Big Gain in Gardens in Iowa Through 300 Percent Rise
Iowa reports show at least a 300 percent increase in garden acreage this year. About 40 000 volunteers and students in Boy and Girl Clubs high schools and volunteer food producers cultivate gardens, with 11 900 in clubs 11 000 as volunteers and 18 000 from half the high schools. Gardens could yield seven million pounds of tomatoes or 202 500 bushels of potatoes, and Des Moines Sioux City Fort Dodge and Ames note large garden growth statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Nets Service
Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa
Army
Garden Des
Nes Moines
Siouxity
Fort Dodge
K. K. Duss
Agricultural Extension Department
Washington
Guards at Ida Grove welcome Denison Company B contingent
Ida Grove welcomed a Denison contingent of Company B of the Second, fifty five members strong, arriving from Denison in autos. Ex Representative Julius Rohwer gave the welcome address for Ida Grove, with responses by Attorney Clem Welsh and Senator G. K. Caswell of Denison. The entire Company B, 144 men, is mobilized here and the remaining men are encamped opposite the armory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Grove
Denison
Company B
Schleswig Wands
Julius Rohwer
Clem Welsh
G. K. Caswell
Ruth Hart Real Soldier in French Army Promoted
Ruth Hart, known as the Corneil Bhiffs girl, has been promoted to corporal and leads a five person ambulance crew including four French women. She is the first Council Bluffs native to enlist overseas and has served in Salonika and in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Harl
Council Claffiss Huth Jarl
Corneil Bhiffs
Miss Hart
Council Bluffs
Salonich
Menthe
France
No Slackers In Royal Red Cross War Fund Drive
Royal residents with a population around 360 subscribed 7000 to the Red Cross war fund. At the first mass meeting fewer than 200 persons attended and the subscription surpassed 35000. The next day a soliciting committee added more gifts, lifting the total to 7000, over twenty dollars per capita.
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Royal
Red Cross War Fund
Two Fort Dodge Papers Consolidate Into Daily Chronicle
Fort Dodge announces the consolidation of the Daily Chronicle and the Evening Messenger into a single publication. The Chronicle, owned by the Duncombe family for 33 years, will merge with the Messenger, owned by the Roberta family. the Chronicle plant is to be sold.
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Fort Dodge
Daily Chronicle
Evening Messenger
Chronicle
Duncombe
The
Messenger
Roberta
Marcus Girl Weds Cleghorn at Presbyterian Parsonage
Miss Alicia Hyndman daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Hyndman Marcus and James Hekeman were married June 30 at the Presbyterian parsonage. Hekeman a hardware merchant at Sutherland is known in Eleventh Iowa district republican circles as Long dim Hakemen. The couple will reside in Sutherland after August 1.
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Marcus
Cleghorn
Alicia Hyndman
Elizabeth Hyndman
Eof Marcus
James
Hekeman
Presbyterian Parsonage
Sutherland
Iowa
Long
Hakemen
Yowa Knights
Tndt
Southerland
Ax Murder Sleuth Wilkerson Arrested in Conspiracy Plot
Des Moines reports J N Wilkerson a famed detective tied to the Villiseaux murders faces conspiracy charges after a plot to burglarize the Senator F F Jones hardware store at Villisca is uncovered. Three Atlantics William Walker Edward Oiler Harry Nave arrested with him. Wilkerson released on bond.
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Des Moines
J. N. Wilkerson, & Burts
Villiseaux
F. F. Jones
Villisca
Wilkerson
Senator Jones
Jon Moore
William Walker
Edward Oiler
Harry Nave
Atlantic
Corning
Jones
Judge Woodruff
Red Oak
Hayne Wilkerson
Moore
Stillinger
Dresa
Hin
Andrenen
Joe Stullinger
Brothers killed at Grade Crossing near Manson
Two brothers Lewis 19 and Arthur 21 were in a car struck by a northbound Rock Island passenger train three miles south of Manson. Lewis died three hours later from skull injuries. Arthur survived with serious injuries. Their father Julius Weidemann watched the crash from a nearby field.
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Manson
Lewis Weldentnn
Arthur Weidemann
Rock Island
Lewis Weidemann
Lewis
Arthur
Chester
Minn
Julius Weidemann
Recruits Board Camp Arrival at LeMars
Recruits from LeMars and nearby towns march to join Company K at LeMars camp. Kingsley contingent travels with 200 men to Remsen where a rally and songs unfold. A 400-car procession and TeMars band lead celebratory parade toward the camp amid cheering crowds.
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LeMars
LyMars
Kingsley Lasters
Jilnes
Aber
Company K
Remsen
Kingsley
Wade
Mara
Soldier Boys
TeMars Band
Tragic Drowning Near Sac City In River Swim
Sac City reports a fatal drowning of 18 year old Peter Fharnish while swimming with three younger boys at a Racoon River hole near the pumping station. He cramped midstream. one companion narrowly escaped. Body recovered after about 45 minutes. He worked as a clerk at Farmers Savings Bank, son of farmer John Tharnish, eleven miles southeast.
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Sac City
Peter Fharnish
Car Versus Train Fatal Crash Near Blairburg
Louis Caquelin of Woolstock dies after his car collides with a westbound Illinois Central Fast Mail train at a crossing near Blairburg. He had been seriously injured and died soon after at Mercy Hospital.
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Webster City
Ciis
Blairburg
Louis Caquelin
Woolstock
Milinois Central
Caquelin
Mercy Hospital
Fort Dodge Camp Receives New Iowa Infantry Recruits
One hundred twenty eight members of Companies F and G of the Second Iowa infantry are in camp two miles west of Fort Dodge. They joined the units since their return from the border under Capt. Barton commanding Company G and Capt. Heath commanding Company F.
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Fort Dodge
Second Jawa Infantry
Barton
Heath
Food Dealers Accused Of Hoarding Freight Cars
Des Moines reports state railroad commission accuses food dealers of using freight cars for storage to keep prices up and create shortages. The Burlington road charged W. W. Copeland of Burlington with holding a carload of potatoes March 6 to June 6 and now a carload of cabbage, with cars on track as of June 11.
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Des Moines
State Railroad Commission
Council of Defense
Burlington Road
State Railway Commission
W. W. Copeland
Burlington
Fleet Battles Submarines Near France and Monarch Restored in Peking
American destroyers protect convoys to France reporting one submarine sunk in two attacks as transits reach French ports. In Peking, Li Yuan Hung announces restoration of the Manchu monarchy under General Chang Hsun with guards tightened around the legation and orders completing political reforms. A hundred Japanese troops bolster the legation guard.
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Washington
de Stroyers
France
Committee On Public
Navy Department
General Pershing
Peking
Hsuan‘Tung
Chang-hsun
Li Yuan Hung
Sin
Legation
Chang Usun
Percy Tesiain
Pury
Yuan Sbhi Kai
Snys
Chiyna
Hswan-Tung
New State Banker Messenger Sells Linden Bank Interest
Des Moines. George H. Messenger, named state bank commissioner under the new law, assumes duties in the auditor’s office awaiting a basement bank department room. He sold his Linden bank interest to partner L. W. Finch and others. Mary Warrington remains, May Alber stays as chief clerk, and Adolph F. Griffin joins the force with J. A. Barr and others named as examiners. Charles A. Mains departs to Waterloo Loan and Trust.
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Des Moines
George H. Messenger
Harding
Bank Commission
State Auditor
Bank
State Architect
Messenger
Linden Bank
RP. Fuller
Mason City
W. W. Miller
Cedar Rapids
W. O. Reed
Eldora
Fred J. Bole
Hancock
Verk R. Martin
Qelwein
H. B. Schlee
Perry
R. F Wilson
Fairfield
Charles A. Mains
Waterloo Loan and Trust Company
Iowa calf clubs import over 630 high grade heifers
The State Dairy Association reports more than 630 high grade dairy heifers imported and distributed through calf clubs in Iowa in three months. Clubs formed at What Cheer Barnes City Sutherland New Sharon Waterloo Iowa City Wellman Brighton and Warmare City. Calves ages range from three weeks to eight months, purchased by state dairy officials and local representatives. Plans call for breeding by pure bred bulls of the same breed after 16 months to avoid crossbreeding and to upgrade herds. Members may pay to keep the calf or sell at public auction and profit from the difference between sale price and note.
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Ames
Iowa
State Dairy Association
What Cheer
Barnes City
Sutherland
New Sharon
Waterloo
Iowa City
Wellman
Brighton
Warmare City
Dairy Extension Department
Dairy Association
Kerensky Leads Major Offensive Drive On Front
London reports War Minister Kerensky personally directed a four day push on the Gal Helan front urging advance. The Petrograd office says 10178 enemy soldiers and 164 officers captured in two days plus seven heavy guns and seven machine guns taken.
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London
Whlels
Kervensky
Ga- Helan
Petrograd
Grain protection order prompts Chicago board meeting
Chicago July 7 J P Griffin president of the Chicago board of trade received a request from United States Food Administrator Hoover to build stockades around all elevators under the local board's jurisdiction. Griffin called a warehouse committee meeting to act on the request.
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Chicago Board
Chicago
J. P. Griffin
Chicago Board of Trade
United States Food
Hoover
Griffin
Germans Turn Guns on Strikers
Amsterdam reports a Tamburg labor clash as strikers confront workers from the government munitions plant. Soldiers opened fire killing one person and wounding eleven.
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Amsterdam
Tamburg
France Receives Additional War Loan From United States
Washington reports an extra war loan of 100 million dollars to France, lifting France credits to 310 million and the total American loans to the allies to 1.303 billion dollars.
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Washington
France
Playwright Thompson Buchanan Enlists in Kentucky Regiment
Thompson Buchanan, playwright and husband of Katherine Winterbotham known as the prettiest girl in Chicago, enlists in the first Kentucky regiment at Lewisville Kentucky in July.
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Lewisville
Thompson Buchanan
Kentucky
Buchanan
Katherine Winterbotham
Chicago
German Agent Dies by Own Action in New York
Richard Addison Trummerscheidt, representative of Gere an Interests In Ching, commits suicide by jumping from the top floor of a bachelor apartment house in New York on July 7. The incident is reported as a self-inflicted death by a German agent.
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New York
Richnard Addn Trmmerscheidt
Ching
German Reservist Sentenced to 18 Months In Prison
Werner Marne a German reservist who tried to destroy the Canadian Pacific railway bridge at Vanceboro Maine departed Boston for Atlanta to begin an 18 months’ confinement.
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Home
Boston
Werner Marne
Vanceboro
Atlanta
Logan resigns Ames post to join national Y W C A
Miss Kate R. Logan of Ames assistant state club leader for boys and girls club work resigns from the agricultural extension department at Town state college to become national secretary for rural and town work with the national Y M C A headquartered in New York City. She formerly led Cherokee county schools and came to Ames four years ago.
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Lowan
Ames
Kate R. Logan
Agricultural Extension Department
Town State College
National
New York City
Logan
Cherokee County
Mystery in Death on Rome Bridge Incident
Private Rudolph Hoelzen of Company 1 died under unclear circumstances on the Rome bridge. A coroner's jury has held three sessions and the No. 1 passenger train crew has been subpoenaed to appear before the coroner.
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Mount Pleasant
Pthere
Rudolph Hoelzen
Company 1
Rome
No. 1
Government restricts food exports under wartime control
Washington authorized a proclamation under the espionage act to license shipments of key export commodities starting July 15. The plan prioritizes American needs, then allies, and finally neutral countries where practicable to secure the food supply.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Prohibition Amendment Debate Sparks Town Referendum
In Washington July a repeal attempt on distilled liquors faced strong opposition. Supporters urged banning beverage sales while opponents feared revenue loss. The vote resulted in a reconsideration, with a later tally showing continued limits on liquor withdrawals. A projected impact included bonds and revenue concerns.
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Washington
Ays de Nersk Rons
Sannte Wets
Senate Oh Vriday Rejerte
Aw Food Bel
Tor Myers
Obiitaerure
Yinwus Beyerues Aleig
Sereriyinins
Vienti
Orlewis Sails From New York Amid War News
The Orleans steamship Orlews, of One Cit or Navigation, was torpedoed and sunk. crew saved, and the vessel was reportedly attacked amid tensions as diplomatic relations between the U S and Germany soured.
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Washington
Tuly
Anerld
Orlents
Citor Navigation Company
Bern
Tt Subalcmaent
Fon
York
France
Wheat blight worries farmers as crop yield falls
Farmers fear blight in the wheat crop spread unevenly, reducing yields by about a fifth. Central farmers report delays but expect weather to help. deliveries postponed to St Dushel, Conural.
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Wight
SL Dushel
War's End Not Yet In Sight
A traveler arriving from Germany reports continued German optimism for victory into another winter, with Berlin predicting progress against the Allies. Officials in Copenhagen note that Allied expectations of German collapse remain distant as wartime measures persist.
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SIG
Copenhagen
Germany
United States
German paper cites U S food embargo spurring reprisal talks
An article in the Zeitung, a German shipping paper, claims the United States embargo on food prompts calls for reprisal measures by Seaguiding nations and Poland. In Freeport Illinois Brewer’s Son bootlegging case, a man named Bootlegger was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $200.
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The
Hague
Ger
Hpllnnil
America
Zeitung
Freeport
Tieraldorf
Federal Landis
Gulendorf
Ephis
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