Distinguished medical officers to visit Camp Des Moines and Fort Dodge
The Des Moines area will host high ranking medical officials from the army navy and public health service along with British and French officers to inspect officer training and suggest improvements. Iowa soldiers from Camp Dodge bound for France join the 20th engineers and compete for a Taft parade spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Ft. Des Moines
Gorgas
Army
Praisted
Navy
Blue
Rucker
Public Health Service
Army Medical Department
T H. Goodwin
Royal Army Medical Corps
Charles A. Dercle
Iowa
National Army
France
Washington
Reinhart
Minnesota
20Th
United States Engineers
James H. Hook
Charles Menge
W. H. Milroy
Roy Willard
Delaware County
R. J. Wooner
Blackhawk County
W. J. Schaffer
J. R. Frantz
L. K. Lumsden
Buchanan County
William Howard Taft
E.H. Plummer
Edward H. Plummer
United States
E. C. Lytton
Polk County Prohibitory Amendment Association
Eighty-Eighth Division
George Northrop
Statistical Department
Bush
Kaiser
Eighty Eighth Division
Thrift and Government Bonds Win the War
The New York World praises personal saving as patriotic and urges workers to set aside weekly amounts for decades to buy government bonds. It argues thrift builds character and supports large wartime loans, with bankers and financial corporations facilitating the bond program for national victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Franklin
United States
Red Faber Stars as White Sox Top Giants in Series
In Chicago last Sunday the White Sox beat the Giants 7 to 2 in the World Series second game with Red Urban Faber on the mound. A Chicago Tribune reporter notes Faber’s strong pitching and recalls his daring steal of third base in the fifth inning, a moment historians may feature for ages.
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White Sox
Giants
Chicago
Red”. Faber
Cascade
Chicago Tribune
Red Urban Faber
Iowa
C Lassic
Barry
Buck Weaver
Iowa To Clean Up Unadulterated Americanism After War
Mr. Vernon Hawkeye notes public focus on war demands has buried politics but expects a revival of patriotism in Iowa. He urges a future emphasis on unadulterated Americanism as civic life returns to the forefront.
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Vernon Hawkeye
Court actions list with guardianship and divorces in Jones County
A lengthy court docket summary records multiple civil matters. Cases involve guardianship appointments for unsound mind, estates probate actions, garnishments, demurrers, and divorces. Notable items include appointment of T. E. Watters as guardian, guardianship bonds, and two divorces granted to Verna Bell and May Billings.
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C. H. Rastede
B. J. Lightfoot
Niles & Watters Savings Bank
Herman Brockhohn
J. H. Zimmerman
Alva Zimmerman
Anna B. Greenwald
Sophrone Winans
Anna
Greenwald
Henry Schoon
Garnishee
Henry Scheer
Lovell State Bank
J. H. Gordon
Catherine Ferman
W. O. Welch
Remley & Remley
H. W. Taylor
Wm. Walton
Catherine Lienen
Mystic Workers of the World
L. C
Hawkeye Oil Co
Youss¢ Bros
Emily Gordon
J. H. Krapfl
Martin Newcomer
J. A. Green & Sons
Novak
Verna Bell
Edward N. Bell
Verone H. Welch
S. P. Neilly
May Billings
Albert Billings
Calvin Biggart
Erwin Lee Miller
Kitty Lee
C. B. Paul
John Byerly
John Rohwedder
Jacob Sieber
Mary McLees
HE. E. Reed
Howard Kreger
Ruth Cavanaugh
Arthur Cavanaugh
Frances C. Dress
Jones County Times
Nicholas Baer
Joseph and
Mary Strang
Definition of sabotage as described by an insider
A New York Herald witness with inside IWW knowledge lists sabotage forms in detail. Phosphorus balls in dry fields to starve families, stealing ripe fruit, setting forests afire, destroying threshers and trains, wrecking lumber yards, burning warehouses, and placing bombs on ships to sink cargo and kill sailors.
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New York Herald
Bits of Fun and Folklore Tidbits
A collage of humorous vignettes from old papers including a wig misadventure, Boy Scouts honor, a season ticket tale, and a Mark Twain honesty anecdote. Pithy quotes and light satire illustrate social quirks, kindness, and national humor of the era.
Iowa Civil War Bond Drive Nearly Failed
The Iowa effort to raise $800000 through state bonds for war relief nearly collapsed. After initial private loans, legislation authorized bonds at 7 percent due in twenty years. An attack by a New York paper undermined confidence, leaving sales at or below par and only about $300000 sold before withdrawal.
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Iowa
Ivan L. Pollock
State Historical Society of
General Assembly
New York City
New York
New Officers From Ranks
Cedar Rapids Gazette outlines recruitment for officer training camps from regular and national army ranks. Cadets must be enlisted before exams. civilians may have fewer paths to commissioned roles. It argues government plans favor trained enlisted personnel over private-to-officer transitions.
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Cedar Rapids
Gender terms in youth show social aging norms
Aberdeen News quotes a writer claiming to be a 22 year old girl to illustrate how language marks gender and age. It notes that a young man would say I am a man of 22, and that women are called girls until marriage or old age, while men adopt old boy status at later life stages.
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Aberdeen News
Cut Down Campaign Urges Saving at Home and Abroad
A wartime appeal urges reducing auto mileage and sugar, wheat bread, beet consumption and milk use. It stresses saving resources for France, the allies and the army, noting bond support as a financial incentive.
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New York World
Army
Navy
France
The Invention and Decline of Grammar
Ornest OC. Moore argues that grammar arose late, soured by a Macedonian king's collection of scholars in Alexandria, where wordTables of form and endings replaced living speech, turning books into lifeless dregs and grammar into study rather than living language.
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Greece
Egypt
Alexandria
Ornest
OC. Moore
Yale Review
Army Doctors and Military Medical Advances Through War
War shaped medicine from priest physicians to army medical officers. Pare’s arterial ligature, Napoleonic food preservation, and Mayo praise define the army medical corps. Beaumont linked digestion to gastric fistula, Hammond built the army medical museum, Billings and Sternberg shaped libraries and schools, Reed and colleagues proved the mosquito transmits yellow fever.
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Pare
Napoleon
Charles H. Mayo
New York Medical Journal
Army
Beaumont
William Hammond
Army Medical Museum
J. 8. Billings
Sternberg
Army Medical School
Government Laboratories
Walter Reed
James Carroll
Jesse W. Lazear
Aristide Agramonte
Typewriter method for tenths inch measurement
A writer in Popular Science Monthly describes using a typewriter to create a tenths inch ruler. He types a row of periods with every tenth mark as a comma, yielding a ten spaces per inch scale usable around shafts and collars. This clever hack leverages the usual ten-space per inch typewriter layout.
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J. Claude Orews
Popular Science Monthly
Child love note punishment prompts bold reply
A Louisville Courier-Journal item recalls a boy told a girl he loved her then the teacher ordered him to write I love Bessie on the blackboard 100 times. The teacher said it was no punishment as he would gladly write it a thousand times.
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Bessie
Louisville Courier-Journal
Compulsion Quote Sparks Eye Injury Exchange
A Washington Star quote shows a square jawed youngster describing a dispute over a chip left on a shoulder that became an eye injury when the chip was removed and struck him. The line reflects street conflict and the casual tone of the paper.
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Washington Star
Fearful Interview Looms as Fred May Not Appear
In a chatty domestic scene Maud worries about an afternoon talk with papa. Clara frets that Fred may skip the planned interview, fearing he will not appear to seek parental consent.
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Maud
Clara
Fred
Papa
Proposal Viewed As Flapjack By Kansas City Woman
A Kansas City Journal quip notes a proposal is treated as a flapjack, drawn by humorous lines about flipping it over in thought. The odd simile reflects social banter in a regional paper item.
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Gaya
Kansas City Journal
The Unadorned Truth Pa Temperament Deflection
A fragmentary poetic snippet questions temperament in Pennsylvania and dismisses it as a fancy daid fox cussedness, reflecting a raspy, tongue in cheek tone. The brief text centers on witty character observation with local flavor and sly critique.
Salt as a Vital Health Need Warns Physician
A physician warns that losing salt would harm health and spread disease. He explains the body craves chloride of sodium when deficient and notes salt is as essential as bread or flesh. Absence of salt indicates hidden illness and health decline.
Obliterating Class Distinctions Quote by Chesterton
The author argues that education should foster human dignity and equality, not uphold class barriers. He asserts children taught by capable women of lower classes will respect all classes, and that the remedy is to ignore class distinctions rather than denounce them as revolutionaries.
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Peggotty
G. K. Chesterton
The Alcalde Title In Spanish History
The alcalde de corte once served as palace court official with kingly jurisdiction. The office is now obsolete in that sense but calde remains used for a town mayor acting as justice of the peace.
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Spain
Alcalde de Corte
Why He Looked Sour in a Barricaded Exchange
Gritty George recalls a comic artist asking him to pose along a barb wire fence for a sketch. Dusty Dennis questions the scene as George explains the fence was involved in the gag.
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Dusty Dennis
George
Gritty George
Seeing Double and the Busy Clubdub
A playful dialogue follows a shy customer asking if Mr. Clubdub is busy. The pompous attendant replies that he is always busy. The customer responds with wit and humor, noting Mr. Flubdub misses a big order due to the bustle.
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Vigilantes
Red” Faber
District Court Proceedings
Boston Transcript
Janet
Boy Scouts
Mark Twain
Mark
Pittsburg
Food
Conservation Division
Food Administration
Royal Baking Powder
Royal Baking Powder Company
Dept. H
William Street
Exclusive Manufacturing Furrier
Third Ave
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Geo. Stuhler’s Sons Company
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
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