Recreation room opens at Camp Dodge for convalescent men
Camp Dodge reports a new barracks recreation room 2804 for wounded overseas soldiers opened under Mrs Mary Brubaker and Iowa WCTU. The facility includes games couches a piano and phonograph. The article also notes about 15 000 men at Camp Dodge with detailed breakdowns and updates on Red Cross instrument donations and postwar bonus instructions for discharged soldiers.
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Camp Dodge
Cantonment
Mary Brubaker
Iowa Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Short
MecMehan
Second Infantry
Rock Island
Girls Get New Building for Mitchellville
Des Moines reports that on March 22 the Iowa House approved a bill to authorize a new building at Mitchellville without a dissenting vote. The measure, proposed by Representative, moves to the Senate for consideration.
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Story County
Mitchellville
House
Des Moines
House of Representatives
Graham Attractions Revival Brings Sep tember Morn to Graham
The September Morn revival opens in Graham on Thursday March 27 with new tunes dances and costumes. Rowland and Clifford revived the show after the war era with a cast from New York and Chicago including Will Goodall replacing Dave Lewis and Mary Jane as Argentina. The big chorus delivers fresh songs and dances in a lively jazzy production.
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Graham
Messrs
Rowland
Clifford
New York
Chicago
Dave Lewis
la Salle Opera House
Will Goodall
Mary Jane
Argentina
Keokuk Child Eva Curtis Faces Court Over Mischief
In Keokuk Iowa ten year old Eva Curtis is at the center of a start of superior court proceedings to remove her to a benevolent institution. The child is accused of repeated thefts at the Grand theatre and habitual truancy. Local officials say her antics have unsettled the town and prompted the humane society to act.
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Keokuk
Eva Curtis
Little Eva
Grand Theatre
Litttle Eva
William Chalk
Hamilton
Nancy Keppel
The
Humane Society
Eva
Unusual Full Moon Lodge Meeting In Melbourne
In Melbourne Indiana March 22 the Full Moon lodge meeting drew notable attendees as the candidate’s grandfather and father and father-in-law were present marking a unique family turnout for the event.
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Melbourne
Full Moon Lodge
Grandfather Confers Master Mason Degree on Grandson
In a notable Masonic ceremony L. J. Nason received the Master Mason degree while his grandfather W. B. Nason performed the conferral. Years ago the elder Nason conferred Masonry on his son L. J. Nason, who is now the lodge member’s father. Such grandfather involvement in making a grandson a Mason is rare.
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L. J. Nason
W. B. Nason
Mr. Nason
Norman Hall recounts escape from German prison camp
Captain Norman Hall describes a wartime escape from Karlsruhe prison camp to France and Switzerland. He credits American Marines and troops with boosting French resistance and notes German optimism after early battles near Paris faded.
Kenyon Plans Visit to Russia From Fort Dodge
Senator W. S. Kenyon announces a spring trip to Russia to study bolshevism if Congress delay prevents an extra session before summer. He departs April 5 for three months via Paris to Archangel, gathering firsthand on peace talks and bolshevist threats. A Washington trip next week will address Towans discharges and the next session prospects.
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Fort Dodge
W. S. Kenyon
Russia
Congress
Kenyon
Paris
Archangel
Washington
War Department
Towans
Army
Navy
Iowa
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure All Stages
Readers are informed that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh in all stages through constitutional treatment. The ad claims the remedy strengthens the constitution and affects the blood to restore mucous surfaces. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case it fails to cure. Includes note of testimonials.
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Hall
Breil Es
Rope Trick Provokes Rift In Magic League
London March 10 The League to Enforce Peace in magic faces a split over mandating trick registrations. East Indian delegates withdraw citing a Monroe Doctrine on the rope trick. Historical accounts trace the illusion to 1355, with depictions of limbs and animals vanishing, sparking debate among magicians.
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London
League
Conference of Magicians
Orpheum
S. W. Clarke
The
Magic Circular
Ibn Batuta
Tangier
Hang Chau
Batuta
F. W. Holmes
W. G
Holmes
A. Yurif Ali
Dispersal After Yogi Tricks Fail at Liverpool Gathering
A crowd listens to Mr Chris Van Bern describe feats by a Liverpool Yogi including a rope that stays rigid only while he holds his breath. The group cannot conjure magic carpets to return home and scatters to find tramcars and omnibuses as the question remains unsettled.
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Chris van Bern
Liverpool
May Light Country Roads Plan for Electric Crossroad Lights
Local boosters in Burlington push electric lights at important highway intersections and turns along the Blue Grass trail from Burlington to Galesburg. W I Holstein outlines benefits while Hedges of Gladstone discusses a farm and consumer funded plan to extend electric lighting ten miles southwest of Middletown. Lights aim to aid motorists during repairs and reduce accidents, modeled after California’s lengthy lit roadways.
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Burlington
W. #1. Holstein
Galesburg
Hedges
Gladstone
Ill
Henderson
Middletown
California
Tts
Erroneously Reported Dead in Desperate Family News
In Council Bluffs on March 21 a sister of Sergt. Anton Paluka fainted after reading a February 24 1919 letter from France stating he was well and soon to be sent home. The family had been told months earlier he had died overseas and the mix up caused a temporary revival of hope.
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Council Bluffs
Anton Paluka
France
Orly
Paluka
Henry Frandsen
War Department
William Frandsen
William
Correction sought after mistaken death report
The family says a previous death notification proved wrong and now fears the department may have erred again. They seek clarification and confirmation from officials on the status of their relative.
Iowa House Defeats Railroad Rate Bill 8 to 84
Des Moines March 21 Proposals to strike specific limits on freight rates from the railroad commission statute were decisively rejected by the Iowa House of Representatives. Opponents argued the measure would unleash unlimited freight rates and restore railroad influence over party conventions and rail policy.
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Des Moines
Mar
Iowa House of Representatives
House Committee On Railroads
Railroad Commission
Railroad Committee
Iowa
Finley
Henry County
Wormley
Plymouth County
Moore
Guthrie County
Becker
Klaus
Mead
Morrow
Stuart
van Camp
Windell
Webster City to Build Permanent Sales Pavilion and Stock Barn
Hamilton County Exposition Association to erect a brick circular sales pavilion sixty feet in diameter with an adjoining stock barn sixty by one hundred twenty at the old fair grounds east of the river. The board of supervisors ceded the tract for permanent fair quarters. The plan aims to make Webster a sales center for pure bred stock in the region.
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Webster City
Hamilton County Agricultural Exposition Association
Bic
Fair Grounds
Board of Supervisors
Exposition Association
Webster
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Lieut. L. W. Secor
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Three Hundred Eightieth
Camp Sherman
Ohio
J. A. W. Smark
Camp Zachary Taylor
Lemon Building
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J. F. Duffy
Graham Attractions
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Porbears
Norman Hall
Grinnell
Karsruhe
Avermany
Holland
Red Cross Committee
Munich
Lake Constance
Switzerland
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Berne
Germany
Chateau Thierry
Chemin Des Dames
the League OF Magic
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Hamilton County
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