Gilbert S. Gilbertson dies at 54 after stroke
Des Moines businessman Gilbert S. Gilbertson, a longtime Iowa public servant and Republican figure, died at Iowa Lutheran hospital after a paralytic stroke. A former state treasurer and banker, he had recently returned from California with his wife. he leaves two daughters and his spouse.
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Des Moines
Gilbert S. Gilbertson
Iowa
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Gilbertson
California
Republican Party
Iowa Trust and Savings Bank
Inter-State Business Men’s Accidental Association
Northwestern Land and Colonization Company
Winnebago County
Forest City
Republican Central Committee
Balle D. Whitney
E. Chase West
Earl H. Scripps
Glidden Moves to Oust German From Public Schools
In Glidden Iowa residents plan to petition the board of education to remove German courses from public schools. Merle Hay town, noted as Iowa's first war martyr, is cited as the motive, with over three hundred signers supporting the request though some Germans refused to sign, saying they do not sympathize with the German government.
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Hay
Glidden
Two Children Die in Bloomfield Barn Fire
A fire in the Christy barn in Bloomfield killed four year old Homer Christy and five year old Mary Hancock after they played with matches in a hay loft and were unable to escape. Their charred bodies were found hours later.
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Bloomfield
Homer Christy
Ephraim Christy
Mary Hancock
Arthur Hancock
Laddsdale
Christy
Auction Benefits Red Cross With Public Sale
Public auction here raised about $2,500 for the local Red Cross. Items included two fifty dollar Liberty Bonds selling for 70 each, corn at 3.25 a bushel, and a fine calf that brought 50 and later sold for 40 more.
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Red Cross
Casey
Girls Husk 120 to 135 Bushels Daily in Logan Area
Girls in Logan claim they can surpass the Davenport sisters record of 115 bushels per day. Alice and Eva Myers average 120 bushels with a peak of 135, and have husked 2,500 bushels for their father this fall.
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Logan
Violet
Adaline Davenport
Little Sioux
Alice
Eva Myers
Strikers Hold Out in Sioux City Over Closed Shop
Sioux City strikers remain firm on the closed shop demand while unions parade principal business streets each afternoon. Shops continue normal operation with no reported disturbances as progress is claimed.
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Sioux City
Powder plot uncovered in Davenport coal car
A large can of giant powder was found concealed at the bottom of a coal car in the White yards, a major lumber and coal firm. The powder was turned over to authorities as police, federal and state agents intensify efforts to thwart spy plots. The coal car originated from Eldon, Illinois.
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Davenport
Eldon
Ill
Rooster Fetches Large Sum at Red Cross Auction
A Rhode Island Red rooster owned by Mullen Commission of Chicago sold at a Red Cross benefit auction for 1168.50. Throughout the day many individuals bid and resold the bird, with each sale contributing to the fund and the total reaching 1163.50.
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Grinnell
Rhode Island
Mullen Commission Company of
Chicago
Red Cross
Five Quakers Summoned to Explain Remarks
Five members of the Quaker Community of Whittier were summoned before federal authorities in Cedar Rapids and asked to explain remarks allegedly made against the government and the army. They admitted inadvertent indiscretion, received a lecture and warning, and were released.
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Cedar Rapids
Whittier
Ten Years for I W W Camp Dodge Organizer
I W W organizer and draft evader Felix Thornton received a ten year federal prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth after a guilty verdict by a general court martial in the Eighty-eighth Division at Camp Dodge. Thornton, arrested near Devil's Lake North Dakota with three other draft evaders, refused to serve when given the chance and challenged the court proceedings. He had registered in Hammond Indiana and ignored a local board notification to report.
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Camp Dodge
Felix Thornton
Fort Leavenworth
Eighty-eighth Division
National Army
Thornton
Devil’s Lake
N. D
W. A. Graham
Graham
Hammond
Ind
County Owes Him Office Rent in Story County
Major Herbert E. Hadley sues Story County to recover 500 claiming the county failed to furnish an office during his four years as county attorney. He rented an office at 125 dollars a year and seeks reimbursement in district court.
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Nevada
Herbert E. Hadley
Board of Supervisors
Story County
District Court
Wapello Faces Financial Strain in County Debts
Ottumwa reports Wapello county floated 81000 in bonds to retire warrants the county treasurer cannot cash, prompting a month of practical bankruptcy. County attorney refused warrants for salaries jurors and court staff unpaid grand jury adjourned early and the county will pay bills by warrant after the lapse.
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Wapello
Ottumwa
Wapello County
Iowan Maj Connolly Sets Two Mile Flight Record
Maj Maurice Connolly of Dubuque and H. W. Blakeley formed a two mile ascent in eleven minutes at Chanute Field. The record marks a notable achievement on American training fields with the aircraft type used by Connolly, a former congressman and current aviation adjutant.
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Dubuque
Maurice Connolly
Iowa
Chanute
H. W. Blakeley
Connolly
Iowan Lieutenant Dies in Fort Worth Plane Crash
Iowan Lieutenant Russell Johnson son of J N Johnson formerly of Ellis township died in a plane crash while piloting as an instructor at an aviation field in Fort Worth Texas He enlisted in the aviation corps at Toronto in June and served with the Royal Aviation corps as a lieutenant assigned to training recruits there.
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Iowa Falls
Russell Johnson
J. N. Johnson
Ellis Township
Fort Worth
Texas
Aviation Corps
Toronto
Royal Aviation Corps
Murphy Called to Washington for Revenue Plan
Murphy a Dubuque collector has been summoned to Washington to inaugurate supervise and execute the treasury department approved internal revenue plan. He returned from a conference with Internal Revenue Commissioner Daniel C. Roper.
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Murphy
Washington
Dubuque
Louis Murphy
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue
Daniel C. Roper
Camp Dodge internment for German spy suspect
Des Moines reports Conrad Ebert a German spy suspect arrested at Camp Dodge will be interned for the war's duration. Assistant U S District Attorney John DeMar has been advised by the United States attorney general.
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Camp Dodge
Waller
Des Moines
Conrad Ebert
United States District Attorney
John DeMar
United States Attorney General
Press Association selects Des Moines for February meeting
The Iowa Press Association voted at Iowa City to meet in Des Moines in February. The association has held its annual meetings in Des Moines since its formation, and the executive committee decided to return to this city.
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Press Association
Des Moines
Vs Moines
Iowa Press Association
Iowa City
Victim of Mysterious Attack In Shenandoah
Harry Stonebarger, a young Shenandoah man, was shot while passing Cherry school with Harry Rossman. A rifle ball lodged in his right lung cannot be removed at Mercy hospital in Iowa City, following the mysterious shooting.
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Shenandoah
Harry Stonebarger
Stonebarger
Harry Rossman
Cherry School
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
Rev Kelly Acquitted of Villiscaux Murders Trial
The Rev Lyn G J Kelly was acquitted of the Villiscaux murders of 1912 by a district court jury on the first ballot after four hours and twenty five minutes deliberation. He plans to stay in Red Oak to recuperate and finish his life story begun during his jail stay.
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Kelly
Red Oak
Lyn G. J. Kelly
Storm Lake Fire Devours Citys Largest Building Blaze
A morning blaze in Storm Lake destroyed the Postoffice and Masonic Temple and damaged the entire business district. High winds fanned flames from the Obanion building, spreading to the lumber yard and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul depot. Losses total about 150000 with many structures and inventories burned, half insured. Firefighters struggled to control the blaze as the fire became the citys most destructive ever.
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Storm Lake
BE. K. Obanion
Masonic Temple
F. i
Faville
Obanion
Storm Lake Lumber Company
Blugosch
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
E. L. Obanion
B. B. Fiscus
George Sattermole
T. H. Chapman
A. L. Whitney
James Deland
F. F. Faville
G. M. Triplett
E. J. Schultz
Steffen Bros
R. Reynolds
J. C. Cleveland
L. S. Blugosch
Park Bros
Masonic Lodge
Mary Scharz
Commercial National Bank
D. G. LaGrange
Thanksgiving Day Tragedy in West Liberty
Mrs Albert Dunlap was shot and killed by her husband while preparing Thanksgiving dinner for their four children. Dunlap then killed himself in the cellar after secretly hiding there since about 9:30 that morning. He had recently driven his wife from home and served a 30 day jail sentence for assault and battery.
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West Liberty
Albert Dunlap
Dunlap
Monument to Martyr Merle Hay in Carroll County
Citizens of Carroll County plan a popular subscription monument honoring Merle Hay the first Iowa soldier killed in France. The stone will bear the names of Carroll County soldiers who died in the war with Germany and be placed in the courthouse square with support from the county defense council.
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Merle Hay
Carroll
Carroll County
Merle
Hay
Iowa
France
Germany
Court House Square
Carroll County Defense Council
Indicted Slackers Face Draft Registration Charges
In Des Moines the federal grand jury returned two indictments against men who failed to register for the selective draft. The suspects are John Jenkins of Valley Junction and John Munco of Davenport, marking the first reports in the drive on slackers.
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Des Moines
United States Federal Court
Federal Grand Jury
John Jenkins
Valley Junction
John Munco
Davenport
O'Brien Reminiscences Of Civil War Indian Fighting
Mrs Emily O Brien of McGregor now in Denver prepares a publication of her reminiscences. She recalls accompanying Col O'Brien during Iowa campaigns on the western plains as he led troops from McGregor West Union and other northern Iowa towns in building the Union Pacific. She traveled across Iowa with him from McGregor to Council Bluffs.
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McGregor
Emily O'Brien
Denver
Colonel O’brien
West
Colonel O'Brien
West Union
Iowa
Plains
Union Paffic
O’brien
Council Bluffs
Burlington Murder Confession Clears Case
Police say Albert McKinney died from a back knife wound when Ars. Oney McKinney's younger son Joe, jailed as a suspect, admitted killing his brother in self defense after an altercation. The mother and Joe had testified at the inquest death was accidental from a fall while carrying a butcher knife from the barn.
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Burlington
Albert McKinney
Ars
Oney McKinney
Joe
Teutons Hurled Back on Italian Front in Fierce Mountain Fighting
Italian Alpines and the 56th division repelled heavy enemy assaults between the Brenta and Piave rivers. Tasson saw Monte Rosa annihilate attackers while Monte Casonet Col DellOrso Monte San Lardlo and Monte Spinoala were cleared with prisoners taken. Franco British infantry accompanied by artillery arrived within sound of battle after an eight day march.
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Rome
Brenta
Piave
Tasson
Monte Rosa
Monte Pertica
Alpini
Monte Casonet
Col Dell'Orso
Monte San Lardlo
Monte Spinoala
Monte Montenera
Italy
Women Win Strike Freed Washington Hunger Strikers
Twenty two hunger striking women militants including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were released from the District of Columbia jail after protesting picketing at the White House. A triumphant procession of taxi cabs carried the group to Woman's Party headquarters as officials declared they had endured enough.
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Washington
Woman's Party
District of Columbia
White House
Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
Captain of Raider Jailed in Slave Act Violation
Captain Max V. Thierichens, former commander of the German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, was sentenced to 14 months in prison in Philadelphia for violating the Mann White Slave Act.
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Philadelphia
Max V. Thierichens
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Yaquis Fire on Train Injures Fifteen Near Lynch
In Nogales Arizona on December 1 a Yaqui raid wounded fifteen people including four passengers and eleven federal soldiers when gunfire hit a Southern Pacific De Mexico train near Lynch south of Guaymas.
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Nogales
Ariz
Southern Pacific de Mexico
Lynch
Guaymas
Ex-Senator Taggart II Heads to Fren Lick After Mayo Clinic Visit
Rochester Minnesota reports former United States senator Thomas Taggart left Mayo Clinic after an examination. He has been treated for stomach trouble.
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Thomas Taggart II
Rochester
Minn
Thomas Taccart
United States
Indiana
Fren Lick
Mayo Clinic
Taggart
Widow of J. C. Ives Dies in Woodstock Vermont
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Iives widow of C. J. Iives first president of the old B. C. R. & N. railroad now Rock Island is dead at her Woodstock Vermont home dispatches report Cedar Rapids Indiana November 20
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J. C. Ives
Cedar Rapids
Elizabeth C. Iives
C. J. Iives
B.C. R. & N. Railroad
Rock Island
Woodstock
Bomb explosion kills ten in Milwaukee central station
Milwaukee investigators doubt the blast was random. They consider Chicago experts as possible manufacturers and offer rewards for the culprits. Italians detained while citizens donate to families of fallen officers and a woman victim.
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Milwaukee
Central
Chicago
One Eastern Rail System Created for War Freight
Washington announces a single Eastern rail system uniting New York Central Pennsy B and C Erie and others under a war committee of vice presidents. The move pools facilities to maximize freight movement and directs coal supply from nearby mines. Embargo on luxuries after Christmas and urged cuts in leisure travel.
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Washington
Chicago
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Erie
War Board
National Fuel Administration
San Diego Wet Ordinance Defeated in Referendum
San Diego California voters rejected the dry ordinance by a narrow margin with unofficial tallies showing wets 10 682 and drys 10 885. The measure was described as the most drastic of its kind submitted to California voters.
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San Diego
Cal
California
Nelson Indicted in Wisconsin Conspiracy Case
Congressman J M Nelson and his son were indicted by a federal grand jury in Madison Wisconsin on a conspiracy charge connected to army registration and related actions. The indictment outlines alleged involvement in schemes linked to national military registration efforts.
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J. M. Nelson
Madison, Wis
Dec
Cadeacean
John M. Nelson
Eros
National Army
Riselene
Buffalo dismisses third-time White House picket teacher
Miss Margaret M. Wotheringham, a Buffalo domestic science teacher, has been dismissed by the school board after her third arrest for picketing at the White House in Washington.
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White House
Buffalo
N. Y
Margaret M. Wotheringham
Washington
German Patent Licenses Issued for Blood Poison Remedy
Washington November 20. First licenses for the use of German patents were issued to three chemical manufacturers in New York and Philadelphia for olive production of salvatson specific for a blood poison.
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Washington
New York
Philadelphia
New Rules Extend Police Reach in Draft Evasion
Washington reports new regulations by Provost Marshal General Crowder expand police, postal, and Justice Department efforts to locate and arrest draft evaders. Guardsmen and local boards coordinate from 5,000 points to track questionnaire nonreturns, failed exams, or status changes with $50 rewards for deserter delivery.
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Washington
Srowder
War Department
General Crowder
Department of Justice
Crowder
United States
Federal Department of Justice
National Army
Kaiser Would Make Peace in Berlin Talks
Count George F. von Hertling announced to the Reichstag that Germany is ready for peace negotiations as soon as Russia sends representatives with full powers to Berlin. He expressed hope that talks will quickly shape into peace. In Petrograd the Bolshevik government was notified that a complete cessation of hostilities is in sight through acquiescence of German front commanders to armistice talks.
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Berlin
George F. von Hertling
Reichstag
Petrograd
Krylenko
Fifth Army
Windsor Park Bank Robbed by Four Automobile Bandits
Four automobile bandits held up the Windsor Park State Bank cashier at noon on East Seventy Fifth Street and South Shore Avenue and escaped with $2,000. They fled across the Indiana line after the robbery.
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Chicago
Windsor Park
Jail Cleared of Pickets in Washington
Militants of the woman’s party who stayed in jail after the release of twenty-two on Tuesday were freed on Wednesday. The action fully empties the jail and workhouse of women.
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Washington
Woman's Party
Germany Allows Harden to Reprint Die Zukunft Newspaper
Amsterdam reports Maximilian Harden may republish Die Zukunft and resume his lectures, after a month of prohibition. Harden’s permission comes as authorities lift prior restrictions.
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Germany
Harden
Amsterdam
Maximilian Harden
Die Zukunft
Tageblatt
Herr Harden
Robbers Loot Higbee Store Vault in Cleveland Heist
In Cleveland on November 23 three Higbee company night watchmen were bound and gagged as four safeblowers locked them in the vault. The bandits escaped with 20020 dollars in cash and merchandise valued at 10000.
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Cleveland
Higbee Company
Italians Held as Conspirators Aiding Germany
More than 100 Italians, mainly miners and shipyard workers, were arrested in Seattle and other Northwest cities by federal agents. The Circolo Studi Sociali allegedly planned to foment rebellion in Italy to overthrow King Victor Emmanuel and aid Germany during World War I. Pamphlets and documents titled Throw Down Your Arms were seized.
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Seatle
Wash
Circolo Studi Sociali
Seattle
Portland
Spokane
Tacoma
H. W. White
Germany
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Society
German Advisers Reported In Petrograd Lenine Regime
London reports break in communications within Russia with Petrograd unreachable from the north while German staff officers are said to assist Lenine in Petrograd. Washington confirms the notice and signals possible U S and allied actions against the Bolshevik government as Germany's ally.
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London
Russia
Petrograd
Odessa
Persia
Nikolai Lenine
Washington
Lenine
United States
Germany
U-Boat Crew Captured After Depth Bomb Sinks Sub
Forty German sailors were captured by U S destroyers after a U boat surfaced and surrendered. One German drowned and another died of wounds when valves were opened during surrender, sinking the submarine as a destroyer attempted to tow it to port. Admiral Sims withheld the destroyer’s name in the navy report. The incident occurred in the war zone several days ago.
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Washington
Teutons
Sims
Navy Department
Two U S Soldiers Die in German Artillery Battle
Washington reports two American soldiers killed and five severely wounded in an artillery clash with German forces on November 20. The fallen were Private Harry L. Miller of field artillery and Private Charles Rissmiller, also in field artillery.
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Pershing
Washington
Harry L. Miller
Field Artillery
L. Copeland
Center Street
Baker
Ore
Charles Rissmiller
Clara Rissmiller
Moss Street
Reading
U S Hospital Chief Dies in Paris
Paris reports the sudden death of Dr. Ami Jacques chief surgeon at the American hospital at Neuilly on Sunday night.
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Paris
Ami Jacques
Neuilly
Gotham Abolishes Gary School Plan
New York officials announce the Gary school system will be abolished in public schools on January 1. Mayor elect Hylan and his new administrative officers will seek a substitute system.
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Gotham
New York
Hylan
Red Cross Relief Train Reaches Jassy Roumania
The American Red Cross relief train arrived at Jassy Roumania on November 18 with 55 cars carrying hospital supplies and foodstuffs from the United States.
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Roumania
Petrograd
American Red Cross
Jassy
United States
Paper Price Set at Three Cents for Newsprint
New York November 28 news reports that paper manufacturers will sell newsprint to publishers at three cents per pound until April 1. After that date prices will be fixed by the federal trade commission.
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New York
Federal Trade Commission
Turn Out 900 New Officers From Port Myer Camp
Washington November 28. Military graduation exercises released 900 trained men for army service from the Port Myer reserve officers training camp. The graduates prepare to join active units across the country.
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Washington
Port Myer
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U-Boat Service
Walasek
Chicago Herald
Band of Anarchists
Newcraft Rules
Kaiser
Chancellor
Ohio
U. S
Emmanuel
U. S. Hospital
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