Iowa News Items of Interest Summarized for Busy Readers
A collage of Iowa notes including the death of Marshalltown resident Edward N. Jones from a vehicle collision, wartime service details, typhoid outbreak in Dubuque, shipbuilding job notices, deaths from river accidents, and local civic developments such as park name changes and the Highland Park transfer to Union College. Also covered are farm seed allocations, court actions, and troop casualties in France.
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Dubuque
Gampire
Iowa City
Page County
Clarinda
Lutheran Concert Band
Highland Park College
Des Moines
Baptists
Highland Park
Board of Trustees
Union College
Board of Control
We. G. Withrow
Mount Pleasant
Board of Parole
Hoya
Ars
Hid
Metcalf
Iowa
United Biatta Public Service Reserve
H. J. Metcalf
United States Public Service Reserve
State House
Huns Take Odessa New Army Draft
German and Austro Hungarian forces near Odessa seek grain control amid Bolshevik resistance. Odessa may fall as Kiel front lines shift. Washington reports no fixed date for the second WWI draft as quotas and camps complicate mobilization.
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Odessa
Black Sea
Nort
Russia
Ukrainia
Teutonic Teague
Ukraine
Austria
Sftscovy
Petrograd
Kiev
Mesopotamia
Palestine
Sultan Mehmed V
Bolshnysks
Red
Ericksen
Three Sailors Die In Shell Explosion On Ship
The U S Von Steuben, an army transport, reports a shell explosion during target practice killing Emmette Shields from Hannibal Missouri Valentina Przybytski of Buffalo New York and Creel Martin of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The navy department released the brief casualty notice.
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Washington
U. & S. von Steuben
Navy Department
Emmette Joseph Shields
Seaman
Hannibal
Valentina Przybytski
Areman
Rother Avenue
Buffalo
Creel William Martin
Philadelphia
von Steuben Ig
Daylight Saving Plan Clears House For President
Washington March 18 the daylight saving bill passed the house on Friday and goes to the president. The plan sets clocks forward one hour at 2 00 a m on the last Sunday in March and back one hour on the last Sunday in October each year.
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Washington
House
Investigation Opens Into Subway Panic Trigger
Paris authorities launch judicial inquiry into the panic at the Invuy subway station that killed seven men and twenty women and eighty children during Monday’s rush hour.
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Paris
Paule Invy
First Hanging in 36 Years at Tock Island
March 18 report from Tock Island states Carter, a Black man, was hanged in the local jailyard for the murder of Pater Yelvek, a white man. It is noted as the first execution here in 85 years with only officials present.
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Tock Island
Carter
Pater Yelvek
British Airmen Destroy 39 German Planes in March Surge
British airmen in France and Belgium report March activity as among the best yet with reconnoitering and photographing fields. They destroyed 39 German aircraft and brought down 40 out of control while weather early in the month limited flying. 15 British machines are noted as lost.
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France
Belgium
No Surplus of Sheep in U S Says Tyrrell
Chicago March 16 government meatless Tuesdays from now to April 15 allow lamb and mutton but no surplus exists. President W B Tyrrell of the National Sheep and Wool Bureau notes there are 48 million sheep in the United States and a desired 125 million. He says the country grows little wool and consumes most of it.
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Chicago
W. B.tyrrell
National Sheep and Wool Bureau
United States
Germans Capture Allied Seamen Aboard Neutral Ship
Dispatches from Stockholm report Germans captured several American and British citizens sailing from Finland on a neutral vessel. Those of military age are to be sent to Germany for internment. In a separate notice, Brig. Gen. Lyman W. Kennon will temporarily replace Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry as Camp Grant commander.
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Stockholm
Finland
Howe
Germany
Kennon
Barry
Camp Grant
Lyman W. ¥. Nennon
Qne Hundred
Seventy-fist
Thomas Hy
Indictments Return Against 86 I W W Members
Federal grand jury at Wichita Kad returns indictments against 86 members of the Industrial Workers of the World. With one exception all accused are under arrest.
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W. W
Wichita
Kad
Industrial Workers of the World
Turkeastan fighting widens as 20000 casualties reported
Dispatches from Petrograd and other cities indicate fierce battles between soviet adherents and locals in Turkestan with more than 20000 casualties. Reports also note Finnish Red guards activity involving Americans and guerrilla warfare by Polotsk peasants against Germans.
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London
Turkestan
Petrograd
Stockholm
America
Red Guards
Polotsk
Dyinsk
Vitebsk
Dvina
Moscow
Smolensk
Rozvozoy
Berlin
Ukraine
Bachmach
Kiev
War Office
all-Russian
Congress of Soviets
Batoum
Kurs
Erivan
Isaac Stephenson Dead Pioneer Lumber Baron of Wisconsin
Isaac Stephenson former U S senator from Wisconsin and lumber industry pioneer died at his Marinette home at eighty eight after a week of infirmities. His principal operations were in northern Michigan where his holdings remain among the state's largest. Born June 18 1829 near Fredericton New Brunswick he began on his father's farm before entering lumber woods. In May 1907 he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Senator John Spooner and was elected to succeed himself in 1909.
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Wredericton
New Brunswick
John ©. Spooner
Freight rate rise granted by ICC in eastern territory
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted a 15 percent general freight rate increase for eastern territory consignments on Friday. The higher rates of 15 cents per long ton apply to anthracite coal and cover commodities including coal livestock fresh meat petroleum grain cement lumber and other stock goods.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Japan Likely to Intervene in Siberia Soon
Tokyo reports March 18 that intervention in Siberia seems only a matter of time as indications and mobilization rise. U.S. officials hint growing agreement with intervention while allies favor action. Japan may seek mediation to unite factions facing Russian rivals.
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Tokyo
Siberia
America
Japan
China
Milwaukee Colonel Decorated in France Honored
Col. Dotglas MacArthuy, decorated in France with the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, has a Milwaukee connection and was appointed to West Point from Milwaukee several years ago.
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Milwaukee
Col. Dotglas MacArthuy
France
West Point
King Thanks Allies for Red Cross Gift
King George expressed gratitude in London for a $1,000,000 contribution to the British Red Cross by Henry P. Davison chairing the American Red Cross war council. The praise highlighted Allied relief efforts during the conflict.
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America
London
King George
Henry P. Davison
American Red Cross War. Council
Who
Red Cross
Allies to Seize Dutch Vessels in Allied Ports
Washington reports a March 18 move to take over all Dutch ships in allied ports unless the Netherlands agrees to the plan. About a million tons would join the allied fleets, with Holland to receive export privileges and breadstuffs compensation. Meat exports to the allies may rise 60 to 100 percent under food administration talks.
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Washington
Netherlands
United States
Great Britain
Augusta Phillips
Wilson
the Hague
Germany
Holland
Food Administration
Railroad Control Bill Sent to Wilson
Washington reports Congress passed the railroad control measure, sending it to the president after a 303 to 25 House vote. The bill compensates railroads for wartime property use, restricts federal operation to 21 months postwar, authorizes rate action by the President with ICC approval, funds the director general with 500 million dollars, and brings all short lines under federal control.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rainbow Division Repulsed German Raid March 5
Washington reports American troops that repulsed the March 5 raid were from the Forty second Rainbow division composed of National Guard troops. General Pershing said the unit’s conduct earned personal congratulations from General Gerard of the Eighth French Army. The One Hundred forty ninth artillery, formerly First Ohio artillery, is part of the Rainbow division.
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Washington
National Guardemen
Pershing
Gerard
Americans Seized From Neutral Vessel in Finland War Zone
State Department dispatches report Americans who departed Finland on a neutral ship were captured. An additional 26 Americans who left Helsingfors are held by Finnish Red Guards at Bjornborg on the inland northwest coast near Helsingfors.
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Washington
State Department
Stockholm
Finland
Helsingfors
Red Guards
Bjoemsborg
Coke shipments rise in Connellsville region totals exceed 890 thousand tons
An increase of 37 500 tons in coke shipments from the Connellsville region during the last fiscal week pushed total shipments above 890 000 tons for the first time since last November.
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Connellsvile
Connellsville
Bombs Kill Five In England Dropped By Airship Over Hartlepool
On Wednesday night an airship crossed the coast and dropped four bombs on Hartlepool causing six houses to be demolished. Five persons were killed and nine injured.
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England
London
Wednesdy
Hartlepool
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Edward N. Jones
Marshalltown
Waukon Red Cross
Good Park
Harry Mchenry
Ethel Jenson
Mercy Hospital
Jaws City
Engme
A. Nelson
Kansas City
Polk County
Y.M.C. A. War Fund
James Russell
J. F. O'Malley
Perry
C. M. & St. BP. Railway Company
Fifth Street
John N. Mountain
Castana
Monona County
Company J
Twenty-eighth
Wisconsin Infantry
Elia Moretain
Arthur
Forty-third United States Infantry
New Orleans
Anderson
Camp Dodge
751St Infantry
R. S. Orr
Garner
James Battle
Albia High School
Odebolt
Sam
Butler County Farm Bureau Association
Greene
James A. Smith
District Court
Mitchell County
Fred
Leland A
Stanley R
National Army
St. Paul
Leavenworth
A. N. Brown
Fiftieth Infantry
A. E. Kepford
Iown
American Red Cross
Hoover
Belgian Relief Committee
W. R. Fullerton
Old Capitol
Sta
W. A. Jessup
State University
Board of Education
State Council of National Defense
State Defense Council
Towa
Red Oal
Atlantic
Albert E. Behmer
Sutherland
Cecil M. Conley
Fred H. Turner
Fred C. Grimmett
Kaiser
Tiltuois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Iowan
Minnesota
U. S
U.S.S. von Steuben
O. K
Wool Bureau
Russ
Garmany
Isaac Stephenson
Interstate Commerce Commission Act
Britain
Wilgon
WIHI
Entente
Rainbow
Pershing Telle
Guardemen
Broemsborg
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