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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
2
The Mbe Daily Journal prints the January era masthead listing Journal Printing Co as publishers with Taylor W. Taylor as editor and manager. The snippet outlines subscription terms but provides limited details.
A compilation of Latin maxims on necessity, duty, and justice. It asserts that good derived from wrongdoing is impermissible and that custom should not override reason. It argues misapplied generosity, implied obligations, and the importance of judging sentences only after full examination.
Washington predicts 1914 to 1918 budgets exceed European nations, with the United States reaching a 1.655 billion dollar outlay in 1914 and Iowa facing about 40 million dollars annually in taxes for army and navy costs. The piece urges readers to consider the domestic impact while empathizing with Europe’s tax burden.
The state board of health moving picture unit draws crowds as Union county hosts a three week engagement. The films support the anti typhoid campaign and have found strong demand. Wake Johnson and Alamance counties have already used the program.
A. J. Hargis of Wichita once woke minus $14 after a hotel room break in in Medicine Lodge. A long-buried memory resurfaced when a former companion admitted the theft and promised to repay the missing sum, seeking peace through confession after many years.
Hundreds plan to attend a Tuesday musicale at the M. E. Church to reunite with old friends known as the Luce. The event invites community members to enjoy music and fellowship.
The First Iowa Infantry now at Fort Des Moines will rejoin the Iowa National Guard on discharge from federal service. Soldiers will wear uniforms and government clothing home, with continued guard status and the same seniority. Most will need no new oath. some may seek full discharge or a new six-year oath under the defense act.
Hundreds of bystanders near the Pennsylvania railroad depot watched an automobile speed past. A leg fell from the car, prompting a dramatic scene as a woman fainted and was revived. An elderly man retrieved the cork leg and two men exchanged quirky thanks. The leg bearer identified himself as 1. Limper of Harvisburg.
In Portland surgeons from New York will graft a rabbit cornea to Melba an Eskimo girl found deserted in Alaska. Dr I E French US government physician leads the case with Corinne Call government teacher as Melba arrives from the tee hut totally blind for five years.
Jurrich's Band will open the Riley Entertainment at the M E K church on Tuesday with a community event expected to draw local residents and church members.
The Daily Journal discloses rising costs and new payment terms for Fairfield city subscribers. Yearly advance payments at the old rate are encouraged to avoid higher costs, with $4.00 per year in advance or $5.00 if paid quarterly or yearly on delivery.
Mrs E S Luce formerly of Fairfield now with Cotner University Lincoln Neb will have an important part in the Riley program at the First Methodist church next Tuesday evening. She was formerly soloist with James Whitcomb Riley and her work will be especially appropriate for the program.
New York reports eight billion dollars in gold mined in the last twenty five years matching the four centuries before. Global gold money has doubled in twenty years while silver money fell by half. The note cites high silver prices and the United States as the top silver producer with over 600 million dollars in gold imports this year.
J J A Murphy a mural painter four years in Bigiind is in the United States to work in Boston. He was arrested as a German spy at Holyhead and subjected to a three hour exam with bayonets. A prompt Say squirrel revealed he was not a spy the officer explained a German cannot say squirrel.
In central Arkansas a tornado Tuesday night caused twelve deaths and twenty-three injuries with damage estimated around three million dollars across Grant Pulaski Lonoke Jefferson and Prairie counties. Officials warn the injured may climb.
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