Iowa News items of interest for busy readers
Citizens of Dowshart raise $660 to oil streets of town. Arkamsaé farmers tour Iowa inspecting cattle and farms for livestock data. Camp Dodge bans evening picnics for women after 5 p.m. Casualties list includes Private Charles H. Reeder Sioux City and Private John W. Price Cornell Bluffs. Beacons teachers walk home for vacation. Townships buy tractors, switch to motorized road work. G A R leaders elected in Des Moines. Dutch services in Pella church combined English and Dutch. 222th Negro Infantry leaves Camp Dodge. 2000 more Negro troops called. Egg licenses to be required under federal rules. Drum corps from Iowa attends Des Moines encampment. Rural schools struggle to reopen due to teacher shortages. Various local civic efforts and war related notices fill pages.
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Dowshart
Aarty
Arkamsaé
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Iéwans
Charles H. Reeder
Sioux City
John W. Price
Cornell Bluffs
Jenh
Anderson
Clear Lake
Beacon High School
Blanche K. Lytle
Mary K. Green
Beacon
Cedar Rapide
Golett
Wapetto County
Hive
Fon Burrell
Clarindis
Iowa Ladies of the
Des Moines
Borrell
Mirs
Mary Jones
Des Moises
Mary Heaton
Greenfield
John Wicker
France
Collord
Washington
McAdoo
W. B. Barner
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Grand Army
National
Drum Corpe
J. H. Evans
Bert Freeman
Audubon
Owen Kineman
California
C. M. Staring
W. H. Irons
Cain
J. C. Wilson
B. F. Booth
W. Fhuntington
J. H. Haven
H.J. Huskemp
Mackey
A M. Moore
D. W. “Inaman
D. Dessart
T. B. Wallace
Frank D. Joseph
State’ Uperintendest
W. L. Harding
Ory County
Carcemsdonville
Grundy County
Gilmore City
Humboldt
Iox
Robert Bryce
Wallace
Marshalltown
H. W Somers
Grinnell College
Magickeia
Jackson County
Maquoketa
Town University Ambulance Unit
Towa City
Towa
Miss Maters
Nonpartisan League
J. M. Pierce
Iowa Homestead
State Federation of Labor
Mason City
Wih Larding
Wilk
Cedar Rapids
Pat Crowe
Atate Board’ of Control
United States
Ani
Epod
Bf Con
Ibe
Eympathy
Crowe
Tatty Yaeye
US soldiers from Wisconsin and Michigan fight on Alsace soil
Washington reports the Thirty second Division composed of Michigan and Wisconsin troops has engaged German forces in Alsace near the Swiss border under Major General William G Hana. Private J W Guytda is credited as the first American killed on German soil. The division recently moved to the sector after training at Camp MacArthur Texas. The dispatch notes earlier ties to the Tuscania sinking and confirms the growing war on two fronts.
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Washington
War Department
Thirty-second’ Division
National Guard
Thirty-second
Michigan
Wisconsin
William
Hana
Camp MacArthur
Tex
J. W. Guytda
Alsace
British Casualties Week Ending Friday Figures
London reports British casualties for the week ending Friday totaled 86,620. The summary notes weekly losses across theaters with no breakdown of branches or divisions provided in the fragment.
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London
French prisoners to be exchanged amid war news
Faris reports prisoners held in Germany since August 1914 will be swapped on June 24. A large group photo is planned in New Jersey for the Fourth Liberty loan campaign. Other items note U S military readiness for fall and grain market control discussions.
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Faris
Germany
Petit Journal
Dix
N. J
Washington
Caldwell
New York
House
Baker
General March
United States
Jane
Srade
East
Middle West
United States Grotp Corporation
Mddife
Gr New York
Toseph W
Rutherford
Paator
International Bible Studente
Essociation
Kansas City on Ice Rations T: Kansas City on Ice Rations
Kansas City Missouri faced ice rations on June 24 due to a shortage. Ice company officials warned the shortage could worsen under continuing severe weather.
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Kansas City
Kansas
City
Ice Company
Aviator Instructor in Belleville Murder Mystery
Fragmentary report records an aviator instructor from a big city, aged twenty four, killed in a crash or attack near Belleville. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR but indicate a fatal incident involving James Wheler.
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Lidn James
Wheler
Big City
Scatt
Belleville, Mi
Nia Lane
Indiana Democrats Open 1920 Convention With Wilson Drive
Samuel M. Ralston the former governor fired the opening salvo for a Woodrow Wilson renomination at the Indiana state Democratic convention in Indianapolis. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall followed as temporary chairman delivering the keynote.
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Indianapolis
Tyne
Woodrow Wilson
Samuel M. Ralston
Indiana
Ralston
Thomas R. Marshall
Revolt in Kiev Sparks Widespread Street Fighting
An intercepted wireless message reports a large revolt in Kiev with artillery explosions and ongoing clashes. About forty thousand peasants, armed and organized, participate as the rebellion spreads to Poltava and Tchernigov with reports of German paper on the rocks and a major publication sale or suspension in Chicago.
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London
Kiev
Moscow
Hychange Telegraph Company
Poltava
Tchermnigov -Dlétrietd
Chicago
Staats- Zelting
Bielk
Busch Reclassified To Higher Class By Board
St. Louis June Adolphus Busch son of Adolphus Busch of Milton Aire brewer has been reclassified from class 2A to class 1A by his board ratifications. He holds a wife and children.
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A. Busch
St. Louis
Adolphus Busch
Airplane strike at Curtiss plants ends in June 1934
The Curtiss Airplane and Motor Company strike by machinists at three plants in Buffalo and Northup County is halted. Andrew Ruffallo and associates are noted as representatives of the workers.
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Ruffallo
N. Ys
Curtiss
Andrew
Riots and strikes rock Vienna amid bread crisis protests
Reports from London Stockholm and Amsterdam describe more than 100000 workers striking in Vienna and nearby towns with riots at Favoriten Margarethen Ottakring and Brigittenau. Martial law feared as crowds protest bread ration cuts and prices rise across Central Europe.
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Hofburg
Imperial Palace
London
Stockholm
Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
Morning Post
Yurich
Vienna
Nevnstadt
Amsterdam
Vorwaerts
Socialist Party
Copenhagen
Calls for War on Turkey
A House resolution introduced by Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania calls for a state of war with Bulgaria and Turkey, citing acts of war against the United States by both governments. Secretary Lansing testifying before the Senate committee discussed the Tabriz incident and agreed that an organized Turkish military attack on the American consulate would justify a declaration of war.
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Washington
Bulgaria
Turkey
House
Kelly
Pennsylvania
United States
Senate Foreign Relations
Lansing
Tabriz
Transport Anna torpedoed and sunk off Bizerta
Paris June 22 The transport Banta Anna en route from Bizerta to Malta was torpedoed and sunk during the night of May 10 11 The vessel carried 2150 soldiers and native workmen of whom 1912 were saved The report is via the Havas agency
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Paris
Banta “Anna
Bizarta
Malta
Havas
Gompers Re elected President of AFL at Annual Convention
Samuel Gompers is re elected president of the American Federation of Labor by acclamation at the annual convention held Thursday. The longstanding labor leader secured renewed leadership as delegates gathered to approve the AFL agenda and priorities.
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American Federation of Labor
St Paul
Rte
Draft Registrants Eligible for General Military Service
Provost Marshal General Crowders called for 8,076 draft registrants from Washington to qualify for general military service and undergo special training in July. Bethmann-Hollweg gravely ill after a stroke, report says. Cologne Volkstung notes the former German chancellor’s health deterioration.
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Calla
Bethmann-Hollweg
Amsterdam
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Gravely I
Work or Fight Order Defined for Occupations in Draft
Washington outlines new draft rules by Provost Marshal Crowder classifying nonproductive occupations. Clerks and store workers may be exempted. traveling salesmen deemed productive, while automobile salesmen, chauffeurs, and doormen may be nonproductive unless combined with other duties. Local boards urged to use common sense and assist unemployed registrants through the federal employment service.
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Washington
General Crowder
Crom’ der
Austrian cabinet resigns as Vienna faces bread riots and strikes
Dr von Seyiler proposes resignation of the Austrian cabinet to Emperor Charles amid hunger offensive tensions with Italy. New bread riots erupt in Vienna districts and 150000 munition workers strike, signaling deep national crisis.
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London
von Seyiler
Vienna
Charles
Zurich
von Seydler
Italy
Germany
Austria
Yorsen
Brigittenau
Latin Army Plan Upheld in War Aid Amendment
Washington reports an amendment to a war-appropriations bill would fund equipment for troops of allied nations fighting Germany and Austria. The plan, supported by the military committee, expands aid alongside the $120 million appropriation. London notes the death of Admiral Sir Alfred Paget at 60.
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Washington
Germany
Austria
War ‘Department
Gonnte
London
Altel Paget
Brompton
Alfred
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U. S
Kalles
W. G. Haan
American Hospital
Congress
Persia
Staté Departmént
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Nurges
State “Department
Urge Wilson
Hofburg Palace
Kaiser Charles
Haimburg
Oie
Parla
Samuel Gompers
Crowder
Cabinet OF
Premier Seydler
Gandy
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