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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1918
Page
3
VOCAL NEWS BRIEFS: Fairfield residents and relatives are noted visiting in Keokuk Ottumwa Des Moines Burlington and Moline with numerous influenza mentions and Camp Dodge departures. The community marks Thanksgiving with quiet observances and local visits plus a newborn in Lockport and discharged Camp Dodge serviceman Arthur DuVal returning home.
A September 13 1917 letter from C A Gibson at the Louden Machinery Co praising Warren Davis as a reliable worker in the assembling department is found in a French dugout via former employee Leonard Heath. The note, dated November 25 1918 in Chicago Illinois, is addressed to R B Louden at Fairfield Iowa and signed by R H Duryea.
Fairfield residents have adopted over thirty French children who lost fathers in the war. A Fairfield Fatheless Children of France committee lists about fifty orphans with name age sex and address. Adopters contribute ten cents daily for one year. funds support the child and letters arrive quarterly from overseas.
Federal Food Administrator J F Deems says Iowa will receive three pounds per capita monthly starting November 1 while urging continued food conservation. He notes improved sugar availability, exports needs, and high American housewife effort in reducing consumption. a potential four pounds may come December 1.
Inventory note for The Drake Clothing Co on the East Side of Square 42 listing gloves mittens and mufflers for cool days. Local shop offers assorted winter wear items likely showcased for shoppers.
Notice states illness at Parsons College is improving and the college will reopen next Wednesday.
A local pitch urges residents to prepare for winter by installing weather strips and storm windows. It notes a phone number 120 for the Cable Lumber Yard and promotes window and door weatherization to reduce drafts.
A campaign to rededicate the public to food conservation runs December 1 through 7. Mr. Sleover will deliver a nationwide message read in churches lodges and schools while local county meetings and school programs spread the intensified plan amid postwar famine fears.
The king of the Belgians thanks Herbert Hoover and the relief commission on the fourth anniversary of its foundation for saving the Belgian nation from starvation. The letter is dated October 22 and expresses gratitude on behalf of all Belgians.
Leonard T. Troland notes in the Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society that colors have been used as symbols of happiness and death by various groups across history. He observes no consistent evidence that any color outperforms others for most purposes, aside from approximating nature’s aspects, with brightness and redness cited as variably stimulating.
The grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Iowa meets in adjourned annual session in Davenport December 4 and 5 at the Coliseum with headquarters at the Blackhawk hotel. Mrs Anna Orris is Associate Grand Matron. A reception for grand officers is planned at Corinthian Hall on Monday December 2 at 8 o'clock.
For sale 40 iron beds in 3 ft 3 6 and 4 ft sizes. Strong construction priced at 3.98 and up for quick sale. Sold by H. P. McLaughlin Co.
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