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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1918
Page
4
The writer notes slow mail from France with letters taking days to weeks. He boards with a private family enjoying good meals and a clean town. He visits an ancient church, observes a stream and bridges, buys post cards, and meets local youths including a Lincoln High School alumnus.
The column lists Libertyville residents visiting Cen tralia Missouri and Mt Pleasant Iowa relatives, a funeral in Batavia, a marriage in Ottumwa, and travelers visiting friends, with remarks on daylight saving time adjustments and local clocks. It mentions Mrs. H D Davis hosting a Rebekah Club meeting, a midweek prayer service at Henry Hawkins home, and people noted by name including Ben Iving and Josephine Elliott.
Wm Hart in Blue Blazes Rawden starring as a hardy lumberjack in the Canadian Northwest comes to the Orpheum tonight. The Ince favorite is photographed away from western gear into fur and blanket attire amid cold blizzards and rough northern exteriors.
Classifieds list items for sale including a driving mare and gear at different prices, cabbage plants and a sewing machine, short horn calves, and advertising for factory workers. Rentals offer four, seven, and five room flats or houses with prices and contact details involving local names and addresses in Fairfield Iowa.
London report says Prague has been placed under a state of siege with police and military reinforcements after anti German demonstrations. Czechs and Jugo-Slavs marched shouting Long Live Wilson Clemenceau and Lloyd George.
May 21 report says Sheriff Mar L. Wildes of Choretull county was fatally wounded by Paul Waters Socialist after Waters, a rancher, resisted arrest for evading the draft. Waters, armed, opened fire as officers attempted to take him into custody.
Melbourne reports the Commonwealth agreed to charter American vessels to transport wheat to the United States in response to a U S request. The move signals coordinated wartime supply efforts and aims to ease shipping constraints.
Several classified items appear including WANTED ads for agents offering 60 dollars a week plus a car and sample distribution for a fuel product, a Fairfield Steam Laundry request, a second hand cook stove for sale, and a farm job inquiry from a fifteen-year-old boy seeking a rural position.
Sofia May 21 Emperor Charleo and Empress Zita of Austria Hungary with their party left Sofia Sunday for Constantinople. The dispatch notes the travel as part of royal movements through the region.
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