Pella Oklahoma City? Ordinance on street dedications and names
Ordinance No 144 adopts and confirms street and alley dedications in Pella Iowa fixing widths and renaming streets. It lists Main Hazel East Second Broadway West Second Lincoln Jefferson Monroe Sharon Franklin and other street names with exact widths and boundary descriptions. It repeals conflicting ordinances and becomes effective.
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Pella
Iowa
City of
Depot Ave
Corporation Line
Main Street
Pella O. P
Hazel Street
North Annex
East Second Street
North Pella
Skunk Ave
Broadway
Benton Ave
West Second Street
North Street
Addition Street
Lincoln Street
Extension Street
Jefferson Street
Corporation
Monroe Street
East Annex
Corporation Lines
Sharon Street
Franklin Street
Ringling
Clark Street
Marion Street
Carson Street
Overkamps R. R
Prairie Street
East Third Street
University Street
Accomplishment Ave
West Fifth Street
Block 11 O. P
End Street
West Sixth Street
City adoption notice finalizes law change in 1918
Publication confirms the adoption of a legal measure as required by statute. The ordinance was enacted and published with the effective date noted as June 4, 1918, signed by H. J. Vanden Berg, Mayor.
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H. J. Vanden Berg
Penny Becomes Commerce Counterpart in California War Effort
Mrs. A S Baldwin of San Francisco, a leading clubwoman, explains that the penny will enter California commerce as wartime thrift shifts attitudes. She was summoned to Washington to aid the Liberty loan program and urges California women to value small coins and save even minor sums as part of the thrift drive. The penny, once deemed negligible, is now tied to war savings efforts and the regional thrift campaign.
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San Francisco
Califoria
A. S. Baldwin
California
Baldwin
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Woman's Liberty Loan
Liberty Loan
Far West
West
Very Proud of Mary Crabtree Mascot of NEA
Mary Elizabeth Crabtree serves as the National Educational Association mascot and helps seal envelopes for a campaign led by Mary C. Bradford urging teachers to recruit junior Red Cross members. She plans to invest her earnings in war savings stamps to support the war effort.
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Mary Elizabeth Crabtree
National Educational Association
Mary
Mary C. C. Bradford
Red Cross
Apparent yearn of a guest at the Petunia Tavern
A horse-faced guest seeks two weeks stay with specific demands including southern and western exposure, quiet near a railroad, prompt meals, and unusual health food items. The Petunia Tavern landlord dismisses the requests, noting the house is full. The Kansas City Star notes the exchange in a humorous local column.
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Petunia Tavern
Podner
Kansas City Star
Liberty Bonds Support for War Hired Men Welfare
An appeal stresses that intelligent farmers feed house and clothe their hired help and urges buying Liberty bonds to fund the nation’s war effort. Uncle Sam has nearly a million hired men abroad in hazardous work and needs funds from home to care for them. The message urges giving the boys the best possible support.
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Liberty Loan
Uncle Sam
Liberty Bonds
Germans Shoot Down Six Balloons Behind British Lines
A British Royal Flying Corps observer recounts a dangerous balloon ascent behind the lines in France. German aircraft attacked a group of six balloons, eight observers escaped by parachute, while others died as blazing balloons or anti aircraft fire changed the mission.
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France
Royal Flying Corps
Associated Press
Terra Firma
Tce Apark
Profit in Woodlots War Time Fuel Duty and Wood Utilization
The piece urges farmers to maximize farm woodlot outputs to aid fuel supply during wartime. It notes 1910 census detailing woodlot products and argues coal scarcity raises wood value. It encourages winter labor use, increased cordwood production, and selling excess wood near towns.
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F. G. Miller
Dean
Idaho School of Forestry
Traveling salesman arrested for sedition in Oskaloosa pub
A. H. Bach, a traveling salesman who frequents Oskaloosa, was arrested last evening on a charge of making sedicious utterances in a local pub. Police report details are limited while the case moves to municipal court.
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A. H. Bach
German sympathizer arrested after wartime barroom clash
A man argued with three traveling men at the Lacey Hotel dining room praising Germany and denouncing the United States. He pounded the table, challenged patriotism, and was arrested after affidavits and a warrant were sworn. He was taken to Ottumwa for examination by Officer Emmett Oliverson. The three diners were Charles Schrei, Charles H. Thomas, and Mr. Andrewh.
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Ke Place
Ottumwa
Emmett Oliverson
United States
Lacey Hotel
Bach
Germany
Cow killed by lightning insured with Home Mutual
A resident in Monroe, Iowa reports a cow struck by lightning on May 27 and insured for 60 dollars with Home Mutual Insurance Association. A week later a check for the full insured amount was received. agent listed as Wm. Van Houweling in Pella.
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Home Mutual Insurance Association
Aart V. Pearsen
Monroe
Iowa
Wm. van
Whooping Cough Remedy Praised By Indian Mother
Mrs P H Martin of Peru Indiana reports two daughters with whooping cough were helped by Chamberlains Cough Remedy and it worked like a charm. The note is from F D Stubenrauch.
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Chamberlain
P. H. Martin
Peru
Ind
Stubenrauch
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War
Case Threshers
Tinves
John Bogaards
Sony del
Ny Regser
Itil
Wormhoudt & Plette
Ation
Charles Schrei
Charles H. Thomas
Andrewh
Schrei
Oskaloosa Herald
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