Spies Trained From Boyhood
London reports Dr Arthur Lynch MP notes in a Paris dated dispatch that German spying extends through society. Meg the guardian angel and Mata Hari are cited as examples, with Old Adolph in Paris, the spy network described as an elaborately developed state function.
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London
Arthur Lynch
M. P
Paris
Daily Chronicle
France
Marcel Prevost
Les Anges Gardiens
the Guardian Angels
Meg
Mata ‘Hari
Adolph
Guards
Beau Cuvuller
Stonewall Jackson Seen as America’s Cleverest General
A Southern congressman claims Stonewall Jackson is the finest American general, praised by British officers who study his Civil War campaigns. He notes Jackson’s bold raids and superior maneuvering against odds as top examples for European strategists.
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Washington
Washeshington
Sherman
Grant
Robert BE. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Jackson
Ed Jackson
United States Army
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Ghostly Apparition At Walnut Hill Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio caretaker John Davis reported a spooky sight at Walnut Hill cemetery Hamlin Township a figure sat on a tombstone wrapped in a blanket. The man rose asked about a referee and offered a boxing match. Davis took him to the county jail where his clothes yielded army enlistment papers prompting an inquest for lunacy.
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Columbus, O
John Davis
Walnut Hill Cemetery
Hamlin ‘Township
Davis
British Prisoners Starved in Ruhleben Camp
British civilians held at Ruhleben camp near Berlin report no food from Germans for three months. They rely entirely on parcels from Britain while suffering stomach issues from monotony and limited rations.
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Rotterdam
Ruhleben
Germany
Great Britain
Rahleben
College Notes on Annual Day and Commencement Plans
Van Roekel's end act drew big laughs at Sally Lunn as Annual Day set the tone for a strong year. Commencement Day is May 23, with a rousing finish promised. Miss Janet G Callon leads a sewing outreach from Iowa State College to teach revamping old garments into new uses.
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van Roekel
Sally Lunn
Iowa State College
Janet G. Callon
Ames
Miss Callon
Wool saved as essential as wheat in Iowa homes
A columnist urges Iowa housewives to salvage old garments and woolen cloth from attics. The note stresses saving wool is as vital as wheat or fats and promotes repurposing materials into clothing.
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Iowa
More Books Needed for Army Library Drive 1918
March 18 to 25, 1918 launches a nationwide campaign to supply books for camp libraries. A million and a half dollars was raised last September to build and staff 34 camps and purchase books. Citizens urged to donate personal books marked Library War Service, with libraries welcoming gifts at public libraries. Rev J C Clark and wife from Fairbank, Indiana, visiting their relatives, Mr and Mrs W J Clark.
Local residents keep busy visiting kin and attending events
Numerous updates from Grand Meadow area show Mrs. L Zwyans and Lena Keuning visiting Otley, Rev Sadler and Rev Carroll at Ottumwa Baptist laymen convention, and several Des Moines excursions. Notable notes include Cornelius Bruinekool’s finger injury at the Pella Tank Factory and Rev Wormser’s move to a caregiver home in Pella after forty years as a pastor, with old friends and church members gathering in his honor.
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R. R. Sadler
Robert Carroll
Ottumwa
Wm. Wormser
Pella
Iowa
Wormser
Grand Meadow
Woolley
Want Column Ad Rates and Request for Inquiries
Advertisements list cents per insertion with a 16 cent minimum. An extra 10 cent charge applies. Readers are urged to reply through the Chronicle office for results, as past ads have brought responses for others and will do so again.
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Chronicle Office
Sewing and work wanted notices from Pella Chronicle
IO WA packing company stock for sale. Inquire at the Chronicle office tr. SEWING WANTED by the day in town or country 315 HE First St Pella 10 11 WORK WANTED Before and after school and during the summer vacation by a boy 15 years old Inquire at Chronicle office.
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Iowa Packing Company
Chronicle
Pella
Chronicle Office
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Stonewall” Jackson
England
Alaska
James
College
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Chapel
Mrs. Sadler
Philos
Mr. de Bruyn
Nebraska
Hoffman
Miss Williams
Edith May Toom
Clara Waechter
Mr. Sadler
Eleanor Thompson
First Reformed Choir
Second Reformed Church
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Wen
Hunt
J. C. Clark
Fairbank, In
W. J. Clark
Mrs. L. Zwyans
Otley
Lena Keuning
Albert Sandmier
Paul Synhorst
Oskaloosa
George D. Metz
Carlisle
E. T. Metz
Cornelius Bruinekool
Willig Vogelaar
Montrose
Colo
H. Robertus
Wm. DeCook
H. Vander Syde
Des Moines
L. van Rees
Luella Klein
van Rees
N. Firth
H. T. Phillips
Canada
Theo. LeCoca
J. P. Klein
Capital City
George van Vark
H. P. Vander Meulen
Marie Blanke
Prairie City
Ben Kuyk
The
Pella Produce Co
M. de Reus
Leighton
the Chronicle
Marion County Defense Society
James B. Weaver, Jr
O.L. Wright
W. H. Vander Ploeg
L. F. Bousquet
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