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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
8
Private sale home on 503 East Adams Street lists four to five tons of chestnut hard coal with Favorite Hard Coal and Burner. Also many household goods including a Duofold folding Davenport table and brass bed offered. Phone numbers 4679 8811 59 and 93 appear among listings.
Francis Edmunds attends State Fair in Des Moines. Several residents visit relatives in Libertyville and nearby towns. Louis Kafka spends the day in the city. Miss Mary Gifford visits her aunt Mrs Craft. Gonder and Daggett families travel for visits. A Lear returns home from Jefferson County Hospital. Vernice Hisel undergoes tonsil and adenoids removal. A mix of local visits, hospital stays, and travel noted, with several marriage licenses issued in late August and a Washington Journal note on a Fairfield house party attendance.
Chicago and Kansas City markets show hogs and cattle up to 18.40 in Chicago and 18.35 in Kansas City, with sheep and calves also active. East Buffalo reports slower cattle and higher hogs, while grain and produce quotes list wheat corn oats eggs butter poultry and vegetables with varied ranges.
Fairfield resident R. J. Gudgell, aged well beyond a Civil War era, praises Tanlac for renewed vigor and better sleep after two bottles. Gaumer Bros. endorses Tanlac as a berry and bark tonic addressing stomach, kidney, and liver ills. Local newspaper notes the Big Four Fair at Eldon will be discontinued due to debts and poor investment. Hospital reports surgery for tonsil removal in Brighton and visits from Horace Bonnell from China.
Des Moines August 39. An effort will be made to obtain more exemptions of farmers through appeals to the district exemption boards, decided at a meeting at the state fair grounds called by J I Deems of the agricultural committee of the state council of defense.
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