Free Textbooks for Fort Dodge Students Voted By Large Majority
Iowa readers see a wide mix of notes on wartime life and local affairs. Free textbooks for Fort Dodge students were approved by a large majority in the recent school election. Other items touch down on food saving, missing textbooks, and local shortages as communities adjust during wartime.
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Fort Doge
John Trumie
Mitchell
Sicuzx
Benjamin Walker
Company A
Luces Hopwood
Vinton
France
Duke of Cavenough
England
Hopyesd
Vinten
Oliver Lied
Colorado
Bretty
Ester
Ono
Steck
Stuunlor
Torium Ibere
Foser
Dale Hazlett
Liberty
Jried
Hag
Mono
Hazlett
Stata
Ilbrariea Ig
Huns Open Big Battle in West Amid British Front Strain
British and German forces clash along a wide front from Lagnicourt to Gauche wood and near Riems as heavy bombardments precede infantry assaults. Reports note artillery duels, shifts in frontline activity, and Allied positions including American trenches under observation. Reims region and Baltic notes appear in dispatches with limited confirmed American attacks.
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Andrew
Dean Pert
Versailles
Tensive
Nord Gehrig
Lagincourt
Gauche Wood
Gouzeaucourt
Lagnicourt
Louverai
Lor. Talue
Artill
Reuter
British War Office
Vendeall
St. Quentin
Scearpe
Dover
England
Berth
Cambrai
la Fere
Death of Major Morahi, famed German war correspondent
London March 25 The death of Major Morahi long military correspondent of the Tageblatt of Berlin is announced. For years Major Morahi was perhaps the most widely quoted of the German military writers.
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Morahi
Dutch Ships Seized in War Measure to Boost Allied Tonnage
Washington reports a Proclamation seizing over 690 000 tons of Dutch shipping in U S territorial waters and similar action against 260 635 tons from other ports. The navy secretary indicated seizure aims to immediate war work obligations and reallocate ships to France and other allies to bolster democracy’s defense.
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Dent
United States
Navy de Lr
Dani
Els
Netherlands
France
England
Italy
Germany
Seek Pardon for Mooney
Application for the pardon of Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to death for the preparedness day bombing in July 1916, will be made to Governor Stephens. The Supreme Court’s affirmation becomes effective March 92, meaning after that date there is no chance for court review and Mooney’s fate rests with the governor.
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San Francisco
Thomas J. Mooney
Stephens
Supreme Court
Maxwell McNutt
Mooney
Hindenburg Directs Drive on Western Front
German reports claim Field Marshal Hindenburg and General von Tantendorff personally direct operations as the army group attacks the British along the Scarpe river to Vendeuil on the western front.
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Amsterdam
Maarel
Scarpe River
Vendeuil
Prince Rupprecht
Germin
Germany
von Hindenburg
von Tantendortt
Manley Death Toll Reported By Washington
Washington reports three or four deaths among the crew of the destroyer Manley from the March 18 collision and depth charge explosion. An officer and three sailors were killed in the accident, with injuries and missing details noted in the brief war casualty notice.
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Washington
Boyy Department
Manley
Iere
Reindeer Meat Shipment Planned After Beringsen Farewell
About 500 dressed reindeer will be shipped to U S food markets on the first boat after the Beringsen farewells break up. A snarketing ir1 has been slaughtering the herd.
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Fee
Beringsen
Pal Sinter
Senate votes to request war department over soldier addresses
The senate adopted a resolution to urge the war department to explain why it withholds public disclosure of the addresses of American soldiers killed and wounded overseas.
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Senate
Washington
War Department
Germans Claim Massive World War I Battle Gains
German forces report sixteen thousand prisoners and heavy artillery as they press a major offensive on a 60 mile front near Cambrai. British counterattacks reclaim key towns including Colgnies as German and Austrian units join the fight under Kaiser Wilhelm and Hindenburg.
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London
March
Bri
Reuters Corretish
War Office
Cambrai
Hare
St. Ledger
Divgnies
Berlin
Arras
la Fere
Teutonic
William
Marstat von Hindenburg
Ludendorm
France
Cambeal
Croigittes
Hargincourt
Colgnies
Db. m
Gree
Ari Levy
Bene
U S Ship Seizes Raider off Pacific Port
A German raider United States cruiser was captured by the American ship Alexander Agassiz and towed to a Pacific port. The vessel, with an all German crew, had been outfitted for raiding Pacific commerce and was reportedly seized off Mazatlan before reaching the port. The Agassiz, linked to La Jolla laboratories, was sold to Padge Trading Co. Authorities announced the seizure for investigation.
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Pacific
Muren
United States
Alexander Agassiz
Biological Institute
la Jolla
Mazatlan
Mex
Alexander Agasslz
Pactge
Agassiz
Padge Trading Company
Jy Small
Mexico
Washington
Navy, Department
Navy Department
War Department to Clear Office Clutter Across Bureaus
Washington March 25 A general weeding of swivel duty officers in war department bureaus ordered by Maj Gen Poysoy O. Murch acting over state. The move aims to streamline offices and remove redundant positions.
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Washington
War Departments
Poysoy O. Murch
Stat
National Nonpartisan League backs wartime loyalty pledge
In St Paul Minnesota on March 25 resolutions urging loyalty to the government and praising President Wilson's wartime guidance were adopted by the National Nonpartisan League at a meeting, reinforcing support amid the war.
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St. Paul
Minn
Wilson
Tims
National Nonpartisan League
Oregon farmer credits Lydia E Pinkham product for recovery
In Oregon a farmer named D M Ters reports long standing illness kept her from work until she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she regained health, can work full days, and now raises 600 chickens yearly with improved mobility. The ad urges other women with similar troubles to seek advice from the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Oregon
Lydia E. Pintekem
D. M. Ters
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
Daily Thought on Infinite Degrees of Luster and Gift
A reflective line notes that every person has a unique trivial gift. Used rightly it becomes a lasting blessing to their race, even the weakest among us, as suggested by Ruskip.
Divorce and marriage trends noted in Fort Worth ad copy
An advertising blurb for Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets promotes liver and bowel regulation. The piece observes that divorce often leads to two more marriages and jokes that Congress must settle a strike while implying social restraint on remarriage. The tone mirrors mid century opinion in small papers.
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