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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
7
Lockridge and Mt. Pleasant locals, and guests from Iowa City to Beverly Missouri visit, travel, or stay with area families. Notables include Carl Larson purchasing a South Fifth Street property and Supt. A. W. Crane’s auto trip to Perry for a family reunion with Eva Mitchell.
Washington reports eight American divisions, about 216000 troops, fighting under the allied force on the Aisne Marne front. American units, deployed for assaulting, leapfrogged French divisions to seize objectives as German reserves and gas shells ran low.
William Patterson’s parents fear for him after the torpedoing of the cruiser San Diego. Patterson enlisted in April last year and had just completed his seventh voyage. The San Diego, under Capt H H Christy, sank after repairs while en route from Portsmouth to New York. Fifty one officers and 1030 enlisted men were aboard along with 63 marines. The gunners stayed at their posts as the ship sank, leaping overboard just before it disappeared.
The Fairfield Golf Club hosted its fourth general picnic with nearly 250 attendees. The club announces a One Club Tournament scheduled for Friday evening July 26 at 6 15 with handicaps and entries likely from new players.
New York July 20 William R Hearst lost his fight to prevent enforcement of an ordinance barring the New York Evening Journal with the German language newspapers from Mount Vernon New York Supreme Court Justice J Addison Young in White Plains granted the motion of Corporation Counsel J Henry Esser of Mount Vernon asking dismissal of the Star company's injunction restraining the city officials from enforcing the ordinance prohibiting the sale of its newspapers.
Players must pick one club for driving, approaching and putting throughout the tournament. The format aims to add fun and challenge as a good score with a single club is tough. Prizes are Thrift stamps.
About half of Buenos Aires 6000 bakers join an anarchist strike committee directing a city wide action. The committee has pressed for a general national strike for two weeks while power plant workers threaten to walk out soon and the government plans to replace them with naval engineers and firemen.
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