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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1918
Page
3
An anonymous paid advertisement discusses influenza in public schools. It alleges the high school nurse does not visit classes and notes three high school staff have had influenza. It also cites temperature differences between classrooms and questions parental spread.
Church notices report no services at Fairfield churches due to quarantine restrictions. The New Chicago Mission and English Lutheran Church will remain open for papers and offerings, while Presbyterian and Christian Church members are urged to worship at home and send funds to designated treasurers during the closure.
A flurry of postwar travel and health news fills town as Lon Shoates leaves for Ottumwa after visiting friends Hubert Cox returns from Camp Dodge on furlough A baby boy is born to Mr and Mrs Leo Blough at their Burlington street home and word spreads that Maude Baker of Marengo is seriously ill with pneumonia after influenza in a sequence of community notices
A city order prohibits assembling indoors of more than 12 people in public or private venues including businesses effective at 12 o clock midnight December 7 1918 and lasting until further notice. Officially signed by clerk Paul Coleson and president R H Munro on December 6 1918.
To the public all restrictions on sugar sale and purchase have been repealed the government asks citizens to use it frugally on their honor. Conservation remains the order of the day and the fourth meal will not be allowed. Food Administrators W C Spalding J S McKenney Jefferson Co
Notice seeks the return of a parcel containing four and a half yards of green taffeta silk taken and asks the finder to bring it to the Journal office for Mrs. A. W. Stiles and claim a reward.
John Vogelsang is identified as a piano writer with a contact phone 2412. The line also includes a number 85-18, likely an internal or date reference.
As a measure of caution against the serious influenza epidemic, the First National Bank will not be open for business Saturday evening.
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