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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1918
Page
4
The knitting department chair asks all knitters to return completed garments and yarn scraps to the knitting room immediately. February targets include a three hundred sweater quota, with socks in the interim. Knitting room hours are Wednesdays and Saturdays 1:30 to 5:00 pm, with contact persons Mrs. Lois Sackett and Mrs. Charles W. Rains for details.
Des Moines Iowa December 1918 A B Rogers connected with Tarkio Feed Co of Kansas City reported selling 150009 dollars worth of feed in 1918 and arriving home to a company letter followed by a Christmas present a 100 dollar check for his efforts.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will act after Christmas on a resolution asking U S peace commissioners to press for Ireland to determine its government. Supporters include 20 Irish birth or descent members who printed 5000 pamphlets, and many nonmembers back the move and seek floor advocacy.
Paria December 27 The prince of Monaco told the Academy of Science that German mines may float for twenty years. He traced currents from the Channel west to the Gulf Stream guiding mines toward France Spain Morocco the Canaries and Mexico then back past Bermuda Azores and Madeira with a total voyage spanning about four years.
An old fashioned chest rub called MEN THO BZE is advertised as a goose grease style cold remedy. It blends wintergreen peppermint rantho Chinese oils to ease inflamed lungs by external application with inhaled fumes. Available in opal jars for 50 cents to 60 cents, sold by druggists or mail order from Fort Dodge Iowa.
Insanity Commissioner A G Jordan ruled differences between insanity and city life. Mrs Hattie Moss Stevens, a Black woman, lived in New York with son Art Moss a minstrel manager. Returned to Fairfield under nurse care, she preferred Iowa work to idle life in the city and was allowed to proceed to Ottumwa to stay with relatives.
Classified notes include mortgage and land sale details near Pleasant Plain on 89 acres with 6 percent terms through Jefferson County Abstract and Loan Co. Also listings for sale of pallets, a seven room partially modern house, five cottages, and rental notices for six to nine room houses with various terms. Contacts include Loren White, Wm L Long, and Jacob Scheffel.
Drake Clothing Co offers FUR and Gloth Caps for cold weather along with STORM STRIPS storm windows and weather strips. Cable Lumber Co lists phone 120 for supplies and services.
Five room house close in with phone contact 276. Cottage Hotel now vacant at 25 dollars monthly with fourteen rooms. Four room flat modern and available.
Classified notices include furnished rooms for light housekeeping at Hannah Auto Co and kitchen helper needed at West Side Restaurant. Fairfield and Ottumwa agency ads for Grand Union Tea Co appear. Battery storage service run by Hannah Auto Co with G M Doughty appointed to manage. Groceries sales position offered by John Sexton & Co with no experience required and nationwide brand. Dos and contact details appear for multiple listings.
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