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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
3
A 1910 era meditation on New Year spirit, public virtue, and mankind’s growing mastery over life. The piece frames New Year as a renewal with hope, calls for honesty in public life, and notes civilization’s open, watchful gaze toward progress and providence. It cites Pope and Bulwer-Lytton while highlighting personal and societal advancement.
A humorous editorial extols the annual resolve and offers playful sample vows. It contrasts grand progress with imperfect practice, notes January 1 as the fixed date, and gives quirky resolutions for young women and men while urging careful choice and personal effort.
The text assigns large annual costs to deaths, illness, care, and diseases. It values U S life at 250 billion dollars for 85.5 million residents and lists yearly losses from capitalized earnings, wages, sick care, tuberculosis, typhoid, and malaria totaling at least 2.31 billion plus other figures. It frames health costs as a national burden.
Shawnee Milling of Topeka seeks court restraint on U S Marshal and the U S Attorney to stop seizures of bleached flour in southern Iowa. The company admits bleaching but argues the Alsop process is not harmful and seeks to permit sale while a higher court rules on federal authority.
Mrs. Fred Criss of Des Moines rushes to Sioux City to forgive her husband who lies wounded after a quarrel with Clara Boyd, a 16 year old girl, in a shooting on a main street. Criss had deserted the Des Moines wife, who had filed for divorce on grounds of desertion.
A $100,000 fire in Seymour Iowa on December 22 damaged or destroyed numerous east side stores and businesses including an Italian grocery barber shop dry goods and grocery stores and restaurants. The fire occurred before water works were activated, with a brick wall stopping spread at the new three story Masonic temple.
A fire in the north annex of Central hospital for the insane in Jacksonville Illinois damaged three wards and caused about 40000 dollars in losses. One hundred eighty women patients were safely moved to the men’s department wards.
Thomas Vannata aged 92 of Newton Iowa died at the home of his daughter Mrs Abraham Young in Lyons Kansas. The body will be sent to Newton for burial.
The Nodaway Presbyterian church in Creston Iowa burned destroying the building and its contents. Authorities believe a basement furnace sparked the blaze after a furnace fire the previous evening.
A color illustration in a Des Moines Klondike Incubator Co. catalogue shows a hen with many ducklings amid a tearful scene before the flock’s male head. The image, meant to imply the device hatches ducks well, notes an average 82 percent hatch rate and offers to mail a catalogue on request.
The snippet presents a 19th century ad offering one hundred dollars for each catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and a sworn affidavit by Frank J. Cheney of Toledo. It also includes a notary public certification, testimonial prompts, and a druggist pitch, plus a social remark about wisdom from youth.
A historic note promotes a renowned doctor’s prescription for rheumatism using a mixture of syrup Sarsa parilla Toris compound and whiskey. The text urges readers to obtain ingredients from a druggist, insisting the bottle be shaken before each use. The passage adds a sharp aside about a man complaining of his wife.
Pettit s Eye Salve touted as a strengthening tonic for tired eyes and eye strain. Presented as a retail remedy through druggists or Howard Bros. in Buffalo New York. The notice is mixed with a cynical remark about a mean man enjoying his meanness.
A humorous line contrasts digestion with a punchy quip about good resolutions being chosen by bad people. The wit hinges on the product placement of WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT and a social jab at resolve.
An advertisement claims Dr Detchon’s Relief for Rheumatism cures in 1 to 3 days with remarkable action. It promises fast relief after the first dose and asserts complete cure of the disease rapidly. The note also includes a junk ad line about paying high prices for hides and furs and selling guns and traps.
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