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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1918
Page
7
Abingdon man J B Myers and Libertyville visitors Clarance Hague and Mrs Frank Peebler come and go on business. Harold Dey arrives safely overseas. Internal Revenue Inspector Charles Cornick from Omaha visits the Samuelson home. Families travel to Anamosa and Des Moines for homes and weekends. Spanish influenza affects Lola Edwards in Jefferson County Hospital. Local residents attend events in Ottumwa, Denver, Los Angeles, Camp Dodge, and Camp Humphreys.
Reverend R H Polly reflects on steadfast faith during quarantine, urging believers to embrace a new relationship in Christ, live righteously, and seize wartime opportunities for Christlike service. He emphasizes responsibility within the family of God and assures believers of earned earthly and heavenly rewards for acts of mercy, encouragement, and rescue.
Various items offered for sale or rent including bicycles shorthand shropshire livestock a fumed oak library table and davenport Ford roadster touring car eighty acre farm large Poland China hogs and a four room rental on North Main street Details include contact names and phone numbers as listed in the notice
Clerks positions announced with exam dates November 16 and December 7. Salary listed as $1200. No experience required. Open to men and women. For free details write to J. Leonard, former Civil Service Examiner, 275 Kenos Building, Washington. Phone 321-7.
After a four week influenza quarantine the Orpheum Theater reopens with a redecorated lobby and interior plus a $5,500 Cremona pipe organ. Chicago musician Mounsier G Dickleau will perform for two weeks to introduce the instrument. Opening picture is Clara Kimball Young in The House of Glass.
Apples for sale with a few varieties remaining as closing out sale approaches. L O Gaines offers these fruit options while supplies last.
A collection of rental notices lists a nine room house with furnace and garden, a four room house on South B street, a well improved 160 acre stock farm east of the county farm, storage space or garage with two heated furnished rooms, a modern six room flat by Lou Thoma, and a four room house at 208 West Madison Street with gas electricity and water. Contact numbers and names included.
Detroit, Nov 9. Unofficial returns show Lieutenant Commander Truman H. Newberry, Republican, ahead of Henry Ford, Democrat, by about 8,500. With 59 rural precincts pending, Newberry 213,995 to Ford 205,594. Ford unlikely to seek recount unless irregularities arise, says Ernest G. Liebold.
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