Lightless Nights Cut Off Electric Signs and Lights
Des Moines reports a federal fuel order requiring turning off all electric advertising signs, theater signs, and interior display lights on Thursday and Sunday nights. Stores closed for business must limit interior lighting to safety needs, with municipal cluster lights reduced accordingly to enforce the directive.
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Des Moines
Charles Webster
Iowa
The
Fuel Administration
United States Fuel Administration
To Fuel Administration
Start Thrift Stamp Campaign in Des Moines
Homer A. Miller Iowa state director urges rapid sale of government war saving stamps. He explains two billion subscription implies one dollar every thirty seconds since Christ. Posters arrive and will be distributed immediately featuring a child and slogan Save your child from autocracy and poverty. A Joan of Arc poster for women buyers is expected next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Homer A. Miller
Iowa
Christ
Miller
Joan of Arc
Coal Dealers Refuse Delivery Across Des Moines Market
Des Moines coal dealers and mine operators refused to sell Iowa coal at any price, rejecting orders at 5.15 dollars per ton set by Charles Webster. Mayor John MacVicar and the local fuel committee chairman telegrammed Dr. H A Garfield, the federal fuel administrator, to report the dealers stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles Webster
John MacVicar
H. A. Garfield
Hun Sailor at Denison Eludes Authorities Then Captured
Fred Orth a 48 year old former fireman of the German ship Vaterland was sought by federal authorities and captured at Sioux City. He was brought to Council Bluffs and turned over to Deputy U S Marshal Floyd Hendricks. Orth came to America with the Vaterland on August 11 1914 and stayed with the ship until June 1915. He has been working as a section hand near Denison.
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Council Bluffs
Fred Orth
Vaterland
Sioux City
United States
Floyd Hendricks
Ort
America
Denison
Government Loses 60000 in Fire at Fairport Lab
The United States government sustained a 60000 fire loss in the destruction by fire of the main laboratory at the United States biological station located at Fairport recently. The large structure completed three years ago is a mass of embers. Muscatine fire department trucks rushed eight miles through muddy roads after the call. A lack of water pressure at the station prevented effective firefighting.
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Muscatine
United States
Biolog Hcal
Fairport
Muscatine Fire Department
Iowa Land Value Forecast by State Agriculture Chief
Charles Cameron of Alta, longtime president of the Iowa state board of agriculture, predicts Iowa land will be worth 200 to 500 dollars per acre within ten years. He notes Iowa's preeminent agricultural position as the world seeks more food for democracy.
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Des Moines
Charles &. Cameron
Alta
Iowa State Board of Agriculture
Iowa
Farmer Ab Abraham Moore Indicted Over Draft Evasion
Van Meter farmer Abraham Moore faces federal charges after a grand jury indictment accusing him of opposing the draft and attempting to influence young men to evade the selective service. The case centers on alleged opposition to the Red Cross and draft resistance efforts.
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Farmer
Des Moines
Red Cross
Abraham Moore
van Meter Farmer
Dedication of Service Flag at local church
A service flag with forty nine stars was dedicated by the Methodist Episcopal church here. Families of the men represented placed the stars on the flag marking the community’s tribute to their service members.
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Perry
Methodist Episcopal Church
German plot to burn food stores uncovered
Government agents report a nationwide I W W and German plot to set fire to government storehouses and private food warehouses including large groceries. Brig Gen R N Getty orders commanders to harden precautions to prevent any such attacks.
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Camp Dodge
Des Moines
R. N. Getty
Council of National Defense
Getty
Soldier’s Property Protected in Des Moines
City solicitor Guy Miller holds that property of a soldier cannot be sold to satisfy a special assessment while the owner serves in the army or navy. He says the city cannot pay the assessment itself but must not order the sale, and that both soldier and private debts are covered by the moratorium law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Guy Miller
Council
E. Jervie
Ciy
Miller
Ames-Action Dairy Meeting Sets Goals on Slaughter Ban
To study dairy conditions Ames Action will push to stop the slaughter of dairy cows and raise dairy output at a meeting of the Iowa State Dairy Association in Ames January 29 during the short course. Other dairy industry problems will be considered. Improved feeding methods lower production costs and profitable cows will be discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa State Dairy Association
Two Iowa Soldiers Dead in Campaign Hospital
Walter Wandling of Troop A First Iowa Cavalry died at Camp Cody New Mexico after efforts to delay death until his parents Mr and Mrs C A Wandling of Marengo could reach him. His body was sent to Albia. Mrs C W Cessna mother of How ard C Cessna of Company A 129th engineers died in the same hospital of pneumonia.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Walter Wandling
Troop A
First
Iowa Cavalry
Camp Cody
New Mexico
C. A. Wandling
Marengo
C. W. Cessna
Howard C. Cessna
Company A
One Hundred Ninth Engineers
Albia
Fearing Insanity, Davenport Man Ends His Life
Carl H L Schlapp 67 took a revolver to his room in a Davenport hotel, placing the weapon in his mouth and firing. The bullet entered his brain and killed him instantly. He left a note to his two sisters in Davenport requesting cremation and explaining his motive.
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Davenport
Carl H. L. Schlapp
Red Cross Auction Nets 3552 At Leon
A Red Cross sale in Leon raised 3552 in total proceeds. Promoters kept the event going late by hiring the electric light company to wire the auction tent for night bidding. The bright lighting justified the installation for future sales.
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Red Cross
Leon
Electric
No Needy Ones In Newton Report
Six thousand people with no one in need of charity in Newton. The Commercial association secretary says a fund for immediate cash needs remains intact and a large clothing supply is on hand but no one to claim it.
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Newton
The
Commercial Association
Harvey Lee Returns to Prison After Sacramento Escape
Harvey Lee is back in the state prison at Ft. Madison after being returned from Sacramento California by Guard Phelan. He announced plans to settle down and seek parole. The return occurred recently following the escape.
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Harvey Lee
Ft. Madison
Sacramento
Cal
Phelan
Blodgett Indicted Over Draft Literature
Des Moines report states D. T. Blodgett was indicted by a federal grand jury on violating the espionage act for sending literature through the mails that opposed and condemned the draft. The case centers on alleged anti draft messaging distributed via mail.
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Blodgett
Des Moines
D. T. Blodgett
Federal Grand Jury
Congress
Stock Raisers Meet in Ames at Animal Production Conference
Agricultural scientists from leading state universities and colleges gathered in Ames for the annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Production on the Iowa State college campus. Speakers came from California Wisconsin Illinois Iowa State Cornell Kansas State Purdue and others to present talks and papers.
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Ames
Couple wed using two year old license in Council Bluffs
E Roy Levitt and Miss Jessie Millard of Council Bluffs married at the First Christian church parsonage using a license issued exactly two years earlier. Parental objections had stopped the union then. The groom has now reached adulthood and the bride is one year younger.
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Council Bluffs
E. Roy Levitt
Jessie Millard
First Christian Church
Delay Draft Call Sets Special Trades Likely to Be Called
Des Moines report notes no calls for the third draft contingent under old rules. New classifications will apply. only February 15 appears as a cutoff for non special trades. Section 149 guides induction of skilled workers, with boards to report men in the specialized class to meet army needs.
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Des Moines
Logan
General Crowder
Crowder
Mob Attacks Pro Germans in Audubon Over War Stances
A mob of about 500 attacked Rev. W A Starck and farmer Fred Tenneykeit for alleged unpatriotic remarks and war relief stance. Tenneykeit, accused of opposing Liberty bonds, faced a choice to buy bonds or leave. He reduced his pledged amount after entering a bank and was saved from hanging by sheriff intervention and Starck forced to flee the county with three days to depart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defense Council
R. C. Spencer
Advocate
Liberty
First National Bank
Tenneykeit
Wilson
Tennegkeit
W. A. Starck
Cake Sale for Red Cross Nets $52.50 in North Liberty
In North Liberty Iowa a Red Cross fundraiser yielded over $500 with a cake selling for 52.50 and a bushel of seed corn contributing to the total.
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Red Cross
Iowa City
North Liberty
Des Moines Coal Dealers Ordered Price Cap and Refunds
Federal fuel administrator Charles Webster informs Des Moines coal dealers they must not charge more than 6.15 per ton for Iowa lump coal with no rebates allowed. He demands immediate honoring of receipts and reimbursement to consumers who paid 5.50 per ton.
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Des Moines
Charles Webster
Iowa
Forced to Kiss the Flag in Jesup Incident
An angry crowd forced Thomas Stevenson, 52, from a local cafe and compelled him to kiss the U S flag three times after alleged sedition and pro German remarks. They demanded his discharge from William Campbell's grocery and he complied under threat of boycott.
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Jesup
Thomas Stevenson
United States
Stevenson
William Campbell
Campbell
Bank president shoots cashier in Peoria duel over presidency
Berne M. Mead cashier of the State Trust and Savings Bank of Peoria is slain by Edward A. Strause the bank president in a noon Sunday revolver duel. The motive cited is business jealousy over the upcoming bank presidency. Mead died after being shot in the forehead as Strause fired twice. Strause, who was booked on no charge, provided no statement. Detective Clifford found Mead alive briefly before his death.
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Peoria
Ill
Berne M. Mead
State Trust and Savings Bank of
Edward A. Strause
Mead
Strause
Joseph Weil
Clifford
Keet Baby Poisoning Confession Links 12 Suspects
Claude G. Piersol confess es to kidnapping Baby Lloyd Keet and claims the infant was killed by a drug from the Mysterious Riley to keep it quiet. The signed confession implicates 12 others, including those now under arrest. Maxie Adams, 17, was rearrested after Piersol’s confession. other warrants issued.
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Springfield
Claude G. Piersol
Lloyd Keet
Mackey
Riley
Maxie Adams
GC. A. Clement
Piersol
Pro-War Riots in Argentina in Buenos Aires
In Buenos Aires on December 24 crowds demanded severing ties with Germany after von Luxburg telegrams were published. Mounted patrols dispersed the mob after clashes in Calle Florida while political circles anticipate congressional demand for government explanations.
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Buenos Aires
Count von Luxburg
Berlin
Germany
Republic
Calle Florida
Congress
von Luxburg
De Saulles Patriarch Dies After Tragic Family Shooting
Bethlehem Pa December 27 May Arthur Brice De Saulles dies at seventy eight. Death linked to the earlier killing of his son John L De Saulles by former wife Blanca De Saulles.
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Bethlehem
Arthur Brice de Saulles
John L
Blanca de Saulles
Fifty six cadets recommended for commissions at Taliferro Field
Fort Worth Texas December 27 fifty six cadets who trained at Taliferro Field have been recommended for commissions as first lieutenants in the aviation section of the reserve corps.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Taliferro Field
Reserve Corps
Denial of Germany Peace Offer Reported
The Cologne Gazette denies in its semiofficial capacity that Germany will repeat a peace offer, as carried by foreign press dispatches received in Amsterdam on December 26.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Cologne Gazette
National Committee to Meet in St Louis Feb 12
Washington dispatch says Republican national committee chairman Willcox has called a meeting of the committee to be held in St Louis on February 12.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Chaiman Willcox
St. Louis
World wide plot alleged as guns found on Shilka
Federal officials disclosed evidence linking the arms seizure on the Russian freighter Shilka to a broader plan by American I W W members Irish agitators and Bolsheviks in allied nations. The cargo may have funded revolutionary activity aimed at overthrowing social order. Further actions against agitators are expected if links to Bolshevik leaders are confirmed.
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Washington
Germany
Pacific
Shilka
United States
Russia
America
Hoover Issues Statement on Sugar Shortage Causes
Food Administrator Hoover released a White House public statement explaining the sugar shortage. He blames heavy Western Hemisphere to Europe movements and warns prices could reach 25 to 80 cents a pound without price fixing, noting potential profiteering of over 200 million dollars. He refutes charges of mismanagement and outlines efforts to curb prices while supplying the Allies. The report traces prewar sugar flows and European demand, attributing the shortage to Allies consuming more than 300,000 tons previously and 1,400,000 tons this year.
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Washington
Hover
Senate
White House
Europe
Claus A. Spreckels
Federal Refining Company
Alles
Germany
Hemisphere
Herbert ©. Hoovi
United States
Senator Francis G Newlands Dies in Washington
Senator Francis Griffith Newlands of Nevada died of heart failure at his Washington apartments after a brief illness. Stricken while at work in the senate office building he had been frail while preparing wartime transportation investigations. A Democrat and longtime authority on railroad and waterway legislation he was born in Natchez Mississippi in 1848.
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Washington
Francis Griffith Newlands
Nevada
Senate
Newlands
Congress
Natchez, Miss
Knights of Pythias Leader Blackwell Dies in Kentucky
Wenderson Ky Dec 28 William W Blackwell longtime supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and noted authority on the order's fairs died here after suffering a stroke of paralysis.
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Knights of Pythias
Wenderson
Blackwell
The
Son of T. R. Roosevelt Nominated for Captain
Washington December 28 amid Pershing recommendations 47 officers were named for promotion. Archibald B Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt, is proposed for a captaincy in the Infantry.
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T. R
Washington
General Pershing
Archibald B. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Infantey
Westinghouse Stops Rifles for Russia Under British Order
New York December 26 reports the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company has been ordered to discontinue rifle production for Russia by the British government which had supervision over the contract.
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U. S
Russ
New York
Russia
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Costa Rica Seizes German Paper in Costa Rica
San Jose reports Nueva Era, the last German paper in the country, seized by the government for articles against President Wilson and British Prime Minister Lloyd George.
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Costa Rica
San Jose
Costa En
Nueva Era
Costa Idea
Wilson
Lloyd George
Cossacks Repel Bolsheviki as Rostov Falls to Cossacks
The Ukrainian rada aligns with General Kaledines amid a 48 hour Bolshevik ultimatum. Rostov-on-Don is captured after six days of combat. red guards suffer 800 killed and 1000 wounded. Bolshevik chiefs flee as Kolkvida is destroyed.
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London
Rada
Ukraine
Kaledines
Russia
Odessa
Rostov-on-Don
Petrograd
Red Guards
Kolkvida
Kolchida
Packers Control U S Food Trust, Heney Says
Francis J. Heney of the FTC warns the packing industry forms a mammoth food trust with nationwide reach. He cites Armour Swift Morris leading stockyards control and says the trust sets prices across meats poultry eggs lard by products leather grain and canned goods including fruits and vegetables.
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Washington
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Mammoth Food Trust
Heney
United States
Chicago
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Morris & Co
Wilson Company
Sulzberger
Cudahy
First Christmas Cargo of Dates Arrives at Atlantic Port
A Swedish steamer delivering Arab dates arrived at the Atlantic port on December 5 amid war conditions in the Mediterranean. This marks the first holiday shipment of the season from Mesopotamia reaching the port.
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Mesopotamia
Cape of Good Hope
Mediterranean
Fire destroys four boardwalk buildings in Long Beach
A blaze at Long Beach New York on December 28 leveled four structures along the boardwalk and damaged the bathing beach area. The fire wrecked a section of the boardwalk and caused about $200000 in losses.
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Long Beach
Long Bech
N. Y
6000 Phone Operators Get Raise in New England
Boston December 28 wage advance of about 10 percent granted to 5000 telephone and telegraph operators outside the Boston district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Dangerous German Spy Franz Schulenberg Captured
Federal authorities arrested Franz Schulenberg on a presidential warrant in San Francisco. He is described as one of the cleverest and most dangerous German spies operating on the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
Federal of
Addis
Franz Schulenberg
Pacific Coast
Alleged Deserter Shot Dead at Fort Wayne
Alphonse St. Pierre twenty five was shot and killed while attempting to escape from Fort Wayne in Detroit he had been taken into custody a week earlier on a desertion charge.
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Detroit
Mich
Alphonse St. Pierre
Fort Wayne
St. Pierre
Tuscarora Lost After Storm With All Hands Declared Believed Missing
The American steamship Tuscarora and its 35 crew members are believed lost at sea north of Cape Breton after a two week storm. A lifeboat was recovered on St Paul’s island and wreckage suggests the steamer struck cliffs. 27 crew initially signed on in New York and Montreal.
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New York
Chicago
United States Shipping Board
Atlantic Service
Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
United States Shipping Commissioner
Montreal
Sweden
Denmark
Great Britain
H. M. Crowell
Cape Cod
Scott Nickerson
Jersey City
Harrington Sterling
Crisfield
Charles S. Dickey
Brooklyn
Otto H. Bean
Camden
J. T. Taylor
William H.dewall
Binghamton
N.Y
Carl Johnson
Messman
New Rochelle
N. Y
A. F. Leighton
Massachusetts
A. Constantine
M.o’donnell
Detroit
Louis N. Jiminez
Porto Rico
St. Paul Island
Cape North
Mide
Halifax
N. S
St. Paul's Island
Food reserves cover five months of grain and flour
Washington reports a full five months supply of flour and wheat despite active foreign buying. If farming marketing stopped, the nation could subsist five months on existing stocks. Flour exports to allies have risen by 50 percent over last year, according to the Grain Corporation to Hoover.
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Washington
Hoover
The
Grain Corporation
British Shipping Losses Increase as Mines Sunk
The admiralty report shows a material decrease in losses with 12 British ships of 1,600 tons or more sunk last week by mine or submarine, plus one under that tonnage and one fishing vessel. The figures reflect ongoing wartime dangers to merchant seafaring near the date.
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London
Admiralty
Half Million Work Days Lost in Shipbuilding Strikes
R B Stevens told the Senate investigating committee that more than 500000 working days were lost to the government shipbuilding program due to strikes and lockouts in a solid month, representing about 20000 workers’ labor.
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Washington
R. B. Stevens
Shipping Board
Senate
Fugitive Finley Surrenders in Peoria
William Finley surrendered to Peoria police saying he had escaped from Davenport Iowa jail. He had fled after an incursion, and his surrender ends a Davenport jail escape case with Finley in custody.
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Iowa
Peoria
William Finley
Davenport
Bulgaria balks at terms at Geneva peace talks
A Geneva telegram reports Bulgaria balked at the Bolshevik peace terms, objecting in particular to the clause forbidding annexation of occupied territory. The message came via the German frontier.
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Bulgaria
Geneva
General Elise to Keep Post Chief of Staff
Gen Tasker A Bliss will stay on active service as army chief of staff beyond retirement age next Monday December 31 Secretary Baker announced indicating continued leadership in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elise
Washington
Tasker A. Bliss
Army
Baker
Two Sheep Herders Slain in Pueblo District
Albert A. Esparraza and Juan Padis were found shot to death on a large ranch near Pueblo Colorado. A band of sheep thieves had been active in the district for some time.
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Pueblo
Colo
Albert A. Esparraza
Juan Padis
Four Men Killed In Feud in Breeden West Virginia
In a feud in Breeden West Virginia Charles Dingess shot and killed W H Marcum and his two sons inside the Marcum home. Mrs Marcum then killed Dingess after she herself was wounded in the exchange.
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Breeden
W. Va
Charles Dingess
W. H. Marcum
Marcum
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U. S. Food
Tuscarora
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