Automobiles Registry Up 20 000 in Iowa Report
General news notes Iowa auto registrations rose by 20 000 over last year with 14 000 renewals in 1918. By January 1, 1948 Iowa had 282 000 autos registered in Town. A Jasper county man seeks exemption claiming religious status signed as Jesus Christ with God in heaven as relative.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Department of Automobile Registration
Jesus Christ
Newton
Jasper County
Chas
Gol Au
God
Heaven
Pny
School of Christ
Fort Madison Men Refuse Exemption as Draft Questionnaires Arrive
In Fort Madison more than a hundred young men in the town penitentiary wait as draft questionnaires reach them. They consent to join the army but are held as prisoners. Most fill out forms. one man reportedly scrawled Come and get me on his paper before resigning to pray for release.
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Fort Madison
Uncle Sam
Town Stain
Obr
Red Cross to Open Junk Yard for Benefit
Sioux City chapter completes plans for a Red Cross junk yard to collect items such as old bones scrap iron paper automotive license numbers copper wire and wash boiler bottoms. Proceeds will aid Red Cross relief efforts.
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Sioux City
Red Cross
Woman hanged self after quarrel at Waterloo farm
Mrs. Merle Young, 28, killed herself in the barn at the family farm after a quarrel over her husband’s treatment of a horse. He had been arrested on cruelty charges and was taken to Waterloo. She sent her 5-year-old son to a neighbor before taking her own life.
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Waterloo
Merle Young
Store Painted Yellow in Protest Against Firemen Ball
The storefront of WV H Buelow shop was smeared with yellow paint and the word Slacker inscribed on the windows as a protest against buying tickets for a firemen’s masquerade ball benefiting the Red Cross and the Army Y M C A.
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WV H Buelow
Red Cross
Army Y. M.C. A
Egg Brings $64 at Red Cross Auction
A common hen laid an egg during the Red Cross auction. The egg sold for $64, contributing to a $900 total from the sale. A dinner later that evening raised about $110 for the fundraising effort.
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Woden
Red Cross
University ambulance corps arrives home from across the Atlantic
The university ambulance corps arrived safely on the other side of the Atlantic after training in Allentown Pennsylvania since June. They left for the front on Christmas day as part of a cable recalled fiere.
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University Ambulance Corps
Atlantic
Fiere
Allentown
Poisoned Candy Victim Recovers In Newton
Mrs. W Hl Scharf of Newton nearly recovers from throat injuries after eating poisoned candy sent as a gift. She tasted a piece from a box and fell ill, prompting medical treatment.
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Newton
Whl Scharf
Tanene
New Vital Statistics Law Goes Into Effect
Des Moines reports a new law from the last general assembly requiring county clerks to record births deaths marriages and divorces and report them to the state board. Previously only deaths were recorded highlighting the need for complete vital statistics. The change applies to persons between 21 and an unspecified age.
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Des Moines
Tawas
General Assembly
State Board of Bath
State House Notes and Public Health Actions in Iowa
Iowa companies file state incorporation papers including Atkinson Ming, Starkweather Snack, Pure Food Grocery of Ames. Julia A. Robinson reappointed secretary of the state library commission. Surgeon General announces general clinics near cantonments to combat venereal disease. State board faces funding hurdles for the plan. Library translations on Americanism funded, $400 war work approved. Hog cholera control discussed at veterinary conference. State commissions factory questionnaires to gather defense data. December shows 189 people employed via state and federal bureau, 302 job applications, 41 from employers. Dairy meetings in Guthrie, Audubon, Poweshiek, and Iowa counties report farmer participation. State defense seeks cooperation on disease control. seed labeling enforcement tightened amid corn seed shortage.
Income reports show many earn over $1200 annually
Registration officials state that most people required to report earn at least 1200 dollars per year. A hotel porter admitted earning 1000 dollars with free room and board, which the board estimates should total at least 1400 dollars.
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Sioux City
Guard Kills Iowa Convict in Fort Madison
Des Moines reports a convict named Will Johnson a Black man convicted in Pottawatamie county for larceny and sent to prison in 1914 was killed at Fort Madison after attacking a guard. He also attacked Deputy Warden Taylor about two months earlier. Authorities say his real name may be Humphrey Aleander and his home was Atlanta Georgia.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Will Johnson
Pottawaitamie
Fort Madison
Johnson
Taylor
Humphrey Aleander
Atlanta
Man Attacks Woman in Jackson Apartments. Critical Condition
Tes Maines assaulted Mrs. Robert Bennett at the Jackson apartments in East Sixth Avenue, slashing her throat with a pen knife after choking and beating her. Mrs. Bennett is in critical condition and may die.
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Tes Maines
Robert Bennett
East Sixth Avenue
Jackson Apartments
Jackson
Three Sioux City Nurses Entering Service
Three Sioux City nurses join the national service. Miss Louise Tever Olsen and Miss Helen Crassant have gone to Waco Texas for duty at Camp McArthur base hospital. All three are registered nurses.
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Sioux City
Sioux Ciy
Louise Teverolsen
Helen Crassant
Waco, Tex
Camp McArthur
Reglulerell
Endows Chair at Mount Vernon College by King Donation
Mount Vernon resident William J. King, longtime Cornell College president for 40 years, has donated a total of $200,000 for a new endowed chair. One hundred thousand dollars comes from a foundation in memory of his deceased daughter to endow the president’s chair, which has long occupied a key post.
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Endows College
Mount Vernon
William J. King
Cornell College
Fur
Haing
Jong
Mastodon Tooth Found in Des Moines Area
A fragmentary report describes a Mastodon tooth found near Des Moines by G Kersey. The tooth is described as over 600 years old with roots and enamel measurements noted, but the text is garbled and leaves many details unclear.
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Des Moines
Carater Sherlan
G. Kersey
Harvey
Opposing Vote stalls Suffrage Amendment in House
Washington report details bitter opposition from Southern Democrats to the president's stance on women’s rights as the suffrage amendment fails in a roll call. Key figures Rep Mann and Rep Shug leave hospital to cast decisive votes, while Miss Rankin leads Republican strategy and Speaker Clark threatens a tie vote.
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House
Senate
Jong
Decker
Missouri
James I. Mann
Chicago
Repub- Henn
Thems
W. Stins
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Mann
I Nn Hospital
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Shug
Lin
Mes
Louise Brownlow
Jamette Rankin
Montana
Clark
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Illinois
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King
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Cannon
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Wheeler
Radenberg
Williams
Denison
McCormick
Mason
Sabath
Mc. Andrews
Gallagher
Rainey
Iowa
British Women Win Victory in London Pageant
A fragmented report from London notes British women achieving a victory in a public event connected with a house of birdy and a local committee. The piece references Lord Lovehorn and a representation of Nie people amid a din in the capital.
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London
Din
Lord Lovehorn
Ameminet
One French Ship Sunk in Unclear Incident
A brief report notes a French vessel was sunk in a rapid event. Details are fragmentary and names or exact location are unreadable in the preserved text.
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Danny A
Odie
Mobilization Plan for 3 Million Workers In War Effort
Washington announces mobilization of 3 million workers for agriculture shipbuilding and war plants under the United States Employment Service. The program aims to place 400 000 mechanics in shipyards to accelerate the aeronautics and marine programs. John B Densmore will lead the employment service with Robert Watson and Charles T Clayton as assistants Samuel Gompers to succeed Watson as chief clerk.
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Washington
United States
Department of Labor
Department
John B. Densmore
Montana
Employment Service
Wilson
Robert Watson
Massachusetts
Charles T. Clayton
Maryland
Samuel J. Gompers
New York
Mr. Watson
Red Cross Aids British Army Recruitment Efforts
The Western Rates fund and British Canadian Recruiting mission ally with the American Red Cross for expeditionsary forces. The Western Relief fund will reimburse Red Cross chapters for emergency relief and supervision to families of British Canadians or Americans stationed overseas.
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Chicago
Central West
Western Rates Fund
Bir Renu
Tied Cross
Ite
Cot Fund
Ninois
Wisconsin
Town
Red Cross
Western Relief Fund
Mississippi joins nation by ratifying prohibition amendment
Fifteen minutes after Governor Bilbo presented the measure, both houses ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the federal Constitution. Only eight dissenting votes were cast. Mississippi’s assembly is the first to act on the amendment.
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Tyeleson
Miss
Bilbo
Mississippi Assembly
Sinking of 18 British ships shocks wartime readers
The report notes 18 British merchant vessels of 1600 tons or more sunk by enemy submarine or mines, with three more merchant ships damaged. In Washington, General Pershing announces Private Arthur J. Anatvker, engravers, was seriously wounded in action on December 13. His father Spedekur resides in Coluhit Missouri.
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Tendon
Jun
Washington
Arthur J. Anatvker
Spedekur
Coluhit
Thirty Killed In Railway Wreck In Germany and Netherlands
A rail disaster near Kutteertautern in Bavaria Germany and near Amsterdam Netherlands left thirty people dead and many injured. Authorities report 90 passengers aboard the train were killed and 160 more were injured as officials investigate the accident reported on Wednesday.
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Amsterdam
Kutteertautern
Bvaril
Germany
Turkeys on Gains Declares American Democracy Has Not Blundered
American democracy has organized its full power in 1918 with an army of 1.5 million ready for France, says a Senate War Committee testimony. Submarine supplies, equipment, and training are described as substantially complete, with rapid progress in mobilization, logistics, and production.
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Tan
Amvrica
Senate War In Hing
France
War Department
Erintee
Supreme court upholds selective service act
The Supreme Court sustains the selective service act as constitutional. Chief Justice White delivers a unanimous opinion, ruling Congress has power to compel military service at home and abroad, rejecting the challengers as having imaginary contentions.
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White
Uncle Sam
Washington, Jann. &4
Supreme Court
Congress
Ment
Washington Suspends Community Guard in Wartime Reorganization
Secretary Baker announced further organization of the United States Guard is suspended. The special protective duty will be carried out by army troops and 1,800 federal Guardsmen whose enrollment is now limited._CHANGED conditions_ cited as the reason for the new plan.
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Baker
Washington
United States Guard
Germans Level 130 Villages Behind Front Line
The Trome report cites Meld Marshal von Hindenburg ordering the destruction of 186 villages behind the western front, mainly near St. Quentin, to improve defense and deny terrain to advancing forces.
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von Hindenburg
Virginia Senate Votes Dry in Tight 10 to 9 Win
Richmond Virginia January 12 the state senate backed the prohibition amendment by one vote at 10 to 9 and sent the issue to a voter referendum. A separate measure to submit the amendment failed 28 to 10.
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Virginia Senate
Titchmond
Virgina Senate
Cum
Volcanic Eruption Devastates Rynog Town
Jan 12 in Central Meundor the Magumgin volcano erupts for days sending ash and stones over the region. The town of Rynog is reported destroyed as rescue crews survey the aftermath.
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Meundor
Magumgin
Rynog Way
Anuric Promises Relief From Rheumatism Kidney Ailments
Advert explains Dr. Pierce’s Anuric tablets as a cure for rheumatism backache and kidney trouble urging readers to act quickly to avoid diabetes or bladder stones. Recommends exercise water and open air with trial package offered for 19 cents by sending to Dr. W. M. Pierce Buffalo New York.
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Thas
Pivrgn'g
An-u-rie
Flood in Tientsin costs and dike completion
Tientsin faces costly flood damage after finishing a high dike around foreign concessions. The foreign residents funded about 70,000 dollars to flood control, with pumps needed to send water back to the Peiho river. A hard freeze could halt heating as the river freezes several feet thick each winter.
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Tientsin
China
HW. J. Lurner
Mast and
West News
Tievtsin
Ttt
Tlentsin
Galveston
Tex
Gulf of Mexico
Peiho
Fashioned Slenderty: A Quirky Note on Thinness
A fragmented snippet jokes about slenderness and fashion, noting even gatekeepers must be thin. The tone echoes playful social commentary on body image and style.
Antofagasta Plans 6 Million Port Upgrade
Antofagasta Chile will spend 6 000 000 to improve port facilities. Administering the draft law cost the United States 8 660 480 dollars.
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Antofagasta
Chile
United States
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