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Iowa War News and Local Life From a 1917 Snapshot
Iowa reports 124 Clinton alumnus serving in the war and rising ranks. Mason City appoints E Palmer to head the Iowa State School for the Blind at Winnebago. Cedar Rapids bass W J Grunewald builds traps for fish while Iowa fights cholera and food shortages. Union coal districts win relief, and three Iowa interurban railways face rate actions. Local notables include Rev. Schumann found guilty, Camp Dodge reports on religious training, and Cedar Rapids soldiers killed in action.
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Clinton High School
E Palmer
Mason City
Iowa State School
Winlob
Dilapatch
Towa City
State Board of Education
Cadar Rapids
W. J. Grunewald
Ilowa
Reed
Fort Dodge
Banze Transpost
I Interatata Commerce
Enger
Clayton
Allamakee
Towa
United States
Canada
Wesley Greene
Green
Albert Horn
Dea Monnea
W. F. Henry
Horn
Food Administration
Dean Barr
William Schumann
Pomeros
Germany
H. EB. Hutchson
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Cedar Rapids
Marahali
Rank Glick
A. G. Glick
Brittain& Co
Pork Packers
Young Glick
48Th
Sixth Regiment
U. S
Mre
Helen Glick
Ogden
Uteh
Sioux City
Iowa
Coal Administration
Havyner
B. Henderson
Atute Commerce Cunsel
Board of Railroad Coma Missioners
Iowa Interurban Railway
Cadar Rapids & Marion City Railway Company
Meson City & Clear
Iowa Posten
Des Moines
State Food Administration
War Industries Board
Chamber of Commerce of
War Industrial Board
Col
R. N. Gatty
National Army
Camp Dodge
M. GC. A
Knights of Columbus
Red Cross
Jewish Welfare Board
Newton
Harold J. Coke
Saylor Sheanatell
Stgourney
James J. Jachum
Dubuque
C. &. Willison
Gilmore
Iowa State College
Crinklebarger & Newton
Nevada
Northwestern Inc
Boone
Phare
Deight N. Lewie
State Board
Railroad Commissionary
Geo. McCaughan
Lewis
Towans
Blackhawk
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Charles Howson
DaWitt
Burlington
Sherman Nursery Company
Charles City
Turnery Company
Atute Cornei
Defense
London
Lowden
Londen
Strompller
Cedar Rapida
Jefferson Barracks
Strumpller