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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1919
Page
4
A continued article notes President Wilson urging labor unrest amid debates on industrial democratization. The piece discusses the administration’s stance, potential reforms, and political implications in the era of industrial change.
President Wilson advocates aligning capital and labor through voluntary cooperation and selective legislation. He calls for democratizing industry, eight hour workday, and expanding opportunities for veterans, land settlement, and enterprise. He urges tax reform, tariff focus on critical sectors, and a constitutional amendment extending suffrage to women. He previews returning to Washington to continue guiding policy.
Washington May 20 formal notice of a contest in the election of Truman H Newberry Republican senator elect from Michigan was filed in the senate with petitions by Henry Ford defeated Democratic candidate asking for an investigation of campaign expenditures and a recount of ballots The charges repeat those presented earlier to the senate election committee
Old column lists multiple sale notices including residence at 501 Be Adams Street with inquire of Oscar Larson, typewriters from Modern Business College, a 160 acre stock and grain farm near Fairfield, a high oven gas range from Mrs C C Brown, a cheap house and lot in factory district, and a story and a half house near Maleable Iron Works with contact Wm LeLong.
WANTED Garden plowing. Carl Carlson. Phone 4792. WANTED To rent a five or six roomed modern house Address X care of Journal. WANTED A cook at the Kozy. This job is open for a first class cook with good pay. Don’t telephone, call in person The Kozy. WANTED By competent stenographer and typist first class position Have good knowledge of general office work capable of taking care of some special department in manufacturing plant Would accept temporary position now and permanent one later. Address M Care of Journal
Rent notices list multiple housing options: a five room house six blocks from the square with contact John Bartholomew at the Court Hotel, another small cheap rent house at the north end of 6th Street listed by C TH Doughty with phone 308 24, and a two room furnished unit for housekeeping with phone 1244 294.20.
Pair of ladies nose glasses in a black case bearing Beloit Wis. optician name. Found between Court Hotel and the Burlington station. Return to Court Hotel or call 3476.
Burlington East Bound and West Bound timetables list multiple named trains with arrivals and departures across a day. Several services run daily except specified numbers and days. some trains carry no passengers.
The notice lists train numbers 15 Fast Express at 3 15 a m and 11 Fast Express at 1 10 a m, 30 Local Passenger at 6 12 p m, 4 Local Freight at 9 00 am west bound, 29 Local Passenger at 9 57 am, and 88 Local Freight at 5 dom, indicating a period rail timetable.
An ad extols Phosphated Tron as a blood tonic that allegedly purifies the system, enriches blood with Trogy and Thosphates, and improves color, appetite, strength, and vitality for worn out and weak individuals. It urges patients and physicians to use the capsule form only and avoid substitutes.
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