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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1916
Page
7
Numerous arrivals and short visits noted across the region. Names include Mrs Izora Bishop Bert Karl Helen Hammon Miss Mabel Lucas Miss Sadie McClain and Miss Vanila Smith among others visiting friends relatives or spending weekends in the city.
Mrs. Rachel Hampson died in Greensburg Pennsylvania after months of illness. Her remains arrive Sunday morning and will be taken to the home of Rollin J. Wilson for a 3:00 p.m. service conducted by Rev. H A Mosser. Interment is in Fairfield Evergreen cemetery. Two of her nieces accompany the body.
An old advertisement invites readers to mail five cents to Foley & Co. for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets, to be sent to Jericho & Easton in Chicago Illinois for coughs colds and croup.
Eugene V. Debs running as Socialist gathered 5 000 votes in Vigo County with 3 500 more for the Socialist presidential candidate. Democrats shifted 2 500 votes funding Ralph Moss’s defeat by 300, while Everett Sanders won as Republican. Socialists call for recount alleging uncounted Debs ballots.
Unofficial returns indicate women would have given Hughes a 75 000 plurality in Illinois if voting alone. The overall Hughes lead with men and women combined is about 189 006.
Judge F M Hunter adjourns until Monday to resume court after a slow start by the November term. The grand jury heard witnesses only Thursday and will continue next week as labor over the County Line Mexican cutting consumes time. Assignment list outlines upcoming cases across Mondays to Fridays with multiple plaintiffs and defendants in each docket.
C B Cleasby and Co advertise automobile painting as a specialty from Libertyville Iowa. They offer a heated 24 by 50 foot room to dry paint in cold weather and promise the quickest returns for customers.
Classified note offers hard coal and egg size fuel for heaters or furnaces with extra tons available at August prices. Mentions car due about the 15th and provides contact as Phone 532 S A Power and 870.
Redick and Russell list town property for sale including several 5 room and 6 room modern houses in college and Highland Additions with prices from 750 to 5000 dollars. Also offers two Pumphrey Addition lots at 1600 each and a 1/ L lot on S Second Street for 800 in fine condition.
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