Civil War Veteran M Logan Dies at Home in Washington
Samuel M. Logan veteran of Company H Seventh Iowa died at his home 309 North Avenue C after valvular heart trouble. Born Decatur County Indiana August 15 1839 he served from 1861 1865 and was active in G A R and Shiloh veterans. Survives three children two grandsons in the army and a sister. Funeral likely next Monday or Tuesday.
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Samuel M. Logan
North Avenue C
Mr. Logan
Brucean
Camp Cody
New Mexico
Red Cross
Logan
George Logan
Belmont
Seventh Iowa
Indiana
Decatur County
John A. Logan
Washington County
Brighton
Hulda F. Anderson
Washington
Crawfordsville
North Ave. C
W. E. Logan
Mel Logan
Canon City
Colo
R. A. Shaw
St. Joseph
Obituary of Darling Clair Entsminger 1915 1918
Donald Clair Entsminger was born in Coppock Town on September 4 1915 and died July 25 1918 after an operation at county hospital that was not performed. Funeral services were held at J B Setters home on East Second Street conducted by Rev S K Coates and G Solin Eaton with burial at Elm Grove.
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Donald Clair Entsminger
Coppock
Town
Clair
Jesus
J. B. Setters
East Second Street
S. K. Coates
G. Solin Eaton
The
Christian Church
Elm Grove
Training Wild Elephants With Derricks For Sells Floto
The Sells Floto circus boss explains elephant training using chains, a derrick, and a crane to lift the animal’s front legs into a standing position. He notes the cue and gradual removal of restraints, with the same method used to teach lying down, as the elephants perform in the street parade and show.
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Sells Floto Circus
Washington
Two Mile Street
Advt
Local weddings and community gatherings in Franklin township
Perry Edward Hays, son of Mrs. James P. Hays, married Miss Lela Alice Solberg in a quiet Minneapolis ceremony on Monday July 15. Hays, once a Franklin resident, now heads to Camp Wadsworth after closing a Minneapolis grocery. Solberg continues work in a Minneapolis department store until the war ends. Also, Franklin residents gathered for a county home demonstrator Miss Olsen’s wheat and sugar conservation dishes, a lawn fete by Epworth League with Edison music, and an outdoor Woman’s Home Missionary Society meeting in Sunset Park with a charity picnic supper.
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Perry Edward Hays
James P. Hays
Minneapolis
Minn
Lela Alice Solberg
Old Academy
Camp Wadsworth
South Carolina
Washington
Franklin Township
Roy Libe
Miss Olsen
Woman's Home Missionary Society
First United Presbyterian Church
Sunset Park
Jennie Acheson
L D. Robinson
David McLaughlin
N. Anwy'l
S. S. Club Meeting At Mrs Maud Brown Home
The S. S. club met at Mrs Maud Browns home Thursday afternoon with eight members and several visitors. They sewed for the French babies and listened to music on the Victrola. Mrs Brown served refreshments assisted by Miss Alta Wright and Miss Hazel Brown.
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Maud Brown
Young Women's Missionary Society Picnic in Sunset Park
The Methodist church Young Women's Home Missionary Society invites members to a picnic at Sunset Park on Monday evening July 29. Bring a fork and spoon and remember it is a dues paying night.
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Young Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Sunset Park
Priscilla Club Meeting Remains Scheduled for Tuesday
The Priscilla club will meet with Mrs. W A Harper Tuesday afternoon at 2 30. Honor Guard girls should be on the practice field Tuesday at 730 to learn new routines.
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Priscilla Club
W. A. Harper
Demonstration on Wheat Substitutes at Bishop Home
Miss Olsen will demonstrate at the Ek S Bishop home ten miles northwest of Washington on Wednesday July 31 at 2 30 p m. All invited. Wheat substitutes will be the topic. Services at Second United Presbyterian Church Sabbath evening at 8 p m conducted by Rev W G Robertson. If rain the event will be canceled as Robertson arrives by auto.
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Miss Olsen
Ek. S. Bishop
Washington
Second United Presbyterian Church
W.G. Robertson
Robertson
Free Boschee's German Syrup sample at Lemmon's Pharmacy
An offer invites any adult with cough cold or bronchitis to visit Lemmon's Pharmacy for a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. The ad boasts fifty years of success and promises a good night's rest and free morning ex pectoration. Sold in all civilized countries. adyt.
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Lemmon's
Boschee
Adyt
High School Building Under Construction Faces Rich Material Piles
Great piles of stone blocks lumber sand gravel cement and crushed rock occupy the High School site bounded by East Jefferson South Fourth and East Madison streets. Fifty carloads of material have been delivered with seventeen in the last week. Night work and heavy labor continue as foundation work advances despite rain and warm weather.
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East Jefferson
South Fourth
East Madison Streets
Angstead
Altho
Secretary Baker delays work or fight rule for baseball
Washington July 27 The work or fight rule does not apply to baseball players until September 1 allowing those in draft age to seek essential occupations or enter the army. Major leagues sought October 15 but Baker's ruling shortens the season by five weeks. The decision aims to keep baseball as recreation while war demands rise and schedules will be altered.
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Washington
Baker
National Commission
Community Red Cross Sends Comfort Kits to Overseas Troops
Mrs. C. J. Wilson reports all materials for comfort kits are used and some kits are already completed. The Riverside branch contributed $16 for equipment. Kits will be sent to headquarters for the soldiers overseas, with a new county-wide call anticipated soon.
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C. J. Wilson
Riverside
Meat Inspection Not At Fault In Camp Travis Meats
The Department of Agriculture completes its inquiry into claims that meats and poultry unfit for food were sold for army use at Camp Travis. It states Federal meat inspection was not involved and that complaints referred to non inspected channels. The letter from Federal Trade Commission official Victor Murdock clarifies no blame on the inspection service.
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Washington, D.C
Department of Agriculture
Camp Travis
Federal Meat Inspection
Department
Meat Inspection Service
Federal Trade Commission
Victor Murdock
John R. Mohler
Bureau of Animal Industry
Murdock
Army
San Antonio
Weatherman Honored After Heroic Wound in War
Hugh J. Weatherman of Vienna township dies after a shell fragment wounds him at the front. He directs aid to comrades despite mortal injury, and Bat tery C of the Fifth U.S. Field Artillery praises his gallantry in a letter to his parents. His body will be shipped home after the war and is buried in an American cemetery behind the lines.
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Marshalltown
Hugh J. Weatherman
Vienna Township
W. J. Weatherman
Beaman
Stanley F. Bryan
Fifth United States Field Artillery
Young Weatherman
Bryan
Corn syrup advised for canning and jellies
USDA specialists say corn syrup can supplement sugar in canning jams jellies marmalades and fruit butters. Varying amounts create modified flavors. test small quantities first to suit family taste. It pairs well with strong fruits like pineapple and cherries. exact amounts depend on fruit and syrup strength.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
German Gloom Over Turn of War Amid Allied Push
Amsterdam reports German press characters the Franco American counteroffensive as a defensive setback. Traub of the Prussian Diet rails at gloom and urges nerve as Marne operations continue. Vorwaerts credits Foch with exploiting past lessons and American help aiding flank action and tonnage safeguards for large American troop flows.
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Amsterdam
Traub
Tageliche Rundschau
Fritz
Frederick the Great
Marne
von Ardenne
Foeh
Rheims
Vorwaerts
Richard Gaedke
Foch
Gaedke
Wrestlers to Exhibit at Iowa State Fair
Louis Mayer, partner of Jack Curley, signs with the Iowa state fair for a series of exhibition mat matches next month by Joe Stecher Wladek Zbyszko Yussif Hassane and others. Earl Caddock is expected abroad with his division. Curley manages Zbyszko and Hassane.
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Earl Caddock
France
Jack Curley
Zbyszko
Hussane
Baby survey shows Waterloo children need medical care
One third of Waterloo children under six require medical or surgical attention per a baby health survey by the council of national defense. The study found many undetected health issues including hernia tuberculosis tonsil and adenoid problems bad teeth heart and nervous conditions and undernourishment among 4500 infants weighed and examined.
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Waterloo
Council of National Defense
Grain Market Prices in St Louis July 27
Cash close figures show No 1 red wheat at 2.24, No 2 red 2.21, No 3 red 2.18, No 1 hard 2.25, No 2 hard 2.21, No 4 corn 1.53 to 1.59, yellow corn 1.60 to 1.67, white corn 1.94, oats readings mix old and new at 0.74 to 0.75.
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St. Lois
ST. Louis
Foch's Third Day Halt Halts Soissons Dash
The writer notes initial success but reports Foch's onslaught spent on the third day with no further progress in his dash for Soissons.
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Foch
Soissons
League Baseball Games Standing of the Clubs
League standings show teams contending for top place as games unfold. This brief notes current positions, wins and losses, and the race shaping toward the season’s end.
Baseball scores from league games across the day
National League results show New York 8 St. Louis 9 and Brooklyn 4 Pittsburgh 3. Philadelphia 3 Chicago 2. Boston 11 12 Cincinnati 5 3. American League scores list Cleveland 8 New York 3 Chicago 7 Boston 2 St. Louis 2 Washington unknown. Detroit 2 Philadelphia 1.
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Perch
Chicago
New York
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Boston
Brookly
St. Louis
Cleveland
Washington
Sosasespeese
Chicago Wee
Seceeresaee
Brooklyn
Detroit
Bold $30,000 jewelry store robbery in Chicago
Masked robbers struck the Louis Sandack jewelry store shortly after opening, locked Sandack and a clerk in a rear room, forced the safe, and escaped with 30 000 dollars in money and gems. They fled in an automobile owned by two other masked men to the waiting car and sped away. United States fuel administration named Roy A. Rainey and David D. Bush to the production bureau to oversee mine supply priorities in cooperation with the War Industries Board.
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Chicago
Louis Sandack
Sandack
Washington
United States Fuel Administration
Roy A. Rainey
New York
David D. Bush
War Industries Board
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North Avenue
Epworth League
Stephens
Leagues
Red
American Pearl Button Co
Winfield Smouse
Frank Flaherty
Iowa
Marion Avenue
C. A. Monson
Wayland Phone
Rose Hill
A. H. Taggart
Emporia
Kansas
FF & M
St Bank Bldg
J. S. Mangold
Call Mutual
Maxwell
G. L. Fetters
Dougherty Bros
Germany
Journal Office
Harper & Gardner
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