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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1917
Page
6
A brief notice requests prompt reporting of any irregularities in carrier service and provides telephone contact number 23 for submissions. The fragment indicates a postal or newspaper delivery context and urges timely complaints to ensure service quality.
Columbus Ohio October 24 The state supreme court decides that Ohio voters will decide the presidential suffrage referendum in November ending a dispute over the validity of more than 70 000 names on last years petition. Suffragists had claimed thousands were fraudulent.
Chicago, Oct. 24. The first bulletin from Warry A. Wheeler, retail food administrator, urges fair pricing on staple foods. It states that customers must enforce fairness, as the administrator cannot compel retailers to sell at fair figures. If buyers pay more, the fault falls on them.
A Vienna dispatch reports Austria-Hungary and Holland struck a reciprocal exchange agreement. Austria-Hungary will supply wood lubricating oils and other goods while Holland provides foodstuffs. Dutch banks will lend Austro-Hungarian banks 4 000 000 guilders.
Cables to the state department report that Germany probably lost half of its fleet of giant Zeppelins in a raid over England and France. Exultation in France is high, with claims this represents the greatest defeat yet inflicted on the enemy air force.
In a blinding snowstorm at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station twelve storm tossed sailors from the tug John C. Mann were rescued. Jackies from the Third Regiment at Camp Paul Jones carried a line to the wreck and assisted in bringing crew ashore. The rescuers, nicknamed the Texas regiment, are from the Lone Star state.
The British war office reports fifteen German airplanes destroyed by British aviators in northern France. Eight British machines are currently missing. German airfields and railway stations were heavily bombed in the fighting over the battle area.
Belleville Ontario October 24 Cadet Roebuck of Chicago a Mohawk aviation camp member was killed when the airplane he operated fell from a height of 00 feet It was Roebucks first fight.
The great Liberty Loan mass meeting is held this afternoon in the Armory. Local businesses will close from two to four o'clock for the event. The Fairfield Band and Boy Scouts led a procession around the square. Hon. James B. Weaver of Des Moines will deliver the principal address.
Red Cross chapter seeks 150 Christmas packets for soldiers in France and at home. Fifty packets must be shipped by November 1, each costing 2.90 dollars. Prepared packets are ready at Chicago headquarters, with sender cards included for personal greetings and acknowledgment requests. Fundraising aims to raise 100 dollars by tomorrow night. locals urged to donate and call 686 or 1128 with the number of packets.
Chicago reports engineer Albert Cameron of 734 North Lockwood avenue and fireman Sherman Wright of 4235 West End avenue were killed when Chicago & Northwestern passenger train No. 102 left the rails at Northfield. Wright died in Evanston hospital. Cameron died instantly. Several baggage and express cars derailed. the smoker went into the ditch. Train No. 102 ran from the northern Michigan peninsula.
A Saturday morning ceremony in Ollie united Ruth Jacobs to Harry Brain and Marie Jacobs to Raymond Bell both of Ollie. Gifted with a wedding dinner at 11:20, the couples then left for a Chicago trip. Ruth is A C Jacobs’s daughter and a Fairfield High School 1917 graduate. Brain runs a local hardware shop with his father. Bell hails from a farmer’s family and plans to farm.
This morning announced first number of November 13 lecture series by S S McClure founder of McClure magazine. Rev W H Crothers spoke on YMC A college work and Christian service in army camps, stressing camp activities. Parsons plays Highland Park Friday in a key battle as Garretson's squad adjusts after Zeigler injury and Page backs injury concerns.
Telegram from soldiers guarding the ex czar and his family at Tobolsk Siberia urges their removal to a safer, more secluded place. A crowd gathered in front of the monastery chanted Te Deum as the request was pressed on Premier Kerensky.
Washington reports that the value of raw materials imports for the export year surpassed one billion dollars for the first time. The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce records total imports at 1 065 010 655,010, a sharp rise from 405 825 500 in 1913 and 205 0 490 in the previous prewar year.
Press comment on the peace terms announced Monday by the council of workmen and soldiers delegates in Petrograd described them as corrupt and unacceptable. The tone reflected widespread discontent with the proposed arrangement and its implications for Russia.
The treasury department stated a new loan of 20 million dollars to France. American loans to the French republic total 700 million and overall loans to the allies reach 2 billion seven hundred seventy six million four hundred thousand dollars.
A public sale will be held on the Danielson farm four miles south of Fairfield, one and a half miles east of the County Farm, on Thursday October 25. The auction lists 11 head of live stock including 9 horses and 44 Short Horn cattle, plus other personal property. P A Danielson & Son.
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