Two British ships torpedoed with 130 feared dead
One hundred ten missing from the Trevose and Alnwick Castle after German submarines attack. Twenty-four survivors from both ships arrived aboard the Venezia. Five crewmen died from exposure, two Trevose crewmen killed by an explosion. Fairfield Lodge meets April 5 for officer installation and initiation.
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New York
Alnwick Castle
Venezia
Fare Line
Newcastle
England
George Gray
South Shields
Gray
London
Cape Town
Ownership Statement for Fairfield Daily Journal 1917 April 1
A W Taylor presents the Fairfield Daily Journal ownership details for April 1, 1917. The statement lists A W Taylor and Bean Taylor as owners with no bondholders holding 1 percent or more. The average paid circulation is 1266 copies.
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Fairfield Daily Journal
Feifield
Iowa
State of Iowa
County of Jefferson
A. W. Taylor
The
Daily Journal
Iowa Senate relaxes blue laws for large towns vote 27 to 18
The Iowa senate approved a measure allowing municipalities with populations over 500 to decide by vote on Sunday theater and amusement operations. The plan faces house resistance though it has a fighting chance. The house previously rejected similar amendments.
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Parks
Althoit
House
State of Iowa
House Appropriations Committee
Iowa City
Ames
Cedar Falls
Klinker
Psycopathic
Iowa House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Representative McFerren
Joint
Plans to make America dry in sixty days
Chicago, April 4. Plans to make America dry within sixty days as a war measure or to push a prohibition amendment to the constitution within six months are being rushed at an emergency Anti-Saloon League meeting in Washington. Leading officials say the war would force national prohibition with swift impact.
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Chicago
America
The
Anti-Saloon League of America
Washington
Anti-Saloon League
Exiles flee Siberia in vast river of escape toward Trans Siberian rails
In Tyumen and Petrograd a massive migration of fifty thousand sledges carries former terrorists and exiles banished without trial toward freedom in new Russia. The convoy races against spring thaw, with a fortnight to reach rails or face longer waits for river navigation.
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Tyumen
Siberia
Petrograd
Russia
Asia
Lower
Lena
Stortz and Slattery Draying Service Seeks Patronage
Having purchased a motor truck we offer to do all kinds of draying and solicit your patronage. Phone 140. 493 Stortz & Slattery.
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Stortz & Slattery
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Des Moines
Iowa Senate
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Willard Saulsbury
Sen
American Press Association
U. S
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East
Burlington Street
J. Hammo
Burlington St
Eastman
A. Donavan
Pancoast, Hendrickson & Ronk
Stubbs
S. E. Duvall
South Second Steel
Fairfield
James Bailey
Cli
Max
Maxwell Grocery
Cli- Max Grocery
Cli Max Grocery Co
Louden Machinery Co
U. M
9Th and
Kirkwood Streets
Iowa Malleable Iron Co
West Burlington
Russell Smith
Earl Bowermaster
W. H. Pence
North Fourth Street
Fairfield, Iowa
Arpets
Axminster
HP. McLaughlin
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
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First Door North of
Iowa State Inc
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