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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1907
Page
7
The piece notes a 1904 redemption total of 912 million dollars for government notes or changing denominations. It compares the effort to recruit tailors for men with collectors for funding, highlighting the large fiscal burden and administrative work involved.
The tale centers on a well known New York family where an aunt group offers advice to a favored child. Each aunt suggests a different treatment prompting the little girl to declare she is grateful her father chose that particular wife. Her remark highlights family dynamics and affection within a busy clan.
A Burlington North Carolina reader recalls a cousin in Rockingham County troubled by a birth skin disease until age six. The father spent a fortune without relief until Cuticura Remedies were tried for two months, yielding a soft scarless recovery. The note concludes with a personal recollection seventeen years later. The other quoted line comes from Puck humor.
The president orders a reorganization of the Isthmian Canal Commission focusing on Washington operations with strict economy. Auditing moves to the War Department. Joseph Bucklin Bishop to handle purchasing and may serve as secretary at the isthmus. Longtime staff resignations follow. Maj. Hodges may succeed in purchasing. Further budget figures show $40,000,000 available for construction until new congress funds next year.
The article discusses disputes over a pencil sketch of the Fairbanks birthplace house. It notes the house burned years after his birth, and suggests Mr. Fairbanks could not have seen the building, countered by claims of his memory and a memory-based drawing.
The German ambassador Baron Speck von Sternburg suffers a disfiguring facial cancer risking his career and social standing. Despite treatment in India and Europe he shows little improvement, prompting talk of recall within months while his wife faces social uncertainty. Germany denies immediate recall.
The White House faces a multimonth exterior and interior refresh as twenty painters remove a century of white lead from Virginia sandstone. Past damp cold prompted heating and painting, and the current effort aims to apply fresh coats after scraping old layers and awaiting new finishes.
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