Township clubs cancel meeting amid quarantine in Clay
In Clay on October 24, quarantine restrictions cancel this month’s Township Club gathering. Mrs. A J Morgan is slowly recovering from a serious flu attack. The Alter family moved Cecil Alter’s remains here for burial after dying of Spanish influenza at camp in San Antonio. Cecil served since June.
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Clay Clay
A. J. Morgan
W. J. Alter
Cecil
San Antonio
Tex
Mrs. Alter
New Mexico
Kephart and neighbors share weekend visits
Rural Route 4 notes visits among the Kephart family and friends at several homes. Mrs Sickles from Washington visits her daughter, Mrs Frank Kephart, while Eva Caldwell improves from influenza. Charlie Kephart and daughter visited Walter Gardner, and Mrs Frank Kephart with Miss Henel Jones are ill. Neighbors busy husking corn.
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Homer Kephart
Carl Schneider
Sickles
Washington
Frank Kephart
Eva Caldwell
Charlie Kephart
Walter Gardner
Henel Jones
Camp Pike to Publish Its Own Official Paper
Camp Pike Arkansas plans to issue the Camp Pike Carry On to mould public opinion among about 60 000 soldiers. The staff features former Chicago Indianapolis Boston New York Omaha and Chicago Tribune journalists with roles from editor in chief to sporting editor. The paper will publish on a commercial basis with profits going to regimental mess funds. first issue in about a week.
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Camp Pike
Ark
Trench
Camp
Col. Miller
Lieu
Kellogg M. Patterson
Chicago
Dan V. Goodman
Automobile News
Indianapolis News
Cornelius F. Donovan
Boston
New York
Arthur Majors
Omaha Bee
Donald Frazier
Fillmore Chronicle
Fairmount Neb
Kinsey
The Difference by Hichter Explores Fear and Courage
A concise quotation framing courage as the shift from fear to bravery across time. It contrasts a timid reaction before danger with a cowardly stance during threat and a courageous posture afterward.
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Hichter
Dry Law in Texas Declared Unconstitutional
The Texas state wide prohibition law was ruled unconstitutional by the court of criminal appeals in a majority decision with one dissenter. The attorney general and Controller H. B. Terrell stated no permits would be issued until a rehearing is resolved. The ruling leaves the state technically dry for ten days and allows some saloon openings in dry areas. Larger cities remain unaffected by the ten mile zone.
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Austin
Texas
Oet
Court of Criminal Appeals
H. B. Terrell
Foley's Honey and Tar Cough Relief Praised in Ad
Mrs W M Stevens of Vivian West Virginia reports her baby with a terrible cough improved after the first dose of Foley's Honey and Tar and the cough stopped in two days. Lemons Pharmacy offers the remedy.
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Foley
W. M. Stevens
Vivian
W. Va
Lemmon
Dr Walter Matthey Awaiting Postponed Sentencing
Davenport Iowa story reports Dr Walter Matthey convicted in federal court for espionage act violation will not be sentenced until after the Council Bluffs session. Officials say no new trial motion has been filed and no court action will occur until the defendant’s attorney has time to act. The two weeks term at Council Bluffs opens next Tuesday and Ottumwa term was cut short due to juror shortages.
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Davenport
Walter Matthey
Council Bluffs
E. G. Moon
United States
N. F. Reed
Marshal Reed
Pails on Uts Quota Manchester Liberty Loan Effort
Delaware county raised about 1.1 million dollars in the fourth Liberty loan but fell about 190000 short of its quota. Manchester city subscribed over 200000 and led oversubscriptions in the county while Colony Adams and Hazel Green townships also oversubscribed. Bremen township showed poorly though among the wealthier areas and several wards lagged behind. Some delinquents were called in by the county defense council and remaining subscriptions may be pursued by federal authorities.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Colony
Adams
Hazel Green
Bremen
County Council of Defense
Commission to Take Vote Named
Gov. W. L. Harding announces election commissioners to visit Iowa military camps to ensure soldiers voting on Nov. 5 do not lose ballots. Democrats and Republicans are represented. Commissioners depart this week or next with ballots poll books and instruction cards. Soldiers act as judges and clerks. commissioners stay to ensure ballots are counted and returned to the secretary of state. The move echoes appreciation from border soldiers two years ago for state voting support.
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Des Moines
W. L. Harding
Iowa
To Offer Iowa Soldiers Vote Chance In Camps
A proposal aims to give 20 000 or more Iowa men in military camps the opportunity to cast ballots. The measure focuses on ensuring military voters can participate in elections despite being stationed away from home.
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Iowa
Boy Fights Huns Wife Fights His Dad
In Muscatine Floyd Teeple fights in France while his wife Hazel, his father Charles, and his brother contest possession of a six cylinder Stephens automobile. Hazel seeks a writ of replevin to reclaim the car and unpaid rent reportedly owed during Floyd's absence. The case names Charles Teeple as defendant with the car in his use. Hazel estimates the car's value at 350 dollars and seeks return or payment of value and back rent.
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Muscatine
Floyd Teeple
France
Stephens
Floyd
Hazel Teeple
Charles P. Teeple
Herbert Thompson
Frenchmen Will Revenge Crimes in Parliament Discussion
Paris October 25. Senate president Antonin Dubost urged full punishment and reparations for German devastation in northern France. Foreign Minister Stephen Picton warned the enemy cannot be trusted to keep promises and praised President Wilson for upsetting their calculations. Liberated-region senators moved for commissions to assess the extent of the damage, a resolution that was unanimously adopted.
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Paris
France
Antonin Dubost
Stephen Picton
Agg
Wilson
Man's Cheerful Recommendation for Fo ley Kidney Pills
W H Frear of Myrtle Ave Albany writes he believed kidney trouble caused his run-down condition and weakness and that Foley Kidney Pills relieved lame back rheumatic pains stiff joints and sore muscles. He cheerfully recommends them and notes Lemmon's Pharmacy sells the product.
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W.H. Frear
Myrtle Ave
Albany, N. Y
Foley
Lemmon's Pharmacy
Advt
Germans Sink Mail Steamer in Ostend Channel
Allied reporters describe Ostend as largely destroyed by British shelling with the channel now blocked by the sinking of a mail boat alongside the Vindictive. Germans occupy Ostend and other liberated Belgian towns, and German money dominates the local commerce while German language spreads among children.
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Belgium
Ostend
Belgian
Sioux City Students to Vote on Military Uniforms by Mail
Sioux City high school students will vote on their preferred military uniforms by postal card poll. A delegation said petitions could not be circulated among students due to influenza related school closures. Each student will mark the uniform they want and mail the card to the board of education secretary.
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Sioux City
Sioux City High School
the Board of Education
Negro Yank voyage ends with vow to return to New Orleans
In England a unit of black American soldiers aboard a ship convoys back home, one quiet man flares up at arrival and swears he will travel back to the United States by New Orleans when returning.
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Reciprocal News Service
London
England
America
New Orleans
German POW camps under American care praised for humane treatment
The article describes German prisoners of war in OSS camps behind the lines receiving equal rations housing sanitation medical care work hours and recreation as American soldiers. It details barracks water systems tobacco rations canteen pay chaplain visits letters privileges clothes and even a humorous barber incident.
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Stars and Stripes
France
A. FE. F
Dr King’s New Discovery and New Life Pills Ad
An old advertisement urges readers not to suffer a cold with a familiar remedy Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and bronchial attacks and to use Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle laxative. It notes prices 60 cents and 1.20 dollars for the discovery and 25 cents for the pills.
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Dr. King
Mother's Friend Promises Easier Expectant Periods
Advertisements tout Mother's Friend as a penetrating external remedy for expectant mothers. It claims to reduce pain and nervousness before and during the crisis, keep the skin soft, and offer rest and calm nights. The Bradfield Regulator Company urges writing to Atlanta for a Motherhood Book and to start use at once.
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Bradfield Regulator Company
Dept. G. Lamar
Atlanta
Georgia
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Ostend Harbor
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Buffalo, N. Y
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