Iowa News Items of Interest From Adair to Muscatine
A wide mix of Iowa items highlights land sales near Walnut. a seventy acre and eighty acre parcels sold for $375 and $22.75 an acre. The Y M C A plans a statewide drive for 126000 to fund budgets, and Judge John C. Sherwin dies at 67. A Christmas tree vision in France for refugees, a tragic trapper death near Lansing, and a long list of local notices including church anniversaries and sports tales fill the report.
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Adair
Jasper County
Army
Navy
Marines
A. T
Thompson
Harry Buttenschon
Walnut
Nic Peterson
Grote Brothers
Maine
South America
Orient
John C. Sherwin
Iowa Supreme Court
Mason City
Coun
Supreme Court
Camp Dodge
France
Verduc
Gondrecourt
Lansing
Sam
Mississippi
Iowa
Nebraska
Carlyle
E. S. Brown
Atlantic
Mr. Brown
Illinois
Brown County
Methodist Protestant Church
Brown
Congregationalists
Atlantic Church
Hsas
Earl Caddock
Army of Occupation
Waterloo
Caddock
Bigburlay
Bone
Bishop Fork
World War Era News Roundup Highlights Trade and Travel
A Washington dispatch reports President Wilson may form a committee with industrial leaders and officials to study price scales for basic commodities for postwar purchases. Other items note Cairo shipping congestion warns American travelers to Egypt, Ireland self-determination hopes in a House committee report, and tax and war revenue plans for 1918.
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Washington Dispatch
Wilson
Belfield
Egypt
State Department
Washington
Cairo
Wilson backed plan to curb German colonies via international accord
A Foreign A dispatch notes Japan and public favor Wilson's idea. He may skip Belgium visit but if returning to Europe may accept Belgian illusion. Serbian General Gala defeats two divisions near Kungur Perm. Per city deemed safe from anarchist attack. IW W votes strike over wage cuts in Mont district. general strike expected. Britain and US cruisers head toward Hamburg amid war weariness and unrest.
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Wilson
Belgium
Paris
Europe
Gala
Kungur
Perm
Olstela
Omsk
Per
Peace Talks Progress and Indemnity Plan Report
Paris reports progress toward a compromise on territorial disputes between Italians and Jugo Slavs. Major powers back a 2 billion dollar indemnity to Belgium with the first installment due now. A blocking council to cut Sarburgo imports is to be formed chaired by Vince McCormick. Russia signals possible talks with the Entente to halt hostilities and discusses creditors of Itausla.
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Paris
United States
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Paris Dispatch Indicates Troop Estimates for Rhine Watch
A Paris report quotes Marshal Foch saying 400000 American troops are needed to maintain the Watch on the Rhine until peace. France would supply twice that, Britain 200000, and Belgium 100000 mobilized troops along the Rhine. Also noted is the death of the Duke of Sante Maura in Madrid and speculation on Turkey’s future.
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Paris
Marshal Foch
the Rhine
Rhine
Sante Maura
Madrid
European War Budget and Atlantic Congress Highlights
The report notes Australia’s 1918 war spending totaling 458 million dollars with expenditures surpassing revenue by 90 million. An Atlantic Congress for a League of Nations opens in New York amid 9 000 delegates. US prisoners repatriate 12 stowaways from Newport News to France. A Hoboken lodging fire claims three lives. Newark housing workers rally under a no work slogan.
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J. B. Newman
Cedar Falls
H. H. Nerbouig
Sheldon
George W. Sches
Nerbovig
Hiram Davis
Keokuk
Tlowa City
Edith Carman
Walnut
C. M. Hughes
P. E. Lamborn
Pleasant
Atlantic
Cass County
Lamborn
Griswold
Frank W. Eliott
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Senate
Whitmore
Wapana County
Capitol
State House
Mothey
Overycne
Camp Dodge
Lavo Agresd
Muscatine
Harding
Labor
A. L. Urlek
Iowa
Hondin
A.J. Small
Congress
Commonwealth of Australy
Melbourne
Atlantic Congress
New York
Newark
Allies Agree On Claims At Peace Conference Debates
Five great powers outline aims with France seeking Alsace Lor raine and Rhine frontiers, Sarre basin control, and buffer states. other nations press for Adriatic access, Io Croatian unions, and Turkish straits. Greece seeks Epirus Thrace and Constantinople region under international control plus Smyrna and Dodecanesos.
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Greece
Epirus
Thrace
Constantinople
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Vilayet
Smyrna
Asia Minor
Mediterranean
Dodecanesus
Italy
Great Britain Italy and Romania push claims at peace conference
Britain seeks a society of nations with self determination and freedom of transit, mandatories over German colonies, and joint indemnities. Italy demands Trentino Tyrol Dalmatian islands and coastal zones, and expansion in Africa. Romania and Serbia press Danube access and Banat stakes amid troop moves and neutral zones.
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Great Britain
Snd
Australia
German Southwest Africa
Union of South Africa
German East Africa
Arabia
Mesopotamia
Bulgaria Hopes for Frontier Extensions in Thrace and Aegean Coast
Bulgaria capitulated with no conditions but seeks extensions of Bulgarian frontiers in southern Macedonia along the Aegean coast and in Thrace, aiming to redraw borders after surrender.
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Bulgaria
Macedonia
Aegean
Thrace
Czecho SlovaKia Expands Clashing Over New Frontiers
The new Czecho Slovak state absorbs Bohemia Moravia and Slovak regions from Austria-Hungary, sparking clashes with Poles Ruthenians Roumanians Germans and Magyars over ethnographic claims in Saxony Silesia and Galicia. The state aims southward expansion toward the Danube and the Adriatic.
Polish efforts to seize disputed regions across three fronts
Poland presses to take Lemberg in Ukraine Chelm in Little Russia and Vilna with both Lithuanians and Bolsheviks claiming Vilna. Poles contend with Germans over Silesia Posen West Prussia and the vital Danzig port. A Polish victory would sever East Prussia from Germany.
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Poland
Galicia
Lemberg
Ukraine
Chelm
Russia
Vilna
German Silesia
Posen
West Prussia
Danzig
East Prussia
Germany
Belgium seeks large reparation lien and territorial aims
Belgium asserts a first lien on German assets up to three billion dollars and demands return of stolen machinery. It reasserts independence from neutrality and seeks the left bank Scheldt, Maastricht peninsula, and a Luxemburg plebiscite to decide joining Belgium or France. Holland resists frontier changes but may modify the Scheldt treaty for equal rights.
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France
Alsace-Lorraine
Rhine
Palatinate
Prussia
Sarre
Germany
Chamber of Deputies
Syria
Belgium
Holland
Scheldt
Maastricht
Luxemburg
Japan Offers to Return Tsingtau to China With Conditions
Japan proposes handing Tsingtau back to China while keeping German concessions on Shantung. It seeks to retain Pacific islands north of the equator. China demands safeguards against foreign imperialism including consular rights and the return of Kiaochau.
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Japan
Tsing-Tau
China
Shentung Peninsula
Germany
Pacific
Equator
Switzerland Seeks Rhine Neutral Outlet to Sea
Switzerland advocates making the Rhine a neutral stream to gain outlet to the sea, aligning with French aims and signaling a shift in regional waterway policy.
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Switzerland
Rhine
Nordic ambitions on Schleswig Aland Spitzbergen and union
The text notes Denmark seeking annexation of northern Schleswig areas with Danish inhabitants, Norway eyeing Spitzbergen but not pressing claims, and Sweden desiring union with the Aland Islands held by Finland since the Russian collapse.
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Scandinavia
Denmark
Schleswig
Norway
Spitzbergen
Sweden
Unio N
Aland Islands
Finland
Fearful Turkish plea seeks to save Constantinople
The Ottoman liberal party petitions President Wilson to preserve Constantinople under self determination, arguing that placing the city under an international regime would destroy Turkey's heart and leave nothing for a future Turkish meal, while noting the empire’s pro Allied stance.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Wilson
League, of Nations
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