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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1919
Page
8
Gondrecourt France March 1 Special by Overseas Camp Dodger News Service. The 88th division shows wide civilian vocations with 102 listed fields. Farmers lead with 9 267 individuals. 935 clerks and 698 machinists follow, plus varied roles from lawyers to barbers and 20 baseball players among the specials.
The March 18 official report shows 98,151 officers and 2,101,022 enlisted in the US Army, down 40 percent since Navii. Europe 1,445,349 officers and men remain, Siberia 8,970, sea 1,778, US 617,198, insular possessions 45,885. Demobilization to date includes 1,476,256 discharged, with 86,293 officers. Orders issued for 1,728,500 to be demobilized, 414,000 of whom are overseas troops returning home.
The YMCA hosts a closing winter social to aid returned soldiers sailors and marines and their ladies. Soldiers perform numbers and share training camp and overseas experiences while others depict cantonment life. The gym will resemble warfare scenes, a luncheon follows, and over 200 invitations go to city youths.
An official inquiry by a chamber of deputy committee into war contracts reveals abuses in France telegraph service during the war. The telegraphic controls section led by M. Tannery and active members Captains George Ladoux and Pierre Lenoir are implicated in the scandal.
Advertisement urging readers to mail 35 cents for a blank book and Primer of Rules and Advice to Waterloo Evening Gouvier to keep income accounting simple and accurate in 1919.
The marriage was held at the bride’s parents home 101 Sunnyside avenue with Rev. F W Court officiating. The couple, after a simple ceremony, will reside in Cedar Rapids with Head employed at Bankers Farm & Investment Co. A small luncheon followed the ceremony.
Lieut Eugene Scroggie of the 94th aero squadron tells how he was shot down near Duu Sur Muse France last October woke in a German field hospital with a wounded left leg and smashed nose. He describes air combat with Eddie Rickenbacker Capt Hamilton Coolidge and multiple German planes. His account covers capture neglect of a bedside American prisoner and Thanksgiving in France.
Among the churches Walnut Street Baptist urges women to gather Thursday afternoon to sort refugee garment donations for Belgian relief. Home department circle also meets, as does the teacher-training class at 8 30. St Mark's plans holy communion at 10 a m with Rev H C Boissier celebrant and the church women assisting. Farmers offered a simple income advisory and a Waterloo Evening Courier ad notes 25 word want ads at 26 cents daily.
Eyewitness notes Captain Eddie Stickenbacker praised Rick as a wonder. Al and Douglas Campbell were in New York before returning home. Serogale will take a 16 day leave in Des Moines then go to Baltimore for treatment until fully recovered from injuries.
In Washington March 24 Democratic and Republican leaders say a senior congress should be called promptly. Speaker Clark welcomes the move and Representative Mendel of Wyoming urges immediate session. Berlin ships in Bremen harbor remain in port while nine fed ships depart under the Entente shipping agreement. Ukraine and Bolshevik delegates begin talks at Ukrainian headquarters led by Radowsky.
A Baltimore wharf dog named Punkins gains fame during World War I for faithful service with the 27th Engineers. After being gassed, he returns on the ship Dakolng with a wound stripe and gas mask history. A Hoboken major orders his destruction, but Punkins remains calm and loyal, barking to signal his status across the pier as he heads to San Francisco with Private W. Hill. The Waterloo Evening Courier invites readers to subscribe for a pet care blank book.
A collection of terse dispatches notes reforms in Austria Hungary blockade efforts, cavalry actions against Mexican bandits, a jury discharge in New York, Tangier clashes, a planned strike by German workers, the Leviathan arrival with Secretary Daniels, Bolshevik activity in Archangel and Ukraine, Rockefeller Foundation wartime spending, and a German leadership delegation joining Paris peace talks.
Des Moines reports Bishop Austin Dowley, seven years head of the Des Moines diocese, departed for St Paul to be installed as archbishop succeeding the late John Ireland. A large clergy and lay delegation accompanied him, with a farewell at the Coliseum attended by over five thousand people.
In this advertisement a doctor warns that back pains can signal kidney disease from toxin buildup. It advises avoiding food waste fermentation, keeping bowels clear, and promotes SALINOS as a product to empty the bowels. Take it each morning to prevent poison formation in the Tower bowel.
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