Iowa News Notes With Diverse County Items
A burst of short items covers farm land deals, public works contracts, local accidents and political votes across Iowa. From Decorah to Storm Lake and Ottumwa, observers report farm sales, sewage plant bids, water works plans, a fatal automobile incident, and county crop tests with soy beans and rape as key topics.
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Daske
Decorah
Herrick
Humboldt
Rutland
Hxfra
A. B. Daigherty
Perry
Jane Cassell
Forest City
Anton
Mae Lein
West Union
Jacqinie Ross
Ottumwa
Clarence Hayes
Hay
Minnesota
Uncle Sam
Woodbury
Des Moines
Stratford
Chira Coleman
Jennie Sanders
Sanders
Iowa City
Ulinois
Iowa
Timothy
Clever Asque
Black Hawk County
Cooper
Poyner Township
Fr Beers
Guthrie Center
Henry C. Robinson
Wesley Junction
Robinson
Jank Steffan
Cecil Buckingham
Storm Lake
Mildred Sarchfield
Miss Sarchfield
R. F. Sarchfield
Farm Crops Department
Iowa State College
Firet
Towa
State Highway Commission
Motor
Chrlet Yexen
Muzon City
Yiven
Thornton
Yage
Mes
Yizen
Wey
Hey Yarens
Mere
Haren Bervleren
Eye
World and U S News Snapshot From Washington
Republican senators back unlimited debate rules by 82 to 4 and Taft heads to England to study courts. Hoover sets coal price ranges by region. Lib eria loan bill and McCumber soldier bonus move through Senate Finance. Lincoln Memorial dedicated as Harding lauds Lincoln as greatest president amid federal war coal loss disputes.
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Washington F
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Lincoln Memorial
Harding
Taft
Lincoln
Domestic Sam Barrett Confesses in Wife Murder Case
Oskaloosa police say twenty five year old Domestic Sam Barrett confessed to murdering his wife by throat cutting with a razor. He then attempted suicide. The report lists multiple other injuries and incidents across states, including a Decatur crowd accident and various unrelated events from the era.
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Sam Barrett
Oskaloosa
Wartial law in Macao amid fatal fighting and global turmoil
Reports from multiple fronts detail heavy casualties on Macao where wartial law is declared. Other dispatches note German reparations, Russian troop withdrawals, Belfast clashes, Damascus unrest, and a London court finding Horatio Bottomley guilty.
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Hongkong
Macao
Pillar From Belleau Church Sent To American Legion HQ
A pillar from the altar of a Belleau church, damaged by German shells, was sent to the American Legion National Headquarters in Indianapolis. The gift honors Belleau wood and the Yankee regiments, and the pillar is kept under French and American flags.
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Geneau
American Legion
Indianapolis
Ind
France
Belleau
Chateau-Thierry
Mentell
America
Belleaux
MILL PAY THE BUCKEYE BOYS
Robert KR Roberts of Youngstown Ohio named director of adjusted compensation in Ohio and tasked with distributing 25 000 000 to nearly a quarter million ex service men. Roberts a World War I sergeant major and former American Legion official is seen as a Legion victory in keeping payment operations non political. Ohio pays 10 per month of service up to 20 for World War I veterans.
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Robert KR. Roberts
Youngstown
Ollo Department of the
American Legion
Roberts
Ohio
Stoberte
Carhegle Steel
Address on adjusted compensation heard in Pittsburgh
Wanford Maeni der delivered the speech on adjusted compensation to a Pittsburgh audience while American Legion members listened in Chatfield Minnesota by telephone, realizing the crowd's size only after the talk began. The distant broadcast showed the reach of wartime policy discussions beyond local gatherings.
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MacNider
American Legion
Chatfield
Minn
Wanford Maenider
Pittsburgh
Oie
The Silent Partner Bridegroom Declares He’s Being Toyed
A fragmented line from an old American Leylon Weenly piece depicts a colored officiant asking for vows while a bow-legged bridegroom, weighing about two hundred ten pounds, responds gloomily that he does not take notice and feels toyed, in a dim humorous scene.
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Leylon
National Legion Auxiliary Aid for Disabled WWI veterans
Maud R. Cudworth of Waukee Wisconsin heads the national welfare committee of the American Legion Auxiliary. She supervises relief work in middle western states coordinating hospital visits letters newspapers books and gifts to wounded and ill servicemen. The Auxiliary supports hospitalized veterans with comforts not provided by the government while a Legion post of 1000 men in Waukee adopted Mrs Cudworth as Mother after she lost her son in the war.
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Bick
Indiana
Mit
Nole
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ohio
West — Virginia
Kentucky
Kancag
Missouri
Maud R. Cudworth
Waukee
Wis
American Legion Auxiliary
Mia. Cudworth
National Welfare Committee
Auxiliary
Middle Western
Two kinds of profiteers in wartime Le Sueur tale
In Le Sueur Minnesota Mrs Henrietta A Starkey owner of a moving picture theater aided war campaigns by opening her doors for Liberty Bond Red Cross and other drives. She showed the towns service men 287 from Le Sueur in films while providing free theater lights and heat for community events and funded film costs herself.
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le Sueur
Minn
Claim
Henrietta A. Starkey
Liberty Bond
Red Cross
Germany’s War Losses Revealed in Official Records
A study of German military archives shows hourly WWI casualties of 46 killed and 109 wounded. It reports Kaiser’s army total at 13 million with 1.8 million dead or dying from wounds or illness and 4.25 million wounded, plus about 12 million deaths directly linked to the war.
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Aar Department
von Altrock
Altrock
Legion Carrying On With the Farmera and Community Home
The Elizabethtown post of the American Legion received 200 trees and local support for a community home. A Gold Star Legion proposal would include parents and siblings of fallen soldiers. Washington ex servicemen may carry 884 million yearly renewable term and converted government insurance. Wartime draft dodger bans in New York seek public office exclusion. Legion posts exist in Calcutta, New Zealand and Denmark, totaling 11 050 posts worldwide.
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Farmera
Elizabethtown
Ind
The
Legion
State of
Washington
Calcutta
India
New Zealand
Denmark
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G. M. King
Carroll Hospital
Town State College
Henry County
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Henry
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Charles City
Algony
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Tennessee
Liberia
England
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Irving H. Grubb
G. G. Crusen
Sidney, Neb
Sidney
Mary Tickford
Nevada Supreme Court
Carson City
Hammond Stringer
Atlanta
South Bend
Tratten
RoUthwest
Attics
Windhoek
William Byrd
Brentwood
Wayne County
B. W. Moody
Ignacio Vasquez
Globe, Arna
W. D. Parker
Downers Grove
Lawer
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Mercantile Company
Memphis
South
Audrey Munsell
Ofteo
Graiel Taut Sila
Syracuse
N.Y
Klandike Wits Studi
Lee Fata
Mase City
Yukon Territory
Willan Mitebot
Government Service
Ordling
Milwaukee
Ulaves Uchterbeck
Iaiure
St. Louis
Oelterbeck
Marion McGlary
Phoenix
Ariz
Ieorge B. McGinty
Betterstate Commerce Commission
Horling
World Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists’ Church
San Francisco
Stevens Lumber Company
Rhinelander
Northwest
Nancy Long
William Fisher
Whitehall
Jimmy Murphy
Los Angeles
Cal
Miter
Robert Wallace
Coldwell
N. J
Navy Academy
Louisville
Paris
Germany
Bukharest
Bessarabian
Ulster Forces
Pelfast
Beebek
County Farmanigh
Ching Tesolin
Warbin
Wu Pei-fu
Peking
Wong Siau-Di
Shangha Police
Emilio Agninaide
United States
Manila
P. 1
Damascus
Syrian
Shahhander
Gandhi
Syria
Horatio Bottomley
John Bull
London
Victory Bond Club
Alexander Grekon
D’xifices
Stockholm
Berne
Sofia
Lerehenfeld
Thun
Buenos Aires
Belfast
Tokyo
Japa
Hose
Biberlu
Ireland
Colonial
Prency Winstor Churchill
Bs Keng Limiterit Kbeilist
Ulster Frontier
Pierre Winghyg
Aftfields Distriet
Ning
Ghee
Legiong
Buckeye
Robert Roberts
Ohio Department
WIII
Maud
Cudeforth
Milweukes
Win
Legion Boys
Henrietta Starkey
le Sueur, Minn
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