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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1906
Page
6
The Fairfield Weekly Journal column notes Sunday as a day of rest for men and hair washing for women. It mocks political figures and events from Kansas senators to Panama Canal talk, with quips on Russia, England, and Boston lore. The tone blends humor and editorial opinion from Iowa.
The piece satirically blames President Roosevelt for telling Washinons to keep eyes on the stars and suggests he should have advised watching the cook. It peppers the text with a punchline about a putcher shop ad reading Wanted a respectable boy for beef sausages, implying a shift from grand goals to practical chores.
Massachusetts observers debate whether guilt or price fuels public gloom after a legislator is caught selling his vote for 50 dollars. The text contrasts culture with narrow contempt and notes Searsport Maine ships and tonnages. Searsport’s banner shipping year was 1885 with vessels like May Flint and Vistula.
The signal corps of the U S army photographs San Francisco ruins from balloons. A series of pictures is to be kept on file by the War Department in Washington. Several hundred photos of various buildings have been taken and an order issued for three balloons to complete the citywide panorama.
The Alkin law raised the saloon tax to 1000 dollars a year and closed between 15 and 25 percent of Ohio saloons at the outset. It is estimated many more will quit before the second installment. The law challenges Beale and Jones but was not backed by the Anti-Saloon League.
An American visitor chats with a local youth about his homeland. The boy recounts a cousin’s sighting of forty wigwams in a village and jokes that wigwams may be less venomous than rattlesnakes, prompting a cautious reaction.
The article suggests a communal subscription picnic, with each guest contributing items like rolls candles lemons and sugar coffee cakes pickles relishes. It argues this method improves sociability over each person bringing a separate lunch to eat alone.
President Roosevelt denounces demagoguery in a Fourth of July Oyster Bay address. Navy reserve losses in Chicago amid a lake squall. Louisiana politician Lewis Clarke dies suddenly in New Orleans. Anti trust suits filed in Little Rock. Abyssinia talks near completion. Multiple accidents and political shifts reported across the United States and abroad.
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