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Iowa News Highlights From State Farms To War Efforts
A wide sweep of Iowa items includes Eva Bloomer's severe burns from a coal oil fire, market highs for hogs and lambs in Sioux City, new rail plans from Honey Creek to Logan, and Cornell carnival antics. Reports note rising local debts, Cedar County bridge contracts, arrests in Chicago for a Dubuque bridge plot, and Drake University's new military training battalion. Cedar Rapids and Sioux City stories cover legal rebates, essay contests, and prize winnings. Widespread enlistment drives, school diplomas for service, and a push for consolidated rural schools frame a year of wartime measures and civic mobilization across Iowa.
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Eva Bloomer
Vinton
Sioux City
Northwestern
Honey Creek
Logan
Missouri Valley
Cornell
Iowa
O. B E. Klingaman
University Extension Division
Board of Supervisors of
Cedar County
S. R. Johnston
A. H. Stoecker
Chicago
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Drake University
W. A. Graham
Benton County
Sioux City Board of Education
Army
Navy
Clinton
Mississippi Valley Iron Company
Wau‘kon
Frank McInnery
Iowa City
Philip Roan
Fort Madison
France
J. S. Hockert
Sutherland
Farley & Loetscher Sash and Door Company
Morningside College
Paul Treeble
Cedar Rapids
Illinois Staats Zeitung
West Bend
United States
Thoss
Harlan Prall
Grimes
Polk County
Joe Stecher
Dodge
Neb
Earl Caddock
Anita
Omaha
Caddock
Stecher
Infantry
Lysaght
North McGregor
Boy Scouts
A. T. Erwin
Iowa Experiment Station
Tingley
Mt. Ayr
Licely
Engineering College
the State University
Glidden
Parsons College
Fairfield
Wirtz
War Department
Dallas
Des Moines
State Highway ‘Commission
Hawkeye
Kreiger Verein
Wilton Smith
Agricultural Division
Iowa State College
Agricultural Department
Ward
National Guard
Horace G. Larimer
Chariton
William Grant
Leonard Ziegler
National
Burlington Railroad
Bliss
Ames
The
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