Iowa canning plants await August operations
Federal inspectors will oversee a Watering Canning Company plant in Waterloo Iowa and require all workers to sign an oath of allegiance. The government expects to take 25 percent of this year’s corn pack totaling about 18 million cans weighing 11 tons. The start date is August 15 with a large workforce planned to run at full capacity.
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Uncle Sam
C. Bell
Watering Canning Company
Lowa
Bell
C. O. Karsons
Waterloo
Mr. Bell
Y M C A Seeks Auto Mechanics for Overseas Service
Waterloo district Y M C A recruiting committee seeks automobile mechanics and secretarial staff for overseas service with the France operations relying on 20 plus truck types. Applicants must meet army Y standards. openings include secretaries, athletic leaders, clerks, and auto chauffeurs across headquarters and supply posts.
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Waterloo
France
J. T. Woauser
Y. M. Co. A. Banks
Uranenorta
Downing Place Vacated Reverting Land to Farm Status
Downing place owner Sarah V. Felker filed a deed in vacation affecting Downing place and streets and alleys. The action returns the land to its pre plat status on the old road, effective July 14, and places it on county records accordingly. Union worship is planned in Washington park with multiple churches hosting programs monthly.
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Downing Place
Man Place
Sarah V. Felker
Back Up the Fighting Men at the Front
Theodore Roosevelt urges immediate full U S mobilization to support Pershing in France. He warns against pacifist sentiment, calls for universal drafting ages 19 to 60, and argues for four million frontline soldiers by spring to save Paris and defeat Germany with allied powers. He frames this as America’s war for liberty and democracy.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Gen. Pershing
France
Russia
England
Belgium
Italy
Paris
America
Red
Germany
Great Britain
Balkan Peninsula
Asiar Minor
Kansas City
Red Cross Seeks Sewing Machines for Hospital Garments and Gauze
Community effort at Red Cross rooms to produce hospital garments each Tuesday under Mrs W A Kinagost and to sew sixty gauze packets weekly led by Mrs Huntington. The First M E L auxiliary seeks many machines to sew French pajamas for August with fifty pairs already assigned. Mrs J A Townsley invites machine loans. gainful use then returned free. A post meeting noted by Aux chapter chair Mrs C Jangfeldt.
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Lander
W. A. Kinagost
M. EL Red Cross
J. A. Townsley
Cc. Jangfeldt
Liberty Bond Drive Plans Discussed At Waterloo Meeting
Preliminary plans for Waterloo fourth liberty loan campaign are discussed by Service league officers ahead of a Sept. 26 start. Personal solicitation is expected, with a local quota near 950000, based on prior drives. Additional items cover collisions near Alto Supply garage and a hit on J Wartey’s Washington street auto, unreported to police.
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Waterloo
Service League
ABTO
Frank Campbell
Marshalltown
Waterloo Alto
Fifth Street
E. J. Sheldrick
Second Street
J. Wartey
Washington Street
Fourth
Claim They Got Worst of Deal in Big Farm Trade
Samuel J. Guenther and wife seek a receiver and contract recision after a 1917 exchange of their 276 acre Ble Creek township farm for Osborn land in Oknagen county. They allege misrepresentation of value and equipment with Washington land valued at 5000 rather than 20000. They seek control of rentals and possession.
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A. E. Osborn
Guenthers
Ble Creek Township
Osborne
Oknagen County
Wrach
Washington
Sugar rules prompt calls to grocers and Parrott office
The county food administrator W F Parrott reports a flood of inquiries about the new sugar rules effective August 1. He and an office assistant handled requests all day, urging customers to contact grocers for clarity. July sugar allotment was 11.0 million pounds, with 7.9 million pounds allotted for the current month.
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W. F. Parrott
Waterloo selectees praised by Rev Askins at Camp Pike
Rev C J Askins reports 481 Waterloo selectees arrived at Camp Pike Ark in good spirits after a long train trip. He notes warm receptions at stations and favorable Frisco railroad remarks calling them the best behaved trainload in months. The men from Waterloo Iowa proudly claim their city as the best in the GS A.
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J. T. Houser
C. J. Askins
Waterloo
Camp Pike
Ark
Askins
Iowa
Frisco Railroad
Lemon Juice Freckle and Tan Remover Ad
Squeeze juice of two lemons into three ounces of Orchard White to make a quarter pint facial lotion. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles sunburn windburn and tan and whiten skin at low cost. Harmless.
Waterloo Exemption Board Sends 26 Registrants in Early August
In six days of August Waterloo’s local exemption board will dispatch 26 registrants to military service. Ten go to Ames for machinist training, 13 to Jefferson Barracks and Syracuse for limited service, with additional volunteers for Des Moines college mechan ic s instruction. Volunteers include Honore Place and others. clerical staff in Cedar Falls aided the rush.
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Exemption Board of
Waterloo
Syracuse
N. Y
Camp Dodge
Union Station
Claude J. Pixler
Jefferson Barracks
Ames
Honore W. Place
Lewis J. Kascht
S. J. Cameron
K.lynn
Clifford Pratt
George EB. McNeil
Everette E. Marvin
James L. Eastridge
Thomas Kelly
Leland Selzer
Louis L. Diekman
Naval
Pratt
Des Moines College
George T. R. Shafer
Avallon
Aslon A. Dunford
Mr. Nehisen
A. G.greeley
A. Greenley
Duke
Edward Gurk
Janet l"Fawnsley
HE. M. Storm
Mildred Sullivan
Evelyn
Celeste Miller
Celeste Miller, Miss Fentiman, Gladys Severin
Miss Severin
Cedar Falls
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AW Eetcora Prga
Washington Park
First Baptist
First M. E
Weerster Presbyterian
Central St Memorial
United Presb An
First Congregational
Cits
RED Cross
Boston Globe
Liberty
the Palan-Fleming Co
Terlond
Gay Jackson
Ransom J. Beatty
Albert J. Nehisen
Ton
Andrew J. Esperson
Clay
John R. Johnson
Fremont
Claire Bruce Brouillard
Lafayette
U-T-K
Sudeva
First National Bank Building
Oxfords
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