Historic guard unit names to be decided by Iowa committee
War Department will use state committees of officers to assign reconstituted World War I unit designations, with provisional titles for Iowa groups. Local boards will name official units later. Rainbow Division linkage noted for One Hundred Sixty-Eighth. Also reports potential wage recovery for veterans via vocational education acts and a note on Percy Fox from Buffalo Center, Iowa, aboard submarine 8-5.
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Washington Waterline Washin
National Guard
Iowa
War Department
Regular Army
One
Rainow
Secretary of War
War Department General Staff
Legislative Committee of the American Legion
Comptroller of the Treasury
Board For Vocational Education
War Risk Bureau
Treasury
Congress
Federal Board For ‘Vocational Education
Legion
Towa Man
U.S
Percy Fox
Buffalo Center
Frances Cleveland
Seal Battle: Man and Wounded Seal Near Newport
In Santa Ana a Balboa summer school instructor Demi Lamar leapt into the sea to photograph a seal off Newport. The wounded animal twisted, a breaker threw the man onto its back, and after 45 minutes of struggle they were helped ashore. Lamar skinned the seal, sent the pelt to Los Angeles for a rug, and released the carcass back into the water.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Ana
Demi Lamar
Balboa
Newport Day
Lamar
Thieves Burn Railroad Bonds Reported in Milwaukee Theft
Post office inspectors and police announced that railroad bonds valued at $200 were stolen in Milwaukee and later burned in New York, with thieves afraid to dispose of them. The item notes the mail route and timing, reflecting a rapid postwar crime report.
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Associated Press
New York
Milwaukee
Be mailed to Foley Co offers trial health pack
Copy instructs to cut out a slip, enclose with name and address, and mail to Foley & Co in Chicago. It promises a trial package containing Foley Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills for pains, rheumatism, backache, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and biliousness. Sold everywhere.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Immigrant Arrivals Describe Passenger Stowage and Hints of Passengers
A fragment notes a New York arrival from France where a male passenger of about six feet six inches seeks steerage aboard the liner guided by an official name Olyraniv. A female passenger Miss Gerty Mills stands at five feet one inch and is allotted a berth. Names and precise details remain unclear due to damaged text.
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France
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RUC
Toca Old Kid Lannel Rt Ae
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Castoria
Daposti
Dictograph Products Corp
Lytton
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Studebaker
Union Motor Car Co
Sherwin Williams
Moresco
Wanglers Drug Store
Phong
Paint Department
Waterloo
Featuring
Henry Grout
Bennington Township
WM. Holland
Cedar Rapids
Weh Pad
Lyko
Lyke Duilding
Yous Lyke Medicine Co
Anon
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