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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1911
Page
3
The narrator pretends to cook while hiding a lie as Mr Harbison and Flannigan scheme to solve a mystery. A pantry scene leads to awkward explanations, a theft mention, and a humorous vaccination mishap with Aunt Selina and Leila.
Two letters recount life after quarantine at a house in South America. Thomas Harbison writes from Iquique describing a holiday gone wrong, a mixed household, a stolen jewelry incident, and plans to visit the Mercator property while noting social tensions among guests and staff. Maxwell Reed writes to Richard Burton Bagley about a five hundred dollar wager and criticizes reporters at the University Club.
In a comic tale from 1900, Jimmy Wilson a self styled artist and his wife Ella Knowles face divorce. A party celebrating the anniversary turns chaotic when Aunt Selina arrives and Jim conceals his divorce. A smallpox scare, a Japanese servant, and a basement discovery complicate the farce as Kit and Harbison manage household duties and deceptions.
F Berkeley Smith notes in Success Magazine that French marriages require months of preparation with birth certificates parental consent and endless papers before a wedding day approved by authorities arrives. He adds that divorce in France is even more complicated than marriage.
The Budapest ornithological bureau reports an experiment tagging storks with light disks showing origin. Rings indicate birds traveled to Basutoland, the Transvaal, and Cape Colony. Only two of ten captured birds survived. eight fell to hunters.
The dialogue notes Grower is dead and mentions New York as his former preferred location. The exchange reflects a passing reference within a short, clipped conversation from the Catholic Standard and Times.
The Iowa Thirty-Fourth General Assembly adjourned after a record session with about eleven hundred bills introduced and sixty-seven ballots to elect a U S senator, culminating in W S Kenyon on the sixty-seventh ballot. Major actions include tax and education reforms, road improvements, anti liquor measures, and a vetoed Oregon plan for senate election.
The road and drainage laws passed by this general assembly will be printed and distributed statewide under a concurrent resolution adopted by the house and senate. The secretary of state is charged with publishing and disseminating copies of the new laws.
The state senate committee reports a bill preserving current senatorial and representative districts. The legislature must reenact a similar measure after every census to keep districts as they are now.
An advertisement touts Resinol ointment and soap as cures for eczema, ringworm, barber's itch, psoriasis, tetter, herpes, and other eruptive skin diseases. It claims instant itch relief and notes use for burns, scalds, and dandruff with Resinol soap shampoo. available in fifty cent and one dollar jars from druggists. The maker is Resinol Chemical Co. Baltimore Md.
A wagoner notes a frequent customer who buys wood he saws and splits. The exchange shows satisfaction with a rural roadside stop where wood orders are regular and dependable.
An 25 cent antiseptic powder, Allen's Foot-Ease, promises relief for corns bunions ingrowing nails blisters callouses and sweaty feet. Sold everywhere with the address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy New York for purchases and substitutes.
A playful pun explains bellboys as always off when needed and humor arises from the misheard phrase buttons.
An advertisement asserts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation by addressing the root cause, claiming easy intake and multiple diseases linked to constipation will be resolved by curing the cause.
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Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup advertises for children teething relief. It claims gums softening reduced inflammation allayed pain and cures wind colic priced at 25 cents per bottle.
A compact aphorism notes that the missteps of a grand intellect can teach as much as the stated truths of a lesser thinker. It highlights the value of error as a source of insight and growth.
A historical note asserts Garfield Tea contains no harmful drugs and uses herbs as an ideal laxative. The quote from Publius Syrus warns that attempting two tasks at once results in neither.
A Baltimore mother publishes a letter claiming Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her fifteen year old daughter from Green Sickness after three bottles. The company reports many similar letters and urges other young girls with menstrual and digestive troubles to seek guidance at Lynn Massachusetts for advice and the product.
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