Plans for an international track meet near Paris in 1918
The article reports tentative plans for an autumn international track and field series near Paris with entries from English French Italian Canadian and United States forces. It notes wartime conditions may affect scheduling and suggests a wartime substitute for the Berlin Olympics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Italy
Paris
United States
Canada
England
Iere
Berlin
Onbe
Belgium
Harold Cuddeback Joins Arcadia Flying School Unit
Harold Cuddeback of this city, a private in the army signal corps, has been transferred from southern cantonments to the U S flying school at Arcadia California and is the sole Iowa soldier there. The arrival of 450 signal corps men at Arcadia for balloon school work signals the start of what may become the world’s greatest flying encampment with more men and captive balloons to join soon. Large gas cylinders and construction contracts totaling 400000 dollars, awarded to a Los Angeles firm, mark the early progress of the training camp.
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Harold Cuddeback
Army Signal Corps
U. S
Arcadia
Cal
Iowa
Harold
United States
Los Angeles
Miss Summer to Be Officially in Our Midst Friday
Weather notes show autumnal cool spell with a 55 degree low and a 66 degree high yesterday. Rain totaled about nine tenths of an inch from 7 am yesterday to 7 am today, mostly between 6:15 and 6:16 this morning, accompanied by bright electrical activity and distant thunder. No severe wind damage expected. rain will disrupt field work briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reipbh B. Slippy
Phonograph request from Miss Williamson in France
Miss Mildred Williamson, Red Cross nurse from Waterloo, writes from her post in France about the need for a new phonograph and records to lift hospital morale. She notes allied lines, air raid precautions, and mentions Or tin Weatherill and Edward Bodholdt on duty as the situation remains tense and cautious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Williamson
Red Cross
France
Waterloo
J. W. Weatherill
Miss Williamson
Ortin Weatherill
Edward Bodholdt
Big Bertha
Births Reported In Local Township and City
Birth notices list ten families with newborns in Eagle township and Cedar Falls areas. Daughters and sons named with dates from June two to June eighteen, including families Gragy Minard Werner and others along Eleventh and Jefferson streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter J. Hosauer
Eagle Township
Orin C. Gragy
Eleventh
West
John Wayne
Carl BH. Minard
East
William ‘Cart
Stephan Werner
Louis George Howards
Mulberry
George Francis
Fred W. Goode
Cedar Falls
Howard EB. Peek
Poyner Township
June Esther
Frank A. Sherar
Jefferson Street
Hildred
Final event in annual classic ends in Mason City
Mason City Iowa June 20 1918 final event in the forty first annual tournament of the Iowa State Trap Shooters Association closed today with the Interstate Amateur Handicap championship. Johnny John Davenport and G M Anderson Haberville were favorites based on tournament scores. Anderson won the Ottumwa diamond badge but John of Davenport posted the top score on the last 160 targets. The state shoot 1919 will be held in Mason City. Moose officers were elected in Des Moines with W R Hamilton president and Sioux City chosen for next year. Berend explains detention in South Africa related to a nationality pledge and boat voyage.
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Mason City
Boer
Iowa State Trapshooters’ Association
Johnny John
Davenport
G. M. Anderson
Habervilla
Iowa
Chicago
Ottumwa
George Anderson
Motherville
Sam Wainwright
Lenox
Anderson
John
BP. White
Calmar
L. Richards
Livingston
Wis
John Paterson
Randall
Johns
Betherville
O. N. Ford
San Jose
Cal
Des Moines
O. Hinshaw
Spirit Leke
Sam Foster
B. 0. Higgins
Gladbrook
A. L. Yearous
Hughe Grave
MOOSE
W. R. Hamilton
Sioux City
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
A.L. Payne
Jons City
W. J. Ribble
Des Motfnea
GA. North
EH. UD. Meyer
John F. Vivis
John ©. Witt
THINGS THEATRICAL HERE AT HOME AT PALACE THEATRE
A comedy titled We Should Worry opens at Palace Theatre with Jane Katherine and aunt arriving for a show. A wealthy heiress and suitors spark antics as a New York visitor charms then banks on a bank robbery plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace Theatre
Jane
Katherine
New York
Atranger
Wheat Moving Planned to Prevent Seaboard Congestion
Washington June 20 The railroad administration acts to move the harvest wheat promptly to ports to ease seaboard congestion. Cars have been sidetracked across growing regions and rain threshers report threshing quantities and acreage to the agriculture department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Seaboard
Railroad Administration
Department of Agriculture
Knight of the Grip Hit by War and Travel Changes
War strains sales work as traveling salesmen lose road access and trains, with rail shutdowns and higher fares squeezing coverage. Hotels in Waterloo report reduced salesforce and reallocation of territory, while houses plan conventions to connect buyers and sellers at central points to fulfill needs. Automobiles increasingly used to reach small towns.
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Waterloo
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Fourth Street
Iowa Marksmen
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Tony Berend
Peter J. Berend
South Africa
Eare
Pater Barend
Peavey’s Great Orchestra
Crystal
Theda Bara
Chester Conklin
Senate
Senate Woman Suffrage
House
Keant
Dubuque
John J. Keane
Munich
Jugend
Slaza Theatre
Douglas
Fairbanks
Pathe News
Juick
Fitzgerald
Cravenette
Bangkoks
Panama
Knight of the
Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Hearst-Pathe News
Jane and
Katherine Lee
Denver
Colorado
T. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Rockies
America
Great Nations
Sam
Tourist Bureau
Seventeenth St
Kansas City “Springs
St, Louie
Firestone
Repass Auto Company
West Fifth Street
A.C. Stewart Auto Tire Co
East Fifth Street
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