Hope Harding Davis Becomes Soldier Tobacco Fund Benefactor
The three year old Hope Harding Davis daughter of Richard Harding Davis and Elizabeth McAvoy donates $10 to the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund and vows to give monthly support. Her letter explains each dollar buys four tobacco packages and includes a postcard for soldier messages of thanks.
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Richard Harding Davis
Our Boys In
France
Hope Harding Davis
Elizabeth Genevieve McAvoy
Bessie McCoy
Our
Slope Harding Davis
Riverside Drive
Hope Harding’ Davis
Hope
Cross Roads
Mount Kisco
N. Y
Two Waverly Boys Return to Service on U S Montana
Helmuth Grossmann and Herbert Ruthe, Waverly residents who enlisted in the navy in April, left on a troop train from Waverly to resume duties on the U S Montana. A large crowd gathered at the depot on the 10-day furlough, boosted further when the Waverly high school football team returned from Hampton on the same train, the two sailors being close friends of many locals.
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Waverly
Helmuth Grossmann
Herbert Ruthe
Navy
U. S
Montana
Hampton
Quadricentennial Reformation Service At St Pauls Lutheran
Farewell notes from two shipboard hospital service members before a long voyage to Portsmouth. A quadricentennial reformation celebration is planned by St Pauls Lutheran with open services at the fair grounds if weather allows or at St Pauls church. Morning German service and afternoon English sermon precede a cantata The City of Goa by combined Lutheran choirs. Lunch storage available in the amphitheater.
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Portsmouth
N. PL
Varly
St. Paul's
Fair Grounds
St. Paul's Church
Dubuque
Matener
Toledo
Goa
Luthian Church
Wartberg
Luther League Die Society Hosts Free Coffee Service
Bremer county convention of the WW C.R. WS to convene at Waverly’s Haptise church with a silver medal contest during the meeting. Gilbert Brandenbure to deliver a sermon, and Miss Virginia Carr visits Tyrrel WoW. Simpson, indicted for illegal sale of beer and whisky, is taken into custody after a county and city seizure.
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Luther Laedies’ Atd Society
Bremer County
WW. C.R. WS
Waverly
Haptise
Pee Ludge Morse
Gilbert Brandenbure
Margaret Cruchers
Irene Harmony
Adelly Temke
Louie Zimering
Senoon
Virginia Carr
Clarion
Gertrude Tyrrel Wow
Simpson
Clatriet
Constipation Relief for Babies Promoted by Dr Caldwell
An old advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle laxative for infants. It claims the remedy uses simple herbs, contains no opioid or narcotic, and is easy for children to take. A trial bottle is offered free by mail from Monticello Illinois.
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Drugeiits
Zionists Protest Draft Vaccination Inoculation
In Washington, D. C. on Oct 10 Rev Francis M Roy all of Alan City Illinois protested against inoculation of draft eligibles who are Zionist members and oppose medical practice. The protest was sent to Secretary Baker. A few Zionists at Camp Grant Rockford Illinois objected to vaccination but the protest has not yet reached the War Department from the central department commander.
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Altho
Mons
France
Serbia
John T. McCutcheon
Washington, D. C
Zion At Church
Wilson
Francis M. Royall
Alan City
Baker
Camp Grant
Rockford, Il
War Department
Central Department
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