Nearby Town News Mixes Farm News and War Views
Leslie Droz arrives on a month long farm furlough from Boston Harbor while Verheul meat market moves into a former restaurant space. Carl Van Steenbergen returns from New Orleans on twenty days furlough after seven weeks in hospital. The Reasner Gospel Team leads church services, totaling 57 members. A Maple Hill barn fire destroyed by fire with $500 insurance. origin unknown. A traveling man named Frank Graham appears as Krous in Hotel Eddyville records.
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the Mirror
Leslie Droz
Monroe
The
Baptist Church
Union
M. E
Brotherhood of Christian Men
Carl van Steenbergen
New Orleans
Salt Lake City
Carl
Huns
Co. I
43Rd
U. S. Infantry
Newton
Maple Hill
J. H. Cochrane
Floyd Fuller
Eddyville notes and local happenings in Tribune column
Mrs. Jake Cornelius of Pella returns home after visiting the F B Bickford home. Case Kooyman buys a new Ford at the Thayer garage. Mr and Mrs Peter DeHamer and daughters of Eveland visit M Van Klootwyk. Miss Stella Akers goes to Ottumwa for Red Cross nurse enlistment exam. Mrs Harry Pickerell from Jefferson township undergone appendicitis operation at Oskaloosa hospital. Dr E L Bay confronts a stranger who entered his office seeking medicine and tampered with the medicine case. suspect held at Rock Island depot and confessed to seeking dope but claimed none.
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the Tribune
Jake Cornelius
Pella
F. B. Bickford
Case Kooyman
Blaine
Thayer
Peter DeHamer
Eveland
M. van Klootwyk
South Fifth Street
Stella Akers
Ottumwa
Red Cross
Miss Akers
Eddyville
Harry Pickerell
Jefferson Township
Abbott
Oskaloosa
E. L. Bay
Bay
Rock Island
Knoxville News Items From Journal Report Visits and Local Industry
Knoxville residents visit from Pella and Des Moines for family and medical matters. Emmet Kincaid reports from abroad. Dowell enlists and moves to Fortress Monroe for officer training. Catfish dangers and a medical scare share local notices. A hayfield accident puts Elmore Jordan near death, with recovery possible. Knoxville Clay Products begins operation, producing about six thousand blocks daily at half capacity due to limits.
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the Journal
Will Jeffers
Pella
Knoxville
Will
Knoxville Electric
Tone Vanderwilt
Madaline
Des Moines
Wm. J. Kincaid
Consolidated
Tracy
Kincaid
Emmet
Emmet Kincaid
Attica Consolidated School
Atlantic
Land Signal Corps
L. G. Dowell
Knoxville Board of Education
Marion County National Bank
Fortress Monroe
Dowell
Wier Mitchell
Philadelphia
U.S
United States
Elmore Jordan
Pleasantville
Jordan
Knox Clay Products Company
Tile Plant Booms With Ten Thousand Blocks Daily
The clay pit size limits work but rapid expansion is under way and within days production will top ten thousand perfect blocks each working day. Modern machinery from boiler room to dry kilns marks the plant as among the state’s best. Experts deem the finished tile high grade and the workers deserve praise for overcoming discouragements as demand far exceeds output.
Dean's Kidney Pills Promoted By Mrs. Rus Testimony
A promotional notice urges Dean's Kidney Pills to prevent kidney disease and relieve backache. It cites Mrs. C. Rus of Pella Iowa reporting relief after using the remedy bought at Keable's drug store. Price 60 cents. FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Pella
C. Rus
Third Ave
Keable
Rus
Foster - Milburn Co., Props
Buffalo
N. Y
County Agent and ISU Ames Iowa and USDA Bureau of Animal Industry
A directive instructs writing to the County Agent in Ames at Iowa State College and to the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington DC. The text preserves the contact chain for agricultural guidance and regulatory correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington, D. C
The Kind Gardener and a Testament Notice
A poem by Jennie June Storeman precedes a public notice from Marion County Iowa. It states Hendrik Rozendaal's purported last will on file in the District Court, to be heard October 1, 1918, at Knoxville with Clerk Harold Clements recording the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Iowa
Marion County
Hendrik Rozendaal
Knoxville
Harold Clements
University volunteers translate foreign newspapers for government
Several "dollar a year" men from the University of Iowa language departments assist the government in translating foreign newspapers. Professor Charles Bundy Wilson heads the effort for Iowa and neighboring states. All non English papers require presidential permission via the postmaster general unless fully translated war articles are filed. Newspapers undergo inspection. back files and current issues are read, and questionable material is forwarded to the government office for action. If anti American, mail use is refused.
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University of Iowa
Charles Bundy Wilson
State of
Iowa
Glycerine Mixture for Appendicitis Promoted by Vander Linden
An old advertises a glycerine based mixture claimed to prevent appendicitis. It touts a single spoonful that purportedly flushes the entire bowel and relieves sour stomach gas and constipation. Adlerika is named as part of the preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Adler Ika
Vander Linden
Outline of Government Poultry Campaign
The United States Department of Agriculture and Iowa State College launch a poultry campaign. It outlines phases: breeding stock selection, early hatching, confined mother hens, free range where possible, egg preservation, infertile eggs, cockerels as broilers, delaying marketing of profitable hens, careful hen selection, broiler use for pullets, cockerel caporizing with free range, backyard poultry in cities, and possible turkey duck and geese raising with published guidance.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa State College
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Hotel Eddyville
Frank Graham
Mississippi
Krous
KIND
Jennie June Storeman
Outline OF Government Poultry Campaign
Fletcher
Lilian
Sta
White
Pobrano Cheams sTeler Cae
Dalley Corporations Limited
Bufealo NY
D. G. Gosselink
Selz Shoes
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