War Savings Group Meets in Iowa Campaign Start
The War Savings campaign group in Muscatine and surrounding counties opens plans under county chairs E. Webbles and others. Thrift stamps cost 25 cents with a sixteenth-stamp card. sixteen stamps yield a 12 cent card exchange for a $3 savings stamp, and a savings certificate holds space for twenty stamps redeemable for $100 after January 1, 1924. W. G. McAdoo backs the effort to fund a national war debt, aiming to mobilize small contributions nationwide.
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EE. Webbles
Muscatine
Post Office
W. G. McAdoo
United States Treasury
United States
Fromer
A. Miller
Iowa National Bank
Savings Campaign For
Iowa
Blame Shifts Over Illness At Cantonment
General Gorgas warns of serious infection risk from meningitis and pneumonia at the cantonment with 89 pneumonia cases and 22 meningitis cases among 36,000 drafted men injected in October. He notes 84 deaths from all causes versus an expected twelve, citing meningitis carriers in the area.
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Meninzitis
Gorgas
Camp Sevier
Newfoundland Dominion Granted to New Foundland
The oldest British overseas possession has been officially designated the dominion of Newfoundland in a St Johns notice. In other news, a parliamentary exchange over Admiral Sims' requests drew emphasis on operations' role and Norfolk officials.
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Newfoundland
Dominion
Associated Press
Boston
New Foundland
Dominion of New Foundland
St. Johns
Not Healthy for Draft Men to Be Sick
Registrants seeking exemption must return the questionnaire within seven days or face board scrutiny. Extensions are rare and require absolute proof of illness. The local board plans to issue about one thousand forms by Saturday as 2,700 blanks are distributed. Office traffic includes registrants and lawyers seeking guidance. distant residences may receive time extensions to complete the blank. A fifteen cabinet case for filing government records was reported to arrive at the local board.
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Exemption
Exemption Board
Gun Makers Cite Cause of Shortage Amid War Demands
Gun manufacturers blame shortages on wartime needs and new standards. Winchester Vice President Otterson details negotiations with the War Department, orders placed in April, contracts signed in July, and deliveries starting in August as Browning and Enfield products are rushed to meet demand.
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Enfield
War Departments
Presdent Otterson
Winchester Company
Otterson
General Crozier
Thompson
Ordnance ‘Bureau
Tis
Woodbury
Is Firm
Do Not Overwork Send the Washing Lo Magnus
The notice urges restraint on overworking tasks and advises sending the washing to Magnus for handling, reflecting a domestic or workshop instruction phrasing from the era.
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Magnus
Americans in England Eager for Battle Move to France
Letter from Merrill Mavis, stationed at Winchester, England, describes American aviators longing to reach France to join fighting lines. He recounts Thanksgiving far from home, rationed chow, cookies and chocolates, and a hope to adapt to French life while awaiting deployment. He notes machine gun practice nearby, rocket flares for lighting, and duties pounding a typewriter in the orderly room.
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England
France
Fred Mavis
Park Avenue
Merrill
Winchester
Jingland
Steals book forges checks at Luttig Lumber firm
Sheriff and police search for a forger who stole a company check book and stamp from Luttig Lumber. The criminal filled out several checks for 13 dollars each, and merchants cashed some before the forgeries were detected. No clues to the forger's identity have been found.
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Luttig Lumber Company
Missouri grocers aid conservation effort in state
Springfield Mo Dec 19 The Missouri retail merchants association seeks cooperation of 15000 retail growers in 260 towns to conserve food. A card will be sent to every retail food dealer pledging to cut delivery to minimum urge shoppers to use wheat and meat substitutes use more perishable items and follow government policy. Names of non signers will be provided to the federal food administrator.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Missouri
Missouri Retail Merchants Association
Federal Food Administrator
Sugar Dealers in Defense of Rolph
Washington reports sugar dealers across the west and middle west telegraphed the Food Admin. urging favorable action and expressing concern over policies affecting sugar distribution and prices. The dispatches reflect industry pressure during the ongoing policy debate.
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Rolph
Associated Press
Washington
West
Middle West
Will Force Cut in Drug Prices
The federal trade commission uses licenses to curb profits on German owned drug agents. Abbott Laboratories licensed to produce Vernon al for 20 cents per pound and sell at 6 percent profit, vs current 40 dollars. Barbitol to be produced by Abbott and marketed after licensing as Barbital. Novocain by Rector Chemical and Farbwerke Hoechst as pro-caine with prices potential drop from 720 to about 65 per pound and 95 at most.
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Cassociated Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Abbott Laboratories
Chicago
Rector Chemical Company
Farbwerke Hoechst Company
New York
Novocain
Sur- Beary
Rector Company
Sugar shortage alleged in California-Hawaiian case
Hoover and George M. Rolph of the food administration are accused in a senate sugar investigation of blocking 110,000 tons of raw sugar from the east, claiming their authority as director of the sugar division prevented a supply when the Atlantic coast first felt the shortage, with the California Hawaiian Refining Company supplying cane sugar to avert famine in October.
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Istrator
Hoover
George M. Rolph
The
Food Administration
California-Hawaiian Refining Company
Senate Sugar
Rolph
California-Hawaiian Company
Sugar Division
Atatitic
Not Affected by War Investment Pitch by Titus Co
Noting that war does not affect its operations the Titus Loan and Investment Company advertises forty years of loan experience in Iowa and Illinois. It claims to serve customers in nineteen states and offers investments of 100 dollars or more with “good income” and no trouble, urging readers to investigate.
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Iowa
Ilinois
Titus Loan & Investment Co
Iowa Ave
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