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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
3
Local Waterloo exemption board urges patience as it awaits definitive guidance on draft orders. Employers must list all draft age workers with duties by July 1 to aid mobilization for overseas service. avoid inquiries until official action is announced.
Friday June 28 is National War Savings Day proclaimed by the president. Homer A. Miller, state director, urges citizens to boost thrift and war stamp sales and to focus on areas behind on quotas, urging citizens to match the Sammies on the western front.
Waterloo registrants in Class 1 or limited service must mail names addresses and order numbers to the local exemption board as urgent clerical demand slows access. The action aims to speed up processing amid calls for government positions and heavy file loads. readers are directed to the want ad page for submission details.
An old advertisement warns that meals poison the body via kidney and bladder troubles. It promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a remedy to relieve toxicity and urges purchase with a money back guarantee.
EiNems of Society reports the marriage of Miss Mary Heald daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E A Heald to Clarence Franklin Nagle son of Mr. and Mrs A B Nagle in the bride’s family home at Broadway. Rev J E Johnson officiated before about 30 guests with music by Miss Marjor Heald and her accompanist Mrs R Clare Heald. The couple will live in Waterloo after a two week honeymoon in Minneapolis and the Dakotas. Outings note club meetings and social events surrounding Waterloo society and church circles.
A damaged OCR snippet memorializes Lieut. Col. John McCrae and the World War I poem In Flanders Fields. It recalls McCrae killed January 25 1918 in Flanders and urges successors to carry the torch and keep faith, with lines about poppies and sacrifice.
The Waterloo Red Cross drive closed with 8 694 donors contributing 42 489.55 dollars toward a 27 000 dollar goal. Service league sergeants praised for effective canvassing across divisions and local factories, with totals listed for each division and company.
A 16 month old child of Mr and Mrs Lewis Knox at 1325 Engleswood avenue fell through the back door striking a glass jar. The child sustained facial and hand cuts and a bad gash. Marriage licenses issued to Clarence Nagle and Mary R Head of Waterloo.
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