Quota for Emmet County in Victory Liberty Bond Drive
The Emmet County quota for the Victory Liberty Bond drive opening April 21 and closing May 10 is set at 611 625 dollars. Iowa’s prior four campaigns oversubscribed by 54 593 150 with 1 642 000 subscribers. Cavanagh hopes to surpass the second and fourth loan over-subscription records. Republican leaders urge unity and full participation to support the national effort.
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Emmet
John A Cavanagh
Des Moines
Iowa
Cavanagh
New Rail Wage Increase Total Is 67100000
Washington April 11 train and enginemen on lines of the National railways were granted another wage increase by Director General Hines affecting over 400000 employees retroactive to January 1. The four great railroad brotherhoods received raises from 15 to 53.30 monthly for monthly paid workers and 1.31 to 91.63 for daily paid workers, revising 1917 wages and adding an estimated 67600000 annually if all claimed increases had been in effect. Additional adjustments pending include dining and sleeping car staff and railroad police.
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United Press
Washington
National Railways
Hines
Railroad Administration
Tg Pense
Brotherhoods
Aeto
VPR
Organization is perfected at Emmet county meeting
A local assembly selected officers for a new Emmet county army chapter with Lieutenant W. E. Deming as president Everett Brenneman as secretary Clair Post treasurer and trustees Don Pullen Barney Knutson and Chris Anderson. The group outlined rules and arranged a signature drive among Emmet county soldiers and planned a large return meeting for later in spring.
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W.E. Deming
Everett Brenneman
Clair Post
Don Pullen
Barney Knutson
Chris Anderson
Emmet County
W. M. Knutson
Huntington
Lynn Weir
Dolliver
Jack Thorson
Walt Mangold
Dr. Knipe
Armstrong
Henry Hendrickson
Ringsted
T. Dybdahl
Gilbert Christensen
Arthur Larsot
Wallingford
Ed Smith
Floyd Goldsberry
Graver
Cliff Hatch
Maples Hill
Will Cargill
Nels Nelson
Halts
Home From Camp Holabird Henry Long Returns
Henry Long, previously stationed at Camp Holabird in Maryland for nearly a year, was honorably discharged at Camp Dodge early this week. He arrived home Tuesday night by M and St. L railroad in good condition and glad to resume civilian life. Farmers’ notes discuss a new Farmers National Association based in Des Moines, with praise from Iowa Homestead and Wallace’s Farmer. The piece urges support for farmer organizations like Farm Bureau and Farmers’ Union, urging unity and collaboration for farmer betterment.
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Henry Long
Maryland Camp
Camp Milabird
Maryland
Camp Dodge
Army
Iowa Farm Papers
Des Moines
Farmers’ National Association
Iowa Homestead
Wallace
Farmers National Organization
Homestead
Emmet County
Farm Bureau
Farmers’ Union
National Association
Farmers National Association ad prompts reader warnings
A local notice discusses an evolving Farmers National Association campaign to recruit agents with a $12.50 fee, of which organizers take $10.50. Promoters contract for five years and then conduct member meetings to plan work. The item questions the venture given active county farm bureaus and state federations already in place.
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Farmers’ National Association
Des Moines
Promomters
Tong
I . J. C. Eldredge
Special Meeting of Kadraelon Commandery in Asylum
A special conclave of Kadraelod Commandery No. 52 K T i will be held at the Asylum Thursday April 17 at 7 30 P M at which time the Order of the Temple will be conferred upon Companions Harry Rarey and Baty K Bradfield of Spirit Lake Iowa or Past Commander Charles Edwin Narey will confer the work apart the candidates Refreshments will be served dining room after the work Major Bridgman to be at Chantadgen The man who holds the American record for battle lying over the Gake man lines Major Ray Bridgman will be one of the lecturers our chautauqua this summer He has spent 600 hours in 3 s air under battle conditions said to be the record for an American aviator Major Bridgman was a student before the war left his studies in 1916 and enlisted in the foreign legion of the French army He later transferred to the aviation section and became pilot and flight commander in the Lafayette Escadrille He has brought down machines and has been deters both French and American fronts He has participated in seventy five aerial battles as Major Bridgman was commanding officer of the 22nd Aero Squadron which destroyed forty seven German machines in the last seven weeks the battles of St Mihiel and the Argonne He was shot down just after he had brought mate in flames The chautauqua Major Bridgman will be the speaker in the afternoon on of the big band and detoplan lay His subject will be A Rome of the Clouds
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Kadraelon Commandery
Kadraelod
K. Ti
Asylum
Labe
Order of the Temple
Harry
BR Narey
Baty K. Bradfield
Spitit Lake
Iowa
Charles Edwin
Narey
Bridgman
Chantadgen
Ray Chaflin Bridgeman
Maar Bridgman
Foreign ‘Legion
LaFayette Eacadrille
Bill Thaw
Lufberry
James Norman Hall
Frémis
22Nd Aero
Yaadrad
Germany
The
Argonne
Tles
Thes Caker
Detoplan
Why To It Bald the Facetious Teller
A cryptic text fragment features a bald facetious teller asking why and a man going to a butcher. The source's meaning is unclear, with scattered phrases and unusual punctuation.
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Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
America
Hera
Zeeman House
G. Zeeman
Gowmer
Eighth
Lloyd Hunt
Uncle Sam
Fri
France
U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Mississippi
Missouri
Missour Valley
P. A. Lonergan
Court House
Br. Lonergan
Committee of Soldiers
Lieutenant Deming
Marie Sorum
Bernard K. Borreson
Norway
H. M. Borreson
St. Paul
Minnesota
Estherville
H. M. Borreson and Son
Louis
Emmet Homestead No
K. P. Hall
Frink
Order
Spirit Lake
Victory Loan
Iowa War Savings Committee
Homer Miller
Lulu Fahey
Fasherville
Tracy
Auto Sap
Camp Holabird
Geo. Butler
Albio
Ceylon
George Butler
Albia
Dheorge
A.R. Butler
Richardson: Bros
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