Letter From Brest Soldier Describes Convoy Ride Home
Brest France February 17, 1919 A letter home details a trek from a convoy near Bordeaux to Remies Nantes La Rochelle and La Roche with quick meals at Red Cross canteens, sudden train switches, rough rides in mixed US and French cars, and hopes of returning to 306 West Burlington Street after a long wartime journey. The writer notes Salvation Army chocolate, Red Cross popularity, and humorous mishaps with train operations and French railway staff.
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Brest
France
Bordeau
Salvation Army
American Red Cross
Remies
Nantes
West Burlington
la Roche
Chef de Gare
Mademoiselle
la Rochelle
Berlin
Red Cross
Calvary
A GI Letter Home From France in Early Spring
Corporal Peebler writes of travel from Brest to Paris and Bordeaux, detailing trains, food, and sights. He reconnects with old friends, visits Notre Dame and the Louvre, and recalls camouflaged guns and a French military governor family. He plans to return to Fairfield for his mother’s birthday and mentions a reunion with former teacher Miss Henshaw.
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Madagascar
Brest
Rennes
Fairfield
States
Miss Henshaw
Cincy
Parsons
Y.M
Corp. G. I
Peebler
Classifieds round up of items for sale and listings
Multiple small ads offer farm eggs furniture farm livestock nursery stock and household goods for sale. Hunkydory Jersey farm lists Plymouth Rock eggs 50c per setting. Other ads include couch range piano and dining suite plus a nursery stock sale with various fruit trees shrubs and shade elms.
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Hunkydory Jersey
E. Adams
Farrow
For Sale Notices and Property Listings in Town
Cottage with summer kitchen and work room at West Jimes and north Fifth. Hawkeye Pump Co. stock and 20 fares, see Harry Green. 827-10. FOR SALE OR RENT 53 acres near Pittsburg and Keosauqua with fences, corn, new house, barn, wells, road access. will trade Fairfield property. Phone 1579. 851-17. FOR SALE Fifteen good South Main street lots, sacrifice if sold now. Leaving town, bank on them. Phone 3718. 801-tf
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West Jimes
North Fifth Street
Hawkeye Pump Co
Harry Green
Pittsburg
Keosauqua
Fairfield
Deal
South Main Street
For Rent Listings from Fairfield Iowa
Four room rental either furnished or unfurnished four blocks from square at A. B. C. Box 28 Fairfield IA 85613. Eight room modern house with option to retain two or three rooms and two garden spots piano 905 South Main Street W Dy er. House at water works with large garden spot inquire City Clerk 772 tf.
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Fairfield
Iowa
South Main Street
W. Dyer
WANTED Four or five room house to rent now
Classified ad seeks a four or five room house for rent with immediate availability. Reader is asked to call number 278. 859-11 for inquiries about renting a suitable home.
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Corporal G. L. Peebler
Rockfort
Saintes
R. C
Bobby Madden
Reveille
Bob
Hun Straffer
Bertha Buster
Sue
St. Sulpice
Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral
Place de Concord
Pantheon de la Guerre
Louvre
Frmer
Ann Old Rags
Cocky
Cezele Pagliiste
Clifford Leon Sherman
Margaret
John Bull
Sam
People's. Column
East Lowe Street
East Hempstead St
C. W. Whitham
Ottumwa Fairfield Road
Pinnae
Northrup, King & Co
NAL Tae Ae
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Capitol Remedies Supply Co
Iowa State Bank Bldg
Jurlington
South Second Street
Square
Journal Office
S. Fifth
Frank
Kerrick
Tripune
John T. Davies
A. V. Frazey
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