Letters from France Describe Wartime Life and Food Surprises
Willis G. Corbitt writes from Camp in France about near enemy action, daily duties, and food contrasts. He recalls a farmer, a threshing setup, and bread quality while noting home comforts and candle usage. Local notices report wounded son Ray Scovell, visits from Mrs. Nieson and others, and reorganizations among residents.
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Willis G. Corbitt
France
Camp Lewis
Camp Lewis Ware
Sgt. Myers
Darrington
You
Helen
Typewriter sale and rental offered by local college
A Fairfield Modern Business College ads offers all makes of typewriters for sale or rent at Junkin Block on South Main Street. The notice asks readers to call rather than phone or visit, indicating available models and prices.
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Fairfield Modern Business College
Junkin Block
Main Street
South Second
Earnest Call for 20 000 Men by Midnight Oct 27
Urgent appeal seeks 20 000 men for the motor transport corps to report by midnight October 27. Positions listed include blacksmiths carpenters chauffeurs machinists rake testers and more with Rollin Wilson as branch chairman at 108 South Court for application blanks.
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Rollin J. Wilson
South Court Street
Motor Transport Corps
Rollin Wilson
Military Training Ones Association
South Court
Macias
For Rent Notices Aggregated
Short classified ads list several rental options including a 5 room house near the square with contact 2364 or 400 W Hempstead, a 6 room house on South Main with Lloyd Tally at Jefferson Co 237-15, and one half of a double at 410 South Depot St. abstract and loan co. not involved in rental.
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Samuel Culler
W. Hempstead
Public cattle sale near Glasgow and Fairfield detailed
An annual public auction on the E. D. Y. Culbertson farm lists 55 head of cattle including cows with calves, heifers, steers, and a bull, plus farming implements and wagons. Col. Chas. Bailey is the auctioneer with Wm. Browner as clerk and Ebenezer Ladies Aid Society providing lunch. Government clerk jobs and several local help-winding notices follow in the newspaper.
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E. D. Y. Culbertson
Glasgow
Stockport
Fairfield
Col
Chas. Bailey
Wm. Browner
Ebenezer Ladies Aid Society
Railroad Timetables for G B & Q to McCook and Chicago
The rail schedule lists trains including No. 5 Chicago to McCook at 12:58 AM No. 15 Fast Mail at 8:23 AM No. 3 Chicago to Denver at 6:47 AM No. 7 Fast Mail at 12:44 PM No. 9 Chicago to Denver at 3:56 PM No. 2 Denver to Chicago at 12:01 AM No. 12 McCook to Chicago at 2:02 AM No. 18 Ottawa to Burlington at 9:20 AM No. 17 Creston to Peoria at 12:22 PM No. 6 Denver to Chicago at 2:29 PM No. 4 Omaha to Chicago at 10 PM.
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Chicago
McCoox
Peoria
Denver
McCook
Ottawa
Creston
Omaha
Olive Tablets Offer Color and Health Benefit Claims
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable compound that improves skin tone digestion and energy. It claims they act on the liver and bowels like calomel without danger, promising pink skin clear eyes and buoyancy. Sales are described as in the millions with price points of 10 and 25 cents per box.
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Edwards
Evening Tribune
Des Moines
Tribune
For Sale Classified Listings From People’s Column
Several items offered: two tatted collars, Ben Davis apples at 1.25 a bushel, a nine room house with barn and orchard, various chickens, Rhode Island Red cockerels, dining set, furniture worth about 600 dollars, butter nuts, and trade equity in 100 acres near Fairfield. Listings include contact phones and addresses.
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Ben Davis
King Victor Emmanuel’s kin dies in Italy
Prince Umberto, count of Salemi and cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, has died at age twenty nine in Crespano near Monte Grappa where he commanded a battery in the Italian army.
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Umberto
Monte Grappa
Rome
Salemi
Victor Immanuel
Crespano
Shipyards to be cut for inefficiency says Hurley
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board announced that between 15 and 20 yards engaged in building wooden ships will be eliminated from the shipbuilding forces in response to inefficiency. The statement was issued from Washington on October 23.
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Washington
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Tramway Firm Replaces German Staff in Chile
The electric tramways company in Santiago, Chile, has terminated its contract with German workers and will hire Chileans and allied-nation employees going forward.
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Santiago
Chile
Electric Tramways Company Here
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Marsh
Hettie Scovell
Ray Scovell
Mrs. Walter Nieson
W. D. Wilson
A. A. Miller
Ferrell
Mrs. Kelly
Viola Fent
Mr. Olson
Ottumwa
Carrie Ferrell
Ella Stansberry
Roseville
Ilinnis
P. C. Shores
Roscoe Ferrell
Burlington
Ed Widery
Central City
Nebraska
Harlie Yost
Jessie Winn
Velma Barthlow
Minnesota
Ford
Lloyd Tally
Jefferson Co
Wm. Ackerson
Iowa
J. C. Leonard
Civil Service
Kendis Buldng
West Lowe Street
Dora Rundle
D. F. Bush
Minneapolis, Minn
Prtzes
W. Madison St
Ill
Ballard Hall Parsons College
East Stone St
South Fifth Street
Rhode Island
South 4Th St
Ford Car
J. A. Wyatt
South Depot Steel
America
Italy
Dulles
HUNS
Muscatine
J. Goldman
Cedar St
Jounal
Colum
Simnova
Nyt
PR Siz
Des Moines Evening Tribune
Des Moines, Iowa
Fairfield Daily Journal
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