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State secret service investigates Rev. Blausucs pastor of a German church at Genver Bremer county over the language edict. Lieut Walter Schafer of Ottumwa, wounded by Germans, is alive and improving. Hog raising costs more than current minimum market price in Sac County per 100 pounds. A 14 year old boy dies after entering an abandoned Cincinnati coal mine followed by another. Several local deaths and notable events across Iowa including world war mobilization efforts, camp expansions, and war debt drives.
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State Secret Service
Blausucs
Genver
Bremer County
Walter B. Schafer
Ottumwa
Chicago
Sac County
Sac City
Tony Kovicich
Cincinnati
John Kanzalake
Francis
John Nolan
Marshalltown
South Center Street
Northwestern Railroad
Wm. Lynch
Reinbeck
Halles & Rogers
Lynch
Lambert J. Toeller
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Toeller
Iowa
Magnus Brewing Company
Margaret Dodd
Charles City
Yewa
Miss Dodd
Mississippi Valley Iron Co
Waukon
Minnesota
Eighty Eighth Division
Camp Dodge
Sam
National Army
O. H. Willams
Geoffrey Keys
Washington
Louisa County
Gem Theatre
Wapello
Hog Island
Iowa State College
E. C
Homer A. Miller
P. E. McClenahap
Iowa City
Atate
Harding
Cummins
Kenyon
Rebecca DeCook and William Sprague wed in Pella
Miss Rebecca DeCook and William Sprague united in marriage at the bride’s father's home in Pella on Saturday July 6 1918. DeCook is a nurse at Abbott hospital and to graduate this month. Sprague serves in the U S Army Signal Corps stationed at Camp Fremont California.
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Rebecca DeCook
William Sprague
Pella
DeCook
Abbott Hospital
Sprague
Uncle Sam
Signal Corps
Camp Fremont
Cal
Oskaloosa Herald
Second Reformed Church Weekly Schedule and Sermons
The Second Reformed Church invites all to Sunday school at 9:30, morning worship at 10:45 with a ladies quartet and sermon Out of the Depths, and 7:30 evening worship on the theme My Brother's experience as a card player and how I became a Baptist. Bible lecture at Leighton 4:30, Bible School 9:30, Junior Union 3:00, Senior B Y P U 7:00, prayer and study 8:00 Wednesday. Robert Carroll, Pastor.
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Second Reformed
Mra. Hoffman
Mrs. Bruins
DeBoer
Hendricks
Jesus
Mr. Randall
H. M. Bruins
Leighton
Robert Carroll
Trawler Captain Foils U boat With Coal Shovel
A British trawler crew recounts a North Sea encounter with a German U boat. With no gun aboard, the captain wielded a coal shovel from the bulbous bow, ramming and scraping sides as the submarine dove. The improvised weapon diverted the sub and the crew escaped unharmed.
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London
North Sea
Fragile Periscope Breaks as Submarine Commander Goes Blind
In a tense wartime scene a fragile periscope is struck, the third blow shatters it, and the submarine commander, anxious about a new enemy device, approaches the scope but finds only darkness. The trawler escapes safely under cover.
Deserter Returns to Fight in Connellsville
William V Curry of Marysville Kentucky surrendered to Police Lieutenant Thomas McDonald as a deserter from the U S Marine Corps. He fled his Newport News division in August 1916 and says wartime remorse drove him to return after hearing of the Tuscania sinking. He urged that the country needs more men and volunteered to serve again.
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Connellsville
William V. Curry
Marysville
Thomas McDonald
United States Marine Corps
Curry
Newport News
Germany
Tuscania
Food costs rise nine cents for student in Greensburg
Roy R Mumma of Jennette Pennsylvania, a former Carnegie Tech student living on 22 cents daily, now reports a 32 cent daily budget. He saved $400 after graduation last June, married, and has just joined the aviation service as a private in radio mechanics. His diet includes bread milk cereals cocoa rice peanut butter fruit eggs meat gelatin oleomargarine and more.
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Greensberg
Roy R. Mumma
Jennette
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Tech Iast
Mumma
Aviation Service
Hackett Teaches Soldiers to Act at Camp Devens
James K. Hackett, once bedridden five months and now in army life at Camp Devens Ayres Mass directs amusements for the Knights of Columbus. He tours major camps teaching soldiers to perform shows without scenery. He says Shakespeare’s trick suffices to entertain and uplift the men.
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Devens
Ayres
Mass
James K. Hackett
Knights of Columbus
Shakespeare
Hackett
Putnam descendant joins army like ancestor in revolutionary tale
In Boone, Ralph W. Putnam, a farmer, rushed from his farm to enlist after the war urge hit him. He sent home a telegraph noting he was off to grab the German goat. Also notes on dwarf trees fit for small gardens, describing space needs and training uses.
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Boone, Colo
Israel Putnam
Ralph W. Putnam
Boone
Putnam
Infant Frances Bri son Dies in Des Moines Burial in Pella
Frances Bri son eight months old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Oscar Bri son, died at home in Des Moines at 10 a m Saturday July 13 1918. Family moved from Pella recently. body brought to Pella for burial. Funeral at Peter Vander Wert home at 10 a m Monday. interment Oakwood cemetery.
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Frances
Oscar Brison
Des Moines
Pella
Peter Vander Wert
Oakwood Cemetery
Duty of Non-Combatant Americans in Wartime
Directive urges increased production and thrift, urging citizens to support war effort by saving liberty bonds and conserving resources. Includes endorsements of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with testimonials from John F. Jantzen and F. D. Stubenrauch praising its effectiveness.
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John F. Jantzen
Delmeny Lask
Want column advertisement rates and policy note
Advertisement rates are five cents per line per insertion. Ads costing less than one dollar incur no extra charge. A ten cent reply surcharge applies if a response is requested through the Chronicle office. The column promises results for others and aims to deliver similar outcomes for you.
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Apad
Chronicle Office
For Sale Items and Public Sheep Auction Notice
FOR SALE Piano almost new in excellent condition by Misa C Van Drimmelen 806 Liberty St FOR SALE 30x8 in casing for Ford car nearly new run about 25 miles $10 Chronicle office FOUND An automobile tire owner may claim by proving and paying for this ad Inquire at Chronicle office PUBLIC SALE OF SHEEP There will be 60 head offered at public auction Saturday July 27 at 2 30 pm Schakel Feet Barn sold in small lots to suit buyer 2wks
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Misa C. van Drimmelen
Liberty Bt
Chronicle ‘Office
Chronicle Office
Schakel Feet
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