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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
3
C G Sparks of Batavia and others visit the city on various errands. Miss Mable Gantz of Brookville spends the day in town. Several births, marriages, and influenza cases are noted along with military moves and returns from Camp Pike and Camp Dodge.
Robert Anstead N. C. Anstead shares a wartime letter from his son Robert dated November 18 1918 describing celebrations across France after the armistice. He notes officers speeches, evacuations of hospital buildings, and locals rejoicing while also observing price disparities, ongoing flu, and preparations for leaving. He mentions friends Luke Logan Roger Giles and Ed Freyschlag, and references Paris and Red Cross huts.
Bruce Halferty writes from a vast World War I service base describing 150000 personnel across all services, a 70 mile warehouse complex along a historic road used by Joan of Arc, the third largest ice and storage plant in the world, and daily 16 hour work shifts. He notes a record for fastest car loading by Butchery Co. and a large barracks and mess facility feeding hundreds, while hoping to return home in two or three months.
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