Local Notes and Updates From The East Briggs Street Area
Ill at home Miss Mamie Doughty on East Briggs Street. Dr H A Mosser returns from the East. C L Reeder of Lockridge in the city on business. Iowa Electric gas rate case hearing set for February 5 in Iowa City. Prof E E Watson to Columbus Junction for teachers meeting. Joe Morrison of Ottumwa in city on business. Miss Mary Chidister ill with influenza at Jefferson County Hospital, now home. Mrs A H Neller and daughter Rowena return from hospital. Mr and Mrs Bev Stortz and son Robert back after two weeks at Brighton. Brighton Enterprise features Private Edgar C Davison of Company M 168th Infantry who died Oct 20. Emery Veatch sells farm east of town to McLain Carter of Fairfield, price about 25000, possession next fall. From Birmingham Enterprise. Toppled straw stack suffocates and kills three steers a milch cow and eight sheep near feeding area. Paul Crawford discharged from Lord Strathcona’s Horse en route from Alliance Neb to Lancer Saskatchewan. C G Catlin of Fairbury Neb visiting his mother and sister. attending Ford dealer school in Des Moines. Will stay over weekend. News received of Mr and Mrs E E Braden and son William in Santa Barbara California improving from serious illness including influenza and double pneumonia. former residents of this city. Mrs Braden was Elizabeth Henry daughter of William Henry.
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E. E. Braden
William
Santa Barbara
California
Mrs Mary J Glaze Dies At Ninety Nine Home
Mrs Mary Josephine Glaze died this morning about nine at her daughter Mrs E G Grove home on North Fourth street. She had been ill since Friday from indigestion and liver congestion. She was about seventy five and had lived with her daughter for years. Funeral arrangements await relatives arrival.
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Mary Josephine Glaze
E. G. Grove
North Fourth Street
College closes barracks area and resumes normal appearance
The wire fence around the barracks and mess hall has been removed restoring the campus to its pre S A T C look. Today marks the last day of the old semester with examinations beginning Monday and running through Thursday evening. Registration is Friday January 24. Classes resume Monday February 3. Friday morning chapel is a college sing with Prof Mountain leading hymnology.
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Mountain
Rev Warren Phillips Dies in Reading Mass Victim of Flu
Death of Rev Warren Phillips occurred January 2 1919 at his Reading Massachusetts home after a flu illness. He was a Birmingham high school and Iowa Wesleyan College graduate and served as pastor at West Burlington for five years. Survived by wife daughter Marinan parents and siblings. Body to be brought to Iowa after vaulting.
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Warren Phillips
Reading
Mass
Harvard
Harvard College
Bos
Drake Clothing Company Offers 20 Percent Discount
Drake Clothing Company advertises a 20 percent discount on all mufflers and flannel shirts. The sale highlights include wide selections and limited time framing, inviting customers to visit the store for special pricing and seasonal goods.
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Drake Clothing Company
Britons Demand 40 Hour Working Week
The National Federation of General Workers representing nearly a million workers resolved to push for a 40 hour week. An agreement between employers and the engineering trade will allow workers to resume with a conference next week to discuss grievances.
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London
National Federation of General Workers
Texas to Close Poolrooms After May 1, 1919
The Texas senate passed a state wide antipoor and billiard hall bill by 22 to 5. With the house likely to approve, all public pool and billiard halls would be shut down in Texas after May 1, 1919.
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Senate
House
Austin
Tex
Texas
Poles May Be Recognized Soon in Paris Report
Paris reports expected recognition of Poland's new government and indicates action may be taken soon. In Washington the War Trade Board announced rice added again to the restricted imports list.
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Paris
Poland
Washington
War Trade Board
2568 Troops Landed in New York aboard Orizaba
The transport Orizaba returned 2,568 troops to American soil from Brest, with about 380 sick or wounded. The group includes 12 casual companies of signal corps and other branches, while Mercy arrived from France with 890 sick or wounded and 36 officers. The battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire were expected to arrive with troops.
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New York
Orizaba
Signal Corps
Chemical Warfare Service
Army
Brest
Mercy
France
Suriname
Louisiana
New Hampshire
Fur and Cloth Caps 20 Percent Off at Cape-DRAEE Clothing Co
Discount banner announces 20 percent off all fur and cloth caps at Stocking Cape-DRAEE Clothing Co. during a sales event. The notice highlights broad headwear price reduction and invites customers to visit the store.
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Draee Clothing Co
Life of James L Hull A Iowa born craftsman and family man
James LaFayette Hull born March 2 1868 on a Douds area farm Van Buren County Iowa married Mary Eveline Pool September 4 1888 at Keosauqua They had fourteen children six died young Surviving include nine grandchildren and several siblings He married a second wife Hilda Hull April 17 1917 He worked as a sand blaster for Louden Machinery Co until fall 1917 when health failed He died January 23 at his College Addition residence Funeral January 24 at his home Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield He was remembered by family and friends across his boyhood and final years
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James LaFayette Hull
Daniel
Siphrona Hull
Douds-Leando
van Buren County
Iowa
Douds
Mary Eveline Pool
Kilbourn
Keosauqua
Elizabeth Harper
Carrie V. Thomas
Fairfield
Alice Bevans
Ottumwa
Maggie Harper
Emma Harper
Davenport
Abigah Hull
Mt. Pleasant
Elsie
Fern
Chester
John Hull
Lebanon
Harriet Staggers
Margaret Jane Elder
Carrie Channel
Hilda Hull
Hull
Louden Machinery Co
College Addition
Evergreen Cemetery
Army of Occupation Adopts Insignia in Coblenz
A red circle with a white letter A has been adopted as the insignia of the Third American army based in Coblenz. All officers and enlisted men of the army of occupation may wear the insignia on the left sleeve. Also offered are work shirts at 98 cents at The Drake Clothing Co in Fairfield Iowa and 651 apples for sale by Sanford Zeigler & Son.
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Washington, D. C
Coblenz
Army of Occupation
Third Army
Drake Clothing Co
East Side
Fairfield
Iowa
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Mamie
Doughty
East Briggs St
Dr. H. A. Mosser
East
C. L. Reeder
Lockridge
Iowa Electric Co
Iowa City
E. E. Watson
Columbus Junction
Joe Morrison
City
Mary Chidister
Jefferson County Hospital
A. H. Neller
Rowena
Bev. M. Stortz
Robert
Brighton
Edgar C. Davison
That Place
168Th Infantry
Emery Veatch
McLain & Carter
Birmingham Enterprise
John Stever
Paul Crawford
Lord Strathcona
Royal Canadians
Alliance
Nebraska
Lancer
Saskachewan
Canada
C. G. Catlin
Fairbury
Neb
Catlin
Des Moines
Herring Motor Co
Mary J. Glaze
College News
Marinan
H. ©. Phillips
Stockport
Amy Veatch
Arlow
Charles
Daily Journal
Post Office
Matinee
Orpheum Cremona Pipe Organ
Dorthy
Dalton
Wm. Russell
Hobbs
Yeoman Hall
National Federation of Workers
A. J
Pasue
James L. Hull
Bbl
Sanford Zeigler & Son
Jhorne & Son
Formu
Brassieres
W.B. Forma Brassieres
W. B
Weingarten Bros., Inc
New Lake
Burlington Brand
Sun Maid
Sunbright Cleanser
Willbur
J. D. Scothorn
Jon T. Davies
Frank D. Kerrick
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