![]() The illustration is a denigration of Germany, blaming it for everything and now must finally pay for it. Unlike the Register, the Ames Evening Times includes some local headlines on page one and most of its national headlines are popular/quick digest stories. Movies playing in Des Moines at this time included: Toys of Fate, De Luxe Annie, Laughing Bill Hyde, The Doctor and the Woman, The Yellow Dog, The Rainbow Trail, and Are Crooks Dishonest. On the inside pages, stories vary from more stories from Europe, notices on soldiers, some Iowa farming updates, a brief note about Yorktown no longer being under a quarantine as the late fall wave of Spanish flu waned, and a page celebrating the soldiers and the victory, plus some long editorials about the war. The next steps were already on the mind of Ding Darling. On the sidelines, sitting beside a nice basket of Peace, are his offspring Destitution, Hunger, Anarchy, Disorder, and Want. The illustration is of an unkempt house labeled as Reconstruction and with a big War napping away. The German people, for a generation the obedient and submissive servants of their war lord, for more than four years his pliant instruments in ravaging the world, have spoken a new word, and the old Germany is gone. The Associated Press piece “Review of world’s greatest war now in dramatic finish” begins: The word “hun” is used a few other times on this page alone. The story in the left hand column (“Washington waits for official word, truce is signed”) has a subhead of “Hears of the hun upheaval,” if you are curious how the press thought of the Germans at the time. Page one of The Des Moines Register consists entirely of wire stories.
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