Mail togo fast as eagle flight across nation
Des Moines will sit on the direct Woodrow Wilson airways line between New York and San Francisco with mail arriving from New York in about 10 to 11 hours. Omaha will be the next airway station with mail service planned for March or April 1919, Des Moines likely same time. City authorized a landing place at Fort Des Moines and a large hangar is expected to house multiple planes on routes to and from New York, San Francisco, and deliveries to Iowa and neighboring states.
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Des Moines
Fort Des Moines
Eighty Mile
Nebraska
Iowa
New York
San Francisco
Scheda
Picke’s
United States
Iowa Fruit Growers’ Association
Cedar Falls
Jeanette Shearer
Pacific
A. A. Burger
Clara M. Sutter
Hudson
Jesup
Teachers’ Colleges
S. M. Courtright
Dixon
Thomas N. Justice
Olive Street
Herbert A. Longley
St. Duke’s
Mads Christiansen
Grant Street
Georgze S. Mornin
Davenport Quarantine Stance Amid Flu Surge
Davenport board of health will placard homes with influenza cases but declines to reimpose city quarantine after a joint meeting with Molina health officials. Ninety six new cases in 24 hours, six deaths in one day. Officials urge limits on gatherings and ventilation orders are issued for streetcar crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Land
Davenport Board of Health
Molina Board of Health
City
Boan
Molize
Tri-City Railway Company
Cedar Falls Farm Work Report and Local News Briefs
A Cedar Falls farm improvement summary details corn sales, seed corn tests, and yield trends across the county. It notes Iowa No. 103 oats rising, farm visits and meetings, and a growing milk producers association. Other items report church appointments, tax sales, home farming experiments, school staff returns, and local civic updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Farm Improvement Association
Ohio
Black Hawk County
Iowa
Des Moines Man Accused of Free Water and Gas Piracy
Police say George Crabtree of 117 Shepard Street connected hydrants to the Des Moines Ice Company and supplied water free, then ran a pipe to a neighbor’s home charging 0 cents monthly while also tapping gas without notice. He is being held at the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
George Crabtree
Shepard Street
Crabtresa
Des Moines Ice Company
Crabtree
Horrible weapons used by Austrians in Italy
Des Moines dispatch reports a noon Chamber of Commerce talk by Erano Rosselli describing spiked mace-like devices used on the Trajan front. He cites 22,000 captured by allied forces and claims they were wholesale Austrian weapons supplied to gassing squads to brutalize enemy troops.
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Des Moines
Trajan
Erano Rosselli
Chamber of Commerce
Sioux City High Students Strike Over Thanksgiving Vacation
Three hundred Sioux City High School boys in a military training battalion walked out to protest the short Thanksgiving break, joined by about one hundred girls in sympathy. The district board later allowed individuals to return after signed statements renouncing their societies, and military officers in the unit were demoted to privates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Circus Seeks Aid Over High Tax on Tickets
Washington November 30. Fred Buchanan circus man declares elephants idle all day in Polk county at 30 dollars per ton and sends a wire to Senator Cummins. He argues that a proposed tax on circus tickets will force many circuses off the road next year and asks Cummins to press relief before the finance committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Polk County
Fred Buchanan
Senator Cummins
Buchanan
Congress
Finance Committee
Casualties of Company M 168th Infantry in Action
Atlantic. In Nov. 30 report casualties in Company M 168th Infantry up to Oct. 23 totaled 223 killed and wounded, with 45 killed in action. the worst day was Sept. 12 with 14 killed and 39 wounded. first engagement on March 9 cost six killed, including Ceril Conley and Fred Turner. dates of KIA events include March 9, March 17, May 15, May 27, July 15, July 26, July 28, July 24, Sept. 12, Oct. 13, and Oct. 18.
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Atlantic
M. 168Th Infantry
Ceril Conley
Fred Turner
Death of Dr. Alice Thomas from influenza in Chicago
Greene and surrounding area note the death of Dr. Alice Thomas who cared for influenza patients in Chicago. A Greene native and medical missionary, she contracted influenza that developed into pneumonia after returning from Africa last year. Her body will be brought to Greene for burial.
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Greene, Fa
Alice Thomas
Chicago
Greene
Sam Thomas
Africa
Boy Stabbed at School in Recess Incident
Sioux City reports eight year old Roy Hopkinson was stabbed in the back during school recess by a classmate. He is likely fatally wounded, the incident occurring inside the school.
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Sioux City
Roy Hopkinson
Manchester Family Moves to Des Moines Delaware Co News
Manchester Iowa reports Irving Long resigns as Delaware County deputy clerk to join the State Treasurer’s office in Des Moines. The Longs move to Des Moines. local staff changes include Tham family appointed managers of the county farm near Delhi. The Manchester Commercial Club received a fish carload for Quaker pond and the Red Cross held annual meetings with committee appointments.
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Manchester
Irving Long
Delaware County
E. HL. Ioyt
Jtate
Des Moines
iMrs. Long
Deschnines
Rey
New York City
Board of County Supervisors
Tham
Delhi
John Pierce
G. C. Leach
Washington
Ashertes
Manchester Commercal Club
Quaker Pond
The
Americain Red Cross
Blair
Jerry
NL Ai Arnold
A. 2. LeHoy
Alive Philip
Secretar
Clarence Yoran
Quaner
Dutton
Melly
Phermin
Wiardg
Bb. J. Stiles
Ik W. Williams
American Express Company
New York
Williams
Overseas Corvice
Lana
George W. Dunham
Seca
Merten Klaus
Camp Gordon
C. G. Yoran
Camp Taylor
Two Vinton Boys Home From Army Return
Nov 30 report from Vinton details HBritt Rawards and Carl Burkey arriving home from the army with honorable discharges and shedding uniforms for civilian life. Sergeant Leon Noble and Lt. Colonel Herman H. Zornig are noted for furloughs and recent promotions, plus family health and local changes including births and a newspaper change.
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Vinton
Hbritt Rawards
Carl Burkey
Dave
Camp Dodge
Views of a Dane About Schleswig
New York insight into the Schleswig Schleswig Holstein question tracing Danish self determination hopes in North Slesvig. It notes Prussian language policies and emigration, urging a boundary reconsideration while asserting locals’ Danish language and patriotism despite long German rule.
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New York
Schleswig-Holstein
Europe
Schleswig
Bismarck
Denmark
A. Fabricius
United States
North
Slesvig
Fiensborg
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Grippe Relief
Relief comes instantly with a two hour dosing plan of three doses to end grippe misery and relieve nasal congestion. It claims to open air passages, stop runny nose, ease headache and sore throat, with no assistance and little cost at drugstores, urging readers to avoid fakes.
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Pape
Danish Boundary Debate Shapes Schleswig Question
Dr Henius argues for a natural boundary across Schleswig favoring a line near Fabri cius and the Danish elder Danes tradition. He warns a Kiel canal solution would worsen tensions by forcing a large German population onto Denmark. He recalls 1864 memories as Prussia advanced and notes few Germans lie north of the Flensborg line.
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Henius
Schleswig
Elder
Flensborg
Fabricius
Dannewerk
Denmark
Henand
Germany
Den
Schleswig City
Jiusum
Dr. Hentus
Schlesswig
Kiel Canal
North
Slesvig
Tonder
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Cedar Salis
George EH. Twaddl
Waterloo Evening Courier
West Fourth Street
County Agriculturist
Episcopalians
Hector
Episcopal Church
Theodore M. Morrison
St. Luke's
John S. Cole
Waverly
St. Luke’s
Bluff Street
Charles M. Young
Whitewater
Wis
Lawn City
Deia
Falls
Jon
Italy
Delaware
ARMY
Sergeant Noble
Leon IL
Noble
Camp Pike
Hartman Kersten
Wil Hartman Kersten
Kersten
Dysart
Wert Peterson
Clarence ‘Fisher
France
Hoth
H. Zornig
Newel
Herman H. Zornig
H. M. Zornig
Newell
Col. Zornig
Ames
Hawaii
Watertown
Mass
Col. Zarnig
Benton County
Lucius Hopwood
Prom Hospital
M. T. Kaldenhers Aas
Cedar Tapid
Kaldenberg
Frank Peterson
Bors
Merl P. Selthammer
Newhall
Newhall News
J. M. Milett
Cedar Rapids
Seilhammer
Lieevy Baker's
Walter Baker & CO
Ite
Dorchester - Mass
Grippe
Rogers Bros
Holmes and Edwards
Alvin
Rockford
Community
Dr. Edwards
Edwards
All Druggista
Superior Battery Service
Waterloo Storage Battery Co
West Fifth Street
Nuff
Iowa Telephone Company
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