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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
6
Fragmentary text references a pending increment call and division personnel changes. It hints at a plan to resume moves and notes a base hospital setup and October 3 timing, but the overall content is garbled with illegible names and incomplete sentences, obscuring concrete facts.
Readable fragments describe a missing guardian figure and a puzzling set of clues. The text hints at a strange event involving a monster figure and a controversial stock item, with references to a crowd and a house of words. Details are obscured by garbled OCR.
The second death of a soldier from Camp Dodge was reported at Life Hospital. Frank J. Seluttheis of Minneapolis, a member of the 387th Field Artillery, died after arriving at the hospital several days ago. His father Cyril Carpunter of Meline, Md, member of infantry, was en route to the base hospital at Fort Dodge.
Signal units including Captain Wy Ains worths Teseryn company and Mito Elise serving Ourols are to attach to the Eighth Division at Camp Dodger instead of the Wyoming Fourth Division as per Maloulyan L. Bastman division signal offices. A Detroit signal company and a Kansas City unit will compose one of two folk signals at Loa division. Each company currently contains 78 men. Territorial status to be considered.
An army unit led by General Plummer and aides departs for France, with training and command reassignments planned before departure. Officials anticipate a six week operation, secrecy surrounding travel dates, and likely Allied command redeployments as the troop movement proceeds.
The article recounts a bank robbery two years prior involving Merrin and two masked robbers. Merrin claimed later to have confessed to the crime and part of the money was recovered. He received a sentence under two years. A son was born to his wife after Perrin’s release and prior to serving his sentence.
More than 200 men in the Eight Talent division of the national army at Camplondge are undergoing noncommissioned officer training. They are being tested for permanence in service as the army emphasizes soldier skills, leadership classes, and equipment handling under officers guidance.
Watenina W Webster, treasurer of the state council of defense, was appointed coal administrator for the state by Dr H A Gerrold, federal coal administrator. Webster recently traveled to Washington with Gov Harting and returned promptly to the nation for further local coordination.
Ames report states McCombs, a senior agricultural student at Iowa State College, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and possible internal injuries during a noisy pushball contest between the freshmen and sophomores. He was rushed from the field to a local hospital.
Fragmentary text discusses a Soll Rooster auction at Sabula AS with a first bid at 35 and a later donation to the Red Cross by a German signer. The passage is garbled and provides limited, unclear details about participants, amounts, or outcomes.
A Toledo gathering of Crocker’s law graduates featured unanimous resolutions backing the president in the war. President C. W. Flint of Cornell College delivered the principal address urging unity, warning against opposition and stressing continued patriotic support for the war effort.
A World War era recruitment style notice offers men for perilous South Sea ventures and adventuring missions. It lists roles such as gold miner, gasoline engineer, secretary, and camera operator, offering 15 percent of gross earnings and funded travel from San Francisco.
The article notes a government backed drive to collect old copper implements and utensils, especially alembics and quar sctlls, from departments for reuse in production. Demand centers on red copper objects, with collectors and officers coordinating, paying francs per kilogram, while shipments from Saxe and Neanty reach the border for tender.
The readable text shows garbled phrases and unclear meaning with no coherent event, names, or facts to summarize. It appears as damaged OCR from a historical page, lacking identifiable persons places organizations or dates to anchor a proper news item.
Jumbled readable fragments describe a local cooking effort in a community setting. Names appear. no clear event dates or places are provided. The text hints at a workshop or social gathering with participants and tasks in a kitchen. Further readable facts are too fragmentary to confirm specifics.
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