Stranded Abroad: Waterloo Teacher Describes Hardship
Miss Lina Moore of Waterloo High School West details the chaos and financial strain facing American travelers in Europe during troubled times. She and her group struggle with scarce funds, costly hotels, and disrupted transport while awaiting relief from American committees in London.
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Waterloo High School
Fort Dodge
Miss Moore
Brooklin
Moore
Josephine Greelman
Nurses’ Training School
Iowa City
Nason
American Travel Club Organization
Aviator Defies Death 99 Times in War Zone Flight
Adolphe Pegoud, famed French aviator and first to loop the loop high in the air, returns to Paris from the war front to obtain a new aeroplane. His old machine’s wings were riddled by ninety seven bullets and two shells during a 186 mile flight into German territory with a military observer aboard. He claims destroying two German convoys by bonds after recrossing the Rhine, and notes a hangar near Metz and a Zeppelin were destroyed along with three tube airplanes. Air messages are being dropped from planes with special wrappings to notify recipients and forwarded to the addressed destinations.
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Adolphe Peigoud
Paris
Exchange Telegraph Company
Pegoud
Rhine
Finck
Metz
England
Alsace
Nicholas
BIDDING SLOW FOR FLOUR AND TUBERCULOSIS NOTES
Iowa board of control notes flour bidders pushing prices up. Pillsbury bid above 4.80 a barrel, while wheat prices fall. State health exhibit on tuberculosis at the state fair shows efforts to reduce deaths. Independent telephone protection remains scarce amid big company dominance. Census plans for game birds near winter. several farm sales reported near Battle Creek. Unknown railroad death near LaMoille prompts search for identity. Local accidents include a man dying after a cow trampling in Marshalltown. Mary Lane released on bond in Dubuque murder case. Faulkner to host basket dinner day with festival activities and a ballgame.
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Es Moines
Aug
Board of Control
Col. McConlogua
Pillsbury Company
Iowa
State Board of Health
Tuberculosis Department
State Game Department
Auto accidentleaves Monticello man near death
Monticello Aug 21 O H Soetra 42 sustained fatal predicting injuries after his automobile went off a 30 foot embankment near the electric light works. He was buried to the shoulders in sand and paralyzed after his spine was crushed. Survived by widow and family in Denver. (Continued on page 4)
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Soetie
Untlk
Soetie & Tinks
Dusiness
Denver
California Getting Used to Greenbacks
San Francisco report notes that California residents are growing accustomed to greenbacks as a result of the European war. The piece describes economic adjustment and the changing financial habits in the state amid wartime pressures.
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Green
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