Football Ceases in Iowa Until Quarantine Lifts
Dr. G H Sumner secretary of the Iowa state board of health tells the Courier and Reporter no football games will be permitted while the quarantine remains in effect. The ban covers all public gatherings and applies to football even when played outdoors. The season likely ends by November with most teams disbanding after Turkey Day contests as influenza fears persist.
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G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Des Moines
Courier
Iowa
Board of Health
Dillon
O'Connor
Parkins
West
West High
Charles City
Fose
Brother of Mrs Yaggy Sheds Light on War Loss
Pvt. Edward H. Bitzer, brother of Mrs. J H Yaggy of Waterloo, was killed in action in France on August 4. He was about 30, from Muscatine, and served in the Wyoming artillery, later the 148th U. S. field artillery. He was active in the M C A and United Brethren Church and had just sent news of foreign service stripes. He leaves his mother, five brothers, and sisters.
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Edward H. Bitzer
J. H. Yagey
Waterloo
France
Hlizabeth Bitzer
Muscatine
Bitzer
Muscatine County
N. J
jJatter Point
Western Front
Yaggy
Survey of Labor in Black Hawk County Factories
E B H McCoy, chairman of the community labor board, ordered a census of factory labor in Black Hawk County. The survey will count male and female workers by race, children under 16, wage work, common labor, and production on war contracts to identify causes if capacity is not maxed. blanks were sent to employers for data.
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Black Hawk County
United States Employment Service
E. B H. McCoy
Community Labor Board
McCoy
Births Reported In Local Homes With Newborns
To Mr and Mrs Henry Rauschke 914 Wellington Oct 12 a son Wilbert Gale. To Mr and Mrs John C Knud 541 Dawson Oct 13 a son Evere John. To Mr and Mrs Calvin Leroy Chase 112 Randolph Oct 12 an Maxine Theora. To Mr and Mrs Robert Burt 320 Cottage Oct 4 a son Edward Russell the sixth child and all are living. To Mr and Mrs John F Swope Cedar Falls Sept 18 a son George Elvin.
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Henry Rauschke
Wellington
Wilbert Gale
John C. Knud
Dawson
Evere John
Calvin Leroy Chase
Randolph
Robert Burt
Cottage
Edward Russell
Aho
John F. Swope
Cedar Falla
George Elvin
Kaiser and Gott Rally in Wartime Verse and Gossip
In a wartime column, poems and letters praise German themes with phrases like Myself und Gott and Der Wacht am Rhine, while others mock Kaiser era bravado. The piece blends satire, patriotic jabs, and social notes from Ames and Westgate, including poetry about air castles and dispatches from Berlin and Oberlin.
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Fuyterland
Rhine
France
Gott
Elsass
Lorraine
Mars
Alexander MacGregor Rose
Four Die in Wine Vat at Niagara Falls
A brief item reports four fatalities in a wine vat incident at Niagara Falls. The anonymous verse-like closing line questions wartime practices, attributed to A. L. C.
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Asiagara Falls
Americans cross Aire in four fords to take Grand Pre
Reports from Verdun describe the Grand Pre operation where U S forces attacked at 6 am, crossed the Aire at four fords through deep mud, and fought hand to hand to seize the rail head north of Grand Pre by 11 o clock. The assault relied on stealth and no preliminary artillery fire.
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Associated Press
Verdun
Grand Presr
Pershing
Argonne Forest
Afre
Grand Pre
Shallion Aire
Aire
Nation's Dead and Wounded List Released by War Department
Washington D C Oct 18 casualties announced by the war department amount to 51 with breakdowns for killed in action missing in action wounded severely died of wounds and wounded from disease There are five Iowans listed including Pvt Erastus B Sunny Pvt Arnold J Hoffman Pvt William J Mulligan and Trt Harm J Wissink Also Cedar Falls notes a postponement of the Cedar Rapids game between Coe College and the Iowa State Teachers due to influenza members of Cedar Falls team out with illness
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Erastus B. Sunny
Pleasantville
Arnold J. Hoffman
McIntyre
William J. Mulligan
Dubuque
Bossing
Harm J. Wissink
Sioux den Pet
Albert Dumke
Kamra
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Iowa State Teachers
S S S Blood Remedy Promises Health From Blood Purifier
An advertisement touts S S S blood purifier as a universal remedy for rheumatism scrofula skin diseases and contagious blood poison. It claims the formula of roots herbs and barks cleanses the blood removes taint from the system and restores clear health with a medical adviser offered at 445 Swift Laboratory Atlanta Ga.
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Swift
Atlanta
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KCIT
Wwoz
TLU
J. H. Yaggy
Black Hawk CO
Dee Kaiser
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War Industries Board
Ames
the Kaiser
E. L. CG
Westgate
Sumner
Satterkraut
Liberty Cabjbage
Liberty
United States
Bird Sarrett
Wallowa
Ore
Sun
Frank Shine
Jim Shaw
Fred Stone
Jhas
Chicago
Adlon
Unter den Linden
Berlin
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Oberlin
Kan
Herald
Kaiser
Georgia
Cluett, Peabody @ Co
Ine Makers
Ahe
Lumry
W. R. Lumry
Second Street West
Washington
D.C
Bernhardt
Saill
Grundy Center
The
Associated Manufacturers
Fred E. Bernhardt
S.S
East Fifth Street
Marsh-Place Building
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