News of Ten Years Ago in Washington Centered About Red Cross
A collection of 1917 notes from Washington highlights Red Cross activity and Liberty Loan news. Mrs. C. J. Wilson hosts Comfort Kits for Company K, with items like towels and toothbrushes. Other items note Liberty Loan oversubscription, local Red Cross drives, and community events across Washington County including hospital socials and fundraisers.
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Washington
Red Cross
Liberty Loans
Repairs At Washington County Courthouse Push Forward
June 26 1917 reports carpenters tearing out the old basement front at the Washington County Courthouse to add a new entrance and easier steps. New windows are being installed in all rooms including the belfry as part of ongoing renovations.
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Washington County Court House
Court House
Red Cross Classes and Festival Plans Highlight 1917 Iowa City Notes
June 28 1917 reports Mrs Joscoe H Volland directing Red Cross classes in Iowa City Morning and afternoon groups listed with dozens of participants The Women's Improvement League nears completion of plans for a Red Cross Festival on Saturday A dozen would be teachers take exams at the courthouse with many named from nearby towns Lieutenant Putnam says enlistments end at midnight June 30 and draft will fill the companies Miss Bertha Hay travels to Chicago for a four week summer music course with her mother Mrs G W Hay accompanying.
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Brighton
Herman Spohn
Lloyd Prizer
Moyle Prizer
Leland Horton
Warren Morgan
Reformed Presbyterian Church
W. P. Johnson
Geneva College
Beaver Falls
Pennsylvania
Washington Academy
Washington County
Red Cross
Neeshonaka
G. I. Duke
Moline
J. M. Lytle
Studebaker
South Second Avenue
Lytle
Joscoe H. Volland
Iowa City
J. B. Crail
A. Dewey
Georgia Heatty
Mildred Brock
Howard McCleery
D. W. Harvey
Christy Jackson
C. W. McLaughlin
Maurine McLaughlin
J DD. McLaughlin
L H. Wallace
H. M. Bicher
Althea
Katherine Montgomery
Allie Kowad
Jean Shuman
Besse Conger
Susie Edgington
Dade B. Shearer
CC. Wilson
Harriet Keck
C. Cunningham
George Morrison
Women's Improvement League
Court House
Ruby Macon
Ruth Pierce
Eunice Scott
Mary McKevitt
Mary Martin
Pearl Glassburner
Hazel Tucker
Beth Godfrey
Eather Gibson
Mildred Morton
Amy Folger
Washington
Bina Porter
Ainsworth
Delbert Maxwell
Crawfordsville
Lulu Kracaw
Keota
Mary J. Warren
H. H. Haas
Kalona
Xtande O'Conner
Riverside
Putnam
Bertha Hay
Chicago
G. W. Hay
Iowa Weather and Politics Highlight Week Notes
State weather head cites lack of rain and sun retarding crops. Senator Brookhart urges relief through legislation to aid farmers. Dr. Raymond M. Hughes becomes president of Iowa State College at Ames. Ralph Keenan named second best speller in U.S. at Washington contest. The 33rd Iowa Bar Association meeting discusses judge-only jury examinations. Lowden clubs postponement announced. Banking conditions improve per Superintendent L A Andrew. Two life-term murderers escape from Fort Madison. Rep. Boies hospitalized after nervous breakdown. Adjutant General Louis J. Lasher replaced by Col. Batley. Marshalltown session approves junior high building. Prof. Shimek gains support from Izaak Walton league. E T Meredith ordered to rest and isolate. Green and Guthrie wind storm damage report. Sweeney predicts corn value rise via chemist-made silk and fiber. B Woodruff named to state railroad commission. Mills County levee breach floods 8,000 acres. Socialists plan to enter state race. Iowa Bankers Association holds first annual convention. G A R encampment meets at Newton with W R C connection.
Road bond vote set on thirteen million dollars scope
Col Glenn C Haynes of the Goo Roads Association says bonds totaling thirteen million dollars will be voted on between now and August 3. In New York Calvary Baptist Deacons resign over opposition to faith healing and church tensions with Rev Dr John R Straton. Paramount Famous Players Lasky cuts salaries over fifty dollars weekly by sixteen percent across the board.
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Glenn C. Haynes
The
Goo Roads Association
Calvary Baptist Church of New York
John R. Straton
Paramount-Famous-Players‘Lasky Corporation
Hosta
Shemaria
1927 U.S. Apple Crop Lightest in 17 Years
Iowa State College at Ames reports the 1927 apple crop will be at most half the normal level, marking the lightest yield in 17 years for the United States.
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United States
Iowa State College
Ames
Fliers Missing Aviators Supposed by Local Signals
Hand bills addressed to Nungesser and Cali are dropped by airplane over the Saguenay district northeast of the river. Flares sighted for ten days lead residents to believe they are signals from the missing aviators. The circulars describe the district and how to reach the nearest settlement.
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Nungesser
Cali
Saguenay River
New York
Peking
American Bureau of Metal Statistics
Lindbergh Featured in Week's News
Col Charles Lindbergh free to plan next moves after landing in Paris. Austrian honors greet Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine on arrival with wives. Aviators map Pacific routes from San Francisco to Honolulu and beyond.
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Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Middle West
San Francisco
Honolulu
Dallas
Hong Kong
Seattle
Tokyo
Pacific
Happenings in Washington Weekly Review
The city council approved painting the water works tower inside and out. Ed Manning of Henry county was sentenced to 30 days in county jail for stealing automobile tires. A carload of fat hogs shipped by Ed Jackson for farmers fetched 8.85 in Chicago.
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City Water Works
Ed Manning
Henry County
Ed Jackson
Co-Operative Livestock Shipping Association For
Chicago
England urges treaty to link Great Lakes to Atlantic via St Lawrence
England states urge government to negotiate a treaty with Canada for a navigable waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic through the St Lawrence. The League of Nations council discussed the disarmament conference prospects and set the second reading of the preparatory plan for early November.
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England
Canada
Great Lakes
Atlantic
St. Lawrence
Council of the League of Nations
Nanking Army Advances to Peking and Captures Hanchow
The Nanking nationalist army pushed toward Peking and seized Hanchow near the Shantun border. The deposed boy-emperor urged for a new ruler greater than the current, while transcontinental air service between New York and Chicago seemed assured by a contract with G M Bellanca, designer of the Columbia.
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China
Peking
Hanchow
Shantun
New York
Chicago
G. M. Bellanca
Columbia
Mayor Waler heads NY hazing inquiry committee
Mayor Jimmy Waler of New York personally headed one of three investigation committees formed after alleged hazing of three Jewish internes at Kinkston county hospital by more than twenty autres internes. James F. Barton, national adjutant of the American Legion, states the Paris convention this fall will be a sober affair from the American viewpoint.
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Jimmy Waler
New York
Kinkston County Hospital
James F. Barton
American Legion
Paris
Week at Local Theatres Shows Gish in The Scarlet Letter
A busy Fox schedule lists Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter with Lars Hanson as her preacher lover and Priscilla Dean in The Speeding Venus. Other features include Sally Irene and Mary, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Sunset Derby, and Wages for Wives with top stars in weekly line up.
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Nathaniel Clawthorne
Lillian Gish
Colonies
Miss Gish
Lars Hanson
Priscilla Dean
Sally
Irene
Mary
New York
the Fox
Pratt
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Collier, Jr
Ralph Lewis
Mary Astor
Jacqueline Logan
Margaret Livingston
Zasu Pitts
Mussolini Plans 6 Million-Strong Italian Army
Italy, a League of Nations member, envisions building an army of six million as part of its expansion ambitions. The move signals heightened military posture amid international tension and diplomacy.
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Italy
League of Nations
Mussolini
Atlantic City Speedway hosts big Studebaker field day
The Atlantic City Speedway christening on April 24 featured Studebaker and Erskine cars with champions like Leon Duray and Fred Wallasi in exhibition runs. The Commander set world-mileage records while Duray praised the Erskine Six, amid a Studebaker event attended by 15,000 motorists.Officials forecast a massive summer auto migration with 40 million travelers and billions spent nationwide.
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Atlantic City Speedway
Studebaker
Erskine
Leon Duray
Fred Wallasi
Speedway
Eriskine Six
Big Speedway
H. A. Harper
Studebaker Bales Company
Philadelphia
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C. J. Wilson
Company K
France
Ford
J. F. Duffy
Iowa Avenue
Liberty
Odd Fellows Building
North
Star Theatre
Klein Klothing Kompany
Washington County Hospital
Dave, McLaughlin
D. N. Anwyl
John McLaughlin
Selle Rice
D. A. Chalmers
C. A. Boice
Haskins
N. Mullin
J. R. McCreedy
Margery McCreedy
Mabel Godlove
Messrs
Mr. Carris
Marsh Bailey
W. M. Keeley
A. Bovee
J. Wilson
KB. J. Perry
Helen Dean
Helen Morton
Edie Bovee
Smouse
Oregon Township Red Cross Society
Charles Shalla
Fred Coakley
Dent
Muscatine
Shalla
Muscatine Hospital
East Washington Street
Charles Benz
Henry Lehrer
Ella Rownd
Des Moines
Billy Sunday
New York City
Sunday
Y. M. CA
Iowa
State University Unit
Skunk
Lem Guy
Don Hampsher
West Side
Harry D. Smith
Smith
Marion Avenue
Katherine Triechman
Wellman
Miss Triechman
Japan
Cain
Ft. Madison
Company K. I. N. G
State News Review
Charles D. Reed
Brookhart
Raymond M. Hughes
Ralph Keenan
Waukon
Washington, D.C
Bar Association
Lowa City
Lowden
Frank J. Lund
L. A. Andrew
Fort Madison
W. D. Boies
Sheldon
Sioux
W. H. Batley
Hammill
Louis J. Lasher
Davenport
Marshalltown
Bohumil Shimek
Izaak Walton League
E. T. Meredith
Green County
Guthrie
O. R. Sweeney
Frat B. Woodruff
Knoxville
State Railroad Commission
Dwight Lewis
Mills County
Folsom
Socialists of
Bankera
Iowa Bankers Association
Iowa Department of the
Newton
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles Levine
Austria
Austrian Republic
Austrian Aviation Society
U. S
Lester J. Maitland
Albert Hagenberger
Richard Byrd
Byrd
Tufts College
Yale
Britiss
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Rapids City
S. C
West
Congress
Tilson
Winter
Coolidge
President Coolidge
Ardmore
Ls. D
de Valera
Free State
George
Lansing
Kansas
Southwest
Chicago Grain Exchange
Pasoine
Hannibal
Missouri
Hugh
Roy
Ray D'Autremont
Pope Pius
Mexico
S.T. Donahey
A. BK. Baldrige
Sigourney
Snaron Center
Elmer McKinley
Withiaw
J. M. Grant
J. M. Stoops
Washington Indees
Abingdon Jefferson Cot
Davage
Charles A. Dewey
Paul Burgess
Ualemala
Ehuareh
Anna Marie Anderson
Winifred Alen
Alice Fishburn
Elsie Warker
High Echo
Lake Okoboji
Orion Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Wolf Carnival Company
Leon Beatty Post, American Legion
Applegate
Eva Mehling
Chile
Grace Glasgow
India
Nell Tripp
Fort Riley
Fred West
National Hotel Committee
Travelers’ Protective Association
Denver
Mt. Pleasant
That City
Jacob Putman
Charles Denison
Los Angeles
Ralph Sherfey
California
Sherm Knox
Pilotsburg, Haskins, and Noble
Keokuk
George Hayes
Here
Oscar L. Brock
Milwaukee
American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Ora Nicholson
Thomas Nicholson
Albert Askea
George Askea
This City
Rock Island
D. H. Logan
Washington Gazette
Canon City
Col
Agnes Lucille
Leslie Warren Lkbless Fop
Martha Alice Mc Creedy
H. J. McCreedy
Ross Galloway
Waterloo
Galloway
Racine
Wig
Carl J. Ulrick
Minneapolis
Minh
Katherine Elizabeth
Glen Graham Davis
Davis
Miss Coffin
Elmer Coffin
Bessie Roberts
Idaho
Graham Theatre
Constance Bennett
Joan Crawford
Sally O'Neill
Venus
Robert Fraser
FOX ‘Theatre
Studebaker-Erskine
Atlantic City
America
Fr. H. Grant
Chevrolet Motor Co
American Automobile Association
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