Iowa News Roundup Highlights War Efforts And Local Disasters
Des Moines hosts a governors conference with naval policy notes as Iowa plans a 31 million dollar combined campaign for Armenian and Syrian relief. Waterloos Red Cross reports wartime activity. Ojibwe and other counties face influenza impacts with bank strains.
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Decme
Des Moines
Waterloo
American Red Cross
Europe
J. L. Gourley
Villisca
Influena
W. ‘L. Warding
Annapolis
Wilson
Dutch Cross
C. Jackson
Crose
Mia
Converse
Missouri Valley
France
The
Food Administration
Polk County
Hampton
Henry Schroopten
Lemara
Twenty-fourth
Iowa Assembly
Plymouth County
J.M. Wormsley
Atate
Navy
Navy Department
G. B. Keotterar
Navy Office
Chicago
Cass County
Ket
Cumberland
Griswold National
Griswold
Cumberland Band
Atlantic Banks
State Board of Health
Davenport
G. Ef. Sumner
Abraham’ Slimmer
Dubuque
Minnesota
Supreme Court
H. M. Mayner
Lowe
Abpreme Court
United’ States
Returnee prisoners mock German goose step at Dover camp
Returning prisoners from Germany parade at North Fall Meadow camp in Dover. They wear German souvenir helmets and jest at their hardships, sharing a moment of light relief with comrades after long imprisonment in German camps.
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Falla
Meadow
Dover
Birth of Standard Time in United States
A 1883 event unified time across the United States and Canada. On November 18 at noon clocks were reset to establish four continental time zones, replacing hundreds of local standards used by travelers from Boston to Washington.
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Boston
Washington
Canada
Atlantic
Not Quite as Expected in a Curio of Poetry Class
A fragmented classroom scene recalls a pupil's misread line from Casabianca. The mother answers kindly while the teacher questions the boy about why the boy stood on the burning deck. The odd exchange hints at memory and misinterpretation in a stray stories vignette.
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Mason City
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Spragueville
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Ottumwa
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Independence
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Little Rock
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Denison
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Saratoga
William H. Hunting
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Bellevue
Harrison Crichett
Grinnell
Delbert. H. Grey
William I. Danibrink
Lemars
Andrew Johnson
Wallingford
Alfred @choeder
Julius Vinke
Manning
William Young
Conroy
Arthur G. Norton
Odebolt
Arthur Strought
Granville
John‘ P. Hanford
Cedar Rapids
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Thomas J. Staten
Charles C. Espey
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Persia
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Nels P. ‘Larsen
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Givin
Raymond Markus
Lews H.morken
Locust
Lerter L. McLoughan
Allerton
Charles 1. Gifford
Lake’ City
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