War's Financial Support by U C Shown by McAdoo report
Washington report details Secretary McAdoo's annual accounting of wartime finances. It covers tax revenue, four liberty loan drives, Allied credit, domestic spending by the Army, Navy, and civil government, and the sinking fund actions to stabilize bond prices. The document highlights record tax collection, large public debt, and efforts to guide postwar readjustment.
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Washington, D. C
America
Hobes
Treasury
Army
McAdoo
Sawadanil
War Department
Navy
MclAdoo
Pence
Meadow
Fee
United States
Liberty
Dallas
Ceasury
Fed
Warinauee Corporation
Congress
War Savings Movement
France
Great Britain
Italy
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Revenue Bureau
Federal Reserve System
McAdno
Tisk Insurance Bureau
Busines
First Liberty Loan
Cedar Falls News items and local notes lead feature
Cedar Falls reports include Clara M. Sutter’s year end home demonstration figures with 128 demonstrations and 1 088 attendees, plus 17 782 at 253 events. A golden wedding for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson is celebrated with reception and floral gift. Church canvass plans and airplanes ownership speculation in Cedar Falls are noted, along with local moves and travel mishaps.
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Cedar Falls
Clara M. Sutter
Henry Johnson
Main Streee
St. Luke's
Guildhui
John §. Cole
Johnson
Gaylord R. Dayton
James W. Ford
Mr. Dayton
First Axute
Cedar Walls
W. A. Dugane
J. H. Harris
Harbor of Refuge for the Borrowing Farmer
The report highlights the agency's role in loaning to farmers at reduced rates, easing financial distress and supporting the basic U S agricultural sector. It also notes Treasury licensing, life insurance-liquidation oversight, Public Health Service influenza combat and sanitation work, the International High Commission's trade regulation efforts, and Customs duties in harbor policing during the war.
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Jother
United States
The
Treasury
Public Health Service
International High Commission
Customc Service
Red Cross to Aid Waterloo Tuberculosis Patients
Miss Helen S Whitley director of Red Cross field nurses plans to study Waterloo's tuberculosis care and public health needs. The local Red Cross clinic already provides free services as officials assess budgetary needs and treatment options amid influenza-linked cases.
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Waterloo
Helen S. Whitley
Red Cross
Miss Whitley
Social Welfare League
Red Cross Society
Whitley
Papes Winnepsia Diapepsin Ad Claims Instant Relief
An old advertisement assures instant relief for indigestion with Pape's Winnepsia and Diapepsin tablets. It promises to stop pain, acidity, gas, and upset stomach quickly at nominal cost, urging readers to buy at drug stores.
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Pape
Waiting List Grows for Oakdale State Sanitarium Entrance
A long waiting list exists for admission to the Oakdale state sanitarium, indicating high demand and limited capacity at the facility.
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Oakdale
Black Hawk Creek Levee Raised to Safety Point
Work on enlarging and raising the levee on Black Hawk creek began today under contract by Dearborn Construction Company. When finished the levee will stand two and one half feet above the 1917 flood mark and protect a large land area including the factory district near the old baseball field. City authorization supported the project and city engineers supplied blue prints, with the cost borne by the benefiting property owners.
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Black Hawk Creek
Dearborn Contraction Company
Social Agencies of Waterloo Form Unified Council
A reorganized coalition named Council of Social Agencies in Waterloo was formed at a Waterloo municipal courtroom meeting. About 20 delegates supported a new constitution to avoid duplication, coordinate services, advise existing groups, and promote timely, effective charity and civic work.
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Waterloo
Council of Social Agencies
Blanche Stewart
Mary Ran Chapman
Manella
Bell
Stewart
Chapman and Bell
Ada M. Palmer
Harriet McLaury
Medical Society
Either. M. C. A
Woman's devotion to home aids digestion and relief
A vintage ad claims Miona stomach tablets and Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restore health by banishing indigestion and related symptoms. It promises quick relief within five minutes and benefits after two weeks, boasting decades of use and a money back guarantee. Wangler Bros. and major druggists sell the remedies.
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Pinkham
Wangler Bros
Fills Stomach With New Energy Sayre Laie
A period advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the simplest remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims the tablets digest food, relieve sour risings and gas, and are available at drug stores across the United States and Canada for 50 cents a box.
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Sayre Laie
United States
Canada
Stuart
Notable names listed for wartime local committees
The document lists several local leaders: Mrs. J. E. Ridenour of the Woman's Council of Defense, Mrs. L. K. Park, Mrs. Robert of the W. T. U., Miss Mabel Meek of the Welfare Department of College of Commerce, T. N. Stuffelbeam, and Dr. W. E. Debe of the Board of Official Censors.
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Woman's Club
J. E. Ridenour
Woman's Council of Defense
L. K. Park
Rickert
Death in Service Adds Fifth Shell Rock Soldier
Shell Rock Iowa December 4 Special The death in service of Adolph Svejovwsky caused by influenza adds the fifth name to the citys list of soldier dead Others are Corp Oliver Metzger Leonard E Lewis Dee Avery Rick Ooster
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Shell Rock
Adolph Svejovwsky
Corp
Oliver Metzger
Leonard E. Lewis
Dee Avery
Rick Ooster
Nashua Man Killed in Action in France October 2
Nashua Iowa December 4 Special Chris Juhl son of Mr and Mrs Nis Juhl residents of this city was killed in action October 2 in France. His brother John is serving at a camp in this country.
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Edward Seipert
Winslow
Earl Boehmler
Seinert
Rank Crail
Merwin
Kan
Juling A. Miller
Boehmlers
Leona Short
Edward Short
Seattle
Wiliam T. Noble
Orlando
Wia
Louis
Alabama
Georgia
James W. Ford
Clarence Leversee
Chimst Juhl
Nashua
France
Chris Juhl
Nis Juhl
John
Orientals Endure Heat Longer in Firerooms Aboard Steamers
A historic report notes Orientals appear immune to the extreme heat of firerooms on ocean steamers, able to endure temperatures that would quickly exhaust white crewmen, suggesting notable differences in tolerance to high heat among races.
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Madd
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Breau
George WL Twaddle
Cédar Falls
Waterley Evening Courier
Daily Eporter
West Fourth
Claram. Sutter
Congregational Church
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First Church of
Otomagh
Soctal Agencies
Miss Palmer
Misa McLaury
Brances Day
Misa Jessie Beck
Misa Manetta Bell
Myrtle Barr
Social, Welfare League
J. E. Bragdon
J. G. Hildebrand
Hi. A. Boysen
Waterloo Dental Association
Chester Cadwallader
Marion Easton
H. B. Boles
Bas
Leon Rice
Grace M. E
Rice
Illard
Mars
Standard Battery Service Co
East Fifth Street
Waterloo Evening Courier
War Industries Board
Bcans
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomferd
Peru
Hartman
Skinner
Tobin
Nebraska
Ler
Hoover
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