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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
4
A wartime survey shows colleges may retain military drill to a two year program for graduation. An officer would teach military science and tactics, provide uniforms, summer camps, transportation, and subsistence. A limited number of cadets could receive commissions after completing the course.
The French navy reports that three corvettes or minners were lost during a gale near Port William with ten officers and eleven men believed drowned. The Sehaste pel flagship under Captain Leclere reached a Canadian port safely.
The Women’s Home Missionary society of the Methodist church asks for scraps of gingham and calico to sew comfort tops. Donors may leave materials in the scrap-bag inside the middle Fair Store door.
A note requests the return of a package containing four and a half yards of green taffeta silk taken by a person. The item should be returned to the Journal office for Mrs. A. W. Stiles to claim a reward.
New York reports that a squadron of eight to twelve Handley Page and De Haviland bombers prepared to strike Berlin on November 11, armistice night. Flyers trained in Texas at Ellington, crews of five with ton-class payloads, would have targeted interior German cities and Rhine towns alongside Cologne and Karlsruhe.
General Pershing's communique notes the Third Army advancing into Germany reaching the Dahlen Eisensehmitt Wittlich Bernenstetosen-Steinbers area. The Tenth French Army moves toward the Rhine and Mayence, crossing the historic 1870 frontier and occupying the Sarre valley. The advance is orderly and without incident.
Plain statement from a health official links Spanish influenza to respiratory infections and recommends keeping nasal membranes moist with Men-Tho-Eze. The preparation mixes goose grease with turpentine and wintergreen to breathe fumes into the lungs, claiming it prevents infection and aids colds. Available in 60 to 80 cent jars from Fort Dodge Iowa druggists or by mail.
FOR SALE Ford Touring car Engine newly overhauled Bargain at 200 Lon H Israel Broad way Garage 447 11 FOR SALE My home on North Court St 6 rooms electric lights fresh painted good cellar well cistern fair barn and fruit Two big lots 66x140 each Will sell cheap O A Banta 442 9 FOR SALE After filling my orders I have a limited amount of sorghum left which I will sell at 1 25 per bucket while it lasts Phone 8510 J I Danielson 441 7 FOR SALE A work cost four years old Phone 1762 421 1f FOR SALE Five cottages All well located and in different parts of the city These properties belong to estates in process of settlement and are for sale cheap for cash Wm L LONG FOR SALE Ford Roadster and Touring car in first class condition Inquire at the Star Garage FOR SALE Ford touring car a good one two new tires high tension Barck magneto and Jiffie starter See A J Smith poll heifer weight about 650 lbs Henry Shafer phone 6204 4457 ESTRAYED Into my pasture a long yearling red heifer G G Chandler phone 6903 Owner notify the above 446 7 CLERKS Iowa examinations November 16 December 7 Salary 1200 Experience unnecessary Men and women desiring government positions write for free particular J C Leonard former Civil Service Examiner 275 Kenois Building Washington Office 449 tf LOST An auto chain on the streets of Fairfield Finder I Prec ase call the Journal Office 432 tf LOST Saturday evning an Elgin wrist watch on gold bracelet Finder please return and receive reward Mrs Hawkins 203 South Main
For rent a five room house four blocks from the square with reasonable rent. Call 400 W Hempstead or phone 2364. Also notes a modern six room house in desirable neighborhood near school and square with amenities and laundry, phone 3112, 69 dollars. Additionally a nine room house with furnace, large garden, phone 333, 354.
A notice seeks a middle aged woman to manage telephone and book accounts. Contact 302 or visit Dr. Bates and Dr. Wootten at 451 for details. Also an estray black yearling ox is reported.
A white stone mounted item is missing somewhere east and north of the square. A reward is offered. Please call the Journal.
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