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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1917
Page
2
A fragment notes mail matter of the second class entered at the Fairgeld Iowa post office. It indicates official handling by the postal service with no further context or dates.
The notice lists subscription terms: by carrier weekly or by mail three months in advance at one dollar, with a prompt report request for any irregular carrier service and a referenced telephone contact.
Columbus officials report Ohio will vote on a presidential suffrage referendum in November after a late supreme court ruling ends a dispute over the petition. The decision validates more than 7010 names circulated last year, with suffragists alleging many were fraudulent.
In Chicago on October 24 the test bulletin from Harry A. Wheeler, retail food administrator, urges shoppers to enforce fair prices for staple foods. Retailers cannot be compelled to sell at full figures, but customers can demand fair pricing and punish excess charging.
Vienna dispatch reports Austria-Hungary and Holland signed a pact to exchange products. Austria-Hungary will receive wood oils and fowlstuffs from Holland, with Dutch banks lending Austro-Hungarian banks 4,000,000 guilders to facilitate the transactions.
The state department announces Germany probably lost half its Zeppelins in the raid over England and France. French excitement runs high as this marks what is described as the greatest defeat inflicted by enemy airships to date.
In a blinding snowstorm at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station twelve sailors from the tug John C. Mann were rescued. Dive into icy water by Third regiment jackies from Champ Paul Jones the Texas regiment hauled men from the water and helped them reach shore.
London reports twenty German aircraft shot down by British aviators with nineteen confirmed in recent fighting. Eight British planes are listed missing after the clash. German airfields and rail yards suffered heavy bombing. cadet Roebuck of Chicago was killed near Belleville Ontario in his first combat flight.
The Liberty Loan mass meeting is in the Armory this afternoon with business houses closed from two to four. The Fairfield Band and Boy Scouts lead a procession around the square drawing attention. Hon. James B. Weaver of Des Moines will deliver the principal address.
Red Cross chapter plans 150 Christmas packets for soldiers in France and at home cantonments. Fifty packets at 2.90 each must be mailed by November 1. $2 sent from Fairfield buys a packet with sender’s card. A $100 goal is sought by tomorrow night, with phone numbers 686 or 1128 to pledge packet counts.
Ruth Jacobs wed to Harry Brain and Ma rie Jacobs to Raymond Bell in Ollie. Couples plan a Chicago wedding trip. Ruth, daughter of A C Jacobs, Fairfield banker, is a Fairfield High School graduate. Also notice Moose Lodge meeting and English Lutheran Missionary Ladies Aid events with hostesses Dillon Turney Ringelspach and Will Smith.
Engineer Albert Cameron and Fireman Sherman Wright were killed when passenger train No. 102 of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad derailed at Northfield. Cameron lived at 134 North Lockwood avenue and Wright at 4235 West End avenue. No passengers were hurt. Wright died in Evanston hospital two hours after the crash. The wreck pulled freight cars off the line and the engine overturned. Cameron and Wright were crushed in the wreckage.
This morning announced first number of November lecture course featuring S. S. McClure founder of McClure magazine. Rev W H Crothers spoke on Y M C A work in colleges and its role in army camps and Christian service there. Parsons vs Highland Park game set for Friday with Highland Park favored. Page back could miss start due to back injury but traditions endure.
Telegram from soldiers guarding the ex emir and his family at Tobolsk Siberia urges the removal to a safer secluded place. A great crowd gathered before the monastery where the former czar and family reside knelt and chanted Te Deum. Easter supporters press Kerensky for immediate transfer of the imperial family.
Washington reports that total imports of raw materials exceeded one billion dollars for the first time in U.S. history. The Commerce Department record shows 1917 imports at 1100 million 655 thousand 40 dollars, up from 1916 and 1914 levels, signaling a wartime surge in materials entering the country.
The council of workmen and soldiers delegates announced terms on Monday and the press response in Petrograd ranged from confusing to unacceptable, reflecting divided public opinion on the agreement.
The treasury today announced a new loan of 20 million dollars to France raising American loans to the French republic to 790 million. The total loans to the Allies reach about 2,776.4 million.
On the Danielson farm four miles south of Fairfield and 1% miles east of the County Farm a public sale will be held Thursday Oct 25. The sale offers 1 head of live stock including 9 head of horses 44 head of Short Horn cattle and 14 head of horses along with other personal property. P A Danielson and Son.
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