Waterloo Women Welcome Iowa Boys in New York
A Waterloo family reports how Mrs. Douglas Barnes and a Waterloo Theatre Club arranged visits and entertainments for Iowa soldiers stationed in New York. About 25 local women supplied cakes coffee and sweaters while hospital and motor corps members joined in with programs and gifts and several Waterloo men met the visitors at camp.
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Iowa
New York
Mia. Douglas Barnes
Riverside Drive
New York City
Victor L. Long
Wellington Street
Waterloo
Theatre Club
Thanksgiving Turkeys Plentiful With Stable Prices
Waterloo produce men predict plentiful turkeys for Thanksgiving with prices near last year, around 30 cents per pound dressed. Quality may be slightly lower due to milder weather limiting fattening, while high meat prices push some households toward meatless plans despite tradition.
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Waterloo
Pershing Visits Sammies Graves on Front Line
General Pershing toured the graves of three American soldiers killed in a recent trench raid near a small village in France. He examined the simple grave markers noting each soldier’s name, company, and regiment as a wreath and French inscription honored the fallen on November 3, 1917.
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France
Gen. Pershing
Pershing
The
United States
Wets Push Liberal Liquor Laws in Iowa Campaigns
Des Moines Register reports liberalization efforts by liquor interests led by National Model License League president T. M. Gilmore from Louisville. Proposals include licensing hotels and restaurants under a continental plan, suggesting repeal of prohibition could come via the next legislature. Attention to Gov. Harding and the state attorney general, with law enforcement and Casson removal law under scrutiny as campaigns loom.
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Louis H. Cook
Des Moines Register
Iowa
T. M. Gilmore
Tha
National Model License League
Louisville
Gilmore
Harding
Bill
Hayner
Cosson
Havner County
Harner
Alleged Disloyalist Beredson Held After Waterloo Arrival
Charles Beredson, rescued from a factory mob, is jailed pending investigation into his past and disposition. He claims Dane ties but friends justice, asserts American flag symbolism, and denies socialism. Police find Wordsworth volume and Colt revolver. he traveled coast to coast and arrived in Waterloo 19 days ago.
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Charles Beredson
Beredson
Iowa
Wordsworth
Pacific
Atlantic
Waterloo
Upton
Neb
German spy on ship betrays self in tale of Forbes
Nov. 19. Dr. M. A. Jelier recounted on a Pacific port how passenger Forbes, posing as English, showed military interest and photographed passages including the Suez canal. At Colombo he spoke German, exposing his identity. authorities detained him and learned he was later tried, convicted, and shot.
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Pacific
M. A. Jelier
Europe
Forbes
Suez Canal
Dr. Jeiler
Red Sea
Colombo
Cayton
Jelier
Automobiles Collide at Fourth and Washington Streets
Autos driven by Lee Nesbit of near Dunkerton and H C Schultz collided at about 7 p m yesterday at Fourth and Washington streets. Both cars were badly damaged. One occupant of the Schultz car was thrown clear but uninjured aside from bruises. An ambulance passing by carried the injured person home, fueling rumors of a fractured skull. the incident was reported to police headquarters.
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Lee Nesbit
Dunkerton
H. C. Schultz
Fourth
Washington Streets
Schultz
Red Cross Seals Campaign Aims High In Waterloo
Local tuberculosis committee launches a campaign to sell 10 000 Red Cross Christmas seals at one cent each. Youth sales help by Junior Red Cross and parochial schools. Proceeds fund tuberculosis fight, including a Waterloo free dispensary plan, amid wartime strain and prevention progress.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Waterloo
Thorely
H. M. Reed
Alien Beck
E. A. Boggs
Marion Chapman
Laura Wilhelmson
J. EB. Ridesour
John L. Jones
B. C. Litchfield
F. L. Worthey
Irene Knapp
H. A
Gee
C. K. Bentz
Junior Red Cross Society
Europe
England
France
Canada
Germany
United States
Cuban President to Advocate Higher Sugar Price
Havana reports President Menocal plans to back Cuban sugar interests for 43-4 cents a pound free on board at Cuban ports, opposing Herbert Hoover's 41-2 cent proposal. Sources say he may embargo sugar exports if small mills' costs are ignored, with western growers pushing for price based on smaller mills' costs rather than national averages.
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Havana
Menocal
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Cuba
Appeal to Emperor to Spare Venice Treasures
Geneva November 19 The Journal de Geneve circulates a petition among Swiss art lovers urging the emperor and empress of Austria Hungary to save Italian art treasures. It calls the treasures the common patrimony of civilized humanity and warns damage would cause profound sadness and world reprobation.
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Geneva
Austria-Hungary
Journal
de Geneve
Switzerland
Vienna
Red Cross Christmas Drive to Feature Emblems in Windows
Washington D C Nov 19 Plans call for transparent service windows in homes and emblems in business places to highlight the American Red Cross Christmas membership drive from December 17 to Christmas. The emblems will be arranged to show how many people at each location join the Red Cross.
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Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Seek Perpetrator of Bomb Outrage
Federal authorities sought the man who sat next to the bomb incident seat during Dinorah at the Auditor ium. He wore evening clothes and left for the lobby exit moments before the device was found. No further clues to his identity were reported.
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Chicago
Auditorium
Mariposa Steamer Grounded Sinks in Sumner Strait
The steamer Mariposa ran aground in Sumner strait southeastern Alaska and sank at a late hour last night. Five hundred? two hundred five passengers were landed at Wrangell. The ship, among Alaska Steamship Company’s largest, carried 1100 tons of ore and 6000 cases of salmon.
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Seattle
Wash
Sumner Strait
Alaska
Wrangell
Alaska Steamship Company
New York Widow Saves Dispatches From Enemy
London reports reveal an American widow Mrs KH Herbin of New York City hid and saved important British dispatches from Austrian capture. Captain Stanley Wilson carried them to Malta when a submarine halted the steamer. Mrs Herbin was thanked by King George and Queen Mary for her aid.
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London
Stanley Wilson
Malta
KH. Herbin
New York City
Charlotte G. Herbin
America
Liverpool
Red headed Irishman may have fired first shot in war
South Bend, Nov 19 How ard Pittman son of Mrs Albert G Cole of this city may be the red headed Irishman from South Bend who fired the first American artillery shot in the war. He is described as an Irishman with red hair and seems to fit the early descriptions of the man from South Bend who opened the war for America on land. Pittman has been in France for some time. Before leaving he announced that it was his intention to fire the first American shot in the war.
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South Bend
Ind
Howard Pittman
Albert G. Cole
America
Pittman
France
Milwaukee Sells Spawns 50 Cents Under Market
Milwaukee on November 19 began selling potatoes at 1300 per bushel, cutting merchant prices by 50 cents. Delivery not included. Public markets have not matched this price. direct farmer buyers paid over 1 dollar plus transport. Counties will be supplied through councils of defense if transportation facilities exist.
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Milwaukee
Orange Defeats Jesup In Tight 20 to 6 Victory
Orange township high school defeated Jesup high school Friday evening at Orange School by a score of 20 to 6.
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Orange
JESUP
Orange Township
Orange School
Davenport Committee Tours Des Moines and Camp Dodge
Twenty five members of the Greater Davenport committee led by Lee J. Dougherty and Irving C. Norwood visited Des Moines. They toured the city in an automobile forenoon, dined with the Greater Des Moines committee, then proceeded to Camp Dodge.
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Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Camp Dodge Cantonment
Greater
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