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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1910
Page
2
A concise digest of daily general news items from day ten, highlighting brief agency updates, notable corporate actions, weather notes, and regional developments. Includes quick read summaries and upcoming event reminders.
A wide range of items includes Pisa tower water concerns, Spain anti clerical clashes in Bilbao with arrests, Persian politics and London honors for Theodore Roosevelt. Other notes cover Nebraska and Panama affairs, Court actions on oleomargarine, irrigation bonds, and rising meat prices in New York.
The senate passed the postals bill 60 to 22. Portland Ore has become the gateway of Harriman lines. The Nicaragua dispute wanes. Spring trade outlook shows promise despite winter railroad strain. Livestock shipment limits spark varied railroad and government views. Iowa Society of New York banquet hosts 300. Caruso fears stage fright. Black Hand demands 15000. Nebraska governors tightens near beer penalties. Montgomery Ward injured in LA auto crash. Wellington avalanche victims exceed 100. Beveridge proposes permanent Alaska coal lands control. Taft disavows Ohio GOP chair choice. Nebraska plan lowers farm prices. German polar expedition planned. Supreme Court rulings curb railroad power. Moundville fire destroys district. New Bedford cotton warehouse blaze costs 388000. Dallas mob lynches a Negro. Nicaragua battles claim 225 killed. Massachusetts seeks treasury safeguards. Morgan Guggenheim explains Alaska work. Oklahoma rail tax bill passes. Vienna pistol duel ends with Mayer dead.
Senate receives the nomination of Howard C. Hollister as United States judge for the Seventh district of Ohio. Other items note Bixby questioned on Missouri river improvements, Taylor to stay as trustee, a new embassy bill with 150000 cap, January 1910 commerce moves in coal and coke, and two Chippewa chiefs suffocated by gas while seeking land for Bois Forte reserve.
Former New York senator Platt dies after diabetes complications. Louis Klopsch editor of the Christian Herald is dead. Mrs John Jacob Astor obtains final decree of divorce. Leader obituary notices and high society legal action filed in local papers.
The Cooper Medicine Co promotes a digestive cure by L T Cooper claiming the stomach governs health. A Boston chef backs the remedy citing weight gain and relief from indigestion after a month. The advertisement notes Cooper’s discovery is sold by all druggists with a mail option for availability.
The giraffe devised a clever plan to wear human clothing but balked at the ten dollar price tag per collar. He concluded the outfit would be too expensive and abandoned the idea.
A traveling salesman visits a large New York firm and is refused by the manager. The boss tears up the card but sends a nickel to pay for it. The traveler returns with a fresh card offering two for five dollars and leaves before the manager can catch him.
A playful note describes the baya bird of India catching fireflies and fastening them with moist clay to glow from its nest. On a dark night the nest glows like an electric street lamp and inspires a humorous idea for decorating a front door keyhole.
The text notes a spring outbreak of pink eye described as contagious and requiring immediate action. It claims a marine eye remedy provides reliable relief by soothing the eye when applied freely and frequently, without stinging.
Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism promises radical cures in 1 to 3 days. It claims to remove the cause and rapidly relieve pain with the first dose yielding noticeable benefits. Available from druggists for 75 cents.
A George Washington quote urges individuals to shoulder their own burdens first before assisting others. The saying emphasizes personal responsibility as a precursor to communal support.
An odd newspaper snippet touts a cold cure with laxative tablets and a refund offer. It mentions W K's signature on each box and a 25 cent price, alongside unrelated musings about a night watchman and peculiar phrases.
The 45 year marriage of Charles Russie and his wife in Vienna Township Marshall County is highlighted along with their health at ages 80 and 76. The piece also covers local events from the Wright County Farmers Institute in Eagle Grove to the Independence Boat Club renaming as Independence Country Club and various local deaths and civic notes across Iowa.
A historic advertisement claims a cure for rheumatism and back pain using one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Compound, and half a pint of whiskey. The mix is taken a tablespoonful before meals and at bedtime with shaking before each use. Drugstores can supply the ingredients.
A note titled A SPECIAL ORDER and a humorous fragment Lustige Woche discuss changing wording to remove Pa and Mamma, preferring only Mamma in a phrase about a divorced woman. The fragment hints at social nuance and linguistic play in a German periodical.
Miss Jessie F. Buchanan recalls a childhood scalp illness that caused hair loss. A doctor recommended Cuticura Remedies and the condition cleared in weeks. She also used them for a hand breakout with great benefit and reports no further scalp trouble. Dated January 7 1909.
The famed showman P T Barnum stated he kept Cuticura Remedies in his medicine chest during three seasons of performances and certified their effectiveness in every case that required their use.
A teacher asks Fred to illustrate adjective comparison. He hesitates and says “Mother is clean, father is cleaner.” Prompted, he stays silent until finally mentioning “auntie” with uncertainty, adding humor about relatives.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the true cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, building the constitution, with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, and notes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Dr. Cook told a Washington correspondent that the attack is flawed and that the idea of polar conditions is as ridiculous as a Brooklyner’s claim that the north pole is filthy and full of ice bugs as big as churches.
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