Registrants Recalled For New Army Examinations
About 100 county registrants rejected under old army rules are ordered to appear for a new physical at Cedar Falls city hall on Feb. 15 and 16 under revised regulations. Local fuel orders remain tight with no near lifting expected. Finchford farmers institute ends strong. a 50 year old veteran visits exemption headquarters. school vacation plans hinge on fuel, with debate over makeup. Seed corn sales rise with high prices. thrift stamp drive to restart next Tuesday in Union, Washington, Benton and Lincoln townships.
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Cedar Falls
Fev
National Army
County Exemption Board
Edward J. Gorrin
Sie
Rowell Rumor Sparks Cedar Falls Families Over Tuscania List
George B. Rowell reads a newspaper report claiming his son Sergeant Harry M. Rowell and Cedar Falls companion Corporal Robert Lemmer may have been aboard the torpedoed Tuscania. His disbelief centers on wartime passenger lists and Telegram notes England arrival. Lemmer’s fate remains unconfirmed.
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George B. Rowell
Son
Harry M. Rowell
Robert Lemmer
Cedar Falls
Tuscania
England
Des Moines
Lemmer
Rowell
War Department
France
John, Lemmer
Woman in Alabama Saves for a Car for a Year
Mrs. J. W. Brooks of Thompson town Alabama earned her dream of owning a motor car by a year long saving plan. She collected pennies nickels quarters and half dollars from cash purchases, excluding dimes, to accumulate funds for the purchase.
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J. W. Brooks
Thompsontown
Ala
Brooks
Mrs Brooks Buys Maxwell After Year of Saving
Mrs Brooks saved 745 in coins by storing them in five cornmeal sacks. TL and four men spent a day counting the money before she bought a Maxwell touring car from the Harry Padden Co. as the Waterloo distributor. Friends praise her frugal perseverance.
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Brooks
Harry Padden Co
Waterloo
Maxwell
Police Job Perilous In Chicago Police Work
Chicago statistics released today show 60 police officers shot by offenders in the last four years, with 20 killed. The report highlights the dangers faced by law enforcement on duty.
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Chicago
Canadian raid over German trenches described by Vernon Wawkeye
Sergeant Roy A. Potter of Cedar County, a Cornell College student, writes of a January 17 1917 raid by 400 Canadian troops near No Man's Land in a snow covered French valley. He details zero hour, trench assault, hand grenades, bayonets and bombardment, capturing prisoners and two machine guns with about 87 wounded or killed among the attackers.
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Vernon Wawkeye
Roy A. Potter
Cedar County
Cornell College
Hawkeye
Teutons
University of Iowa
Otumiwa
Vimy Ridge
Potter
No Man's Land
France
Lens
Bethune
Lim
Roche
Woya Scotia
Moe
War Savings Stamp Report from Union Township
F. W. Miller, chairman for the war savings stamp campaign, reports $3,950 of thrift stamps sold to 78 subscribers in Districts 1 2 and 3. District 4 has not reported.
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F. W. Miller
Iar
Untor Township
Ten Fishermen Lost From Waterford Coast
Waterford Ireland mourns as 70 seamen from an east coast port are lost at sea after leaving an English port. Four hundred women and children face destitution, triggering relief funds across the county.
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Waterford
Ireland
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Cedar Falls Daily News
Fuel Commission
Farmers’ Institute
Finchford
Union Township Farmers’ Institute
Martin Anderson
A. S. Macon
State Teachers’ College
Union
Washington
Benington
Lincoln
Mustersie
Nero
Waterloo Cement Machinery Corporation
C. H. Wise
Black Hawk
Thio Lowan
Trengh
Nawhkeye Boy
Fritz
Fritz ‘Raus
Columbia
Cal J. Miller
Ren
Kondon
Tupan
Corte
Koarom
Mrencepets
Mina
Ondon
Union“Township
Botany Worsted Mills
Ogaard
Pierette
la Jery
Gates’ Waterloo Business College
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