Cantoment Echoes from Camp Dodge and Camp Cody
Letters from Iowa soldiers describe life at Camp Dodge Iowa and Camp Cody New Mexico. They note machine gun training, rough terrain, cold nights, and longing for home while awaiting gear and rifles. Elmer Peterson reports the pistol program and a wish for the war to end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dodge
Old Titania
U. S
Bernie Sinker
Cunningham Brothers
Kossuth
Jacobi Critz
Elmer Peterson
Local notables and visitors fill Germania area social schedule
Audry Hasthngas and Mae Morrison visited Buffalo Center between trains while Mrs. Loveland came from Estherville to see her daughter. Numerous residents traveled to Mason City Estherville and Gilmore for visits and back home. Social events included a J A Morris home dance a Current Events wiener roast and several Ladies Aid meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audrey Hasthngas
Mae Morrison
Buffalo Center
Loveland
Estherville
Leo Gerloff
J. M. Stewart
A. B. Ogren
Mason City
J. A. Morris
Current Events Club
Emma Gutknecht
Jennie Benner
Elmore
M. I. Allen
M. B. Ladies’ Aid
Priscilla Club
C. F Specht
Aug. Gutknecht
Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid
Jennie Beemer
J. J. Holland
A. Behrends
Ledyard
Wurtzer
Algona
N. E. Noble
Ernest Wortman
Fort Dodge
Gerloff
Jordan
Hamilton
Hans and
Gilmore
Max Hemingway
Spirit Lake
Gua Tarine
Swea City
N. HE. Noble
L. Gingerich
Near Titonice
A. I. Smith
Wm. Hans
HC. Adams
Clark
Rigona
Milley Dove
John Lister
Armstrong
Local Families Visit During Weekend at Algona Area
Carlotte Lewis returned home from attending school in Algona on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Elmer Daw and their son from Sheffield were guests at the H Mossman home Saturday and Sunday. The M A Whitney family visited relatives at Alert Lea on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Chas Lamb spent Sunday at Lake Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlotte Lewis
Algona
Elmer Daw and Son
Sheffield
H. Mossman
M. A. Whitney
Alert Lea
Chas. Lamb
Lake Park
Magic Valley Pleases Roestlers in Texas trip report
The writer details a journey from Omaha to the Magic Valley of the Rio Grande Texas. Describes Shary train travel, Houston and vast agriculture including sugar cane rice cattle and citrus, with notes on irrigation, railroads, and booming acreage. People like Mr Shary Frann Keopke and others from Iowa and nearby states are cited among buyers and settlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magic Valley
Rio Grande
Texas
Algana
Tai
Omaha
John H. Shary
Kuf@eas City
Union
Kansas City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Newark
N. J
Galvestony
Great Cutton
Houston
Ticu
Kig
Migte
United States
Rhodes Graia
Cook
Shary
Rhodes
Frank Dow
Ami
Iowa
South Dakota
Minnesota
Missouri
Kossuth County
Frann Keopke
Jas. Andrews
Mrs. Engler
M. Ward
Chas. Little
Qle Peterson
Deforest Driver
K. Vance
Howard Lawman
R. Jee. H. Biylue
Gulaston
Visit to Texas Cotton Hub and Bay Voyage
Miss Praxt Koestler recalls a trip describing Texas as home to the largest cotton export station and a state producing about a third of US cotton. She mentions boat rides twelve miles on the bay, watching ocean vessels, docks, and elevators, with an afternoon of bathing and certainties about a near-future trip to the Magic Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
United States
Magic Valley
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Opera House
Mary Pickford
The
Burt
Burt, Iowa
C. A. Ringquist
Kruse
Lamoreux
W. A. Wise
the Farmers’ Co-Operative Society of Wesley
Wm. Spangler
Oregon & California Railroad Co
Congress
Beat Timber
Agriculganas
Ang Nants
Tim
U. SN. Gu
Camp Cody
Deming
N. M—Alfredd
Jensen
Germania News
Roestlers
Algon
Algona Drive
Bryant Washburn
Max Linder
Max
Opera House Orchestra
South Bend
Hansen Bros
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