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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
6
Mrs Wynne reports a hen quit laying last September and transformed into a crowing, combed rooster. Farmers and poultry experts say the bird shows hen traces but now behaves as a rooster ruling the barnyard. She refuses to eat it, fearing witchcraft.
A Virginia native born in 1825 on Thanksgiving Day has lived for over a decade near a local theater but refuses to attend. He cites contentment with past travels, reading papers, and recalling pleasant journeys as his reason to stay home. Thanksgiving Day has remained his birthday regardless of date.
Rome announces wartime rationing with cards for bread fats sugar and meatless days. Baking of cakes is prohibited as part of the food control measures.
Minneapolis police hunted for engineers of a failed get rich quick scheme. A North Dakota farmer was slated as a $10,000 victim and a banker helped foil the plan. A $50 investment yielded $45,000 before the swindlers vanished and never returned. Verlinden and a Pingree banker were involved but the others did not show up.
Two attempted child abductions alarm Iowa City parents. Eva Rogers and Marie Fuhrmaster, aged about five, were seized by a man who fled when confronted by a mother. Mary Williams was chased twenty blocks near her home but escaped unharmed.
Two arrests appear in county records including drunkenness and vagrancy cases. A forgery charge is noted alongside claims of good behavior on probation or prior records.
Paris reports the government plans to limit restaurant meals to two dishes to ease food movement amid a spreading railway strike. Officials say the strike stems from a revolutionary conspiracy and may lead to automobile requisitions to maintain passenger traffic.
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