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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
3
Clothes for young men emphasize vigor taste and originality with neat coats soft roll fronts patch pockets neatly coffed sleeves high buttoning vests and well cut trousers. The strong assortment promises exclusive fashion values that appeal to well dressed young men seeking form fitting suits and tasteful details.
Mr and Mrs Ira Stanley motored to Clear Lake on Sunday for a few days visit. After returning they plan to travel to Spirit Lake to rusticate for a week or two.
The Red Cross War Council authorizes a $300,000 July relief grant to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian relief with a plan to match for five more months if the Turkish government allows. The committee operates across Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, the Caucasus, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Macedonia, aiding Armenian, Syrian, and Greek refugees. The appeal cites hundreds of thousands of orphans and widespread destitution, with relief including employment for refugee women in the Caucasus.
The text notes that Christians suffered first under Muslim rule during the 1915 Armenian massacres and that nearly a million Armenians were killed or driven from their homeland. It adds that about 500,000 Greeks from villages south of the Black Sea were similarly displaced and left destitute and without support.
Gamble Robinson and Nash Brothers Companies indicted by federal grand jury for Sherman antitrust violations. Firms with branches across the Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, plead not guilty before Judge C F Amiden. Trial likely at fall term. District Attorney M A Hildreth notes this as North Dakota’s first antitrust suit. Farmers report crop prices high amid market volatility. Public notice ads and Doan’s Kidney Pills promotions appear in the same column.
At war end War Department records show Iowa furnished 76,242 troops from 79,521 called. Adjutant General Baker lists 75,225 enlisted with 2,334 unreported, totaling 78,050. Iowa’s three year enlistment pattern reduced the quota to about 61,220, while the same basis total is 68,830.
A lengthy court notice outlines a partition action in Emmet County Iowa where William Hubbard Bert Hubbard Catherine Huntsinger and others seek a judicial division of a described seven by eight block and lot in Lough's addition Estherville among numerous heirs. The petition requests court determined undivided interests and proper allotment with other orders as just and equitable. The case targets a September 3 1917 term and warns default if defendants fail to appear.
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