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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1918
Page
4
Cedar Falls survey finds limited local draft impact with only a handful in service or related roles. Exemption board to mail questionnaires to June 5 registrants, tallying 34 pieces daily for four days before classifying and examining. Also notes church flag dedication, local deaths, and a late strawberry crop loss due to rain.
Jobe Durchdenwald first class engineman aboard the U S President Lincoln says the ship was torpedoed off the coast of France on May 31. He describes the attack, life on rafts, a submarine visit, and the rescue by a destroyer after nearly 18 hours in the water. He lost personal effects and $93. others lost more. The account includes brief notes on casualties and the ship’s fate.
Only three of twenty applicants for a special induction into a training course at Armour Institute of Technology were accepted from Waterloo. News reaching the local board stated that the program drew a large volunteer pool with four hundred registrants overall.
Waterloo residents react to the July draft call as Class 1 men seek Navy Marines and special induction. Six registrants released for navy service by 8 am and ten enlistments for training schools. Volunteers offer free clerical help to the draft board while the chamber outlines work or fight rules and exemptions for nonwar production roles.
Two children were killed possibly fatally and five others gravely injured when a Pierce street car struck an automobile in Sioux City Iowa. The ages ranged from 12 to 30 as Herman Schuttpeltz, a farmer, reported losses while his older son escaped injury. The rain in central Iowa boosted crops, with Albia receiving 1.62 inches and Des Moines 1.1 inches, aiding farms pastures and gardens. An anniversary party honored Mr and Mrs Peter Bremenschenkel for their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with about 70 guests and gifts of silver.
Evan Sage of 930 Walnut street has enlisted in the marines and will depart Thursday for training after stops in St. Paul and Paris Is, S. C. He is East High School class of 1918 football captain. Rejections outpaced acceptances at the marine station, with 4 of 25 accepted. Several underage applicants seek enlistment with parental consent. others list Cascade and Iowa City residents among potential enlistees.
Iowa district boards push for new Class 1 registrants as draft plans accelerate. Reports from Hardin Bremer Buchanan O'Brien and Benton counties show many changes from deferred to Class 1. Amanites case at Iowa county precedes July board reconvening and affidavits filing rights for both supporters and objectors as the community agricultural program hinges on timely decisions.
Community notices list a Tuesday picnic for Social class folks at Byrnes park and a 430 pm meeting at the terminal station for J. D. club members en route to Mrs H W Schultz home. Walnut Street Baptist auxiliary and Pythian Sisters plan Red Cross sewing and work. engagements and dinners noted along with a Sunday school picnic at Byrnes park and a BYRS park event for Liberal Christian Ladies Social Union.
The Crystal Theatre shows At the Mercy of Men with Alice Brady as Vera Souroff and directed by Charles Miller. the film blends romance with a Russian revolutionary plot. At the Plaza, Prunella starring Marguerite Clark opens with Maurice Tourneur directing an ensemble cast in a Paramount screen version of the stage vehicle.
Government aims to compel substitution of older workers or women for draft-age men in lighter jobs across sectors. The interpretation covers many roles from food service and hotel staff to ushers, clerks, and domestic workers, excluding only actual performers in legitimate concerts, operas, and theatricals.
Iowa has been allotted 145000 tons of anthracite coal for the coming winter, to be distributed mainly in towns and cities along the Illinois Central line and northward. The decision followed protests by Iowa commercial clubs and was taken up in Washington with Representative Burton Sweet and Senator W. Kenyon, who secured action from the U S fuel administration. Germany to Increase Debt. Reichstag to vote on 15000 60000000 mark credit raising war debt to 135000000000 marks.
Sanford resident Chester D. Haines testifies he suffered from a run-down nervous condition and stomach trouble until Vinci, a tonic with beef and cod liver peptones iron and manganese, helped him feel stronger. Advertised by Wangler Bros. Co. and C. J. Miller druggists.
An advertisement discusses worry and neurasthenia as nervous exhaustion symptoms. It touts a book in the name of Diseases of the Nervous System and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a non alcoholic tonic for nervous, neurasthenic people. The pitch urges readers to request a free copy and to buy boxes priced at 50 cents each or two dollars fifty for a dozen.
In the Triangle stage presentation Hell's Hinges strong scenes unfold with action and suspense. A notable sequence pits the town's toughs against the virtuous faction, briefly allowing evil forces to triumph, as noted in Palace Theatre program remarks.
Berne June 24 Russian soldiers living in Switzerland many deserters and fugitives will be sent back to Russia via Germany. About 1,000 men to travel transit with German government consent for two trains. German prisoners interned in Switzerland totaling about 7,600 men and 200 officers will be returned to Germany, to be replaced by prisoners from French camps. Special trains with prisoners now pass through Switzerland daily. Austria-Hungary has the least telephone service relative to population among European countries.
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