Red Cross War Funds Subscriptions Delayed Report
Marion county residents are urged to turn over all Red Cross war fund pledges and data to the County Council of Defense committee elected July 21 in Knoxville. The committee chaired by F D Steubenrauch and secretary S L Walker will collect funds, require payments to banks or the Central Committee, and report details soon to S L Walker in Knoxville Iowa.
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County Council of Defense
Knoxville
Red Cross
Marion County
F. D. Steubenrauch
S. L. Walker
E. R. Jordan
J.B. Elliott
Red Cross War Fund
Red Cros War Fund
Central Committee
L. Walker
Iowa
D. Bellamy
Ch'm
M. L. Curtis
Sec'y
Mortuary Notices From Pella Area Deaths
Three obituaries note Frederick Hendricks dies at 73 of cancer near Pella with Civil War service. funeral at German Lutheran church near Galesburg. William Mullenburg, 27, dies of quick consumption in Des Moines, with Pella relatives attending the service. William De Moss, 56, dies in Des Moines of tuberculous peritonitis, survived by five sons and three daughters, burial near Otley.
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Hendricks Frederick Hendricks
Pella
Galesburg
Henry Breuklander
P. L. van Rees
de Moss
Wm. de Moss
Des Moines
Price Cemetery
Otley
Bishop Dozier in Trouble Amid Manslaughter Charge
The Chronicle reports Bishop Daniel Dozier, pastor at the Church of God in Des Moines, was arrested for manslaughter in connection with the death of his former housekeeper Ella Ray. He preached in Manley before arrest, then was taken to Des Moines to plead not guilty with bond set at $2000.
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Pella
Chronicle
Johnson
Manley
Iowa
Daniel
Den
Daniel Dozier
Manly
Calaboose
Des Moinés
Church of God
Sixteenth
Boott Streets
Ella Ray
Stom on Wor Boss Sets Off Money Dispute
A fragment hints at a conflict over money involving a boss figure and a worker. The readable text is sparse, but implies a power dynamic and disputes around pay or funds. Further details are unclear due to damaged phrasing.
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Ign Ot Cay & Mare Money Stom
Nursing careers urged as patriotic service for girls
A historical text urges girls to begin training now for home duty hospital work teaching positions social service tenement house inspection and many other nursing fields. It states that training should start immediately so they can perform valuable work when the country calls.
Newsboy Questions Worth of Money in Sabbath Lesson
A Sabbath school scene has a teacher asking boys if a hundred or thousand dollars could be spent. Dick hesitates, then another boy explains that even if money vanishes, the need to serve God remains, making a thousand dollars seem both large and hollow.
State Fair Food Training Camp Aids War Effort
Washington July 20 Iowa State Fair August 22 31 designated by Herbert Hoover as a Food Training Camp to study food efficiency and combat waste. Government plans exhibits and a Washington bureau to coordinate with fairs nationwide. Some officials predict 10 percent enlistment fatalities or permanent injuries in World War I.
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Washington, D.C
Iowa
Hoover
Iowa State Fair
Ada
Ferr
United States
Washington
Ray P. Speer
American Association of Fairs and Expositions
Why I'd Let My Boy Go to War reads in Iowa article
Des Moines readers are urged to consult a sane discussion on sons in service. Aaron Hardy Ulm, veteran of the Philippine Insurrection, argues against fear based rhetoric and urges measured talk to parents of prospective soldiers. The piece critiques sensational claims about casualty rates and cautions against heartache driven by alarmist rhetoric.
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Des Moines
France
Mr. Dini
A Karen Girl's Best Leads Jungle Mission Choir
Grace Pennington recalls a Karen girl from Bassein who returned to her village to teach without pay, inspiring heathen families with education. She helps in chapel services when the pastor is away, and even acts as pastor of a jungle church at sixteen.
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Bassein
Grace Pennington
Allied call for trained nurses abroad amid war needs
Miss Mary C. Haarer, head of the State University nursing school, warns that untrained volunteer nurses harmed early European war efforts. She says England and France now demand graduate nurses, not novices, to meet wartime needs. Emotionalism lowers U S trained nurse numbers, she contends, and urges thorough training before service.
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England
France
Mary C. Haarer
State University
Miss Haarer
Puritan Drug Co. Advertising Camera Film Service
Public notice urging photographers to seek Puritan Drug Co for film development. Promises clearer, sharper prints and options for studio or glossy paper finishes.
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Puritan Drug Co
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
For 30 years this trusted remedy in many homes helps when children cry in sleep or are peevish. It eases colds within 24 hours, regulates bowels, and destroys worms, offering a common cure in the household.
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Mother Gray
Unclear Vintage Produce Advert With Mixed Prices
A garbled advertisement lists stock and grain pricing and various odds and ends. It mentions corrected by Van der Zyl Bros and Pella Produce, with prices like 4c to 2.0c per bushel, butter stock at 27 cents, old hens and roosters at a few cents per pound, and a slogan about pest extermination. Includes a free comic offer and location Jersey City New Jersey.
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van~ der Zyl Bros
Pella
Scotch tailors offer all wool suits at $15
M. Vander Linden advertises that their "Scotch" tailors still craft absolutely all wool suits to order for $15 with perfect fits. He claims three hundred kinds are available at the same price and urges customers to buy now.
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Scotch
M. Vander Linden
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RED Cross War Funds
Central College
Chas. Lautenbach
James Verhey
Ulm
Bae
Gcauareniend
Sela
Ge Press
Airone Breokilym
Pella Markets
U. S
Elite Theatre
Daniel Frohman
Idol of the
Mary Pickford
Glenn. Martin
Vander Linden
Ford
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