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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1918
Page
8
Citizens and businesses urged to collect nut shells, peach stones and pits for carbon used in government gas masks. Call Red Cross secretary to arrange delivery. local organizations asked to stop serving refreshments at night meetings to support this effort. Jefferson County Food Administrators Braiding and McKenney oversee.
A dense church announcements page lists services at First English Lutheran and Presbyterian, Baptist, and Christian Science churches with times for Sunday School, worship, and evening services, plus references to sermons on sanctification, victory through the Spirit, and life’s tragedies. It also covers New Chicago Mission and notes on theater release Salome by William Fox.
Washington September 20. The nomination of Hugh H. Robertson of Law to be United States attorney for the northern district of Texas was presented by the president.
Theda Bara returns to the Orpheum next Monday and Tuesday with Salome a dazzling new film. Theda Bara’s screen incarnation of Herodias daughter boasts a dramatic intense portrayal praised by early private viewers hosted by William.
General March testifies to the house military committee that by July 1 1919 the United States could muster about 4 800 000 men across 5 armies with roughly 1 000 000 per field army. He notes 8 200 000 have been under arms and 2 700 000 more may be called by next July. Half of the new call could come from ages 19 to 20 and 32 to 36. Potential fronts include France Italy and Macedonia.
Paris dispatch says a 65 piece German band was captured at St Mihiel. The Americans seized the instruments and quickly Americanized them by playing Yankee Doodle. Paynereported the capture of 66 new German trucks and hundreds of an automatic rifle model. He also noted the hospital commissary and eight wounded abandoned in a quarry died. Payne narrowly escaped a shell blast when a grenade dump was hit nearby.
A column lists multiple sale notices including a bull calf and three heifer calves, eighteen hogs 50 to 100 pounds, sorghum, farm mortgages on Jefferson Van Buren and Henry counties, and an equity trade of 100 acres near Fairfield for dwelling or other property. Also overcoats, fees, a Reed Baby Carriage, and contact details in Fairfield Iowa.
Seven room house with barn gas for cooking and lights. Phone 1157. Also a room in a modern house by phone 2742. A five room cottage at 204 East Madison St available now. Phone 59 C. M. Redick. A room house seven blocks from the square offered by Jacob Scheffel at 955.
Count Mihaly Karolyi, a Hungarian opposition leader, reiterates support for President Wilson's fourteen peace points as the basis for negotiations. He urges democratic governments in Austria Hungary and Germany to lead, calls for removal of reactionaries, and favors abrogation of Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest treaties to secure peace.
Multiple short want ads appear in the Journal offering clerical and office positions. Entries seek a girl to handle writing and books, a male representative for a life insurance company, a town office worker, a boy before and after school, and a dependable woman for washing ironing and cleaning on select mornings. Contact details provided via care of the Journal.
Senate investigators questioned a German brewers group using loaned funds to purchase a Washington newspaper to spread trade publicity. Arthur Brisbane, editor of the Washington Times, said he bought the Times with brewer funds. A judiciary inquiry was ordered by Senator Jones and quickly approved.
A lost hitching strap reported with contact phone 141. a Goodrich tire, 34x4, found near Normal School Hall with finder phone 468 in Kirksville Missouri. A fire at Science Hall, the newest section of Kirksville State Normal School, caused losses exceeding 100000 dollars.
Paris reports Turkish troops have taken Baku per a Basel telegram dated September 17. The Temps notes Brest-Litovsk left Baku to the Russians, yet the Turks continue their push.
Official report says many killed or injured in a fire at the Woellersdorf ammunition factory in Vienna. Panic followed in the shell making section as workers fled after the blaze.
New York Sept 19 Charles K Cha pin city editor of the New York Evening World was indicted for murder in the first degree after admitting he shot his wife two days earlier and failed to commit suicide.
Montreal observers recount how Berthe Courtmanche, an orderly at the Grey Nunnery, confessed to starting the February 14 blaze after periods of fire mania. Detectives arrested her at the summary, where she signed her confession.
Capt. BR W Schroeder of Chicago is credited with a new high altitude in a test flight from Dayton aviation field Canton. He climbed more than 28 000 feet and recorded a temperature of 82 degrees below zero centigrade. His fingertips were frozen.
The names of 11 soldiers killed when a troop train wrecked on the St Lonuta and San Francisco line near Marchfield Tuesday night have been forwarded to Washington. Authorities are enjoined from releasing the list of dead soldiers.
American soldiers captured at Leicheprey were held at Thirncourt for over two weeks and forced to work between the village and front trenches. As Allied air raids intensified in July, they were moved back to Thiaucourt where French residents say the town served as a German corps headquarters.
Notice of sale of mortgaged chattels in Jefferson county Iowa. J N Barr defaulted on a 475 dollar chattel mortgage dated July 17 1917. Property includes a 16 hp Peerless steam engine, water tank and 32 52 Advance Modern Separator. Sale at Fairfield Court House October 5 1918 at 1 30 pm to satisfy 354 46 plus costs. Attorneys listed.
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