Pioneering Tanner P A Lynch Remembered in Jefferson County
Dec 3 1917 note recalling Peter Allan Lynch and Sarah Jane Lynch pioneers and longtime married couple who celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary. obituary mentions Civil War service, orphaned family, early tanning yards at Schertz center Penn and near Fairfield, and county historians recounting early industry and deaths in the local historical society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. A. Lynch
Peter Allan Lynch
Sarah Jane Iin
Johnson
New London
Neeyneh
George Strong
Lynch
Glendale
Hiram Heaton
Jefferson County
Historical Society
Schertz
Fairfield
Forties
J. W. McLean
Penn Township
Joseph Roberts
Williams
Peter Allen Lynch
California
Hildreth
Parsons College
James
John W. Cummings
Third Iowa Cavalry
Anthony W. Jaques
Jaques
Mary Tilford Humphreys
Haig Yields Ground To Foe In WWI Front Report
An official note says British troops withdrew southwest of Nouyelles-sur-L Escaut and Bourlan Wood to avoid enemy detection until late Wednesday. British lines slightly advanced southwest of La Vacquerie on the Cambrai front. Paris reports patrols capturing prisoners and shelling batteries along the Meuse between Louvemont and Bezonvaux, with a raid north of Bezonvaux repulsed and Allied gains limited elsewhere.
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London
Pec
Nouyelles-Sur-L’escaut
Bourlan Wood
la Vacquerie
Cambrai
Paris
St. Quentin
Ailles
Alsace
Meuse
Louvemont
Bezonvaux
Largitzen
Cena
Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam Safe After Halifax Blast
Report says passengers and crew of the Holland America liner Nieuw Amsterdam are safe in Halifax after a blast. Local offices of the shipping line received word confirming safe status of those aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
New York
Nieuw Amsterdam
The
Ling
Vienna reports Italian defeat on Asiago front
Berlin reports Monte Sissemol captured and 15,000 Italians taken prisoner in the Asiago offensive. Vienna says Austro Hungarian forces claim heavy Italian defeat as mountain positions fall and Italian lines are driven back amid fierce winter fighting near Melotta and Monte Badeneche and other peaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Dec. S
Asiago
Melitta Salient
Franzella Valey
Ranchi
Monte Kaberlaba
Gallo
Bersaglieri
Monte Misemol
Monte Sisemol
Berlin
Monte Sissemol
Vienna
Conrad
Meletta
Austria-Hungary
Monte Badeneeehe
Monte Tondarecar
Kaiserjaeger Regiment No. 8
Monte Gifla
Valstagna
Brentna
Monte Bello
Fora
Monte Castelgomberto
Wienzela Ravine
Roumanians and Russians Agree to Armistice Association
Official notice from Jassy indicates Roumanian troops will join Russians in the armistice while Roumanian minsters resist fraternization with the enemy. Front line truces have been suspended. In Northern Italy a separate note claims Russia’s prisoners held by Austria began to be released in a coordinated move to end the war.
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Jassy
Dee
Austria
Russia
German cruiser blown up in the Sound
Copenhagen reports a large German auxiliary cruiser, likely the seized Russian steamer Bothnia, was blown up in the Sound. The incident is described as a loss attributed to German action and details remain uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bothnia
Copenhagen
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F P. A. Lynch
Haig
Noyelle-Sur-L’escaut
Nieuwe
Amsterdam
Zenson
Plave
Hagerland
James EF. Wilson
East Lowe Street
Phhne
South Second Street
South Second St
Highland Avenue
J. G. Browning
Orphed
Orpheum Orchestra
Goldwyn Picture Corp
Madge Kennedy
Violet Heming In
Judgement House
People's
Reny
RNET
Journal Office
Obi
Jacob Scheffel
Association of Soldiers
J. Engel
Chicago
Scheffel
Music
James Hughes
Arlo McPeek
J. M. McKain
Iowa
South Third Street
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Down Town
Jericho
Easton
C. F. Long
West Broadway
S. A. Power
Red Cross
Ely
South Main Street
Rosary Heads
Journal of Ice
George W. Mnkrich
East Side Square
Fairfield, IA
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
Burlington Street
Pure Life Insurance
National Life Assn
Des Moines
W. B. Parrett
James F. Wilson Jr
Agts
Fairfield, Ls
New Grocery
South Fairfield
South Fourth Street
George H. Lee
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