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Iowa News Items of Interest Snapshot
A collage of notes from Story City to Des Moines includes land selling at 100 dollars per acre near Story City, recalls forged sentence of Frank Swanson in Boone, and reports on hospital unit sailors, draft efficiency, and war hero recognitions. Civics, mining, and municipal plans mingle with court actions, rail relief, and philanthropy across Iowa towns.
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Story City
Frank Swanson
Boone
State
R. M. Wright
Brest
Council Bluffs
Iowa
R. E B. Merrill
Plymouth County
Board of Supervisors
Iowa County
House Committee On Appropriations
Haugen
Committee On Agriculture
Camp Dodge
Newton Baker
Peyton €. Marsh
U.S. Army
Clear Lake
Lake Okiboji
Iowa City
Clarence B. Davis
Clarence
Cote de Chatillon
France
Edgar Rule
Ida County
Ernest Rathbun
Ida Grove
Albert
George Clark
Rathbun
Fairfield
United States
Union
Adj
Louis G. Lasher
Crowder
Adjutant General's Office
Guy S. Brewer
Des Moines
One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry
Pershing
Brewer
St. Mihiel Salient
Thomas Ashton
Tenth Field Artillery
Esther Clarke
Elsie Webster
Red Cross
Waterloo
Louis Schroeder
National Mine Workers In
India
Burley Yeager
Harley Guthrie
Seymour
Milwaukee
Les 'Wate
Kenyolt
Russia
Dubuque
Kiron
State Library Commission
Josephine Remley
Remley
City
Abraham Lincoln
George B. McClellan
Inwood
Julius Boehmke
Sioux County
Congress
Los Angeles
Cal
S. L. Klingaman
J. F
Palestine
Slayton
Christian Reformed College
Grundy Center
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
North
South Dakota
Peter Kallas
Cedar Rapids
William Simonds
Quaker Oats
Kallas
Sioux City
Ralph Howell
General Pershing
Eighty-second
Army of Occupation
Howell
Judge Advocate General
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
University of Iowa
Methodist Church
R. D. Minard
St. Charles
Gayings Gramps