Correspondence from Scotch Grove Reports News of War and Flu
A letter from Frank Himebaugh says he landed safely in France after an exciting voyage and serves in the chauffeurs department of the Quartermasters corps. Otto Otten has pneumonia with influenza. his wife and three children are ill. Schools and churches are closed for two weeks as flu troubles the town. Farmers begin husking corn as a strong crop fills the cribs. Reverend J A Park and Mrs Park are sick with influenza after a Keokuk visit. Willard Himebaugh visited Manchester. Lieut V Eby in Baltimore visited relatives. Perry Sutherland and Hazel Herrington recover or rest from illness. Bohlken shipped hogs this week.
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Frank Himebaugh
France
Frank
Quartermasters Corps
Fred Otten
Canada
Otto
Anna
J. A. Park
Keokuk
Manchester
V. Eby
Baltimore
Maryland
Perry Sutherland
Hazel Herrington
Delhi
L. J
Local social notes and visitors in Sand Spring area
Mrs Lawson Barker visits her parents then heads to Morris Minnesota. Families from Pleasant Valley Dubuque Hopkinton Anamosa Castle Grove Denver Manchester Curlew Farley Monticello narrate visits and short vacations. Several residents spend weekends with relatives while others return home from schooling.
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Sand Spring
Lawson Barker
S. J. Stevenson
Worthington
Morris
Minnesota
J. A. Tibbitts
Smith Andra
Raymond
Pleasant Valley
Alex Blair
Clarence Schuster
Mary Murray
Dubuque
H. S. Pierce
Dorothy
Lois
Hopkinton
F. P. McDonough
Earnest
Lauretta
Mubuque
Fred Bohlken
Curlew
George Gestel
Anamosa
H. C. Irvine
Castle Grove
C. K. Greer
J. Greer
Denver
Colorado
C. Ix. Greer
T. Yorke
JP. Schuster
R. J. Guthrie
Peter Guthrie
F. J. Gestel
Louise
Monticello
Will Greer
Anna
Marion
W. J. Murray
Farley
Leo Tierney
Manchester
Donald Yorke
Center Junction Social Notes Quietly Update Residents
Center Junction residents report a minor mishap as Mrs. M. J. McNeilly injured her knee while visiting Muscatine to care for her daughter Mrs. Hudson and remains confined to bed. Local activity includes visits and travel by several townspeople and nearby shoppers and visitors from Dubuque Monticello and Amber.
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Center Junction
M. J. McNeilly
Muscatine
Hudson
Sauerbrei
Strawberry Point
John Alexander
Frank Livingstone
Mary Etta Letze
Margaret McDonald
Cedar Rapids
Coc
Frank McNeilly
Springville
John McNeilly
Morrison
Margaret
Dubuque
John Kleineck
Jim McDonald
Washta
Iowa
Ollen Watson
Maquoketa
J. A. McDonald
Peter Prahm
Monticello
Alfred Hanna
Etta
George Schmidt
J. B. Hanken
M. G. Alsever
Prairieburg Obituaries and Local Flu News
Zilla Rogers died Wednesday morning after a long illness and was buried at the Lawn cemetery after a brief grave service. Mrs Earl Bebee of Montana arrived for her burial and a short service in Manchester followed by interment. The town reported influenza cases including postmaster and residents Donald and Selas Benson, with others ill or recovering. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Irving Bebee. Mrs Clara Fehr of Marion visited.
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Prairieburg
Zilla Rogers
Teo. Irvine
Castle Grove
Lawn
Earl Bebee
Montana
Manchester
George Bebee
Irving
Bebee
McLaughlin
Benson
Donald
Selas Benson
Irving Bebee
Clara Fehr
Marion
Telegram Humor At Camp Dodge In Flu Ward
A Red Cross telegram from Camp Dodge stirs humor as a patient known only as Harold receives a playful message from an anonymous sender. Other notes reveal a wife’s reply about medical insurance and a soldier’s witty dictation to Secretary McCullough seeking care and provisions.
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Camp Dodge
Camp Dodger
Harold
Red Cross
McCullough
K. of C
Sam Jones
Tulsa
Okla
Sam
Ike
Impressive Change Shocks Lincoln Journal Remarks
The piece notes a dramatic shift as a powerful foe once poised to force peace with force is suddenly upset by an unforeseen turn of events. It highlights the swift, history-making reversal and the dramatic nature of the outcome.
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Lincoln Journal
Fixed Price For Corn Husking In Jones County Iowa
At a meeting of the County Farm Bureaus in Cedar Rapids Iowa October 16 1918 a resolution set the corn husking price in the district at eight cents per bushel. Violations to be reported to the County Council of Defense. duty to report any breaches. A wartime appeal urges conserving food and aiding European refugees with increased production and distribution.
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Jones
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
County Council of Defense
War Fund Drive Unites Support for War Work
Marshalltown Times-Republican reports a forthcoming combined fund drive supporting YMCA YWCA community service Salvation Army library work in service for soldiers. The piece emphasizes unity beyond creed race or class and condemns prejudice in aid to soldiers, noting no canteen asks creed on coffee or doughnuts.
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Marshalltown Times - Republican
Salvation Army
KK. C
Jewish Welfare Board
Camp Dodger Tragedy Strikes Willis Family
Mrs. W O Willis and her husband arrive at Camp Dodge as multiple illnesses and deaths ripple through the family. Pvt Henry Herbert Willis dies from pneumonia after his mother’s telegrams. Another son dies in Lincoln and a son overseas was killed. The father travels to Lincoln for the funeral then returns to Dodge to care for his wife.
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Camp Dodger
W. O. Willis
Boulder
Colo
Henry Herbert Willis
Willis
Lincoln
Neb
France
Dodge
Pvt
Henry Willis
Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News quot.Idyl momentsquot. and other maxims
A quirky Chicago column surveys ad vs not advertising costs for merchants and remarks on performers, gendered sayings, and common wisdom. It riffs on modesty, verse, and the fate of poets who fail to connect with readers.
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Chicago News
Four Deaths in a Day Sudden Coggon
Four deaths occurred in Coggon within 24 hours. Three were due to influenza including the little daughters of Nate Chesmore and C. B. Chesmore and Mrs. Edith Dudley. N. B. Richardson died Friday at 4:00 am after a long illness. He was a known businessman with Coggan State Bank for years and leaves a wife and two daughters.
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Nate Chesmore
C. B. Chesmore
Edith Dudley
N. B. Richardson
Richardson
Coggan State Bank
Not the Size of Service Flag But the Star Counts
A Sioux City Journal item notes the meaning of service flags, stressing that the star on the flag signifies a family member’s sacrifice or heroism rather than the flag’s overall size or display. It highlights community pride and honors veterans.
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Sioux City Journal
Influenza Bulletin Details Spanish Flu Symptoms and History
The U.S. Public Health Service outlines Spanish influenza as a contagious cold like illness with fever and body pains. Many recover in four days but some develop pneumonia or meningitis and die. Historical outbreaks since 1647 are noted, with later waves in 1889-90 and three years after, spreading globally. Symptoms onset is sudden with fever, aches, dizziness, and sometimes vomiting.
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United States Public Health Service
Valencia
Spain
Orient
Russia
United States
Europe
Surgeon General Gorgas Publishes Influenza Avoidance Rules
Surgeon General Gorgas of the U S army issues influenza contagion guidelines. Avoid crowding smother coughs and sneezes breathe through nose keep clean mouth skin and clothes stay cool when active warm when resting open windows at night and at work wash hands before eating choose and chew food well for war effort.
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Gorgas
United States Army
Prince Sophia Disaster Shoals Alaskan Waters
Cedar Rapids Gazette reports the Prince Sophia, a 2,280 ton Canadian Pacific liner, was wrecked by storms near Lynn Canal south of Skagway Alaska. Three hundred forty three people perished with no survivors, making it the worst marine disaster on the Pacific coast.
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Cedar Rapids
Pacific Coast
Alaskan
The Language of the Road Brakeman Jokes Prisoners
A former railroad brakeman now in France carries a group of prisoners. When asked by an officer what he has, he replies with the ready line It is just a string of empties. The remark captures wartime humor from the Detroit Free Press.
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France
A Ticklish Job for King Boris on Bulgaria’s Throne
The Omaha World Herald notes King Boris of Bulgaria now sits on the throne vacated by his father and faces a turbulent, bucking transition as he reins in a country seeking stability and reform.
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Omaha World-Herald
Boris
Bulgaria
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