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Iowa News Roundup Highlights Fires and War Efforts
Des Moines sees a high American laundry destroyed by fire with about 10000 dollars loss. Fires also wipe Moor's Farmers' Grain elevator. Flag Day parade honors draftees from Fort Dodge. Red Cross drives, hog cholera cases, and parades mark Iowa towns. Prominent figures include Mrs. Olive A. Hunter and Drake University speaker Theodore Shonts.
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Boy Scouts
Muscatine
Farmers’ Grain Company
Moorand
Fort Dodge
Court House
Red Oak
Board of Supervisors
Iwork
McGregor Grain
Monona
F. E. Whitley
Webster City
Iowa
National Council of Defense
University Regiment
Iowa City
Red Cross
Mahaska County
Penn College
Oskaloosa
I. N. Taylor
Taylor
Maxine
Will Corey
Perry
Sioux City
Jefferson
S. D
Leon B. Bigelow
Grundy Center
Leon B. Jr
Donald C
Des Moines
Silvis H. Stamm
Orilla
St. Joseph
Chester Harthorn
Waterloo
Fort Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Third Iowa Infantry
Olive A. Hunter
Hunter
Butler County
Charles Brooks
Grinnell
J. S. Koeh
Justice D. C. Browning
Vinton
Chicago
France
Misa Julia Wilson
Frank Wilson
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan Railroad of
New York
Drake University
Shonts
Centerville
Walter A. Jessup
Iowa State University
Laurie Rowley
IW. Rowley
Adair
Atlantic Hospital
Atlantic
United States Veterinary Inspector
Towa
Sheffield
Anamosa
Polk County
J. M. Tudor
Corning
Newton
Dunleath and
Dubuque
Mississippi
Archie Campbell
Cedar Falls
Campbell
Sergt
Ray A. Potter
Kitchener Military Hospital
Brighton
England
N. Joyce
Maine
Morton Mills
J. M. Focht
Cedar Rapids
C. M. Kelsey
Iowa Falls
John Hoare
Kirkman