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Iowa News Items of Interest Summarized for Busy Readers
A Des Moines auction yielded a Red Cross cake that raised 563.50. the sale helped net 1,221.15 for the Red Cross. Des Moines women Rose Burley and Nettie MaNeeley received five year terms for operating red light resorts. A hog donation funded by M. B. Merfield & Sons brought 380. Camp Dodge measures include sidewall construction and a halt to select civil officers from reporting. Other items note farm labor exemptions, barley and wheat concerns, and local patriotism efforts.
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Red Cross
Salon
Des Moines
Rose Burley
Nettie MaNeeley
M. B. Merfield & Sons
Greene
Red Cross Society
Ed Lavelle
Perry
Charlies McDivitt
Dallas County Grand Jury
G. F. Tucker
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Sioux City
J. H. Haselgrove
Haselgrove
R. N. Getty
Eighty-eighth National Army Division
Ife
John Mattes
Odebolt
Engineering
Ames
Uncle Sam
Engineers
City Chemical Laboratory
Triumphant and Holy and Righteous Church
Kingdom of God and Christ
Burt German
J. T. Lauer
Bremer County
Mr. Lauer
Auger
Waterloo
Jawaeldy
Aulger
National Army Service
Delaware County
R. W. Snell
United States
State House
Washington
W. L. Harding
Fahrbank
Cedar Falls
H. J. Metcalé
State Council of Defense
United States Public Service Reserve
Chicago
Alice
France
Busues
Automobile Department
Secretary of State
Newton High School
Frank Joseph
Joseph
Eighty-Eighth Division
National Army
Signal Corps
War Department