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.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
5
Four occupants injured when their auto flipped down a roadside embankment near Williamsburg. A baby in the car was not awakened during the crash.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
F. E. Butler undertaker succeeds A. V. Frazey in this local notice. Contact 1382 for services and details in the community want ads column.
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