Missing 110 Reach Port After U Boat Attack
One hundred ten persons including two women and a baby are missing from British steamships Trevose and Alnwick Castle torpedoed by German submarines. Twenty four survivors arrived on Venezia after four days adrift. five men died from exposure. Alnwick Castle carried cattle to Cape Town and a mixed passenger list. Fairfield Lodge announces meeting April 5 for installation and initiation.
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New York
Alnwick Castle
Venezia
Fa Dre Line
Newcastle
England
George Gray
South Shields
Gray
Eubmarine
Trevose
London
Cape Town
South Africa
Ownership and circulation data for Fairfield Daily Journal 1917
Notarized statement by A. W. Taylor, manager, detailing ownership by GB J Taylor Sons and Dean Taylor, no bondholders over 1 percent, average paid circulation 1266, for April 1 1917 Jefferson County Iowa. Signed April 4 1917 by notary W. P. Starr.
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Fairfield Daily Journal
Fairfield
Iowa
State of Iowa
County of
Jefferson
A. W. Taylor
The
Daily Journal
GB. J. Taylor Sons
Fair Yield
Dean Taylor
Iowa Senate Votes on Sunday Blue Laws for Large Towns
The Iowa Senate approved modifying Sunday blue laws to let municipalities with 500 plus residents vote on legalizing theaters moving picture houses baseball and amusement parks on Sundays. The measure passed 27 to 18 though House prospects remain doubtful. The House previously killed one amendment to the bill.
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Des Moines
Iowa Cenate
Althoit
State of Iowa
House Appropriations Committee
Iowa City
Ames
Cedar Falls
House
Klinker
Psycopathic
Iowa House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Representative McFerren
Joint
Local Drayage Service Seeks Patronage
Having purchased a motor truck we are prepared to do all kinds of draying and solicit a portion of your patronage. Phone 140. Stortz & Slattery offer reliable hauling services.
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Stortz & Slattery
Prohibition Drive Pushes War Measure Plan
Plans to enact national prohibition within sixty days as a war measure are urged by the Anti Saloon League of America. Officials say the war would force prohibition swiftly and shock the nation, with a constitutional amendment sought within six months.
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Chicago
America
The
Anti-Saloon League of America
Washington
Anti-Saloon League
Exiles Racing Home from Siberia Across Snowbound Russia
Fifty thousand sledges carry victims of the old regime toward the Trans Siberian railway from the mines and convict settlements of Siberia. The exiles include former terrorists and banished individuals awaiting freedom in the new Russia. A spring thaw compels a race against time with a fortnight to reach the railroad or endure a six week to two month delay.
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Tyumen
Siberia
Petrograd
Russia
Asia
Lower
Lena
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Wiptata
Paris
Fairfield Lodge
W. P. Starr
Willard Saulsbury
Sen
Phow
American Press Association
Louden Machinery Co
Rel
T. M
9Th and
Kirkwood Streets
Iowa Malleable Iron Co
U. S
Russ Exiles Racing Home
East
Burlington Street
J. Hammer
East Burlington St
Eastman
A. Donavan
Pancoast, Hendrickson & Ronk
Stubbs
Duvall
South Second Steel
James Bailey
Cli
Max
Maxwell Grocery
Cli- Max Grocery
Cli Max Grocery Co
West Burlington
Russell Smith
Phone — Smith
Earl Bowermaster
W. H. Pence
North Fourth Street
Fairfield, Iowa
Arpets
Axminster
H. P. McLaughlin
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
Iowa State Savings Bank
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