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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
4
The article notes a record cold of minus 17 degrees at night and describes strong shopping, crowded toy stores, and brisk autumn business. It predicts continued activity as snow improves sleighing and road conditions.
Classified notes show dry hard wood for sale by phone 7608, a lost purse with three ten-dollar bills and a small brass key, and a reward offered at the Journal Office. Also Christmas turkeys for sale by Packwood, two furnished rooms for rent on West Burlington, another lost child’s romper found with contact M. M. Allender, and an exchange offer for raw South Dakota lands via A. M. Kauffman Fairfield Iowa. Also calls for fifteen to twenty laflies on December 26 to sell tickets and a furnished room for rent on South Main Street.
Albert Blackford of Minneapolis visits his parents Mr and Mrs J C Blackford Clinton Lodge No 15 A F A M meets this evening at 730 Prof and Mrs W Mountain and daughter depart for Des Moines for the holidays James G Young leaves for Aline Oklahoma after visiting his brother E A Young Rev C E Ward recently ill on East Hempstead Street shows slight improvement J W Rawson Burlington city visitor Mr and Mrs Guy Overholser and Mrs Elsie Ogden depart for Spirit Lake to visit the latter’s home Mr and Mrs James Bettendorf and Phillip Barr Davenport accompany the remains of Mrs Philip La Barr for burial Sanford Zeigler and Ralph Lamson attend Southeast Iowa Horticultural Society meeting in Washington.
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