Letters from the Front: Willis Corbitt Describes Life with U.S. Engineers in France
Willis G Corbitt, son of a Jefferson County official, shares impressions of life in France with the 20th U S Engineers. He describes travel, early posting, a 24 hour time system, shopping in a French city, meals in an officers mess, and buying souvenirs such as post cards and Carnation milk, noting higher prices and ongoing education claims.
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Daily Journal
Willis G. Corbitt
U. S
France
Ir. Corbitt
Jefferson County
States
Hart Performs Daring Stunts in The Cold Deck at Orpheum
In The Cold Deck at the Orpheum Hart plays a gambler accused of stagecoach holdup. Aided by an outside ally with a horse, Hart leads a tense chase and jumps from twenty feet to mount the horse. He later and the horse roll down a steep slope as the pursuit ends.
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Art
Orpheum
Hart
Ing
Bill Hart
A Traveler’s Evening in Cedar River Town
The writer notes paying seventy cents for a meal in a country where wine is served and tea water is unused. He describes meeting French boys and soldiers on the train, enjoying English conversation, and arriving at 10:30 after a two and a half hour delay. A man connected to his report helps locate a sleeping place at the camp with two other men.
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States
Cedar River
U. S
Lost car crank on Ottumwa road near Sidoreus noted
Multiple short notices show items lost or found around Ottumwa city area. Crank reported between J R Sidoreus and town square. purple jacket between Buchanan's feed barn and two miles west. silver butterfly pin found. gold service pin lost with return at Journal office. Reward offered in some notices.
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Ottumwa Road
J. R. Sidoreus
Art Sidoreus
Pease
Journal
Buchanan
FOR SALE ADS INCLUDE PLANTS PIGS AND AUTO
Hardy cabbage plants 5c per dozen or 25c per hundred. Phone 2609 at 306 W Jefferson. Two registered Poland China male pigs fall farrowed. Also second hand automobile suitable for business car or truck. See C A Allard phone 4721.
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Jefferson Street
Poland
China
C. A. Allard
For Rent Unfurnished Rooms and Flats
Classified rental notices list several unfurnished rooms and flats with addresses on Washington Street Burlington Street Highland Avenue South Second Street Main Street and Leggett House. Properties include a five room flat and bath and multiple single rooms available through landlords Thoma and Thoma Wilson's Art store H C Stevenson for 504 South Main Street.
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Thoma
Highland Ave
South Second Street
Wilson’s
South Main Street
H. C. Stevenson
Leggett House
Wanted Help and Services Advertisements
A collage of small classifieds seeks workers for Harper Brush Factory and farm help for a fifteen year old. Also seeks a cleaner for wallpaper, a waitress for Iowa Lunch, and a buyer for a second-hand sorghum mill in Fairfield Iowa. Contact addresses and phone numbers listed.
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Journal
Iowa
George M. Bailey
Fairfield
Sale of Mary Kellogg Estate Household Goods
The executor of Mary A. Kellogg's estate will auction the deceased's household goods at the residence of George T. Stever, one block west of the square’s southwest corner, on Saturday May 18 at 2:00 p.m. 40 Wm. L. LONG, Executor.
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Mary A. Kellogg
George T. Stever
Wm. L. Long
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Wm. S. Cox
Cae
Cos
Washington St
West Burlington St
Harper Brush Factory
Shrines & Johnson’s
Jewell’s
Jesse L. Lasky
Wallace Reid
Mrs. Ward
William S. Hart
Vudor
Vador P
H. P. McLaughlin CO
East Side Square
Aaler
Allegian
Chicago
Scheffel’s Music House
James Hughes
A. F. Carlson
Larson & Jones
Over Long’s Cigar
Stortz & Taglauer’s
Pence’s
North Fourth Street
East Broadway
Lon H. Israel
Fairfield Oratorio Society
St. George
Barhydt Chapel
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