Iowa Newswire of War Years Tolls and Turnout
Winneshiek farmers donate over 2000 pigs to Red Cross shipped to Chicago market. Iowa enlists citizens for war work, trains, and relief drives while state officials manage shortages, taxes, and veterans’ return schemes amid demobilization and public health rules.
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Winneshiek County
Red Cross
Chicago
Catherine Marie Brandt
Walnut
United States
Harding
Sioux City
Des Moines
Telephone
France
Burleson
Student Army Training Corps
Cornell College
Boye
Schoors
Charles City
United War
Milo Doubenmier
Mt. Vernon
Ray McLaughlin
Rock Rapids
Northwestern
Lisbon
Westibound
Howard Cunningham
Knoxville
Iowa
New York City
Fifth Avenue
Nat Guernsey
John McHugh
Theodore P. Shonts
Armenia
Syria
State Council of Defense
Food Administration
Liberty Loan Committees
Tefense
Ford
St. Catharine
Walker
Washington
War Department
Camp Dodge
Recreation Department
War Camp
Community Service of
Army Club
State of Iowa
National Guard
Military Fund
Board of Health
Lepott County
War News and Administrative Updates From Washington
Washington reports remove food and sugar restrictions for households and restaurants. The navy lists 1,291 ships by July 1, 1920 with 40 battleships and 820 destroyers. Up to 6,000 major casualties await final kin notifications. Lovett resigns from railroad division leadership to return to Union Pacific duties. Baker notes veterans may not return before peace. Belgium gains more credit bringing US loans to 210.12 million. allies total near 8.2 billion. Cancellations of war contracts estimated at 2.6 billion. Garfield resigns as War Food Administrator. Stettinius to France returns for Christmas. An express train collision near Orleans injures 25. bodies recovered.
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J. C. Voorhees
Antts
Leon
Boone
Jane Arbelt
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Lberty
French High Commission
Iowa
Alberia
W. L. Harding
Atty
H. M. Havner
Claude R. Porter
Porter
Democratic State Central Committee
University of Towa
Homer A. Miller
W. G. McAdoo
Bert Davis
Atlantic Produce Company
Davis
General Assembly
Senate
N. J
Adjutant General
Des Moines
C. L. Herring
War Department
Herring
Red Cross
France
W. C. Minkbine
Ada Patwomen
Aptee Snyder
Polk County Red Cross
New York
McAdoo
Josephinea Garden
Wapello
Chicago
Little Miss Garden
Canada
Griffin
House Caval Committee
Washington
Robert §. Lovett
The
Railroad Administration
Union Pacific Railroad
Belgium
Treasury
United States
Allied and American forces to occupy Berlin for peace supervision
Reports from the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Berlin say an American wireless dispatch intercepted by Germans indicates Allied and American troops will temporarily occupy Berlin and Mannheim for peace supervision. Also noted are reparations calls, naval losses, prisoner disputes, and political moves at home and abroad.
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Berlin
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Berin
Mannheim
Red Cross Outlines Peace Program and Membership Drive
Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross War Council, announces a nationwide Christmas enrollment week for 3,854 chapters and 22 million members. The plan shifts from war fundraising to a peace program and expanded home service, pledging support for soldiers, civilians, and postwar reconstruction while stressing member devotion over further fund campaigns.
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Washington
Stenry P. Davison
War Council of the Red Cross
Ement
Sked Cross
Christis
Red Cross
Red Cross Home Service
Europe
Apies
American Red Cross
Organization of the Red Cross
Reil Cross
America
Iowa Names 100 Plus Casualties From Last Week
The list records Iowans killed in action or died of wounds or disease during the past week. Names span Muscatine to Des Moines and include soldiers from Fort Madison to Sioux City, with many counties and towns represented.
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Central City
Herald Minor
Olin
Joseph Hore
Clivter
Willis Neal
Gaceola
Harry &. Everest
Marstalle Town
Harry Bergstrom LeMars
Gen. J. Nelson
Sargent’s Biu
Glen Slatery
Farmington
Milo B. Underwood
Peterson
Chas. F. Sessler
Ackley
Walter D. Ballard
Redfield
Olive Toson
Winterat
Pvts
John R DeLong
Vinton
Albert Stanford
Garden Grove
Sergis
Virgil H. Guthrie
Newton
Floyd L. McDuffee
Anampsa
Pyts
George Bosman
Parkersburg
Harry Johnson
Rock Rapids
Eldo A. Michael
Waverly
Theodore O. Olson
Thor
Jacob ‘Rowbacher
Amana
Eddia Schmidt
Davenport
Len 'D. McCoy
Renisen
John Anderson
Mt. Ayr
Robert B. Blieis
Sac City
Kris Jorgeson
Devonport
Harry Boling
Des Moines
Eugene Campbell
Walter A. Kelly
New Albia
Justin M. Lilie
Joseph Preategard
Northwood
Leonard Olsen
Merrill
Yarand R. Gullarie
Melvin
Samuel B. Knapp
Linden
Clarence Olsen
Jewell
Albert P. Huber
Fort Atkinson
John E. Kuethe
Arthur E. Nagel
Wilton
LeRoy F. Jones
Lynes
Lester B. Perrego
Farley
Fred S. Dvorsky
Iowa City
John Neilsen
Extra
John Prudent
Carroll
Jane Saxon
Danbury
Theodore J. Schindler
Rudd
David ¢ Webb
Boone
Earl Waldvogel
Dennard J. Pohipeter
Ft. Madison
Keneth Robins
Goddell
Lancelot Olds
Clinton
Harold M. Oxley
Dana
Pearl BE. Nicholson
Mr. Pleasant
Clarence 5. Williams
Sidney
Herman B. Knute
Glidden
Carl HyYert
Decorah
Gus Edwards
Flarry Fullerton
Rockford
Roscoe G. Church
Edward Desyres
Prairie City
Peter
Paul M. Bast
de Witt
Pearl BE. Gillis
Albert Stepan, Jr
Pisgah
Francis Donnelly
Alvord
Joe J. Benda
Brooklyn
Severt J. Nelson
Bilsworth
Joseph F. Wirz
Cedar Rapids
Wari T. Conaway
Tabor
John Benning
Manchester
William F. Caster
Joseph R. Lambe
Graettinger
Harold D.mellett
Oskaloosa
Frank J. Valla
Passett
Ale
Ernest Z. Bell
Lonnie R. Meeke
Marengo
Carl
S. Gilmore
Dubuque
Roland
Proder
Martinsburg
Ton C. Sgrovig
Radcliffe
John H. Kemble
Muscatina
Howard F. Gibson
Sherman
International Briefs From War and Disaster
Six thousand deaths from Spanish influenza reported in Sanioa via Melbourne dispatch. Paris says Crown Prince Frederick William renounces crown rights. Leipsic soldiers and workers' council orders dissolution of German General Headquarters and Hindenburg arrest, per Lokn Anzeiger. Buenos Aires dispatch cites northern Chile earthquake totals: ten dead and one hundred injured.
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Sanioa
Melbourne
Exchange Telegraph Company
Soldiers and Workers' Council of
Leipsic
Hindenburg
Lokn Anzeiger
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Chile
American Troops Enter Mainez Fortress West Bank Rhine
Amsterdam dispatch reports American forces entered Mainez, a principal German fortress on the Rhine’s west bank. The British Admiralty commends U S troops aboard the steamship Persie, torpedoed on September 7, in a letter to Admiral Sims.
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Amsterdam
Mainez
Germany
Rhine
Sims
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Iowa Society
Walter Reed Hospital
Bradford Knapp Aquin
Peru
Baker
House Appropriations
White House
Harry Garfield
Edward R. Stettinius
Stockholm
Lemberg
Galicia
Nowy Dziennik
Cracow
Baden
Switzerland
Siys
Copenhagen
Daily Telegraph
Ousterland
Neung Sur Loirs
Orleans
Lloyd George
London Daily Mail
Eric Geddes
Admiralty
London
London Express
Paris L'Qcurve
Leavenworth State Bank
Leavenworth
Ind
du Pont
Pompton Lakes
Cleveland
Streat
Lima
San Francisco
Charles M. Schwab
Atlantic City
Business Men of
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
Joseph P. Carney
Carney
Piace
Atlantic Coast
Delaware River
Gulf Coast
Great Likes
Wilson
Lansing
Henry White
George Washington
Cherbourg
Willams
Oklahoma
Fosund
Davison
Willle
Ars Gigantic
Paris
Frederick William
U.S
Teutonic War News
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