Music to awaken Waterloo residents for liberty loan drive
The third liberty loan campaign opens in Waterloo with a 25 piece Great Lakes naval training station band performing at 5 10 p m. The event leads a citywide drive planned by Macy Campbell and the Service League to mobilize county wide support. Details include government and banker payment plans, weekly installments, and anticipated guidance from the treasury department as campaign organizations prepare for the effort.
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Liberty Loan
Waterloo
Waverly
Great Lakes
John Philip Sousa
Hudson
Topmorrow
Black Hawk County
Farflung
Macy Campbell
Service League
Waterloo Clearing House Association
Congress
Liberty
Treasury Department
Army Notes Seeks Recruits for Tuland Waterway Regiment
The cavalry is closed to enlistments as orders arrive at the army recruiting station. Ship carpenters, marine gas engineers, steersmen, blacksmiths, riggers, sailmakers, saddlers, teamsters and bargemen are wanted for the 57th Engineers, the Tuland Waterway regiment, with eligible men sent to Laurel Maryland for training.
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Regular Army
Army
57Th Engineers
Tuland Waterway Regiment
Laurel
Steals to miss being drafted in Lansdale case
Rob ert Dietelle of Lansdale told Justice Kirkpatrick he would rather spend two months in jail for stealing $7.50 from his wife than face two years in the army. He was arraigned on the theft charge and remanded for the Court of Quarter Sessions with the draft to be notified. The case files to go to draft officials. In Charleston the German language has been dropped by 23 West Virginia high schools in the last year per state reports. Card of thanks from Mrs. Rose Knode and family for support after bereavement. Twenty girls operate elevators and the uptown store in New York replacing a score of men.
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North Wales
Robert Dietelle
Lansdale
Kirkpatrick
Dietelle
Montgomery
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Department of Schools
Cuba’s War Year Shows Cuban Resolve and Ties
Cuba marks its first war year with 40 000 trained troops ready for service. The Cuban Red Cross raised 1 000 000 dollars and built hospitals. Cuba declared war on Germany on April 7, 1917. General Mario Menocal led Latin American support alongside the United States. Dr Carlos Manuel de Cespedes helped arrange defense cooperation.
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Republic of
Cuba
Cuban Red Cross
Germany
Mario G. Menocal
United States
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Lieut Chapman Seeks Front Line in War Air Service
Waterloo-born Lieut Carl Chapman son of Mr and Mrs C W Chapman refused a rear job to join the aerial fighting force amid the March German drive. In a March 2 letter he described training as an instructor, his Paris air raid experience, and his plan to leave for the front soon. He noted shared hardships with the French and described quarters near the mess hall and the sounds of war. The report also notes the Cunard liner Valeria sunk in the Irish Sea with 5865 tons grass register, sailing March 4 for a British port.
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Waterloo
Carl Chapman
C. W. Chapman
Chapman
William Loomis
Carl
France
Lieut
Paris
Cunard
New York
Cunard Line
Valeria
Irish Sea
Complexion Lotion From Lemons Promises Beauty
An old advertisement promotes lemon juice lotion made with two fresh lemons and three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint. It claims to whiten and soften skin, reduce blemishes, protect from weather, and improve hands and overall complexion with daily facial massage.
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Army Notes
Rose Knode
Ernest Jensen
3. P. Jensen
Cedar, Falls
New
E, Nocal
Drc
Fray
Flansen & Hansen
THE
Falan-Fleming Co
Ainsney
Ingram
Larovis
Cutes
Woodbury's
Colgate’s
Kolynos
Pas Pond
Mennen
Colgate
Clark
Merea Crochet
Tadtek
Women’s Fibre & Sik Hose
Children’s Gauze Unions
Ladies’ Lisle Union
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