Local Happenings Highlight Daily City Visitor Notes
A flurry of visits and updates fill the day from Lockridge to Ottumwa. Rev Samuelson of Lockridge guests in the city. Ethel Cummings undergoes surgery at Jefferson County Hospital. Bail and lecture attendances noted. families welcome arrivals from Batavia Chicago New York and Houston for Fourth of July activities. Overseas service updates bring Bruce Hafferty and Victor O’Brien home briefly before further assignments. Local school boards meet to finalize yearly business.
Taft urges League of Nations to enforce world peace
Former president Taft makes a forceful appeal for the League of Nations as a tool to limit armament, curb highway robbery, adjudicate disputes, and promote open diplomacy. He argues the United States must lead in enforcing the peace and cites the Monroe Doctrine as a precedent for collective security. Camp Fire Girls welcome and honor Taft with gifts and praise.
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Recorder’s. Office
Germany
Wemocracy
Democratic Party
Wilson
League of Nations
America
Camp Fire Girls
Fairfield Camp Fire Girls
Pattie
Katherine Fulton
C. Fulton
Teft
Fairfield’s South Second Street Offered as Ideal Residence Zone
An advertisement touts South Second Street in Fairfield as the sole ideal residence area with modern homes, oiled streets, and pristine lawns. The seller offers 14 choice lots on favorable terms, inviting buyers to secure one of the last remaining parcels before homes and amenities fill the street.
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Fairfield
South Second Street
Funeral services for Mrs Thomas W Grant set for Wednesday
The funeral for the late Mrs Thomas W Grant will be held from the residence on East Burlington Street tomorrow at 2 30 PM. Rev Berdine of Montezuma will officiate and the body will be buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
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Thomas Grant
Thomas W. Grant
East Burlington Street
Berdine
Montezuma
Evergreen Cemetery
Real estate transfers including Fairfield and Des Moines lots
Real estate notices list W A Smutz and others selling parcels in Fairview and Centennial additions Fairfield plus transfers between McKemey Yeager and others, with prices from 1 to 1600 dollars. Also mentions J Fry and Harry Jones, Anna Olson and Mathilda Rapp Peterson, and transfers in Buchanan area.
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W. A. Smutz
I. N. Dixon
Fairview
Centennial
Fairfield
Jacob
McKemey
John C. Yeager
McKemey & Hague
Ry.g. Cubbage
Des Moines
James’ M. Fry
Harry. Jones
Centennial Sid
Anna Rapp Olson
Mathilda
Rapp Peterson
Lockridge
J. de Mars
É Des Marsh
Fred W. McClain
Wm. C. Hawk
Buchanan
Wrights Barter Shop Offer and Barber Services
An ad for Wrights Barter Shop promotes reliable barber work at any time in the basement shop under E. R. Smith’s office. It touts a good cool waiting area, mentions 25 cent baths, and is signed by proprietor Wright.
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Wright
E. R. Smith
Mrs Grimsley Dies Suddenly at 69 in County
Mrs John W Grimsley died at about 12 16 today at her home on East Briggs Street from heart failure. A resident of the county for many years she was 69. She leaves husband one son Sylvan Grimsley of San Diego California and Mr A Turner of this city one daughter three sisters and one brother No funeral arrangements have been made.
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John W. Grimsley
East Briggs Street
Felgar Coal Co Ad Addresses Coal Quality Clarification
Notice from Felgar Coal Co successors to B A Power stating no connection with a local firm and listing coal and coke grades offered including Purity lump egg nut Fulton lump Bidwell chunks Solvay coke nut and stove with H A Knauss as manager and contact for bids onoubs2 yeas.
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Felgar Coal Co
B. A. Power
Cuy Firm
Fulton Co
Bidwell
Fourth of July ice cream cones at $1.25 per hundred
Advertisement fragment selling ice cream cones for the Fourth of July at a price of 1.25 dollars per hundred. Includes contact line with a phone and address fragment indicating Chester Fulton and a 508-1 designation.
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Chester
Fulton
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B. WW. Samuelson’ of
C. A. Longerbone
Packwood
John Winters
Batavia
Afg Teeter
Chicago
Frank Chidhester
Yester
Ethel Cummings
Jefferson County Hospital
JM. K. Barnes
Aledo
H. J. Hogan
Ottumwa
Taft
J. BE. Johnson
Oxford Junction
E. B. Tarrell
Cecil Johnson
Henry Pickard
Frank Apt
Pleasant Plain
W. Fordyce
J. A. Roth
Burton
Mulfred Burnett
Wm Scular
Tonda
N. Y
T. F
Leo O'Brien
Navy
Dakota
Bruce
Camp Dix
Overseas
C. A. Emry
Carl
Stephen O’brien
Victor
Oscar Jones
Son Morris
Houston
Texas
Harry Green
Will
Hazel Jaques Galbreath
Wilhemina
A. W. Jaques
L. C. Ball Jr
Camp Dodge
Hazel Smith
Keokuk
R. B. Turner
East Hempstead Street
Miss Smith
Burlington
Henry Dencker
Ernest Maiden
Dorothy
Washington
W. H. Taft
Nations League
W. C. Hawk
Cne
Wrights Barter Shop
John Grimsley
H. A. Knauss
Farm the
Wilson Real Estate Agency
Weingarten Bros
New York
Mother Cooklu
Susan
Irl
Clear Lowen
Susan Ente Zu Zu
National Biscuit Company
Orpheum
Catherine Calvert
Lyon Moran
Mitchell Lewis
Brunswick
THE
Brunswick-Balke-Collender CO
N. E. Cor
10Th
Walnut Street
Des Moines, Iowa
T. W. Hannah
Iowa
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