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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1916
Page
6
John Stone, a barn construction worker, was struck by a 2x6 timber when the Stover place barn framework fell in a Thursday windstorm. He suffered a scalp wound needing 18 stitches and a cut eyelid. The new barn, larger than the recently burned monster barn, fell during erection.
Attorney A. W. Jaques resigns as justice of the peace and as secretary of the Soldiers Relief Commission due to failing health. Squire Jaques has long served the public and his illness saddens his many friends.
Oakland Calif November 25 Friends and relatives gathered at a crematory to honor Jack London the famous author. Nellie Lang a longtime believer in London's powers read Thanatopsis and London had asked for no religious rites. Rev Edward Payne a longtime friend spoke and a funeral song by George Sterling was read.
A corn busker near Spalding Nebraska, watched as Jean Crone the Mundelein banquet poisoning figure, is identified as not the man wanted. A. J. Brisette, steward at the club hosting the Chicago banquet, confirmed the suspect is not the individual sought.
London reports the British hospital ship Praemer Castle of 6280 tons was mined or torpedoed in the Aegean while carrying wounded from Saloniki to Malta and all aboard were saved. A Reuters dispatch confirms torpedoing. In Washington, William F. Wolfe of Wisconsin received a recess appointment as U S attorney for the Western district of Wisconsin. James L. Coke of Hawaii named third judge in the first circuit of Hawaii.
Indianapolis Indiana November 24—Warah fington chosen as the 1917 convention city of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union by the national executive committee meeting at the Claypool hotel. Next year’s meeting will likely be in November. Twin Girls Get Hero Medals Doroth y and Jessie Hloh of Gilman Illinois awarded Ralston medals for saving Robert Wallace from drowning in a basin gutter or starion?
Treasury statisticians use a separate method to estimate the continental U S population at 109 002 006 as of November 1 while the Census Bureau projects 102 826 209 for June 41 1917 with outlying possessions at 113 209 285 in the federal census lineage. Morgan's Widow Morgen Critically Ill In New York. Mrs J Pierpont Morgen widow of the late financier is reported critically ill at her Highland Falls summer home twelve miles from Newburgh New York.
A long weekly notice details Sunday and Friday gatherings at the tabernacle and Methodist church with sessions for men and women. It notes a lively crowd, a sermon by an evangelist, and humorous reporter obstacles in covering events amid mixed reactions.
Our appeal for warm clothing for the winter has not met the needed response. Please consider donating unused clothing to keep deserving persons warm. Children's clothing is especially needed. Leave items at the Fair store Foreman Cochran's or A. J. Boyd's or phone me if you have no delivery method.
Judge Robert Morrow in Portland Oregon court deemed a motorcar a dangerous weapon under certain conditions in the case of Officer A Warriner who allegedly rode down a motorcycle on the Columbia highway injuring HL Beckman and his wife Mrs Beckman. The judge cited American precedents and European battlefield observations to support treating the vehicle as a weapon of offense and defense.
Lake City Minnesota James Scott announces a funeral disk system featuring an interlude a song and a prayer set for memorial services in local churches varied records are planned with Presbyterian and Baptist congregations participating and a focus on a full program lasting more than a token tribute according to the Daily Journal.
Unclear text describes Joseph Jordan of Willowsly a Cleveland official vowing square dealing for all, with scattered notes about car thefts and local crime. mentions Robbers in Peoria, a trapper arrest in Mount Carroll, and a Toledo case. Includes a real estate ad for four Pumphrey addition lots by Starr & Jordan.
The Brom vs Peacock trial began this morning with the jury sworn at 10 a.m. Judge Hunter directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant after the plaintiff's evidence. Peacock had received a vehicle as commission for Brom’s property and it was later reprevined. The Supreme Court has affirmed the lower court in Fisher Ball versus Carter.
Fairfield lodge 1192 Elks to host a week of vaudeville entertainment and dancing at the armory from December 11 to 16. Merchants will run booths and charge modest prices to raise funds for Christmas charity.
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