Living Cost Study Sets Wages Rise to Meet Prices
Washington reports a government wage adjustment study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics began with six agents in Baltimore collecting data from representative families. The inquiry seeks yearly expenditures on food, clothing, housing, fuel, and more to guide both policy and household budgeting. Early findings show a 3 percent rise in 22 staple food articles since June 15 and a year‑over‑year increase of 15 percent across all items, with beef and poultry leading gains.
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Associated Press
Washington, D
Th Bureau of Labor Statistics
Baltimore
Y M C A Enforces Silence Rule At Pool Edict
Houser, YMCA secretary, bans loud yelling in pool area, ordering boys to don clothes and leave until they swim without vocal disturbances. Officials cite safety and aim to reduce noise after a recent near drowning incident at the Iowa YMCA.
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Cam
J. T
Houser
Miss Slattery to Enter Red Cross Work at Sartori Hospital
Cedar Falls Aug 24 Miss Pearl Slattery superintendent of Sartori Memorial hospital has resigned to join Red Cross service. Her resignation becomes effective Sept 1 and she will leave to train as a Red Cross nurse.
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Miss Slattery
Sartori Hospital
RED Cross
Cedar Falls
Miss Pearl Slattery
Sartori Memorial Hospital
Red Cross Servie
Submarine actions and war news update from Washington
Navy officials warn German submarines off the Atlantic coast may land crew members or contact shore. The Chinese push a large force toward Siberia to thwart a potential invasion. The Proteus sinks after a collision near Cape Hatteras. A British tanker crew reports sinking a Nantucket submarine and the Penistone captain is captured and later released. Corporations dodging war taxes by topping capital stock will face Internal Revenue action.
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Associated Press
Washington,d. C
Navy
Washington, D.C
Washington, D. C
Proteus
Cap Hatteras
Philadelphia
Boston
Evans
Penistone
San Jose
Internal Revenue Department
Cedar Falls embraces church gathering and college news
Cedar Falls hosts the Iowa Evangelical Association conference with sermons by Rev. J H Bayernfield and Rev. G P Canelli, Bishop Seager addressing delegates. Coal fuel talks report enough supplies, college summer term ends with 2600 total enrollment, Danish General Conference in session, local officials on duty.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
Askoecaon
Thiver Vy Park
Cedar
J. OH
Bayernfield
Chicago
G. P. Canelli
L. N. Day
Gill A.m
L. H. Seaver
Naperville
Babylon
Sé@ager
J. T. Houser
Waterton
Red Triangle
Bishop Seager
Danish General Conference
Danish Baptist Church
General Conference of America
Allied Pressure Drives German Lines Northward And South Of Soissons
Allied forces push German defenses from Soissons to the Somme and Manders sectors. French seize Vassens and Pimprez as French and British press the Lys salient. Mangin reports 2,200 prisoners at Morsain. Noyon, Roye, Lassigny under threat. U.S. troops reach Vladivostok with new reinforcements as Czecho-Slovak units engage Bolsheviks near Ussuri.
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Soissons
Somme
Manders
Vassens
Gastinvard
Osier River
Morsain
Lassignny
Drestincourt
Thiescourt Forest
Pimprez
Oise
Ribercourt
Chilly
Roye
Lys
Ypres
Reims
Igny
Lassigny
Noyon
Aisne
Merville
Flanders
Salient
Clarence River
Montdidier
Rore
Royse
Rove
Fresnieres
Humbert
Thiescourt Wood
Mangin
The
Llread
Mem
Pimperz
Dreslincourt
Foch
de Teuts
Timne
Arrass
Vesse
Berlin
Ancre
von Boehm
Marne
Chauloes
London
Nerlevilla
Lihons
Chaulnes
Outtersteen
Lys Sal Jient
Arentieres
Mont Kemmel
U.S
Russia
Vladivostok
Ussuri
Yarn Dealers Warned to Report Stock Immediately
Washington Aug. 20 Small yarn merchants were warned to report their yarn stocks to the war board. The board notified spinners on Aug 13 that production of woolen or worsted hand knitting yarn could proceed only until further notice. Boyd bound over for narcotics case after arraignment before U S Commissioner. He was bound over to the Federal grand jury in Dubuque with $5090 bond.
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Associated Fross
Washington, D. C
War Caluntries Board
Northey Warns West Laborers Over East Pay
Mr Northey, returning from Washington and Philadelphia, says skilled and common labor in the west face high wages in the east but little financial gain. Riveters in shipyards earn up to 130 weekly. rooms are hot. rents high. ice cream 30 cents. mutton 46 to 65 cents. He cautions west workers to investigate before shifting, notes fuel worries, possible severe winter, and a priority fuel distribution plan. Iowa to get 145000 tons hard coal before cold weather. lightless nights begin next month.
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Northey
Washington
D.C
Philadelphia
Mr. Northey
Fuel Administration
Iowa
Winds Central
British Repulse Four German Attacks Near Roye
War office dispatch reports four German assaults on British positions at Chilly near Roye repulsed overnight. British forces seized 182 prisoners in a successful raid between Vieux Berquin and Outtersteen. French troops occupied Vassens between the Oise and Aisne. Italian civilians killed in a bombardment near Nancy. night generally calm elsewhere on the front.
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London
Chilly
Roye
Vieux Berquin
Outtersteen
Veux Berquin
Bray
Lawe
Lys Rivers
Paradis-Merville Road
Vassens
Paris
Marsain
Oise
Aisne
War Office
Lassigny
Dreslincourt
Nancy
Maisson-de-Champagne
Births Record From Cedar Falls and Ankeny
Birth notices list new babies for several families including Chanter and Neidert in Cedar Falls and Huntley in Ankeny with names Bartholo William Edward Russell and Tyler Dwyer among the newborns. The Lowan commission is announced with Orey Luglan of Radcliffe commissioned a second lieutenant in the quartermaster corps by the War Department in Washington.
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Edward Chanter
Cedar Falls
Bartholo
John Fr. Neidert
Maul J Purdum
Willam
Harver T. Huntley
Ankeny
Tyle Dwyer
Clayton Joseph Hoover
Allen
Charles Jay
Ad Nope Hagerstrom
Edward Russell
Lowan
Washington, D. C
Orey L. Luglan
Radcliffe
War Department
Captain Canrobert to Speak on Belgium Plight
Capt. Canrobert, a veteran French soldier, won in Waterloo today and plans a September address on Belgium's actual conditions. He works with Mme. Victor Horta to inform Americans about homeless Belgian children, holding credentials from France Belgium and the U S and Belgian consuls, while teaching efficiency classes at factories.
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P. H. Canrobbert
Waterloo
Belgium
Canrobert
Mme
Victor Horta
America
Mme. Horta
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Eye Blown Out By Acetylene Torch Incident
Dubuque Iowa August 20 An Illinois Central repair crew member Michael Brindle suffered severe facial injuries when a freshly lit acetylene torch flame flare struck him. He lost one eye and the other was badly damaged as coworkers summoned help and he was rushed to Mercy hospital. A separate note mentions a St Louis inventor's single wheel unicycle reaching speeds near 75 mph driven by an aerial propeller.
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Dubuque
Illinois Central
Rockdale
Michael Brindle
Brindle
Mercy Hospital
St Louis
Best Way to Wash the Horn Best Way to Wash the Horn
We find you can bring out the beauty of your hair to its vey best advantage by washing it with Canthrax. It makes a simple inexpensive shampoo that cleans the hair and scalp thoroughly of dandruff dirt and excess oil. After use the hair dries quickly and evenly and looks bright soft and fluffy. Just a teaspoonful of Canthrax dissolved in hot water makes a full cup of shampoo liquid easy to apply to all the hair from roots to ends.
Boards Prepare for Next Draft Registration in Waterloo
Local and district exemption boards in northern Iowa meet to finish classifying June 5 registrants and reclassifications. Waterloo registration runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for men turning 21 since June 5 or who will turn 21 by August 24. A Waterloo resident asks to be inducted. brother plans to enlist. Cards from Canada returnees Ralph Strayer Herbert Watters Christ Jans and Hans P. Hansen complete 1917 registration.
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War Department
Loo
AIL
Northern Iowa
Marsh Place
Lyoung
Canada
Waterloo
Ralph Strayer
Herbert Watters
Christ Jans
Hans P. K. Hansen
Jefferson
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Cedar Vally
Fuel Commission
State Teachers College
Seerley
Cedar Falls College
Red Oak
Denison
Spencer
T. B. Carpenter
Bailey
South Dakota
B. J. Brady
Des Moines
W. L. Harding
A. P
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Scully
Clara M. Sutter
Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co
Silk Mills
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