Paris
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Switzerland
Rome
Petit Parisien
Bush Fires Rage Across Quebec Regions
Bush fires burn furiously in the Lake St. John area behind Murray bay Cunard river between Bergeron and Escoumains at Anse St. Jean and Cape Trinity. No casualties reported in this brief dispatch from Aug 26.
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Canada
Quebec
Lake St. John
Murray Bay
Cunard River
Bergeron
Escoumains
Anse St. Jean
Cape Trinity
Archbishop Spalding in Serious Condition
Archbishop John Lancaster Spalding is seriously ill in Peoria Illinois due to heat and a general decline that deepened ten days ago. He has been confined to bed for ten days.
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Spalding
Peoria, Ill
John Lancaster
Yorkshire ammunition plant explosion toll rises to twenty three
London reports twenty three bodies recovered from the ruins of the Yorkshire ammunition plant after the blast. Doctor Addison of the ministry of munitions announced the toll, with details forthcoming on the disaster’s extent and casualties.
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London
Yorkshire
Addison
Ministry of Munitions
Record hog prices hit historic Union stock yards peak
Chicago August 23 hogs at the Union stock yards topped history with a price of 11.80 dollars per hundred pounds. Dealers forecast a September rise toward 12 dollars as beans also surged doubling costs. Pork and beans move from staple to luxury due to rising prices.
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Chicago
Will Oppose Bread Boost in Federal Action Aug 25
The federal trade commission will act on its own initiative to stop any bread price increase if bakers press for higher prices. It will also investigate the baking and milling industry nationwide if a formal complaint is filed, even without a price rise.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Cranes Collapse at Erie Foundry Kill Four Workers
Erie report says two overloaded heavy cranes collapsed at the National Foundry, killing at least four workmen and wounding six or seven others. Other dispatches note a false Berlin rumor on Norman Angell and a Nassau class battleship torpedoed by a British submarine in the North Sea.
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Erie
National Foundry
London
Berlin
Norman Angell
Angell
Admiralty
Sei
Monastery Treasure Reported Found Near Cetinje
Geneva reports Austrians discovered the famed treasures of the Detehani monastery near Cetinje Montenegro. They were said to have been buried by the monks to keep them from invaders.
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Geneva
Detehani
Cetinje
Montenegro
Inoaks
Earthquake Shakes Cairo Illinois No Damage Reported
Cairo Illinois August 26 a tremor was felt with a northeast to southwest direction and a low rumbling sound no damage was reported as known by authorities at the time
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Illinois
Cairo
Budapest interpellation seeks Austro Hungarian ambassador to Washington
Budapest dispatch reports the Hungarian parliament will present an interpellation about the nomination of an Austro Hungarian ambassador to fill the vacant post in Washington. An envoy to the United States is under discussion as Vienna Berlin exchange notes.
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Austria
Berlin
Budapest
Washington
German Battleship Westfallen Hit by British Torpedo
Berlin semiofficial telegram admits the German battleship Westfallen was struck by a British torpedo on Saturday and suffered only slight damage. The vessel was not badly damaged.
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London
Westfallen
Berlin
Bulgars and Russians score gains in Armenian, Turkish front
Sofia reports Bulgarian advances south of Florina taking Kastoria and Kosotour while driving Serbian forces south. In Struma valley Bulgarian troops clear the left bank and claim captures including officers, men, and weapons. Petrograd says Russian forces defeat four Turkish divisions at Racha near Mosul and recapture Mush with 2,800 prisoners.
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Cornichero
Malka Nieze
Vardar
St. Spiddon
Hill 207
Tcheganaki Planina
Struma
Saloniki
Greece
Lake Tahinos
Petrograd
Rachta
Mosul
London
Armenia
War Department
Dunne to Call Extra Session on Soldiers Voting in Field
Governor Dunne to convene Illinois legislature early next week to consider a bill allowing Illinois soldiers and National Guard members serving in Texas or elsewhere to vote by mail in primary and general elections. Telegrams sent to members ask for immediate replies on attendance and support.
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Springfield
Illinois
Dunne
Texas
Minois
United States Army
General Assembly
National Guard
British French advances near Thiepval and Maurepas
London reports British troops advanced 800 yards south of Thiepval and captured a 400 yard German trench with many prisoners. French forces completed occupation of Maurepas and pushed their line 200 meters beyond the town on a two kilometer front, per official war office statements.
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Maurepas
London
Thiepval
War Office
French
Plague Deaths Decrease In New York
A substantial drop in infantile paralysis deaths and new cases is reported. In the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m., 80 children died and 109 were stricken.
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New York
Hermit Yachtsman Bhds Life
Stephen M. Van Allen, a reclusive yachtsman, killed himself aboard his motor boat Hunter on the North River by firing a double barreled shotgun into his chest in the cabin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hermit Yachtsman Bhds Life
New York
Stephen M. van Allen
Hermit
North River
Oil Vars Explode Killing Expert in Chicago Fire
A. B. Young, oil expert, was killed and eight firemen were severely burned when 33,000 gallons of gasoline exploded in a Standard Oil brick storehouse in Chicago.
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Chicago
A. B. Young
Standard Oil Company
Doctor Shot by Patient in Rock Island Incident
In Rock Island Illinois on August 25 Dr W B Pomeroy of Davenport Iowa was shot and is believed fatally wounded by former patient James Poulos. Poulos said after arrest that Pomeroy had attacked him.
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Rock Island
Ill
W. B. Pomeroy
Davenport
James Poulos
Poulos
Pomeroy
Russians Halted in Volhynia Galicia And Carpathians
Berlin reports that Russian forces failed to gain ground against German lines in Volhynia Galicia and the Carpathians despite heavy fighting. Russian losses near Kovel were severe with 5 000 killed near Horodenka and German casualties far lower. The German war office cites recaptured positions north of Caput and renewed offensives south of Brody as the Russian attempt to reach Lemberg continues.
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Berlin
Sayville
L. 1
Volhynia
Galicia
Carpathian
Teutonic
Lower
Stokhod
Kovel
Cologne
Horodenka
Carpathians
Caput
War Office
Petrograd
London
Brody
Lemberg
Allied naval losses reveal 72 ships to date
Berlin reports German admiralty figures showing British and French line-of-battleships and cruisers losses to August 1 at 72 vessels totaling 496,050 tons. German losses in the same classes amounted to 25 ships totaling 62,667 tons. The list covers only ships losses established as definite.
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Berlin
British seize U S boats near Iceland
The American fishing schooners Maxine Elliott of Gloucester and Lizzie Griffin of Bangor were seized off Iceland by British patrol boats and taken to Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. The Lucinda J. Lowell, en route from Gloucester to Norway, was also taken to Lerwick but released after unloading its dried herring cargo.
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Iceland
Shetland Islands
London
Maxine Elliott
Gloucester
Mass
Lizzie Griffin
Bangor
Lerwick
Lucinda J. Lowell
Norway
Westfalen Hit but Still Capable of Maneuvering
Berlin telegram reported by Reuters says the warship Westfalen was struck and damaged but remains able to maneuver. Officials say the vessel will be repaired shortly after the hit.
Deutschland Arrives Home From Baltimore Submarine Return
The German submarine Deutschland reached the Weser mouth on Wednesday. all aboard are well. It had departed Baltimore on August 2 and evaded Allied blockades while returning to Germany.
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Weser
Berlin
Sayville
N. Y
Baltimore
Army Bill Passes Senate With Amendment
The Senate approved the army appropriation bill in Washington on August 25 with an amendment replacing the particles of war but excluding the provision that led to the president's veto last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Milk Deliveries Restored Under Injunction Protection
In St Louis on August 25 the Milk Dealers association pledged resumption of milk deliveries under an injunction prohibiting union drivers from interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Milk Dealers’ Association
Danish Radicals Block Pact
Danish radical demands, rejected by other parties, deepen pessimism over a quick settlement of the Danish West Indies issue in Copenhagen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Radical Party
Danish West Indies
Col J G Butler Dies at 75 in St Louis Home
Col James Gay Butler longtime philanthropy leader and multi millionair e died at his St Louis home Monday afternoon at age seventy five following an operation six weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Butler
St. Louis
James Gay Butler
Mackensen Takes Supreme Command in the Balkans
Paris reports Field Marshal von Mackensen now holds supreme command in the Balkans after recent German operations in the west were attributed to his guidance by French officers.
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Mackensen
Balkans
Paris
von Mackensen
Western
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U. S
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Deutschland
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