Peonage Denounced by National War Board Order
Washington August 23 The National War Labor Board condemned practices at Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron in Russellville Alabama. It ordered a pay raise to two dollars a day collective bargaining eight hour day and end deductions for cash advances insurance and company store charges while mandating face value pay and a company examiner to supervise the award.
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Washington, D. C
National War Labor Board
Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
Russellville
Ala
Sloss-Sherfield Company
National War Inbor Peara
Record Trip on Cedar Made by Waterloo Men
A Waterloo party aboard the Cedona completed a 400 mile motor boat voyage to Rock Island covering Cedar Rapids Muscatine Davenport and East Moline in 23 hours 40 minutes. Glen Moss and John C Jago logged the trip with Edward Chapman joining to Cedar Rapids.
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Waterloo
Rock Island
Glen Moss
John C. Jaga
Edward Chapman
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Jago
Motor Boat Magazine
Cedar
Mississippi River
Philip
Allen Lown
Iowa River
New Boston
Til
Muscatine
Davenport
East Moline
Ill
Governor's Island
Arsenal
Jago
Charles R. Farmer Receives Commission as Second Lieutenant
Charles R. Farmer has been commissioned as second lieutenant in the aviation service at Ellington Field Houston. He is 22, enlisted May 1 1917, and recently completed bombing aviator training in Houston. He will visit his parents at 5307 Shriver Avenue upon furlough. his mother is a daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Garton of Waterloo.
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Des Moines
wWorad
John G. Farmer
Rock Island Lines
Charles R. Farmer
Ellington Field
Houston
Tex
Farmer
Mary
Champaign
Shriver Avenue
Mrs. Farmer
Joseph Garton
First Baptist Church
Waterloo
Rain blankets southern Iowa with Albia topping amounts
Rain was widespread across the southern half of Iowa last night, with the heaviest fall in Albia at 3.17 inches. Central northern areas also saw showers, while most sections reported around three tenths of an inch and only a few locations exceeded half an inch.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Federal Weather Bureau
Albia
Waterloo Exemption Board Gets New Member Lore Alford
Lore Alford of Waterloo is named to succeed F J Eighmey on the Waterloo exemption board. Alford, president of Black Hawk County Abstract Company, is a Waterloo native and attorney who once assisted county attorney E J Wenner. Eighmey resigned due to heavy duties as bank president.
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Lore Alford
Black Hawk County Abstract Company
Waterloo
F. J. Bighmey
Des Moines
R. Eighmey
Alford
Eighmey
First National Bank
E. J. Wenner
Barley Settlers Plan Annual Meeting in Black Hawk County
The Black Hawk county Early Settlers' Association votes to hold its annual gathering on Saturday September 7 with location likely at Chautauqua Park. Announcement on the exact site to follow. John P. Berry serves as president and A. J. Ea Wards as secretary.
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Black Hawk County
Early Settlers’ Association
Chautauqua Park
John P. Berry
A. J. Ea Wards
Grocers Return From Des Moines Meeting on Food Measures
R. C. Sinnard and E. E. German, appointed county retail merchants representatives by J. F. P. Deems, state food administrator, returned from a Des Moines grocers meeting where food conservation measures were discussed.
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R. C. Sinnard
E. E
County Food Administration
J. F P. Deems
Des Moines
The Store That Always Saves You Moncey Sale List
A vintage grocery advertisement from Moncey features varied bulk and can goods with prices: Stinehart’s Fancy Red Sockeye Salmon ten pound can, Karo Syrup ten gallon pails, Pure Lard by the pound, fresh creamery butter, prunes and raisins, Rumford Baking Powder, canned corn, oleo, best Japan tea, various coffees, Beech Nut peanut butter, Carnation milk, olives and pickles, pancake flour, laundry soap, toilet paper, macaroni, oats, Oleo varieties, crackers, oats, cookies, matches, and a closing line The Store That Always Saves You. The ad lists address 313 East 4th St and phone 10235.
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Rumford
Chase and Sanborn
Hershey
White House
Moncey
Independent Meat Co
Llarge
Bae
Commercial Street
Rosedale
Japan
Rookies of Iowa fed in Camp Pike mess hall
Sioux City dispatch notes Camp Pike Arkansas where about five hundred Iowa rookies including Sioux City men are fed daily in a large mess hall. Mess Sergeant Thomas A. McGivner leads cooks with First Class Sergeants Anderson and Thurling assisting as the crowd awaits meals in the sun and dust.
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Iowa
Ness
Camp Pike
Little Rok
Ark
Trench
Anna Frauenfeld
Alfea Avenue
Frank Frauenfeld
Thomas A. McGivner
School of Cooks and Bakers
Martin 1
Anderson
P.M. Thurling
Army mess hall routine amid chaotic advance
The scene follows troops waiting for orders and the rush of an attack as officers urge patience. Soldiers move through the mess hall, filling cups and plates in a cramped, repetitive routine while the frontline advances and discipline tightens under pressure.
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Eve Hite
Sotroant
Conaprn Jay
Investigation of loafers hits Waterloo venues
A federal agent from Deg Moines visited Waterloo sites like billiard parlors and parks to probe conditions affecting men who loaf when at work. No arrests, but names and addresses were collected for possible action later.
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PB. A. Sporle
Tig
Jfaken
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Barley Settlers
Stinehart
Cash and Delivery Grocery
East 4Th St
Ette Department
East Fourth St
Sioux City
Sioux
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Peter
Deg Moines
Investi
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