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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
8
En route diary describes travel through French forests with observations of flora and local life. The writer notes milder climate, evergreen woods, new flowers including jonquil, bread baking methods, and letters home about mail addresses and Christmas packages.
Des Moines reports indicate fatalities from Tuesday's central Iowa storm may exceed twenty with nineteen confirmed and more deaths possible. At least 150 injured and over 1.5 million dollars in damage are listed as officials survey Denison Newton Carroll Chardan near Jefferson Eldora Chelsea Harcourt Walker Dubuque. Boone town suffered six deaths and many houses destroyed, with railway service disrupted and hospitals strained.
At the Orpheum theater Friday Jack Pickford appears in a thrilling Paramount version of Huck and Tom The Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Julia Crawford Ivers This is the second Tom Sawyer picture featuring Pickford Director William D Taylor could not fit all incidents from the first release The cast includes Edythe Chapman as Aunt Polly Robert Gordon as Huck Clara Horton as Becky Thatcher and others
Two more bodies were found in the ruins of the Aetna Chemical plant at Oakdale, raising the death toll to 98 with four identified. Rescue crews continued work on the ruins of the T N building, where additional bodies were expected.
The narrator recalls a January scene in France showing a ruined village and four gaunt figures, a mother and children, amid rubble. The Red Cross aided the Pellier family with hospital care, sanatoriums, clothing, seeds, and support, helping rebuild life after loss and starvation.
The Senate approved in four hours the naval appropriation bill carrying 1.61 billion dollars, about 225 million more than the House authorization. It also approved a permanent enlisted strength rise from 87,000 to 191,000 and a temporary increase to 181,000 men. The bill now moves to the House.
For sale a house located at 705 North Main Street Fairfield Iowa. For price and information contact Zella Johnson Zulu High Street Oskaloosa Iowa. Also for sale a driving mare weighing about 1050 pounds with buggy and harness in good condition. Phone 5903.
Multiple rental notices advertise seven room houses near the square two blocks away and on West Jefferson Street. Listings include a five room modern cottage and a seven room house with gas and electric lights, with contact names Wm. M. Hufstedler J. F. Deardorff CC. G. Taylor H. C. Stevenson for details and vacancies in June and at various street addresses.
Classified brief listing multiple wants including a dishwasher and GI for the Iowa Café, furnished rooms with light housekeeping, agents for sample placement with a fuel product, three girls needed at Fairfield Steam Laundry, and a summer farm job for a steady 15 year old boy with a contact phone number.
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