Iowa War News Highlights From 1918 Reports
The bulletin lists draft calls to Camp Dodge for 5203 Iowa men plus 361,838 nationwide. medical replacement units depart Camp Dodge for eastern camps. It notes women to enter college for war work and training in radio drafting nursing and mechanical drawing. It reports casualties from Iowa towns, local government meetings and a push to recruit women for war service racing toward college programs and public health funding and state crop forecasts while noting fires grain losses and labor strikes in Dubuque and parochial school funding disputes.
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State Board of Control
Mitchellville
Foynge Des Moines
Des Moines College
Maristal
Crowder
Ril
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Leagee
Truntan
H. Potter
Mazon City
Dowans
Tenry Gq
Campbell Osage
John K
Johannsen
Datenport
Léa Dormintco
Donald BD. Spurr
Cromiandg
Schupp
Council
George Stack
Vredale
Irwin E. Larsen
Detroit
Geo. W. Young
Oelwein
Tm Iowa
U. S. Employment Service
Direc
Metcalf
Arnold Tiedeman
Burlington
United States
C. W. Shepherd
Tiedeman
Black Hawk
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
State Health Board
State Executive Council
C.D. Rééd
Weather Bureau
Adj
L. G. Lowher
War Department
Onowa
Harper & Nutphy
Steper
Germany
Landsnull-Durward
Lawas
War- Savings Society News
Sehools
Owans
United States Army
Quartermaster Corps
F. Biddison
Oldtumwa
William A. Dick
Davenport
Garth .C. Fuller
Sac City
Walter K. Long
Hampton
Eugene F. Talbott
Grinne
Pirsh
Leutenants
Medical Corps
George Boe
Rock Rapids
Clark H. Lauder
Grinnell
Sioux City
Ute
France
Dubuque Express
Waterloo
Eagle ‘Township
Schaefer
W." I.burbank
Des Moines
Finkbthe
Fleming
Ono
Mica Virsihia “Lewis
Jesgana
Willy
Ije
Misa Lewis
House Passes Revenue Bill for War Financing
The U S House approved a historic revenue bill aimed at raising about 8.18 billion dollars in a broad tax program to fund wartime needs. The roll call stood 350 to none in opposition as debate highlighted funding strategies targeting large incomes and war profits.
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Washington
Mains
Yale
House
Hun
Wrussian Fallithrisi
Catigpleuonus S
Tyson
Orith
President Proclaims October 12 Liberty Day
President Wilson proclaims Saturday October 12 as Liberty Day marking the 426th anniversary of America’s discovery. He urges nationwide celebrations including addresses, pageants, harvest festivals and other demonstrations. He calls for federal employees with spare time to be given a holiday.
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Washington
Wilson
America
Liberty
Kaiser Would Talk Peace After Austrian Peace Note
Berlin says Germany’s ambassador in Vienna presented Germany’s reply to the Austro-Hungarian peace note. The German message expresses willingness to exchange ideas and keep the offer open for a conference of belligerents to discuss peace despite seeming rejection.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Vienna
Germany
Ship Tonnage Delivered and Launched To Emergency Fleet
Washington reports that actual deliveries to the Emergency Fleet Corporation for the year total 1,811,000 tons while 2,500,000 tons have been launched and 4,103,000 tons are in keel and laid. The general manager expects September deliveries to reach about 400,000 tons.
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Washington
Iaid
Genecal
Ifleet Corporation
Gente
Soviet arrests of ambassador and entente ministers at Jasey
United States Minister Vopicku and other entente ministers were arrested by Soviet authorities while returning through Russia. The group, reportedly at Jasey in Romania, faced detention as diplomatic tensions rose.
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Reda
Amsterday
United States
Vopicku
Entente
Jasey
Romania
Tussia
Defamation Convictions Stir Fed Court Proceedings
In Trenton New Jersey on September 23 patent attorney Atto Retch elt and Dr Frederick Bighoft ware were convicted in federal court of conspiring to defame a soldier. The court records note Red Cross warnings and related circulation concerns as part of the trial.
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Trenton
N. J
Atto Retchelt
Frederick Bighoft Ware
Ebthea
Army General March outlines 7 billion military program
General March testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on a seven billion dollar expansion. He says the army would rise from about 3.2 million to 4.8 million by July with 2.7 million new draftees called to colors. The plan requires the full seven billion in cash, mostly in the next year.
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General March
House Committee of Enlarged
Navy
Ag Hanes
Washington
Casdal
House ‘Appropriations.com
Tuittee
Geildroll Mare
Envoy to Great Britain Named by Wilson
President Wilson selects John W. Daw for ambassador to Great Britain succeeding Walter Hines Page. Daw, solicitor general of the United States, will head the American delegation in Berne for prisoner treatment and exchange talks with German missions.
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Washington
John W. Darwa
West Virginia
United States
Wilson
Walter Hines Page
Great Britain
Carter Devi'g
Switzerland
Allies Rout Bulgars in Macedonian Advance
Loridod Sept 21 Allied drive in Macedonia widens to 25 miles with 45 villages taken. Bulgarians set fires as they retreat while Allied forces press forward more than 12 miles. Serbian troops pursue the foe day and night as the battle outcome remains favorable to the Allies.
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Loridod
Macedonia
fYor
Roumania May Join Entente Amid Turmoil
Amsterdam reports agitation in unoccupied Roumania to renew ties with the Entente. Ferdinand is said to be aloof but could yield under pressure. Paris reports Lieutenant Boyau, famed French ace with 82 aerial victories, missing since Wednesday after a flight behind enemy lines.
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Amsterdam
Jagsy
Roumanty
Toumania
Paris
Boyau
Huns In Peace Demonstrations Amsterdam September
German social democrats are mounting peace demonstrations across Essen and Cologne after reports from Cologne dispatches. The protests, noted in Cologne, involve multiple cities and underscore the pacifist sentiment in early autumn.
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Huns
Amsterdam
Social Democrata
Germany
Cologne
Essen
Treasury Plans No New Taxes for Current Year
Secretary McAdoo said the treasury will not seek more than eight billion dollars in taxes this year to fund war department needs. He favored not raising taxes further now, noting future conditions may justify later increases. The House committee will trim estimates and shift more costs to bond sales, while several tax amendments were defeated.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
War Department
Fyance
Treasury Department
Ile
House Committee On
Green
Jow
Hong
Americans in Danger Warned in Urals Bolshviek Plot
A state department report from a neutral country details that 500 people were shot after the Urtski assassination of a Bolshevik cabinet minister. It warns allied citizens in central Russia face execution if further attempts on Bolshevik leaders occur.
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State Department
Russia
Urttski
Cardinal Farley Dies at New York Archdiocese Home
Cardinal John M Farley archbishop of New York died at his country home in Mamaroneck New York on a Tuesday after a relapse following a pneumonia attack. He was born April 20 1842 in Newtown Hamilton County Armagh Ireland to Philip and Catherine Farley.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Carddnal
John M Farley
New York
Cardiffal Farley
Newton Hamilton
County Armagh
Ieland
Philis and
Cathering Farley
Great Lakes Quarantines Navy Sailors Amid Influenza Wave
Commander of the Great Lakes naval training station orders that no incision Tenves wear atition the influenza epitheme had filased. About 1,500 victims of the disease at the station reported death. Change in stock for airplanes in Spokane foresees production halt after October 1. Archbishop Ireland of St Paul grows gravely ill with doctors uncertain of recovery.
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Great Lakes
Ghicago
Sepit
Moffett
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Gisease
Spokane
Wash
White Pine
Kenneth Ross
John D. Ryaq
War Department Seeks 7847 Billion for 4 Million Troops in France
Washington reports the War Department asked Congress for 7847 billion to fund an enlarged yearlong military program. Plans call for nearly 4,000,000 American soldiers in France next summer and about 1,000,000 in training at home. Total federal outlays climb above 24 billion for the army and may push total government spending to about 35 billion. Current appropriations total 20.79 billion with 5.40 billion in contract authorizations. The Shipping Board may request several hundred million soon.
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Wrusbligtons
War Department
France
Armly
Navy and Marine draft calls to begin soon
Washington announces orders to local draft boards allowing voluntary inductions into the navy and Marine Corps. If voluntary inductions fail to meet needs, additional navy drafts will be issued before month’s end and Marine contingent calls will follow within weeks.
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Washington
Prevost
Crowder
Navy
Marine Corps
Schilling Sentenced for Espionage Act Violations
Francis Navier Schilling of Marathon County Cassel chairman and former assemblyman received eighteen months at Leavenworth and a 3500 fine from Judge A L Sanborn in a U S court in Eat Centre Wisconsin after being found guilty on six counts of violating the espionage act for counseling draft registrants to claim exemption and for related utterances.
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Eat
Wis
Leavenworth
Kan
A L. Sanborn
United States
Francis Navier Schilling
Cassel
Marathon County
Leading U S Ace Putnam Killed in France
In France aviator Putnam, the leading American ace with nine confirmed victories, has been killed and buried in a field of buttercups. The report notes his status as a top American ace and his death in action. Washington reports the appointment of Hugh H. Robertson of San Antonio as United States attorney for Texas western district, sent to the Senate by the President.
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Putnam
France
Armerican
United States
Washington
Hugh HH. Robertson
San Antonio
Texas
Senate
Wisou
Cavalry Entry Report From Tehita Tokyo
A contingent of Japanese cavalry and troops under General Bemenoft entered Tehita on Thursday in the Transbutkul area, signaling a reinforcement move amid ongoing operations.
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Dap
Tehita
Tokyo
Bemenoft
Tehita O-The
Transbutkul
Toarsday
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