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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
2
An American freighter escaping a Mediterranean torpedo attack recounts how ballast kept the ship riding high enough for the torpedo to pass beneath the keel without exploding. Officers report the vessel’s near ruin as the torpedo approached and then missed.
Mayor Moliman of East St Louis expelled 35 members of the Southern Illinois Milk Producers Association from City Hall after they barred Mrs K E M Grossman and other visitors from attending. The meeting planned to discuss the price of milk for St Louis distributing companies.
Philadelphia reports a sugar shortage after a telegram from George M. Rolph, federal food administration sugar representative, informs all city candy factories of reduced supplies.
Three or four persons killed in a trolley wreck on the outskirts of Philadelphia about two miles from the city center. Police and rescue crews responded to the scene with officials reporting casualties and damage to the trolley car and track.
The piece presents a parade of wartime bond slogans urging public support for the Second Liberty Loan. Phrases emphasize buying government bonds to aid the war effort, with calls for national unity and personal duty to sustain soldiers and victory.
Hon. James Bh. Weaver of Des Moines spoke at the Liberty Loan meeting in Fairfield. Rollin J. Wilson read the Wilson call, with music by Parsons College chorus. Weaver contrasted autocracy and democracy, urged bond participation, and highlighted U S war aims and past maritime losses.
Come husbands and wives to the Fairfield Theater Sunday at 2 30 p m and learn who why and what the Fairfield Co Operative Society will do for you. All questions answered. Admission free. 466 G A Merich agent and sales man for John Sexton Co Wholesale Grocers Chicago. Call 2048 Main or phone 663 470.
Mrs. Ben Park, visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. IL. T. Pogue, while en route home from Mt. Carroll, fell ill and returned last night to her home in Kansas City.
Paris reports ten people killed and forty wounded in a German bombing of Nancy in France. The war office release confirms the casualties and damage from the attack on the French city.
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