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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
3
The county board meets June 11 to canvass primary results naming Republican nominees for county offices and Democrats for representatives. Objections to road petition due Sept 12 with final hearing set. treasurer’s semiannual report examined and adjournment ordered to June 12.
A train passes a Kansas oil boom where the White farm stands as a symbol of value in work. Philip Ross and family refuse to lease despite offers of wealth from oilmen, arguing that life without labor destroys purpose and that true riches come from daily toil. The scene contrasts thriving rigs with a quiet farmstead, urging Americans to embrace labor over easy money.
Brown Creeper, Certhia familiaris americana, is 5.5 inches long. It breeds from Nebraska Indiana North Carolina Massachusetts and western mountains to Alaska and Nicaragua, wintering widely. It rarely rests, climbs trunks and branches for tiny insects, eggs, moth cocoons, scales, plant lice and eggs. it consumes no crop pests.
Otto Hovren of Roberts County South Dakota and Cornelius Hovren of Great Falls Montana, both serving in the U S forces, met unexpectedly at a French port two days apart in their overseas arrivals. Relatives in South Dakota received letters detailing the emotional reunion on foreign soil.
Incomplete returns from 25 states indicate about 3,400,000 women have registered for war work under the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense.
J Leo Kenan of 3424 Webster Avenue enlisted in the Naval Reserve as a yeoman after traveling 2000 miles to join. He was in Havana when selective registration occurred. Although abroad he registered by mail, found his number far down the list, and secured a waiver from Local Board No. 4 to enlist. He will soon depart for an eastern naval training station.
Sharon Pennsylvania reports a man recounts kindness from C. F. E. Tague of Washington D C. He invited two strangers to ride in his automobile and on a deserted road they robbed him at gunpoint of all his money.
An advertisement for Drake Clothing Co lists men underwear in B V D style and other styles either union or two piece suits priced at 50 cents and up. The ad is dated in column 17-1-c.
In Philadelphia a dying man, plainly ill, told staff he would die in weeks and handed over 450 dollars in cash to a Liberty loan booth. He said he pulled the money from the bank to give to Uncle Sam, preferring a gift over bonds, and left without leaving his name.
Summer suits coats and pants in cool fabrics priced from $7.50 and up. Drake Clothing Co lists affordable warm weather wear with a focus on light garments for the season.
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