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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1906
Page
6
A Newton New Jersey man reports hens that lay eggs with handles to dispense the egg without a cup. The tale cites Prof Burbank and Prof Loeb, plus a Chicago chemist experimenting with hypnotism like feeding peppers, salt and other substances to hens to alter eggs.
The piece argues highways should stay public for broad use and that private rights should be temporary and non exclusive. It critiques past perpetual or long term streetcar rights and urges wiser, future oriented bargains to keep streets open for electric railways at reasonable costs.
In Skagway Alaska Judge Johnson sentences Tinner Jackson to ten years for manslaughter. Jackson proclaims innocence while a Roosevelt pardon is issued on the same day Johnson dies, prompting readers to weigh patience versus coincidence.
A New York businessman wrote to an eastern publishing firm after ordering an eight volume Shakespeare set and receiving dramatized works instead. He requests an exchange for Shakespeare in prose, noting the error of the shipping clerk and urging prompt correction.
A gang of professional burglars blew open the Marshall Vinegar works safe with nitroglycerin, securing fifteen dollars. Six men were captured. one shot and alive, with officers pursuing others. Detectives from Des Moines assisted. ties to Austin and Albert Lea crimes are noted. Additional suspects linked to Mason City crimes.
Iowa Governor Cummins issued a proclamation urging prompt relief for San Francisco and Pacific coast victims. He named a Des Moines centers committee to collect and forward contributions and asked Iowa towns to act as agents for humanitarian aid.
Frank Eckers former Ottumwa police chief and Philippine campaign captain died at Cook County hospital from injuries after an electric car struck him on Wood Street. He had been westbound on Twelfth Street when hit a week earlier.
Several Japanese railroads have adopted American locomotives, with most engines built in Schenectady, New York, and now used extensively on Japanese lines.
Iowa Central announces two Mason City to Peoria trains will resume April 28 after weeks off due to the coal strike. General Passenger Agent A B Cuts cites progress toward settlement and says operation of trains No 3 and 4 can safely restart. The M and St L lines may follow with restoration soon.
Fort Madison April 18 Matt Hunter, jailed for murder at Mount Ayr, has been adjudged insane and sent to the Anamosa prison for the insane after refusing to work. He has spent five years jailed with only a day or two of his sentence served, choosing solitary confinement over labor.
Des Moines April 20 Louis Busse who faced execution at Anamosa this morning is reprieved until his attorneys complete a final appeal in the supreme court and a new date of August 10 is set unless the court intervenes. The governor postponed the execution after learning his lawyers argued the indictment was invalid due to a grand jury count and sought advancement of the case to the September term. The governor stressed it is not his role to deny rights in court and that any mistake would be corrected by the judiciary.
Rock Rapids report states Charles Rocker, once freed by the Iowa supreme court after a murder conviction, is indicted again for the 1900 homicide of August Schroeder a wealthy Lyon county farmer. The case links Rocker to Schroeder’s death and to marrying Schroeder’s widow. New evidence is claimed by the state.
Ott Pelletier, a clerk at the First National bank in Mapeton, while cleaning a revolver, shot himself in the right hand. The bullet passed through the hand and infection is feared.
A troubled man experiences a rare moment of luck when an unpredictable event or opportunity suddenly works in his favor, offering relief from ongoing pressures or risk.
Cedar Rapids reports a burglary at the Bley boarding house where three State Normal female students from Charles City were sleeping. Thieves entered via an upstairs window and took small bags containing money from around the young ladies at the cedar rapids residence. The total loss is 35 dollars.
A historical observation notes that women react to censure as if treated unfairly, suggesting social expectations shape responses and highlight gender bias in public judgment.
Fort Madison Iowa April 21 Joseph C Smith a 43 year old colored man was hanged at the State penitentiary at noon He faced the scaffold without tremor and bowed to neighbors from Monroe county who attended His last meal included porterhouse steak and custard pie Smith had killed Ida Canady in Buxton October 16 1903 and was condemned after a long legal battle spanning years The governor fixed April 20 as the hanging date and a prior stay was not granted
Destructive fire in North Beach isolates thousands of Italian and Portuguese residents. Authorities race to ferry evacuees from Meigs and Fisherman’s Wharf as fires threaten shipping piers and a large lodging house collapses. Note: casualty reports include at least fifty dead from a lodging house and others from the Cosmopolitan and Brunswick.
President Shel on announced that Andrew Carnegie has given $20,000 to Simpson College endowment with condition of raising $20,000 more by trustees. The donor previously gave $10,000 for a library under similar conditions and the college expects to meet the target.
In Glenwood on April 20, Mrs. H. Farnham obtained a divorce from her husband Farnham, formerly a Greek professor at Tabor college. The court heard sensational testimony about his alleged close relations with an orphan girl who stayed at his home while she attended Tabor. Farnham did not contest the case and was last known to be in Cedar Rapids.
A concise observation notes that neglecting the present risks missing timely opportunities. It argues mindfulness and action today shape outcomes tomorrow, urging readers to focus on current tasks and responsibilities.
Fire swept Mariquina in aizi province destroying two thousand dwellings and leaving thousands homeless. Government aid is rushing to sufferers. Fire also destroyed Pasil near Cebu with two hundred dwellings burned and many left homeless.
Mrs Williams Patrick died hours after her clothing caught fire while burning trash in Unionville Centerville reports indicate she was burned to death.
Westchester county grand jury indicted John Johnson chauffeur and John G. Rodgers Jr owner of the car that struck and killed Mrs Betty Kuehler and her sister Miss Stein as they returned from church on Sunday March 18 in New Rochelle.
A cryptic remark phrase suggests a case where a silent defendant’s words carry no echo in testimony. The unusual statement hints at strategy or courtroom dynamics surrounding a legal proceeding.
Mrs Laura Sullivan of Bluff and Third Streets in Marquette Michigan says she suffered back ache bearing down pain and swollen limbs until using Dean's Kidney Pills. She reports relief before finishing half a box and full cure after continued use. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Advertisement notes Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures painful smarting and nervous feet and ingrown nails. Claims shoe comfort, prevents sweating, and offers a trial package for free. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents. A S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Mail packages are sent through pneumatic tubes from Paris to Berlin in thirty five minutes covering about seven hundred miles. The passage emphasizes rapid cross border communication and the novelty of transit technology in the period.
Wind River and Shoshone Reservation public lands in Wyoming will not open until August 15 1906 by congressional joint resolution. Railroad work to the Reservation border is advancing and expected to finish in a few weeks. A quip about a Kansas senator’s reception ends with a joke about the butler at the end of the line.
Ople Read rides through Arkansas on horseback loses way. He asks for directions from a squatter who quips about riding or walking and forks in the road. Read loses temper before the squatter asserts he is not lost as he plucks the fiddle string.
A woman recounts a 12 year history of neuralgic headaches and weight loss. After trying many doctors she began using Postum Food Coffee in 1904 and rapidly gained weight while headaches eased within weeks. She claims years of relief and improved clarity, credited to Postum. The testimony is attributed to the Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan.
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