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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
2
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French and American forces press forward between the Oureq and the Marne as German resistance erodes. Prisoners report rear guard orders to hold to the death while allied assaults outflank and overwhelm positions. Americans execute encircling moves and seize control along previously held river lines. Troops cross to the north bank and move through historic battle sites as artillery and wreckage mark the advances.
Washington reports fraud and gross profiteering found in contracts for army shoes shirts leggings and other soldiers supplies and equipment after investigations by army intelligence and the justice department. In Moscow dispatch the ex czar's heir to the throne dies of exposure days after his father's execution by red guards, the second report of the death.
Miss Eva Mitchell returns to Des Moines this morning. Emery P. Melnatyre leaves on the morning train for Brooklyn New York. Ed Queety of Los Angeles has gone to Libertyville for a visit with relatives. Miss Ida Oliver of Erie returns home after visiting Mrs. J. Oliver. Mrs. William B R Smith, one mile east of Glendale, fell on a railroad embankment and broke her leg.
Des Moines reports the August draft call will be as heavy as July with about 8500 white men and similar numbers of colored men. Local boards must deny navy or marine releases until calls fill, and accelerate 1918 registrant classifications while daily reports track class 1 supply. July calls reached about 24000 men.
In Dubuque Iowa three new polio cases since Saturday raise total to seventy with nine deaths. Health board and doctors say the epidemic is finally overcome though quarantine remains until danger ends. A Violation Way case led to quarantine actions at a local plant after a man exposed in a nearby home returned to work.
District Court of Jefferson County Iowa docket lists Fred J. Aldrich as plaintiff seeking divorce from Helen Aldrich. Patchy wartime casualty and retreat notes accompany the divorce notice, with dates tied to September 9 1918.
Mrs. Ball and Mrs. Teal host Embroidery Club at Chautauqua park tomorrow. Home Missionary picnic at Methodist church with 3 PM start and 6:30 PM supper. Miss Annce Cicle marries George Edwards on June 28 at Mason City. Lawn picnic hosted by Miss Mary Whitney features Miss Ruth Hanks and Miss Alice McNew as guests. Ladies Aid of First Lutheran meets at Mrs. Jericho’s home tomorrow at 2 59 PM. Praire Chapel schoolhouse Ice Cream Social showcased Lila McGee Helen Higby Rosalie Higby and Goldie Aldrich.
General Maren said two regular infantry regiments will form the nucleus of each new division. Home guards replace regulars at interior guard posts while regulars move to designated camps. The divisions will also include National Army troops and no new American units were added to those already on the line.
The Bethel A M E church ladies host a big chicken pie dinner on Thursday July 25. The meal runs from 5 PM to 7 PM in the former Emre Royal Blue Shoe Store building on the east side of the square. Proceeds support church work. Reverend FL Hubbard presides.
In a Reconstruction hospital visit in Des Moines, Mrs. L. D. James met a returned soldier from France. She showed a photo of Captain James, and the man recognized him as the captain of his detachment. He directed her to tell James where he was located and to relay that they had spoken in a park in France.
Des Moines on July 24 reports Iowa volunteers of the 168th Infantry pledge that the Stars and Stripes will not be lowered in defeat. The Wild Rose newspaper from the trenches quotes the line for God and the right as Allied offensives loom in France.
In Zurich on July 24 the Austrian cabinet faced sharp criticism in the lower house session. Deputy Pii charged that western Bohemia and Pilsen suffered from flour and bread shortages with a fortnight of food deprivation in Pilsen and starvation causing dire outcomes and martial law over the town.
Count von Luxburg, former German minister to Argentina, arrived at Gothenburg aboard the Swedish motor steamer Snedia, which left Buenos Aires on June 9. The Copenhagen dispatch says he proceeded at once to Germany.
In France, a prisoner claims Dr. Georg Michaelis former German chancellor now commands a German army brigade on the western front amid American forces.
The intensive effort to collect books for Camp Library is described as a continuous campaign to run for the duration of the war, urging the public to bring them to the Public Library.
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