War Activities Plan Formed at Corydon Iowa
A permanent organization to direct war efforts with an organized plan was formed at Corydon. The piece notes wartime events across Iowa including infantile paralysis decline in Dubuque, cattle entering Minnesota with TB testing, a Sioux City fire causing heavy losses, and awards for service members. It also covers naturalization drives, draft updates, war savings stamps, and local civic actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Dubuque
Minnesota
J. J. Gibeoi
Sioux City
W. H. Low
Clear Lake
Peter Fasting
Norway
United States
Muscatine
W. L. Harding
Guthrie
Dee Moines
Lafayette Young
S. M. Foote
Iowa University
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Bill
Eastman
Iowa
Navy
George Ketterer
Des Moines
District Board
Sac County
Vinton Canning
Vinton Iowa Canning Company
Mason City
Army
Militar
Mason Ciy
Veriona
G. H. Sumner
State
Poara of Health
Puo- Me Health Service
Washington
State Board of Health
Local Fair Urges Bigger Crops to Feed War-Stricken Europe
The Southern Iowa Fair at Oskaloosa September 9-13 promotes larger corn and grain crops to combat European famine. Emphasis on pure-bred seeds, higher premiums for grain and farm crops, and community duty to boost food production amid wartime shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Iowa Fair & Exposition
Oskaloosa
America
Stand By Your Posts In School Duty This Fall
A call to keep every child in school and every teacher at her desk as the nation enters new wartime measures. The piece cites Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and William Frederick Bigelow urging youths to educate and train, to drill the young soldiers in the schoolroom and stand by their posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Italy
Anna Howard Shaw
William Frederick Bigelow
Not All City Folks Know Farmers Surroundings
A New York young man on a New England farm becomes the butt of a local tale as he tries to impress with dictionary talk. The farmer and hired man share a wink while the city man explains tying knots in a cord of wood. A doctor questions a recruit about stuttering, and Senator Money hears a colored man describe chicken breeds with humor about hiding the white and black varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Senator Money
Missouri
John Metz Dead Civil War veteran and Marion county leader
John Metz longtime Marion county resident and Civil War veteran dies at Des Moines Lutheran hospital aged 78 after recent trips with his son preparing for departure to France service. Ex-recorder of Marion county and former Marysville postmaster, he married Wilhelmina Like and had six sons. He served in Company G Thirty third Iowa and lived in Marysville and Knoxville with strong local ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Metz
Knoxville Journal
Metz
Pella
Co G
Iowa
Vsa
The
Chronicle
Journal
Marion County
Marysville
Lutheran
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Lafayette
France
Leopold
Knoxville
Union Depot
Liberty Township
Schuylkill County
Jacob
Ann Guinn Metz
Thirty-third Iowa Infantry
Wilhelmina Like
John A
Johanna Like
Charles
Roy
John
Archie
This County
Idaho
Memorial Notice for Local Figure in Knox Ville
A respected community member passed away and will be transported to Knox Ville today by auto hearse. The body will go to the old home in Marysville for funeral services and burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox Ville
Marys«ville
Jury Talesman Colloquy in Philadelphia Court
During impaneling a Philadelphia jury the judge questions a talesman about property ownership and marital status. The man answers he is a married property holder three years, and that he has formed no opinion for three years, indicating he remains unbiased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Talesman
Hono
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa News
Hemi
Intercat
Cad
Frank M. Porterfield
Co. M
168Th Infantry
Atlantic
Sergy
Word
Idea State College
Ames
War Department
University of Iowa
Henry Oeterfoss
Ottumwa
Louis G. Lasher
Joe Oliver
Recordo Morbidino
Valley Junction
Polk County
M. H. Cohen
Red Cross
B. R. Bennett
One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Infantry
Waterloo
Reporttra
Omaha
Woman's Council of Defense
Phyeticians
W. B. Barney
C. 8. Bogle
Fairfield
Ed Lytton
Lytton
W. C. McCarney
M. EB. Hospital
A. W. Day
Edwin F. Kraus
Marine Corps
Burlington
Seventh Federal Reserve District
Treasury Department of the
Wesley Greene
State Horticultural Society
Greene
Roumania
Russia
Srate
Wolf
Wolf Chemical CO
Quincy
Vander Linden
Marion Coun
VIA
Seti
Safety and Service First
C. F. Dykstra
DR. C. I. Fox
Main and Liberty Sts
A. J. Visser
Grandes Veterinary Collegice
Don Burger
P. A. Edmund
Wagner's
W. F. Crew
T. G. Fultz
Main Street
Vander Ploeg & DE Reus
Farmers
Vander Zyl Bros
Griin
Lf.f
Carpenter Res
Citizens’ Nat'l Bank
Georgia
Fowler Telephone Building
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