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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1918
Page
2
The notice lists subscription terms delivered by carrier including weekly, monthly, and three month prepay options with prices in dollars and cents. It identifies Laura R Taylor as editor manager and outlines payment periods.
Lima reports Peru withdraws consuls from Chile after anti Peruvian riots in Iquique Antofagasta and Pisagua. Peruvian legation in Buenos Aires relays that a riot disrupted the Peruvian consul at Iquique and authorities warned he could not disembark. Several Peruvian shops were wrecked in Pisagua.
The largest hospital of its kind in the world and the only one in the business district opens in New York. Five hundred wounded men form the first patient group. The base hospital No. B occupies the former Greenhut store at Sixth Avenue and Eighteenth Street with 1400 beds, serving as an embarkation hospital for incoming war transports.
Washington November 26 Theordore N Val president of the American Telegraph and Telephone company is to become the personal adviser to Postmaster General Burleson in organizing telephone telegraph and cable systems under government control.
Lieut Reginald J Calkins an American aviator in France died in an airplane accident on the war's last day. The War Department notified his mother of the death from Green Way Wisconsin Nov 70.
The notice urges all citizens to go to their polling places on Thanksgiving Day and buy their quota of War Savings Stamps. Voters are asked to bring previously purchased stamps to the drive.
A Jefferson county mass meeting endorsed immediate creation of a local War Council to aid chairmen and solicitors in current and future drives. The council will address delinquents in the United War Work campaign led by J. P. Starr and coordinate county wide representation next week.
John J. Garrity, former colonel of the old Second Infantry, National Guard, now the One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, will be the next chief of police. His name was submitted to the council by Mayor Thompson.
Sean Jun reports from Porto Rico on November 26 that an estimated 6,000 cases of influenza have been recorded in the island territory with broader concerns over the spread among residents and public health responses.
The W R C ladies race to complete a second Honor Roll for Jefferson County covering April 30 1918 to present. They plan a larger service flag to honor all county boys who answered the call, urging relatives to submit names, companies and camps at once.
Polish troops captured Lemberg the gateway to Galicia after days of siege fighting. Ukrainian forces entered the city from Galicia, and bombardment and shelling damaged major buildings as Polish units pressed the siege.
The Observer predicts the greatest reception ever given to President Wilson during his forthcoming visit to England. The piece notes that no emperor’s progress compares with the anticipated display and expresses gladness that the event is now assured.
Preliminary surveys of the Lens coal fields in France indicate eight months to three years are needed to recommence mining. Walter E. Hope cabled Fuel Administrator Garfleld.
The Retail Merchants Association and Extension Bureau of the State University announce a two day Short Course for merchants on December 3 and 4. A committee led by Walter Bean and others handles the arrangements. A dinner at 6 15 PM on Wednesday costs 50 cents with two evening meetings free.
Mrs Minnie Adams is seriously ill at her North B street home with influenza. Mrs Chester Fulton and her daughter Claretta are ill at Jefferson County Hospital with Spanish influenza.
A local ad offers one lot of bed springs in all sizes priced as low as 1.48 dollars to clear stock. The H. P. McLaughlin Company advertises the sale as a bulk clearance deal for inexpensive bedsprings.
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