Dedication date set for St. Luke's Episcopal church
Cedar Falls reports tentative dedication for St. Luke's Episcopal church on Nov 1 with bishops Morrison of Davenport and Longley of Des Moines among expected attendees. The community engages in war draft matters as a registrar notices manpower classifications and ongoing sessions. Funeral arrangements note James Anderson and responses include naval enlistments and plant executives receiving orders for training and overseas deployment.
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Cedar Falls
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Theodore Morrison
Davenport
Harry & Longley
Des Moines
Fair price on corn husking urged by county leaders
A. A. Burger, county agricul turist, urges uniform corn husking price of 8 cents per bushel to correct rumors. He notes 3s are under way with high demand, while reports claim overpayments and women sent to collect excess wages. Farm Improvement association and county council of defense support the 8 cent price as fair given current corn prices and labor conditions.
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Farm Improvement Association
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Black Hawk County
Busking ‘Corp
Jocel ‘Tabor
Council of Defense
Ben Mattes
Emmell of Defenses
Iocsi
Pubdlca
Swift &Company
Swift & Company
THINGS THEATRICAL HERE AT HOME
Local listings showcase films at Plaza Crystal and others with Elsie Ferguson in The Danger Mark and Captain von der Goltz appearing in The Prussian Car. Also showing The Law of the North with Canadian northwest setting and a Dorothy Gish feature with Pathe News. Women in Easton Maryland help harvest peach crop amid wartime shortages.
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Walsh
William Fox
America
Crystal Theatre
Horst von der Goltz
Fim
Chas. Ray
Canadian Northwest
James Montgomery Flagg
Pathe News
Dorothy Gish
War era musings and home front verses amid 1918 news
Content reflects wartime sentiment with references to the Kaiser and Germany, poems from the A. E. F. Stars and Stripes about slacker attitudes, and notes on a local accident in Chickasaw Oklahoma. It also mentions Mrs. G Fuller filing a suit in New York papers.
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The
Stars and Stripes
New York
Life in an apartment house and wartime echoes in Chicago
The fragment references Henry W. Hiss and a quip about the kaiser proclaiming his people will be the freest. It wryly notes everyday life in an apartment building with wailing children, a poodle, and hall disturbances. A playful aside compares Ludendorf to a baseball pitcher who thrives on breaks.
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Kaiser
Wilhelm
Chicago Tribune
Grant Park
P. O. Box
Swift & Company
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Illncis
St Louis Card Players Start Early After Star Army Players
Great Lakes Illinois November 1 Jo a Doyle the Babe Ruth of Great Lakes signed a big league contract. Doyle a St Louis amateur who played third base for the First Investment Rabbits led the league in hitting with twelve home runs and nine triples. He has signed with the St Louis Cardinals for services after Navy muster out. A special contract was drawn by the national commission and sent to St Louis.
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Great Lakes, Ill
Joa Doyle
Babe Ruth
Great Lakes
Doyle
St Louis
First Investment Rabbits
Thie Station
Camp Dewey
St Louis ‘Cardinals
Navy
National Commission
Dog
Dee Avery Soldier From Shell Rock Dies of Wounds
Mr and Mrs Charles Avery of Shell Rock Iowa announce their son Dee Avery has died of wounds in France. The family already has three sons in service and Dee is the third from Shen Rock to sacrifice his life for the country.
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Dee Avery
France
Shell Rock
Charles Avery
Dee
Shen Rock
Treat skin diseases by blood purification with S S S
A persuasive ad argues skin ailments originate in the blood and cannot be cured by surface remedies. It promotes Swift’s S S S blood remedy, claiming it purifies blood, eliminates germs, and cures eczema, pimples, and dermatitis by treating the source. Free medical advice is offered via Swift Specific Co. Atlanta.
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S. S
Swift Specific Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Tisement
Owaa Lone Fight Looms as Minnesota Battle Near
Iowa State football notes show Towa City players training hard for the Minnesota game after a tough Illinois clash. Parker returns at right half, Belding and Greenwood split end duties, kicking praised, and alumni set Homecoming day for Nov 9. Real estate transfers listed.
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Towa City
Towa
Illinois
Jones
Minnesota
Jonas
Parker
Ilinois
Belding
Greenwood
Hawkeyes
Petrograd Starving Deserts Soviets Autocracy Supreme
Norman Armour of Chicago, once secretary attaché to the American embassy in Petrograd, reports Petrograd was deserted and starving when he left. He traveled via Moscow and Vologda to Washington with State Department reports, noting a horse hitched to a public cab in the city.
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Associated Press
New York
Norman Armour
Chicago
Petrograd
Moscow
Vologda
Washington
Department of State
Fragments Hint at Harsh Conditions in Russia
A fragmented narration describes extreme hunger in Russia with Bolshevik authority, czarist officers, and starving people cutting a dead horse for food as winter closens in. The passage implies severe famine and political tension in the period.
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Russia
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