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Fairfield Tribune

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 10, 1920

Page

5

Accident Near Williamsburg Tumbles Car. Baby Unaware

Four occupants injured when their auto flipped down a roadside embankment near Williamsburg. A baby in the car was not awakened during the crash.

Williamsburg

A Real Romance in the City Studio

Iona Winstead and landlady Mrs. Duryea uncover writer Hector Lyle's discouraged state as a manuscript is saved from a burning grate. Iona reads the hopeful tale, then reveals to Archibald Winstead that Lyle is her new love and the family connects to a publishing deal worth five hundred dollars.

Iona Jona Mrs Archibald Winsted Lyle

Floating chapel sails Puget Sound bringing faith to remote towns

Agnes Lockhart Hughes notes the Robert G. Seymour, a floating church on Puget Sound, visits 11 ports across Island County and Hood Canal. Rev. Wilbert R. Howell and his wife operate the vessel, traveling about 3,000 miles yearly to bring sermons and guidance to seagoing communities and logging camps despite harsh gales.

Washington Agnes Lockhart Hughes Robert G. Seymour Puget Sound Wilbert R. Howell Island County Hood Canal

Local Notices of Travel and Visits Across States

Local residents embark on trips to Kansas Colorado and Iowa. Included are George Israel and son Clifford, John Bartholomew visiting Colorado, E R Harlan in Fairfield, Mrs Wayne Harris awaiting in Davenport, and others attending fairs, hospitals, and funerals across Minneapolis Des Moines Chicago and St Louis with several marriages and family updates.

George Israel Clifford Kansas John Bartholomew Colorado E. R. Harlan State Historical Museum Fairfield Des Moines Keosauqua Wayne Harris Robert Wayne Davenport Moline Mary Fuller William Louden John Barwise Minneapolis Margaret Snyder Mackinac Island Vassar College Fry Copeland Oakdale Copeland Oakdale Sanitarium George FE. Mart Pleasant Hill

Booklovers' tavern in New York mixes drinks and literature

The Philadelphia Inquirer notes a new substitute for the saloon in New York called the Booklovers' tavern. It offers soft drinks and literature at the bar with highballs priced around 1.75 dollars, raising questions about taste, cost, and the appropriateness of literature dispensed with alcohol keeping in mind wartime prohibitions.

New York Booklovers’ Tavern Philadelphia Inquirer

Aviators and the Fox Hunt Quality in Wartime England

In England airmen were keen fox hunters and possessed high “hands” enabling instinctive aircraft anticipation. Authorities say young pilots need riotous evenings rarely, older ones drank, most avoid excess to dodge sudden death. Marriage heightened responsibility, courage remained, and reckless zeal aided wartime achievement.

England Tedat

Machinery in Japan Shows Rapid Industrial Progress

Japan's machinery trade expanded sharply from 1914 to 1918 with imports rising from about 12 million dollars to over 29 million. The United States supplied 20 percent of imports in 1914 and 80 percent in 1918, while exports grew from 634 thousand to about 7.89 million dollars, mainly to Far Eastern markets, including electrical, spinning and weaving, lathe, and printing machinery.

Japan United States

Unfortunate man Comforts in Cold Bedside Exchange

In a Kansas City Star excerpt an invalid jokes through fever and warmth while bystanders offer sympathy. The exchange, set by a bedside, contrasts cold surroundings with the patient’s cheerful defiance.

Hi-Lee Kansas City Star

French Coal Miners Push Machinery to Raise Output

French coal miners respond to proposals for longer workdays by urging improved mining machinery along American lines. They claim an American miner using mechanical devices can dig about thirty tons of coal per week, while a French miner reaches only about three tons.

Butler Undertaker Succeeds Frazey In Local Ads

F. E. Butler undertaker succeeds A. V. Frazey in this local notice. Contact 1382 for services and details in the community want ads column.

F. E. Butler Undertaker A. V. Frazey

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