Iowa National Guard Mobilized for Deming Deployment
Iowa National Guard units are mobilized at home stations as 2000 plus troops in federal service continue guard duties. Most will entrain for Deming New Mexico around August 1 with special trains and coaches. The entire Iowa force joins federal service August 6 and Iowa will cover rations and related costs.
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Des Moines
Iowa National Guard
Hawkeye
New Mexico
Iowa
Logan
Iowa Woman Visits Denmark Reports War Suffering
Mrs. Anna Backoff of Council Bluffs describes Denmark's wartime misery as second only to Germany. She spent six months abroad and notes Denmark's hardships with limited civilian commerce and no active Danish military engagement.
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Iowa
Denmark
Council Bluffs
Germany
Anna Backoff
Backef
Tussock Moths Ravage Dubuque Trees
Tussock moths swarm Dubuque causing heavy damage to fruit and shade trees. Many trees lose leaves and fruit, though in parts of the residential district treated trees remain healthy. Bushes and yard plants also suffer extensive damage from the pests.
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Dubuque
Carried 150 Feet By Train Near New Hampton
D L Mowbrey a Sibley grain buyer was struck while crossing Milwaukee tracks near New Hampton in his automobile. The car was absorbed by the train and carried about 150 feet. He escaped with a bruised wrist and a wrenched leg as the vehicle was demolished except for the body.
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New Hampton
D. L. Mowbrey
Sibley Grain
Millwaukee
Red Cross Leader Resigns in Des Moines
Des Moines report states J B Weaver resigns as state director of the Red Cross chapters after May 1 to focus on private business. He recommends Dr A E Kepford of the late board of control as successor once approved.
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Red Cross
Des Moines
J. B. Weaver
The
A. E. Kepford
Board of Control
Weaver
Women Swim Across Storm Lake First Time
Three women swam across Storm Lake from Chautauqua park to Mudge Bay setting a historical milestone. Anne Howard of Minneapolis completed the swim in two and a half hours Florence Guitar of Ottumwa did it in one hour forty five minutes and Arlene White finished in two hours.
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Storm Lake
Chautauqua Park
Mudge’s Bay
Anne Howard
Minneapolis
Florence Guitar
Ottumwa
Arlene White
Aged Woman Aids Soldiers at Pocahontas
Mrs. Nancy M. Beals, 83, is blind yet spends every day and often nights knitting washcloths for soldiers. She crochets a decorative edge and signs each cloth with her name and a verse of scripture.
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Pocahontas
Nancy M. Beals
Attempt to Wreck Train at Ridley Delays Fast Passenger
An open switch with the switchlight out caused the derailment of the fast passenger train No. 8 at Ridley near North M’Gregor. The engine tipped, baggage car derailed, coaches and Pullmans remained on the main track. Investigators deem it a deliberate attempt to wreck the train. investigators from railroad and state offices probe. No injuries reported.
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North
M’gregor
Ridley
Here
Iowa Municipalities League to Meet in Iowa City
The 1917 Iowa State League of Municipalities session will be held in Iowa City in early September. It will be the first time the city hosts the league and preparations are underway for a successful program and warm Iowa City hospitality. A league representative will confer with the city council on the program.
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Iowa Municipalities League
Iowa City
Iowa State League of Municipalities
Iowa
Northern Brigade
Northern Iowa Brigade
Thomas R. Stevens
Adjutant General's Office
States
Robert Bell
Dow City
Salandes Bell
Andrew $. Bonner
Des Moines
Jacob Bossert
Webster City
James W. Bradshaw
Decatur
Neb
Jeremiah Crowley
Cal
Elis Washburn
Independence
James Young
Terry
Mont
James A. Sawyers
Sioux City
Lewis H. Smith
Algona
Guard Equipment On Way To Des Moines Recruits
Iowa's 3600 national guard recruits will receive camp gear soon with cots blankets and bedsacks to be sent after War Department approval. Mess gear for 3600 men already en route includes eating utensils. Shoes and service hats have arrived and will be issued promptly.
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War Department
Kerensky rushes to Petrograd after cabinet resignations
War Minister Kerensky returns to Petrograd after four cabinet ministers resign. A special session is convened to avert crisis as protests erupt on Nevsky Prospekt with casualties from stray gunfire. Bolshevik organized demonstrations follow Ukraine policy disputes within the Cadet ministries.
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Petrograd
Kerensky
Russia
the Russky Volya
A. L. Shingaroff
Manuiloff
Prince Shakovsky
MM Ste
Social-Democratic Party
Ukraine
Poland
Telegraphy Included In Des Moines School Program
Des Moines schools will teach Morse and wireless telegraphy this summer and fall. Principal Maurice Ricker of West High reported after visiting Chicago to study the course. The board authorized Supt. Z C Thornburg to install equipment now, with classes likely starting before summer ends.
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Des Moines
Maurice Ricker
West High
Chicago
Supt. Z. C. Thornburg
Camp Dodge
Hungerford urged to join American ambulance corps
Cablegram to John B. Hungerford Jr now in Paris says French forces seek to induce him to enlist in the American volunteer ambulance corps and go to the front immediately. It adds that American attaches in Paris advise against Americans joining French units, so the Hungerfords urge their son to enlist with American troops.
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Carroll
John B. Hungerford, Jr
Paris
Hungerfords
Fayette County organizes farm agent group marks milestone
Over a hundred Fayette county farmers met in Fayette to organize an association for employing a county agent. J. W. Coverdale, state county agent leader from Ames, assisted. Fayette becomes the thirtieth Iowa county to complete such an organization and secure $1200 in government aid for the time being.
Heatley Family Fighters in World War I
J. T. Catlin notes Dubuque's Heatley clan includes eleven cousins in the trenches in France and six more in Paterson New Jersey likely to join the front soon. The Heatleys share a notable family name with Frank Heatley whose father entertained Colonel Roosevelt in South America.
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Heatley
Dubuque
J. T. Catlin
France
Paterson
N. J
Frank Heatley
Roosevelt
South America
Decorah Red Cross Unit Fully Organized for War Effort
Decorah’s Red Cross unit is fully organized and moving to active work. Generals appointed for each ward and captains designated to oversee immediate tasks. Henry P. Davidson, chairman of the Red Cross war council, sent a letter praising Winneshiek county’s progress.
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Decorah
Red Cross
Henry P. Davidson
Red Cross War Council
Winneshiek County
Rockwell City Youth Dies After shallow-water dive
Henry Martin 21 of Rockwell City dies from a diving accident at Lake Creek east of town. Authorities believe the neck was broken. He is survived by three brothers and three sisters, as the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Lee Martin.
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Rockwell City
Henry Martin
Lee Martin
Lake Creek
Canfield Pushes Vote on Food Bill in Congress
Cedar Rapids. F A Canfield president of the Iowa State Federation of Labor urges locals to press Congress to stop debate and secure a vote on pending food control measures through telegrams to members.
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Canfield
Cedar Rapids
F. A. Canfield
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Congress
German immigrant held for insulting flag in Dubuque
Leonard Kress a German native claiming naturalized American citizenship was arrested in East Dubuque Illinois by militia men after attempting to tear a flag from a man’s lapel and making insulting remarks about the flag. En route to Dubuque he discarded his wallet into the Mississippi and a guardsman retrieved it though papers of a damaging nature may be missing.
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Dubuque
Leonard Kress
Germany
East Dubuque
Ill
Mississippi
Bank Defaulter Freed From Pen Britt John Standring Paroled
Bank defaulter Britt John Standring who was sentenced to five years at Ft. Madison penitentiary has been paroled and is a free man. After the 1907 Corwith bank failure he vanished for seven years in Texas eluding authorities. He returned to Iowa and surrendered to serve his sentence.
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Britt
John Standring
Ft. Madison
Corwith
Standring
Texas
Standling
Iowa
Tests For Army Drafts Set Strict Physical Rules
Regulations from the War Department detail height from 5 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 6 inches, weight ranges, four serviceable molars, and various medical tests. Candidates must pass heart lung exams, eye and ear checks, and a stamina test including jumps and hops before chest measurement, with factors like flat feet and old injuries causing disqualification.
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National Army
War Department
Dr Edward J Pratt Resigns as Commerce Official
Washington reports Dr Edward J Pratt of New York chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce has resigned amid issues over enforcing the embargo proclamation. Pratt led the export license issuance and his resignation came at the request of Secretary Redfield.
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Washington
Edward J. Pratt
New York
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
American Schooner Childe Harold Sunk by Submarine
The American schooner Childe Harold was sunk by a German submarine in European waters on June 20. The master and eight crew members were all saved.
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Childe Harold
Washington
State Department
Navy extends censorship to all cables from Atlantic ports
The Navy Department announces an expansion of censorship affecting all telegraphic cables leaving New York and other Atlantic seaboard ports. The measure tightens control over messages and information flowing to and from U.S. forces and allied regions during the ongoing maritime situation.
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Washington
Navy Department
New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Moros Regiment Formed for U.S. Army Aims
Manila July 20 reports plans to form a full regiment of Moros with the goal of eventual attachment to the American expeditionary force in France.
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U. S. Army
Manila
P. I
France
United States Takes Over French Rail Lines
Paris reports the United States transport service will assume control of French railroad lines from port bases to the permanent camp and the front as of July 20. This marks a formal shift in management of critical supply routes used by Allied forces.
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Paris
United States Transport Service
Nine Mexicans Drown Near Tampico Collision
A tank steamer arriving at Galveston reports nine Mexican men drowned July 7 near Tampico when a launch was struck and smashed by the American tug Gulfport.
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Galveston
Tex
Tampico
Gulf Port
Germany to Send 700 Spies Against Kerensky Leaders
Petrograd reports Germany plans to insert 700 spies into Russia aimed at assassinating War Minister Kerensky General Brusiloff and other leaders, per secret service data.
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Kerensky
Petrograd
Germany
Russia
Brusiloff
Secret Service
Five Germans Arrested in Kansas Plaster Plot
Report by federal chemist claims court plaster labeled N Shure & Co Chicago sold across Kansas is tainted with tetanus bacilli. Five Germans arrested in Kansas City on orders of U S district attorney as authorities probe a possible plot to spread lockjaw and death. Names withheld pending further information.
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Kansas City
Kansas
W. B. Smith
N. Shure & Co
Chicago
Fred Robertson
United States
Kan
Winfield,Xan
Lockjow
Charles Mulford
Governor Harding Starts Move to Enlist Home Guard Force
Des Moines reports over 2,000 modern minute men will be raised in Iowa as soon as war department authority arrives. The home guards will be organized statewide to respond to riots or invasions, with pay from the state and enlistments for the war duration. Existing organized militia may be called, and equipment will come from federal depots as Iowa troops prepare to move south.
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Des Moines
Iowa
War Department
Home Guards
Iowa National Guard
South
United States
State Council of Defense
Home Guard
Uncle Sam
Barry
Chicago
Harding
Logan
Hawkeye
Russians Evacuate Kalusz After German Austro-Hungarian Counter blows
The Galician town of Kalusz captured by Russians on Wednesday was evacuated under strong German Austro-Hungarian counter blows. Kalusz, once the Austro-Hungarian staff headquarters in Galicia, sits on a key rail line to Lemberg. Russian war office says they crossed the Lomnica river after abandoning Kalusz.
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Berlin
Kalusz
German War Office
Galicia
Stryj
Lemberg
Kornileit
Petrograd
U. S. Warships Sink Dyers
American warships convoying the first American expeditionary army destroyed four German submarines, a report from Berne dated July 18 states. Washington also announced the sinking of the American steamer Grace by a submarine with three men killed and two naval guards injured. The Grace was owned by the Standard Commercial Steamship Corporation of New York.
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Berne
Germany
Washington
Grace
Naval Armed Guard
State Department
Standard Commercial Steamship Corporation
Whitehall Street
New York
Kaiser in ill health reports from Swiss sources
Reports from Swiss sources said the German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II is again in poor health with unspecified physical and mental deterioration. The dispatches described his condition as unsatisfactory and noted concerns about his wellbeing.
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Kaiser
Rome
Reprieve Granted for Hartford Murderess Amy Archer-Gilligan
Governor Holcomb will grant a reprieve to Mrs. Amy M. Archer-Gilligan of Hartford who is under sentence to hang on November 6 for poisoning Franklin R. Andrews.
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Hartford
Conn
Holcomb
Amy M. Archer-Gilligan
Franklin R. Andrews
Troops Pass Through Versailles Decked With Roses
A convoy of American automobiles headed to the new camp passed through Versailles on July 19. Most of the cars were decorated with roses for the American troops.
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Versailles
Porto Rico votes dry in territorial referendum
San Juan July 19 with 62 of 76 municipalities reporting the territory cast a vote for prohibition by more than two to one. Municipalities reporting include San Juan and other Porto Rico districts in the election returns.
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Porto Rico
San Juan
Argentina Demands Reply From Germany Over Torpedoed Ship
Buenos Aires reports Argentina instructed its Berlin minister to demand an answer from Germany to the note seeking satisfaction for the torpedoing of the Argentine ship Toro and a pledge to end attacks on Argentine vessels.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Berlin
Toro
Attempted lynching in downtown St Louis follows shooting
A mob of about a hundred tried to lynch Harvey Brewington on a crowded downtown street after he shot and seriously wounded his estranged wife who refused to return to him.
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St. Louis
Harvey Brewington
Shingle Makers on Strike Idle Mills Across State
In Seattle on July 19 workers report about half the shingle mills and many major sawmills idle due to strikes by Shingle Weavers' and Timber Workers' unions demanding an eight hour day.
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Seattle
Wash
Accuse Kaiser's Son Over Chateau Invasion
Paris reports M. Dubers owner of a Compeigne chateau has filed formal court proceedings accusing German prince Hitel Friedrich and his army staff of housebreaking and pillage.
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Kaiser
Paris
M. Dubers
Compeigne
Hitel Friedrich
Udine Reports to Premier After US Visit
The Italian war mission headed by the prince of Udine returned from the United States and met Premier Boselli and other ministers, delivering a satisfactory report on their trip.
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Udine
Rome
Prince of Udine
United States
Boselli
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