Men Attendants Now In Demand For influenza care
Miss Minnie Harrison urged more volunteers to aid in homes affected by influenza. Requests include male helpers for patient care and family washing, plus general household assistants. Recent incidents show delirious patients, transfer of cases to emergency wards, and efforts by health authorities, Red Cross, and local hospitals to expand care space.
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Minnie Harrison
Cedar Falls
Harrison
Ada M. Palmer
Miss Palmer
Board of Health
Social Welfare League
The
Red Cross
Presbyterian Hospital
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
PVT Newell Dies At A Arsenal In New Jersey
Cedar Falls reports Private Waller Newell 24 son of Mr and Mrs Douglas Newell Union township died in Dover New Jersey of pneumonia after influenza Ill since Oct 2 He was sent to Camp Pike July 22 with Black Hawk county contingent Transferred to Camp Bariton New Jersey then guard duty at Picatinny Arsenal Married Elsie Tansby Davenport in 1918 Survived by widow parents and other relatives Body to Winslow for interment Influenza cases decreasing in town but rising in rural areas with multiple families ill and some critical patients.
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Cedar Falls
Elsie Tansby
Davenport
Winslow
Illness and arrests fill Waterloo telegrams and courts
Pvt Charles Dunbar at Camp Devens with spinal meningitis terminal case noted. Mrs Rosa Birch funeral set. F O Jackson service private at home. Jacobson arrested after threatening deputy and a German sympathizer charge looms. visit to Waterloo recalls early days with Lewis Johnson family from South Bethlehem.
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Lewis E. Johnson
Bethlehem
Johnson
Emmons Johnson
Southstreet
Lere Alford
Franklin
Waterloo
Bethlehem Steel Company
Leland
France
Public urged to save more food during special period
Iowa designates October 22 to November 2 as a food conservation period. County administrator receives notice from J. F. Deems urging unusual conservation to meet Allies goals of shipping 17,530,000 tons in the coming year, a 50 percent rise. Home cards and messages from Herbert Hoover are planned, with school and church outreach to follow.
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Iowa
J. F. Deems
America
Herbert C. Hoover
Allied advance tightens German noose on Belgian coast
Allied forces press along the Belgian coast reaching Coolscamp and the Lys river as Germans retreat from coastal strongholds. Belgians advance north and east of Dixmude while American, French, and Italian units push near Lille and Rethel amid burning German supplies. Possible German collapse looms with moves toward the Hunding line and near Durazzo.
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English Channel
Dixmude
Lille
Lys
Menin
Harlebeke
Courtrai
Douai
Grand Pre
Aire River
Argonne Forest
Moaulin-les-Pas
Ward
Loges Wood
Argonne
St. Juvin
Lissonne
Rethel
Aisne
Hunding
Windenburg
Corn Picking Pay Rates Set at Cedar Rapids Meeting
A. A. Burger of Black Hawk county attended a northeast Iowa gathering of agricultural agents and farmers in Cedar Rapids where a plan was approved to pay a fixed rate per bushel for corn picking. Fifteen counties were represented.
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A. A. Burger
Black Hawk County
Iiona
Cedar Rapids
iMarine Recruiting Station Closed in Waterloo
The Waterloo marine recruiting station will close Saturday. Sergeant Murphy, officer in charge, heads to St Paul to ship gear to division headquarters and will report at Quantico for overseas service. Major Walker visited to inspect the central division recruiting as quotas for October and November are filled.
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Waterloo
Zeret
J. G. Murphy
St. Paul
Seret. Murphy
Marine Station
Quantico
Sergt. Murphy
Marine
B. BF. Jensen
Texas
E. A. Walker
Central Division
Marine Office
Marine Corps
Marine Service
U. S. Marine Corps
Central Recruiting Division
Baltimore Building
St. Paul, Minn
Marine Car
War Savings Stamps Campaign Planned for 1919
Navy seeks typists and stenographers for 1919 war savings stamps drive. Bulletin notes removal of $1,000 per person holding limit per series and higher total limits, plus guidance to use higher denomination stamps. Waterlo o recruiting outlines quotas and enlistment details for women stenographers and typists with ranks, pay, and four year term.
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T. I. Kelly
Kelly
Post Office
Des Moines
Waterloo
T. R. Hanison
Mrs. George Peterson Dies at La Porte City
Mrs. George Peterson, five miles southeast of La Porte City, died Tuesday after a brief illness of influenza. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today with burial in Westfield cemetery. Born Mabel Anna Davis on March 25, 1891, she married George Peterson on November 22, 1910, and is survived by her husband, a son, her mother Mrs. John Gardner, four brothers and two sisters.
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la Porte City
George Peterson
Westfield Cemetery
Mabel Anna Davis
Forest Fires Threaten Properties Near Wabedo Lake
City residents own cottages near the Minnesota forest blaze area. fire reached Federal Dam and Cass Lake as crews report fire breaks may protect remaining buildings. Wal key Lumber's W. kh. Walker returns from Wahedo Lake where Waterloo men own summer homes. Henry W. Hammond starts a garden record for Waterlog with corn and lettuce crops.
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Wabedo
Minnesota
W. Kh. Walker
Walkey Lumber Company
Wahedo Lake
Waterloo
Federal Dam
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Willard
Chautauqua Park
St. Francis Hospital
Elks Lodge
Park Avenue
Cedar Salis
George H. Twaddlhe
Waterloo Evening Courier
UL West Fourth
Aim
Pvt. Newell
A. J. Arsenal
City Health Department
John Jacobson
Orange ‘Township
Beresiny Road
Charles Dunbar
Camp Devens
P. A. Dunbar
Mass
Charles
Dunbar
Camp Warest
Massachusetts Point
Carl Wnapp
Carl Knapp
Knapp
John “Couson
T. Wy
Mariud
Hudson
Lisarks
Orange Town
Iship
Jacob Anton
Jacobson
Anton
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
J. E. Dempster
Phelps
Jefferson
A. P
Germany
Coolscamp
Italan
Albania
Durazzo
Far East
Syria
Allenby
Beirut
Damascus
Mesopotamia
Mediterranean
Persian Gulf
William
Amsterdam
London
Paris
Brunswick-Munn Music Co
Phanup
Eanth
New Hampton
Broadway
Iun
Flt
Dietrick
Asst Treas
Kohl
East Fourth Street
iMarine
NAVY
Feneral
GE Peterson
LA Porte
Natty
Scane’s Better Clothes Shop
Kuppenheimer
Cass Lake
Walker
iWabedo Lake
Henry W. Hammond
Unis
Sycamore Street
Louis
Mls
Kondon’s
Kondon
Thomas N. Kenyon
Kondon’s Satauroad Minneapolis
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