Capt McQueen speaks on war realities at Monticello
Captain Norman McQueen addressed a full Monticello opera house audience for the Red Cross fundraiser. He described trench life with diagrams, wavering nerves, and the tactics of bombardment while praising soldiers’ stoicism and trench humor amid grim experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman McQueen
Monticello
Red Cross
Opera House
McQueen
MacQueen
No Man’s Land
Capt. McQueen
J. H. Barr
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. P. Walton
C. BE. Cushman
Tax preparation prompts reveal detailed income questions
A pre reported checklist asks for income from salaries, rents, interest and dividends, business profits, life insurance, partnerships, and other items. It notes tax thresholds: married with over 2000 dollars and minor exemptions, unmarried over 1000 dollars. Local papers question rail labor changes and wartime figures with satirical asides.
Washington officers mock bombproof war jobs demand
Samuel McGowan, rear admiral and paymaster general, laments Washington crowds seeking cushy wartime billets. He quips the town is overrun with men of flat feet and great executive ability. Other papers note German calls for a rootless peace and St. Paul reports Villa has changed his name.
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Collier’s Weekly
Samuel McGowan
Navy
Washington
St. Paul
Francisco Villa
Villa
Prices at Montgomery sale exceed expected totals
Receipts at W. J. Montgomery sale last Wednesday totaled $6,000. Prices included horses at $187 and steers at $83 with day’s earnings around $19.75. Some older machinery nearly doubled its original price.
Idea of war aims and preparedness in wartime talk
A Sioux City Journal snippet quotes a speaker debating whether victory would end the need for extensive military preparedness. The remark suggests optimism about crushing Prussianism while warning against future complacency, noting lessons from the current conflict.
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Sioux City Journal
Faded Farmer Arguer Urges Back to Land by Candidates
The Minneapolis Journal notes that old fashioned candidates raised on farms could do national service by returning to the land for years. Friars Epistle questions sugar scarcity and domestic sweetness. Myes tested and glasses fitted. Dr i G Stuhler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis Journal
Myes
Dr i G Stuhler
FOR SALE AND WANTED ITEMS FROM IOWA ADS
Classified notices listing sale of seasoned and green hardwood posts in Center Junction, Holstein heifers from Monticello, wood to saw with gasoline engine, salesmen wanted for Harvey Oil Co. in Cleveland, rent offer for Welch place farm in Union township, cream hauler position at Langworthy Co operative Creamery, and an annual insurance meeting for Farmers Mutual Insurance Association Castle Grove to be held January 12 at 1 30 p m with secretary S M Hosford.
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Langworthy
Farmers Mutual Insurance Association
Castle Grove
Castle Grove Township
S. M. Hosford
State and Count Corporation
Plen Ny
Gapis
Toane
Ns Saathe Mills
Css Ois Winlneye A
Fairview Tome Eee Simoe
Iartelle
Anamosa Ouside
Anamosa City
Greenfield
Babe Murtelle
Murtelle Town
Ater
Laurel Hill
Greenfield Center
Bunker Hill
West Corner
White Oak
Hazel Hill
Lovell
Monticello
Aedecoekae
Wayne
Ayne
Scotch Grove
Midland
Black Oak
Jackson
Nat Madison
Antioch
Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Valley
Brushwood
Newport
Fairview
Rome
Olin
Spea Ae
Olin Town
Richland Lesser
West Cascade Toway
Richland
Pine Grove
Center Junction
Madison
Hatehe Wees
Onslow Town
Oak Grove
Madison Center
Madison Village
Wyoming
Maple Grove
Hale
Dayton
Washington
Vlay
Clay Mills
South Temple Hill
White Oak Grove
Sultonaan Miners Valley
Ieflauee Hill
South Prairie
Oxford
Oxford Junction Town
Qayton
Baldwin
Oxford Fai
Kaiser's Stalwart Sons Stand Untouched in War
A terse wartime reflection notes the Kaiser defending his position with six sons still unwounded, well fed, and content, asking what other German father can claim such a feat amid the conflict.
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Sioux Falls
Russia in Danger Without Bolsheviki Says Trotzky
M Trotzky argues that without Bolshevik leadership Russia would face universalarchy while the Bolsheviki focus on preserving order. he questions who would defend Russia from the Prussians if chaos looms. The Chicago Herald adds that liberty loan costs money to win a war and costs more to lose it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
M. Trotzky
Russia
Chicago Herald
Tax Levies in Jones County for the Year 1917
County Auditor E. J. Hines certifies the attached abstract of the 1917 tax levies across Jones County districts. The document lists the levy amounts for each taxing district and confirms the totals as a true and correct record.
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Jones County
E. J. Hines
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Aberdeen News
Milwaukee Sentinel
Lenine and
Trotzky
Kaiser
Omaha
They
Hyes
L. G. Stuhler
G. Thompson
Iowa
Suter
Godfrey Bader
Will
John Bader
Harvey Oil Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Union Township
Welch Place
H. M. Carpenter
Monticello State Bank
J. W. Doxsee
Chas. A. Doxsee
Doxsee
Doxsee Attorneys AT Law
Lowell Block
Monticello Town
District Court
Horace M. Downer
Andes
A. D
Nellie M. Wales
Executrix
Theodore Behrends
Bernhard Andreas Iwiben Behrends
Inher
Anamosa
G. A. Fisher
Jones Co
R. D. Cooley, Auctioneer
M. W. Herrick
E.E. Reed
Herrick & Reed Attorneys At Law
M. Remley
James Remley
Remley & Remley Attorney
Allamosa
Main Street
Kgarvey
Beery’s Store
Hans
J. E. Bateman
Duroc Jersey
Rhode Island
Red Roosters
A. P. Donahue
Model View Farm 1
Miles East
Hopkinton
Telaware Co
Horse Hospital
George Albery
Cedar Street
First Street
Ea Oy
A.P. Lambert
Trust & Savings Bank
F.B. Collins, Piano Tuner
Teed, Viola
C. N. Patrick Optometrist
Ricklefs & McNeill Hardware
Monticello Lowa
John G. Schoon
J. E. Pond
Jones National School of Auctioneering
F.l.story
Mayr
W. W. Stickford
MNO
Smith Rocer
Wolf
Dr. Hand
L. H. Lang Liddy & Ricklefs
W. A. Storm
Hubbard and Storm
L. A. Iverson
Havoline
Mobile Auto
Tam
Menry H. Schoon
Gordon
P. Matthiessen
Gordon F. G. Mattiessen
Col. L. P. Wadbick
C.H Schipman
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