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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1915
Page
7
Fort Dodge hosts a booster smoker as Kenyon honors visitors with a continuous ovation. A senator accepts membership in S O B H and promises to attend Homecoming Festival. First day’s tour draws great crowds in a dozen cities with thousands of souvenirs distributed. Valiant band service highlighted.
Edward Corton reports on the Waterloo Get Acquainted Special with a large welcome by 140 Williams school children, teachers, and Principal O T Pettit. The scene featured a U shaped formation of students, pennants reading Williams Welcomes Waterloo, and a flag bearer at the head as the delegation arrived.
Des Moines on September 15 saw about 200 Crocker’s Iowa Brigade veterans gather for the eighteenth biennial reunion. The fife and drum corps from the Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown led the event with reveille. Col H H Rood presided over the opening session while J C Davis delivered the welcome. Governor Clarke and Colonel D J Palmer also attended. many mourned the absence of General Grenville M Dodge who was seriously ill. A public meeting featuring Dr Charles Medbury was set for tonight.
Berlin via London Sept 15 Count von Raventlow the naval writer replies to British criticism of German airship raids on London. He calls London a fortress and urges Sir Percy Scott to order London’s civil population to depart. He says the raids are legal military acts aimed at destroying war-related targets.
Mexican gunfire on the Texas side forced residents from Simon as cavalry rushed to the border. San Benito reports plots to terrorize the area with Mexican bandits, prompting heavy patrols and troop movements from Port Mclntosh to Tarlingen and Brownsville. The state department urged Americans to stay off the Mexican side amid rising border tensions.
London reports German and Austro German forces clash across East Galicia. Russian counter moves inflict another reverse while German cavalry threaten rail lines between Vilna and Dvinsk. Talks in Commons pivot to funding war credit as Basel area sees heightened activity with dense reinforcements and artillery duels near the Swiss frontier.
Amsterdam dispatch reports a German air ship badly damaged by Russian fire descended at Koenigsberg east Prussia. It likely participated in the Riga gulf raid. A Sept. 10 German statement said a naval airship dropped bombs on a Russian base at a Vallic port and returned undamaged after being fired upon.
An inch of snow fell in Norton Phillips and Smith counties as a Rock Island train was delayed about an hour west of Phillipsburg Kansas by a snow drift. Strong winds accompanied the weather with light precipitation reported in southern Nebraska.
Telegrams from Michigan and other states protest the 2 billion dollar Anglo French credit loan. Officials say no organized opposition from Germany and no action by the State Department, while threats rise against the Anglo French commission and its members in New York.
Superintendent issues pupil notices after Mawshorne school burned. Pupils of Hawthorne report to designated sites: Kindergarten and first grade to Grace M. Kehtrich, sixth and seventh to the high school, remaining grades to Aleati McKintoy shhants. New rooms opened. donations of books accepted at the superintendent’s office.
Widespread threats by German American depositors surfaced as banks faced possible runs, with savings banks fearing near run-scale withdrawals. A commission heard of planned fund outflows and warned that invitations to major pro German banks were withheld amid doubts about their participation in floating the loan.
Washington dispatch states the Austro Hungarian government will recall Ambassador Dumba from the United States without contesting President Wilson's reasons for his dismissal. Formal instructions are expected within forty eight hours and the United States will seek safe conduct for the envoy from the allies.
Berlin via London September 15. The German government’s explanation of the Hesperian case sees a path to President Wilson’s stance on the sinking of the Arabic. The Germania notes the British press must drop hopes of sharp Berlin Washington rifts. It praises Wilson for resisting British reports of a new menace to German American relations steered toward peace.
The Bleamer Onoko, owned by Steinbrenner Interests of Cleveland and loaded with 110000 bushels of wheat consigned to Buffalo, sank off Knife Island fourteen miles from Duluth. All crew were rescued by the Renown. Captain Dunn reported the ship doomed after the engine room flooded. the vessel, a landmark launched in 1882, disappeared as the crew evacuated.
A morning blaze gutted Hawthorne School in Waterloo leaving the building and contents a total loss valued around 40 000 dollars with 17 500 dollars insured. Five firemen narrowly escaped with injuries as walls collapsed trapping them on the second floor. Origin of the fire remains undetermined though spontaneous combustion or foul play are considered.
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