Robert Cole Joins Aviation Corps in Dallas Training Camp
Robert Cole of Waterloo has finished technical training at Champaign and is transferred to Dallas to complete aviator qualifications. He describes travel via Kansas City Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, noting camp conditions, meals, quarters, and parade duties for the Red Cross and cadets. He mentions Love Field and Taliferro field with Canadian Royal Flying Corps presence at the Dallas camp.
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Robert Cole
W. R. Cole
Waterloo
Champaign
Dallas
Tex
United States
Kansas City
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
South
Art Worth
Fair Grounds
Princeton
Gornell
Austin
Fair Ground
Urbana
Tom
Texas
Love Field
Wear Fort Worth
Taliferro Field
Vernon Castle
Fairgrounds
Dalles
Royal Flying Corps
East and West High Split Debating Honors
Debating teams from East and West High split honors after a dual debate last night. Each school’s negative team won by a two to one decision on the prompt government ownership and operation of railways. East High lists Glenn Marsh Joe Sage and Jeffrey Sullivan as its negative squad, with Florence Baker as coach. West High’s affirmative squad features Jake Schultz Sam Rubin and Clarence Wilson, coached by Miss Florence Baker.
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East
West High
East High
Glenn Marsh
Joe Sage
Jeffrey Sullivan
West Heigh
Jake Schultz
Sam Rubin
Clarence Wilson
Walter Brown
Leland Bowen
Milton Puterbaugh
Hale Haven
Roger Gales
Harry Hagerman
Florence Baker
Buda Kellar
J. W. Cable
H. §. Buffum
Hm. J. Cable
W. B. Egan
W. F. Mitchell
H. L. Eells
State Teachers’ College
Gold and Silver Shower for Aviators Funded by Waterloo
Waterloo contributes to a nationwide fund aiding aviators with comforts. The Waterloo committee led by Mrs W R Cole and Mrs HD Eli Colby urges locals to donate gold and silver items or cash before the Monday deadline. Gifts will be melted and sold for the fund, with some pieces preserved for public sale. The drive has raised $32,000 since last September, and $9,000 was spent in January on sweaters helmets goggles books blankets and more.
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W. R. Cole
HD Eli Colby
Waterloo
Paul Davis
James Black
Thea
New York
United States Assay Office
Aviation Committee
Cuba
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Texas
Washington
Colorado
California
Florida
Maine
British West
Indies
Final Increments Reach Camp Dodge
National army selectives from northern Minnesota totaling 1,296 arrived at Camp Dodge Iowa on February 28, completing the mobilization of the final increments of the first draft from Minnesota and Iowa. Nearly 15,000 recruits have reported since last Saturday and have been registered assigned and partly equipped under Col. H. P. Howell.
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Camp Dodge
National Army
Minnesota
Iowa
H. P. Howell
Yale Man Killed Flying in France
Yale university reports Curtis Seaman Read of New York class of 1918 naval aviator ensign has been killed in France. Read was assistant manager of the football squad last year and would have been manager this year if he had remained in college. SEALS 12,000 EV STAMPS. Chicago news notes Mrs Virginia A Shayne earns wartime selling record of $12,000.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University Today
Curtis Seaman Read
New York
France
Read
Chicago
Virginia A. Shayne
Shayne
Cure Your Rupture Like I Was Cured
Captain Collings sailed the seas for many years before a double rupture left him bedridden for years He trusted doctors and trusses with no relief Then he chose self cure and recovered without surgery
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Collings
Truss
Soldier boys to see oldtime ring battles in camps
Harry Pollock and James J Corbett plan a film program for soldiers in training camps showing famed punches and classic bouts. They have gathered several reels including Dillon Moran Willard Moran Nelson Wolgast and Welsh Ritchie, aiming to aid boxing training while offering entertainment.
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Uncle Sam
Harry Pollock
Freddie Welsh
Benny Leonard
Pollock
James J.corbett
New York
Nelson and Wolgast
London
Mystery Trunk Seized After Long State Bootleg Probe
State agents in Waterloo, after months of pursuit, seized a trunk used to smuggle liquor to dry areas. Recovered at Fort Dodge, the trunk concealed four 10 gallon whisky containers built as milk cans. The special interior and coverings were designed to prevent leakage and reveal the illicit cargo.
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Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Trunk Alleged to Carry Booze Across Prohibited Territory
Authorities accuse trunk owners of illegal liquor sales across multiple jurisdictions. The contraband is linked to vast profits from exorbitant prices. Officers tracked the trunk through several states as part of the investigation into violations and penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baty
Prisoner Escapes Then Is Recaptured Near Falls
A county jail inmate freed to help clear snow from courthouse square escaped briefly but was quickly recaptured at Cedar Falls. The man, Fred Thomas, had been serving on larceny and burglary charges, while accomplice Adolph Schmidt, later interned at Fort Sheridan, was also linked to the case. Thomas changed clothing near Fullerton and boarded a freight before police halted the pursuit.
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Red Thomas
Courthouse Square
Thomas
Adolph Schmidt
Schmidt
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Berkley Hardware
Cedar Falls
Fred Thomas
Fullerton
Kinals Central
Nathan Enloe
Charmas
Traln
Louis Burk
Woman's devotion to home over health
An article notes how many women prioritize household duties over their ill health, suffering headaches and nervousness until Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is praised as a remedy, with a long history of helping women when other treatments fail.
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Lydia BE
Pinkham
Registered Jersey Sale at Cambridge Iowa
March 4 sale near Cambridge Iowa features 18 head cattle including 5 cows fresh or due in coming months, one herd sire, plus young stock. Horses hogs machinery and feed offered. Cattle sold after noon train arrives. free conveyance from Cambridge to sale. Clerk First National Bank Cambridge. Auctioneer Charles Howard Ankeny Iowa.
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Cambridge
First National Bank
Town
Chas. Howard
Ankeny
Towa
Carload of syrup and ride lost amid war food delays
A Waterloo wholesaler reports two syrup shipments en route from Granite City to Waterloo, Feb 3 and Feb 23, one not arrived and the other traced to Kansas City. He notes railroads under federal control fail to deliver food promptly during wartime shortages, with extensive efforts to locate the shipments and calls for urgent action to avert further losses.
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Herbert C. Tigover
Granite City
Kansas City
Waterloo
Ehranalgeival
Daar
St Mark's Episcopal Serves Thursday Litany Schedule
The three pgids of St Mark's Episcopal Church will meet every Thursday during the all day season, a litany will be said at a specific time and evening service at 7 p.m.
Goethals Takes Over Wool for Army Uniforms
Goethals announces government to exercise option on wool import licenses to seize wool as needed for military uniforms. Agreement outlines grades for worsteds and woollens and directs associations to prepare for compliance.
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Goethals
Soston, Maas
George W. Goethals
Woal J Importicenses
Wake Up Feeling Fresh As A Daisy Tur
An old advertisement touts a 10 cent box promising to make the user feel refreshed with clearer head, better breath, and rosy complexion. It urges mothers to give Cascarets to children for liver and bowel relief, claiming harmless, gentle cleansing.
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Bobby
Creature and Trinket
Yale
Erry
Doctora
Soldier Boys
Felms
W. A. Colling
Jersey
Lumbago
Napoleon
Army
Navy
Allen
Piatiebure
Mangal
H.K. McCall
West Fourth Street
Black Hawk Building
E. T. Jaynes
East Fourth Street
Progerm
Patrione
San Juan
Leath
Brussels
Wiltow
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