Boys Must Try in Europe After 1918 War
Washington news note from the Washington News Bureau of the Waterloo Evening Courier reports generals expect over one million American soldiers to stay in Europe after the peace terms. Troops will occupy Russian and German soil and parts of Austria Turkey and the Balkans. No favoritism in postings. the Rainbow Division may be returned to Washington for a review by President Wilson.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Europe
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War Department
German Empire
Turkey
Balkan
Engineer Corps
National Guard
March
Pershing
Army
Union
District of Columbia
Washington
Wilson
168Th Infantry
Old Third Town
National Guardsmen
Notable Speakers in Savings Stamps Rally Here Nov. 26
Waterloo hosts a war savings stamps rally on Tuesday evening November 26 as part of a state drive to raise Iowa's final fifteen million dollars. Speakers include Rabbi Emanuel Starheim, Herbert Huff, Fred W. Sargent, and Mrs. Laura C. Lockwood, with a French army officer as guest. The event aims to convert pledges into paid stamps before Thanksgiving to ensure Iowa meets the full requested sum.
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Iowa
Rabbi Emanuel Starheim
Sioux City
Herbert_s- Huff
Eldora
Fred W Sargent
Des Moines
Laura C. Lockwood
Iowa City
America
Battlefront
Uncle Sam
Mystery in Case of Pvt Albert Whitney
Pvt Albert Whitney of Company D 12th machine gun battalion AEF was listed missing since October 2. Letters dated October 15, received by his parents Mr and Mrs Austin Whitney of 332 Vine Street, Iowa, indicate possible error in the war department notice. Whitney had been in France since July 17 and served in multiple engagements after leaving Waterloo for Camp Dodge September 19 1917. He transferred to Camp Cody and sailed for Europe in late June, reaching England after a brief stop on May 16 1919.
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Albert Whitney
Co. D. 12Th Machine Gun Company
War Department
Austin Whitney
Vine Street
Tgt. Whitney
France
Waterloo
Camp Dodge
Camp Cody
United States
England
Morals of the United States lauded by Italian premier
Rome reports Vittorio Orlando, Italy's premier, praised the United States as acting with moral grandeur in unifying the nation and defending liberty and justice. He cited the U.S. as sealing its ideals with the blood of its citizens in a world crisis.
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Rome
Vittoria Orlando
Chamber Today
Italy
United States
Wine Embalmed Body Found Shipped in Wine Cask Across Country
Police and federal agents probe the identity of an Italian man found dead inside a 5 gallon wine cask mailed from San Francisco to New York. The cask carried the name of a local Italian winery and passed internal revenue checks when shipped. The body was discovered when the cask was opened for testing the wine.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
New York
United States
Internal Revenue
Six Enemy Aliens Start to Internment Camp at Oglethorpe
Chicago dispatch reports that six enemy aliens were shipped today to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia for internment. The most notable figure is Edward Quito an instructor. Otto's pupils included members of Highland Park families. Oglethorpe is believed to have passed fort information to Germany via Norwegian contacts. Twenty more enemy aliens will join en route.
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Oglethorpe
Associated Press
Chicago
Fort Oglethorpe
Edward Quito
Otto
Highland Park
Fort Otto
Germany
Norway
Navy Men Released to Be Placed Among Reserves
Secretary Daniels said nearly all officers and men released under the navy’s demonstiza tion plans will be placed in the reserves for possible emergency use. He believes most will want to keep some connection with the service, while those wishing to sever ties will be discharged by some method.
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Navy
Daniels
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Grand Lodge Meeting Set for Ames in 1919
The 1918 grand lodge of the Odd Fellows will meet in Ames as decided at the morning session in Mason City. Officers for the coming year, elected in June, were installed along with the selection of Ames as the meeting place.
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Associated Press
Mason City
Grand Lodge of the
Oda
Ames
Grand Lodge
State Senator Voorhees Dies at Home in Anita
Joan C. Voorhees, recently defeated in his bid for re election to the eighteenth district state senate, died at his Anita home after a year long illness from hardening of the arteries. He was born in New Jersey 53 years ago.
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Adans
Joan C. Voorhees
Senate
Anita
New Jersey
Paris deputies back Wilson praise in schools and halls
Paris lawmakers vote to engrave praise of President Wilson and allied leaders in public halls and schools. In Cleveland, food prices to drop as stocks deplete and raw materials lessen. Washington reports opium valued at 14 million dollars to be burned by Chinese authorities per cable.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Wilson
Cleveland
American Specialty Manufacturers’ Association
Washington, D. C
Yanks Shift Troops to Rest Areas in France
American divisions including the 1st, 82d, 29th and 26th have been withdrawn and sent to rest camps. The 36th, 8th, 5isc l and 6th are marching to rest areas. The 77th may move to southern France. The 5th, 78th, 90th and 79th form the Seventh Army Corps and stay in place. Fire alarm at Schmeeman drug store reported slight damage.
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Associated Press
France
77Th
Sth
78Th
90Th
79Th
Nnvisions
Seventh Army Corps
Bank Clearings Report for Black Hawk County
Bank clearings in Waterloo and surrounding county for the week ending November 21, 1918, as reported by the Waterloo Clearing House. Figures show weekly totals, corresponding week from 1917, and mortgage and chattel mortgage data with end-of-week summaries.
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Citizens Invited To Join Navy League
Several Waterloo citizens have been invited to join the Navy League of the United States to promote justice, peace, and prosperity. The creed advocates a strong navy, a merchant marine under just navigation laws, and a patriotic study group to inform the public about the county's navy and merchant marine. Dues are 5 annually, with life membership at 100 in a single payment.
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Waterloo
Navy League of the
United States
Mahine
Wade
Crossing of Limburg Provokes Dutch Neutrality Protest
Paris dispatch reports Allied government to protest to the Dutch authorities over German troop crossings of Limburg during retreat from Belgium. Limburg runs about 165 miles long with narrow borders near Sitard, Belgium, and the Rhine province, Germany, raising charges of Dutch sanction for passage.
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Associated Press
Paris
Holland
Liimburg
Belgium
Echo de Paris
Limburg
Rhine Province
Germany
Sittard
Limburs
Physical condition of Waterloo conscripts shows high health
A Waterloo board report to the provost marshal details class 1 registrants from the June 5 1917 draft, showing 1 in 10 physically disqualified among 4168 white registrants. Of 1317 examined 1048 were ordered for service with 136 delinquent and 84 accepted for entrainment. 325 cases referred to the district board.
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Waterloo
Federal educational bill endorsed by Waterloo groups
Waterloo groups including the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce back a U S Senate bill creating a federal Bureau of Education with a cabinet head. Resolutions urge Iowa senators and Rep to support the measure which would authorize about four million dollars for public schools and apply to non college education. C W Klive, superintendent, has presented the matter locally and will send resolutions to Washington.
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Phalle
Waterloo
United States Senate
Hoke Smith
Rotary Club
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Chamber of Commerce
Central Labor Union
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Iowa
Smith
C. W.klive
Public Schools
East
Washington
Volunteers Needed to Aid Stricken Families
Miss Minnie Harris, enrolling agent for the Red Cross, called for volunteers to aid families struck by influenza. She reported rising demand for help and urged more people to assist, with volunteers needed for day and night duties in homes.
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Minnie Harrison
Harrison
Government ownership resolution for interstate utilities
A Washington DC notice states Senator Lewis of Illinois introduced a resolution urging the Senate to support government ownership of interstate railroads telegraph and telephone lines coal and oil promoting agencies ships and other utilities. An advertisement lists Watkins special lump $7.70 per ton $7.75 with contact details.
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U.S
Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Lewis
Minois
Senate
Influenza Priority Shifts From Venereal Campaign
Public health officials meet at Mayor Thompson's office and agree to pause venereal disease efforts for six weeks to focus on influenza, as a warning from the state health board signals a potential winter wave. The plan includes relocating Memorial Hall evacuees to hospitals and coordinating with medical groups and county officials.
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Board of Supervisors
Medical Society
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Memorial Hall
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Concensus
Phyaielane
Town Buttermakers See High Butter Prices Ahead
Cedar Rapids Nov 21 The ninth annual convention of buttermakers heard forecasts that butter prices will stay high after the war due to reduced output from fewer dairy cattle, feed shortages in the southwest, and greater demand from allied nations. W B Barney Iowa dairy and food commissioner cited a 10 000 000 to 12 000 000 pound drop in Iowa production. E S Estes Waterloo dairy expert spoke on calf clubs and dairy improvement. M E McMurray Jesup president chaired and urged addressing new issues like labor shortage and rising costs to boost dairy output without sacrificing quality.
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Cedar Rapids
Towa
W. B. Barney
Dairrangi
E. S. Estes
Waterloo
M. E. McMurray, Jesup
Lone Jackrabbit Trophy From Strenuous Hunting Trip
Walter R. French and hunters Keck Baldenecker Harmsley and Hook returned from Wall lake after a difficult journey. The auto bogged in a stream bed near Stont, requiring a tractor to pull it free, then the party traveled by slow freight. One hunter fell into the boat while stowing a duck and was drenched. gun lost but later recovered. French displayed a giant jackrabbit as his trophy of the arduous expedition.
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Walter R. French
Wall Lake
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Baldenecker
Harmsley
Hook
Stont
French
Three Pounds Sugar Is Limit For Iowa
UW F Parrott, county food administrator, warns grocers against selling four pounds per person in November. Reports from sugar division say some grocers have done so. Iowa’s November allotment remains three pounds per person, with December possible but unlikely. Jobbers’ stocks are lowest in wartime. Retailers must not exceed allotment unless authorized.
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Towa
Political stress in Bartin mirrors German upheaval
German political unrest deepens as Spartacist faction struggles with workmen’s government amid calls for non partisan politics and a national assembly. Soldiers demand stable leadership while Liebknecht Rosa Luxemburg influence wanes, and Barths Lichtknecht shift घे. Military retreat from the western front described as chaotic by Swiss authorities with authority dissolved in western Germany.
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Liebknecht
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Grst
National Assembly
Associated Press
Geneva
Switzerland
Berne
Germany
President Wilson Will Sail for France for Conference
President Wilson plans to depart for Europe in about three weeks to attend the peace conference at Paris and Versailles and to oversee the League of Nations plan. Mrs Wilson and likely other relatives will accompany him aboard Leviathan with a large party. England Italy and possibly Spain may host further visits.
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Victor Emmanuel
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Sharp
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Ben Elihu Root
Justice Brandeis
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Bays Sees Congress Chiefs
Will Hays chairman of the Republican national committee met with party leaders of both houses in Washington to discuss the organization of the next Congress, including the House speaker and appointment of Senate committee chairmen.
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Bays
Congress
Associated Press
Washington
House
Anih
Senate
Will Hays
Corporal Glenn Ramsey Reported Missing in Action
Word reached Mrs. Parote Ramsey that her son, Corporal Glenn Ramsey, of Company K, 168th Infantry Rainbow Division, has been missing in action since October 16. He was 21, enlisted in Iowa in April, served in France since December, and had been in continuous service since last February. He lived in Clarksville before enlisting. his mother resides at 902 Jefferson Street, Watering. A sister Gladys teaches in Clarksville schools, a brother Leonard lives in Manty, and he was a nephew of J. M. Ramsey, editor of the Starksville Star. The last letter from Corporal Ramsey was dated October 3.
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Parote Ramsey
Co. K
168Th Infantry
Rainbow A
Ramsey
Uutler County
Iowa Infantry
Washington
France
Clarksville
Parnie A. Ramsey
Jefferson Street
Wateriog
Gladys
Leonard
Manty
J. M. Ramsey
Starksville
Newberry Election Contest in Senate Abandoned Vote 6 5
Washington Nov 21 Proceedings before the senate election committee contesting the election of Truman A Newberry Republican of Michigan on grounds of excessive campaign expenditures were abandoned today by a vote of six to five. The motion to indefinitely postpone action carried. Two Democrats and four Republicans voted for postponement and four Democrats and one Republican against it.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Truman A. Newberry
Michigan
Power rates advance in Alton and East St. Louis
The public utilities commission orders electric power rate increases in Alton and East St. Louis starting November 1. Consumers using up to 5,000 kilowatt hours pay one cent more per kilowatt hour, and those exceeding 5,000 kilowatt hours pay two cents more. The commission suspended the order to March 31. Proposals include gas rate changes in Kankakee and Alton, water rate changes in Alton, and street car rate increases in East St. Louis with various April and May target dates.
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Til
Alton
East St. Louis
Public Utilities Commission
Kankakee
Clown Prince to Occupy Parsonage on Zuyder Zee Island
Amsterdam dispatch reports the former German crown prince will reside on Wieringen island in the Zuyder Zee. A parsonage has been rented for him and his retinue on the island near Texel, opposite Helder. The item notes coal dust lung issues from miners and promotes Milks Emulsion as a health remedy.
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London
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Amsterdam
Daily Telegraph
Cumberland Mountains
iPrice
Milks Emulsion Co
Terre Haute
Ind
Wansler Bros
C. J. Miller Drug Co
Funeral services for Mrs Ralph Knipp
Mrs Ralph Knipp died at home on Burton avenue road from influenza at 1 p.m. yesterday. Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Hileman Gindt chapel. She was 26, lived in Waterloo since age 14, born in Illinois. Survived by husband two children Ruth and Raymond, mother Mrs Rising, brothers Albert Frances and Edward. Member of St Mary's Catholic church. Helen Weber Bell services in First Lutheran church at 2 p.m. today. Rev H Mueller officiated. burial in Fairview.
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Ralph Knipp
Burton Avenue Road
Hileman & Gindt
Albert
Francs
Edward
Fairbank
Brie
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Helen Weber Bell
Helen Marie Weber Bell
First Lutheran Church
Rev
H. Mueller
Fairview
Seattle Laborites Vote Strike Over Mooney Retrial
Seattle Central Labor council unanimously votes to strike on December 9 unless Thomas J. Mooney, convicted in a San Francisco bomb case, has a new trial or is freed. Seattle Metal Trades joins in, with calls for other unions nationwide to back a general strike.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
Seattle Central Labor Council
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Seattle Metal Trades
Mooney
Whitman Pushes Vote Review of Ballots After Loss
Governor Whitman, defeated by Alfred E. Smith in the recent election, will seek a judicial review of rejected ballots across New York state. Also reports cover Congress adjournment, Paris grain price drops, a correction on Major Martin’s rank, and war-contract cancellations exceeding 1.3 billion dollars.
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New York
Whitman
Alfred B. Smith
6 Cent L Fare in Chicago Surface Lines Seek 7
Chicago officials report a 6 cent fare for the elevated railroads becomes effective at midnight after approval by the state utilities commission. Surface lines plan a petition to raise fares to 7 cents. Fares had stood at 5 cents for years. Separate item notes Provost Marshal Gen Crowder urges careful handling of draft board records for war administration.
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Chicago
State Abilities Commission
State Commission
Washington, D
Draft Board
Gen. Crowder
Medals Proposed For All Who Served In War
Senate Naval Committee unanimously reported a resolution by Senator Pittman to award bronze medals to every American officer, soldier and sailor for victory in the war and valor. The measure aims at recognizing service across the armed forces, with Bronze medals to be issued to all who served.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Pittman
Nevada
Senate Naval Committee
Illinois F T O F Anjoturns Convention Adopts New Officers
Springfield Ill Nov 21 With the installation of newly elected officers the annual conventions of the Illinois grand lodge and Rebekah assembly L O O F adjourned here today Miss Alice Trees of Peoria assumed the leadership of the women's branch after defeating Mrs Nellie S Thompson of Kankakee
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FT. O
Associated Press
Springfield
Ill
Illinois Grand Lodge
Repekah Assembly
Alice Trees
Peoria
Order
Nellie S. Thompson
Kankakee
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