Iowa News Roundup Highlights War Ties and Local Events
Blair Thaw, an American airman killed in France, is a nephew of Col. W. G. Dows of Cedar Rapids. Dubuque streetcar workers resume service after a settlement dispute with Dubuque Electric. Hart-Parr plant in Charles City receives a new gun mounts order worth over 340000 dollars. Marion county exhibits lead in 4 H club work. A Des Moines booster lunch fire causes 100000 dollars in damages. Charles H. Carpenter rescues his son from drowning in the Iowa river. Marshalltown nurses enrollments rise. Cedar Rapids Red Cross supervisor Katherine Hwing resigns for a Chicago home service post. Belmond Sugar factory plans a 1100000 dollar facility by Iowa Valley Sugar. Whale meat eyed for Des Moines markets with 30 to 50 cents a pound. Pocahontas crash leaves Miss Sybel Ralston dead. two others injured. Army vaccine work in Ames progresses with Middleton furlough. Marshalltown soldiers home sugar rationing set at two pounds per person monthly. Cerro Gordo treasurer Fred Barlow leaves for Camp Hancock. wife assumes duties temporarily. Dubuque clean-up linked to Mullin tax case. 10000 dollars in penalties cited.
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Blair Thaw
France
W. G. ‘Dows
Cedar Rapids
Colonel Dows
Dubuque
Dubuque Electric Company
Hart-Parr Company
Charles City
Marion County Boys and Girls
Girls’ and Boys
C. W. Bond
Des Moines
Charles H. Carpenter
Iowa River
Long Point
Earl Pettit
Parn
Marshalltown
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Katherine Hwing
Social Welfare League
Cedar, Rapids
Chicago
Home Service Department
Central Division
American Red Cross
Belmond
Chamber of Commerce
C. T. Fenton
Chaska
Minn
Iowa Valley Sugar Company
New York
Middle West
W. C. Furman
A. L. Schultz
Tugelv
Axis
F. S. Middleton
Soldiers’ Home
Board of Control
Fred Barlow
Cerro Gordo County
Army of the United States
Hea
Camp Hancock
Augusta
Barlow
J. D. Barlow
Dubuque County
Havner
C. H. Mullin
Mullin
Indomitable Spirit of American Doughboys in France
Paris chronicles the arrival of American wounded and the heroism of U S soldiers at Chateau Thierry and the Marne. Reports tell of a Chicago boy, a 19 year old, dehydrated and hungry after 32 hours without food, as Red Cross crews rush aid and ambulances move to base hospitals. Villagers, physicians, and a crowd salute the fallen as the grim toll mounts. Soldiers from Kentucky and Illinois recount counterattacks, praise fellow fighters, and describe hard combat near the river and woods with German forces.
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Paris
United States
Chateau-Thierry
Chicago
Red Cross
America
Louis Cooke
Rayville
Cook
Henries
Gold production in California to drop in 1918
California mineralogist Fletcher Hamilton predicts 1918 gold output will fall about 20 percent from 1917 as production costs surge 25 to 800 percent since World War I began. With gold fixed at 20.67 dollars an ounce, mines may close or suspend operations and relief ideas include bonuses or higher prices.
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Mr. Hamilton
Soldier's letters from France mention Napoleonic barracks
In a letter to his mother James A Patton describes the battalion’s landing in France and spending three days in a barracks built for Napoleon's soldiers over a century ago at Napoleon Barracks New Castle Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
James A. Patton
France
Bridges Fall and Rivers Run with Drowning Chaos
Eyewitness accounts tell of two bridges collapsing under German assault as waves flood the river. American artillery and sharpshooters claim multiple crosses into enemy lines with hundreds captured or killed. A Pittsburgher and a Texan recount brutal scenes of drowning and survival amid the bombardment near Paris.
Turks Quit Work on Unholy Ground
Antigo Wisconsin report says Turkish railway laborers at Monico quit after a string of mis fortunes including the drowning of one man and the murder of another. The crowd demanded transfer to a different location, deeming Monico’s area unholy ground. Their request was granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antigo
Wis
Monico
Judge Delays Ruling In Provoking Charge Case
In Bellaire Ohio the judge did not address the complainant or the defendant by name as Walter Zharickasowsky had Salunnas Voicellj chowontshwisk arrested on a provoking charge. He read names aloud several times and then took the case under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire
Walter Zharickasowsky
Salunnas Voicelljchowontshwisk
Gump farm gas well lands largest strike in five years
An 18,000,000 foot gas well was completed on the Gump farm five miles southwest of Mannington West Virginia. The discovery marks the biggest gas well drilled in the area in half a decade and boosts local energy prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
Gump Farm
Mannington
Useful Invention Guides Bald Heads to Fame
A novelty contrivance invented to tell a bald headed man where to stay while washing his face. The item showcases early gadgetry aimed at solving a trivial vanity with humorous novelty value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Post-Intelligencer
Italian Caproni plan for transatlantic flight backed by Belloni
Lieutenant Belloni of the Royal Italian flying corps in the United States asserts a Caproni plane can cross the Atlantic. He calls for an organized network with wireless relays and weather data, favoring a fast Caproni machine with Liberty engines and a small crew. Caproni, 32, from Trentino, rose from local carpentry to design nineteen aircraft types and produce bombing planes widely used by Italy, with modern aeronautic feats and a looming continental flight.
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Leopold Bhellont
Royal Italian Flying Corps
Caproni
Belloni
New York Sun
America
Italy
Gupronis
United States
Atlantic
Leutenant
Amerfca
Tranly
Petlont
Capron Brothers
Ian
Giannt Caproni
Hipsburg
Tuter
Carter Fiers
Gapron
Europe
Trentino
Cnapront
Ita Fistrial
Nnn
Ino Cach Fnstanes
Preneh
Capronis
Caproni Airphines
Tialy
Lepine
Capront
Western Front
Germany
Otephline
Jong
Gaprontin
Various 1910s Innovations and Personal Milestones Reported
Reports cover women's farm aid after a Kalamazoo conference, a new color plate registering device, Parisian motorized roller skates, Afghanistan road plans after auto ownership, and rising chemical investment in 1915–17. Also notes Apple pulp feeding dairy cows, two Hughes brothers enlisting, Italy’s WWI declarations, a novel ink well, anti-slip washboard feet, coal ash methods, Parisian heiress to a horse’s income, Minidoka sheep consolidation, French farmer baby-bathing attitude, Miss Stuth Law’s aviation feat, and a Connecticut nickel plating claim.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Afghanistan
American Chemical Industries
Yakima
Wash
Tieton
Paris
Adolph de Nothschild
Uhis
M. de Bothschild
Minidoka Reclamation Project
Idaho
Alice Barlow Brown
Winnetka, NL
Department of Meurther et-Moselle
Miss Stuth Law
Chicago
New York
Connecticut
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Kentucky
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Kaintuckee
Baker
Heinie
Anton Zolnowski
Turner Avenue
Zolnowski
Elmer Sturtz
Wellsburg
Sturtz
California
Napoleon Barracks
Frank Hogan
Galveston
Tex
James I.paul
Spruce Street
Philadelphia
Paul
Jackies
Mignonette
Lulu
Capron
Prentine
Munteh
Bavaria
Wright Brothers
Ttalian
Tilege
Mimilori Institute
Wonan
Trentine
Tie
Milan
Samta Lombardo
Jtily
George IL I Hughes
Denver
Colo
Nuton
Wilson
Richard A. Hughes
George IL
Camp Kearney
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Austria
Turkey
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