Iowa News Highlights Reach Across The State
Iowa reports a new Fort Des Moines steel mill to manufacture War Ion and other iron products. Potatoes yield 4.55 million bushels, 72 bushels per acre, down from last year. Camp Dodge deaths total 762 in October. Secretary Allen wins a fourth term by about 15 000 votes. Belgian horses arrive. sale of fifty horses follows the armistice. Fort Des Moines trains soldiers for reconstruction. Bettendorf plant hires 800 to 1000 workers soon. Des Moines hospitals face patient load, and state boards oversee expanding institutions. Harding advocates rapid demobilization and Iowa plant use. Sugar allowances vary by state. A pet Fort Des Moines rooster gets a wooden leg. War-era construction continues, though pace slows. List of Iowa war dead and citizens' naturalization stories noted. Hawkeye highway completion in Dubuque County advances under new plan.
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Herbert Hoover
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Logan
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Eaton Soith
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National Council of Defence
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Anamosa
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Woodward
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Govermor Harding
Washington
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War Industries Hoard
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Iowa
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War Department
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Shenandoah
Page County
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Winterset
Walter Kiewyer
Dixon
Virgil Knight
Nose Hill
Lewia C. Murdock
Gilman
Edward Nyberg
Long Grove
Frank Kinyon
Turkey River
David “Fp. Kirk
Heacon
John L .Linderman
Gryen
Nicholas Reider
Gilbertville
Walter J. Meyocy
Stanley
Rodney E. Crowley
Jay Toward Fee
Beech
Hiram A. Thayer
Daetona
Homer Dale
Linn
Vincent KK. Atkinson
Guthrie Center
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Langworthy
Gernard J. Carr
Lamont
Thomas F. Clynch
Grinnell
John P
Manlick
Reinbeck
Paul C. Paulson
Boone
W. J. Pivonka
Cedar Rapids
Wither L. Hasbrouck
Diapmon
Francie L. Laren
Iowa City
Charlie Sorenson
Akron
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Blockton
Marshall
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Henry Hetken
Anamona
J. Howand Foe
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Clenwood
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Newton
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Mr. Vernon
Webster
Albert H. Schnirring
Bac City
Willie Snavely
Waterloo
Albert A. Howe
Viola
Walter L.byrne
Barnum
Edward G. Fogerty
Bima
Russell
Rippey
Ira
Albert Smith
Vinton
Charley Polton
Nevada
Vincent IE
Carney
Parnell
George Edward Lewis
Cornell Biutts
Angelo Aggazone
Centerville
Joe Hee
World events brief on armistice and postwar surrenders
Edinburgh reports Admiral Beatty’s signal that the German flag would be hauled down at 3 57. Berlin says German fleet surrendered to Allied forces. French troops enter Budapest and Constantinople feared. United front lines cross into Luxembourg. Ukrainian government overthrown. Kiev captured. widespread demobilization and political shifts noted in London Brussels and Berlin.
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Beatty
Germany
Berlin
Washington War Revenue Cuts Stir Senate Action
Washington dispatch reports the senate finance committee trimmed the war revenue measures reducing the 1919 levy to about six billion dollars and cut a half billion from the proposed oil tax. President Wilson accepted McAdoo’s resignation as treasury secretary and Trunkroads director general with a successor yet to be named.
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Washington
McAdoo
Washington Dispatch
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Secretary of the Treasury
Truilroads
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Treasury
Railroad Administration
Wilson
Mr. McAdoo
Pershing hailed by Paris crowds during impromptu drive
General John J. Pershing rode through Paris streets amid a vast cheering mob around the Place de la Concorde. French citizens showered him with flags and flowers as he laughed and waved, unshaken by the dangerous crush.
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Place de la Concorde
John J. Pershing
Rue Rivoli
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Walt
Cluiven
Pershing
Seine
Rue Royale
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Tuileries Gardens
Moby
Prasce
Champs Hlysees
Americans Enter Luxemburg in Triumph Parade
General Pershing stood with the young grand duchess of Luxemburg as American troops of the Third Army entered the capital. The advance through the duchy became a triumphal procession with cheering crowds and streets lined by American flags.
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Ardun-le-Romao
Paulets
Duchy of Luxemburg
Saya
Pershing
Grand Duchess of
Luxémburg
Luxemburg
Wounded Soldiers to Be Treated at West Baden Hospital
Domestic wounded soldiers from Indiana Ohio Missouri and Michigan returning for further treatment will be sent to the United States army hospital at West Baden Indiana. Amer ican consulate staff in Quebec forced to leave the office due to a hotel fire damaging the lower town estimated at one million dollars.
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Ohio
Utheli
Missouri
Michigan
United States Army Hospital
West Baden
Ind
Quebec
Goodness Astonished Herself Abigail Receives Christmas Gifts
The girl Abigail reflects on Santa Claus forgetting naughty deeds. On Christmas Eve she worries about virtue. Christmas morning she awakes to an array of gifts including a doll and a teddy bear, feeling she has been good.
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Santa Claus
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Aida Teddy
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