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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1919
Page
4
Chicago Daily News notes Nishapur in Persia as Omar Khayyam birthplace and muse. The city sits on a barren upland plain surrounded by low barren mountains. winters pale, summers harsh, with brief springs of green and mist before the desert looms beyond.
The article portrays Milton at sixteen as scholarly and handsome, examines his Broad Street birth, musical father, and early talents. It notes his long path to Paradise Lost, unhappy marriages, political troubles, blindness, loneliness, and eventual fame as a monumental figure in literature.
Ottumwa resident Raymond McCreery and sister visit. Osborne Williamson travels to West Point for business. Miss Hattie Cole of Cedar IA guests at Ralph Stout home. Mrs. Robert Buckmaster of Akron Colorado visits locally. Rose Hope visits Fort Madison. Will and Bird Cupp shop in St Louis. Mary Gordon to Libertyville for winter with sister Mrs James Hill. Wayne Dille discharged from Camp Pike and works at Buch & Bellen store. Arthur Porter and family move to Hiram Barn property. Luella Bonnett returns from Chicago nursing son with flu. A baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Stansberry with Mrs. Byers assisting. Paul Topping buys Kimmel farm for $90/ac, takes possession February. Mrs. Kimmel buys Mulligan property in Mt Zion. N J Bush visits with daughter Mrs George Johnston. Fairfield Gospel Team meetings begin at Eldon on 12th. Charley Sadler sells restaurant to Harley Bagby, Feb 1. Miss Jessie Canning visits Will Haste’s home. Mollie Noble arrives for winter with Aunt Mrs John Little. Byers family flu illness improving. Thornton and Lewis Fordyce attend Workman funeral. Rev. Frye returns to Rockport. Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy return from Cedar Rapids. August Oberg called to Clear Lake. Mrs Miranda returns from Massillon for niece Gladys Teeter recovering. Daley son Charles arrives safely from overseas at Newport News. John F Robertson dies at La Grange IL after illness. funeral held. Helen Manning and Pauline Shott to Des Moines for business college. Gayle Goodman discharged from Camp Johnston, Jacksonville FL. Anna Lindsay visits Fairfield. Verna Bonnett visiting. George Tucker discharged from Great Lakes and returns home.
In a busy morning at his flat the famed tenor Signor Tosti refused a visiting singer who pressed him to rehearse her version of My Memories. After a heated exchange she forcefully entered the stable, but fled when Tosti calmly assisted her and declined the request.
The article links St Brice to football culture noting the November festival may honor football players and recounts a Danish massacre on St Brice day in 1002. It mentions St Brice as a Tours bishop from the fifth century and clarifies he did not cause the massacre or the game's invention.
Recruiting notice seeks men aged forty to sixty with own car to pitch hog powder to hog raisers. No notes or signatures required. Write to or call Ed S Joselyn at Rockwell City. Also seeks tenant for eight room modern house by February 1 and a girl to work evenings at The Purity.
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