Local notes of social visits and events in Fairfield area
Rh H Emry and family from Batavia visit Fairfield. Mrs A J Ashmead and Miss Effie Wright host and visit. Halloween parties hosted by R F Wilson, South Side Rebekah lodge, Miss Adda Garmoe, Miss Bessie Conlee, Rathbone sisters, and Miss Girtha Starkweather celebrate birthdays with ghost stories games and refreshments. Community notices include Election Day guidance and substitute carrier calls.
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Adda Garmoe
East Adams Street
South Side
Rebekah Lodge
B. N. Gantz
Bessie Conlee
South Third Street
Rathbone
Rathbone Sisters
Libertyville News Highlights Local Items and Travel
Revival services at the Presbyterian church this week. Will Hill visited near Birmingham. Rev and Mrs Rowlingson and son return from the St. Louis fair. Uncle John Clarridge and Mrs Gumery left for Ohio. Clarridge to stay with a brother, Gumery visiting relatives. Mrs Charles Watkins and children back in Cedar Rapids. Mrs Dan Garber and Mrs Jessie Winn to return from the Worlds fair. Corn gathering underway. Thomas Lewis recovered from a severe attack. J R Laughlin Ada Leedy and two daughters and Dr Stephenson off for the St Louis Fair. Youtmans drove spr horses to Fairfield. Warner family back from Minnesota. plan trips to Richland and return for Sabbath. Bennett plans to move to New Mexico. Ward Yost to move to his new farm. AK new timber man to take Yost’s former house.
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Ward Yost
Yost
J W Coarrs Seeks Republican Candidacy For Fairfield Office
J W Coarrs addresses voters to deny withdrawal claims and affirm intent to serve as Con stable if elected. He cites Civil War discharge and soldier’s home honor, asserts honesty and dedication, and pledges to fill the office to the best of his ability.
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Constable
Marshall Town
J. W. Coarrs
Delays Strain Evening Newspaper Delivery
The editor explains repeated engine failures delayed the daily edition last night and again tonight. They stress that delays annoy readers, promise prompt issues whenever possible, and attribute failures to unavoidable accidents while pledging to prevent future lateness.
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Delage
Labor quotes on labor and progress from historic thinkers
A collage of quotations on labor by Novalis Cicero Vauben ar gues Parker and McCulloch praising learning doing the fruit of labor and labor’s role in civilization. The excerpts frame labor as elevating citizens and yielding comfort abundance and civilization.
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Novalis
Cicero
Vauben
Theodore Parker
McCulloch
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Restores Health
An advertisement from Shriner and Swayze touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for long illness recovery. It claims J. H. Snowden of St. Paul wife benefited, restoring strength and health. Tea or tablets priced 35 cents.
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J. H. Snowden
St. Paul
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Shriner & Swayze
City Hall Proceedings 1904 Oct 27
City council met in regular session with all members present. Minutes approved. Petition to open East Jefferson street denied. Treasurer reports cash on hand 19192.42. Committees to obtain oak lumber prices and lighting upgrades. Dynamos and engines for 150 lamps proposed. resolution to negotiate purchase. Police appointed for November election in wards 2 3 4 1. Fire station building contract approved. Tax abatements considered. council adjourned.
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Jefferson Street
J. W. Messick
D. W. Mason
J. McKain
C. Hudson
Jacob Ulrich
Booton
William Coop
James Blige
A Story of Senator West and the Reverend Styles
The Missouri senator recalled a probing question from Rev. Dr. Styles at Frankfort Kentucky asking how he lived his Christian life. The pastor pressed what to tell his late parents in heaven about his daily walk and conversation. The senator walked away pale, unable to answer.
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Senator West
Missouri
Styles
Presbyterian Church
Frankfort
Vest
George
Snoring in Church as a Source of Anecdotes
Sir Archibald Geikie notes in his Scottish Reminiscences that most stories told by word of mouth had already appeared in print. He cites the Restoration epigram about a churchgoer who snored loudly enough to wake the Earl of Lauderdale and the king, illustrating recurring tales.
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Sir Archibald Geikie
South
Rocky Mountain Tea Promises Youthful Bloom
An old advertisement urges women to restore their youthful look with Hallister's Rocky Mountain Tea from Shriner & Swayze. It claims the product brings back "the bloom of youth" and targets homemakers seeking reviving beauty.
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Hallister
Shriner & Swayze
What the Stomach Digests
The stomach digests mainly nitrogenous materials such as beef juice eggs milk and similar substances. It has little effect on starches sugars and fats which pass to the intestine for digestion.
Barbarous Engins: Old Man Traps and Spring Guns Recalled
A London auction sale featured man traps and swivel spring guns once common on large estates. The traps stood about three feet high and seventy four inches long, catching poachers above the knee. The spring gun alarmed watchers, and keepers released offenders promptly.
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London
Tield
Her Opinion of Boyn Essay Reflects Child Viewpoint
A childagit essay questions boys and men with humorous misstatements about creation and gender roles. The piece parodies language and treats boys as younger and less capable, while a narrator praises her father as kind. The fragment hints at Victorian attitudes toward gender in Philadelphia sources.
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Boyn
Adam
Eve
Aminde
Philadelphia
Romance of a statue's fate in London history
The Charles I statue in London was sold to a brazier during the Commonwealth who planned to break it but instead buried it. He forged bronze knives with forks to profit from royalist and Puritan buyers. After the Restoration the statue was dug up and bought by the government, remaining in its current position since 1674.
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Charles I
London
Striped Suit and a Wager to Walk Home in Male Attire
The speaker recalls a dare to wear prison clothing and walk from Buffalo to Cleveland. He describes being arrested nine times, nearly mobbed at Dun Kirk by a Sunday school picnic, and forced to change into civilian clothes. He asserts his freedom and innocence, noting no law defined male attire then.
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Buffalo
Cleveland
Dunkirk
Elbert Hubbard
Child asks about noise as cricket jokes about oil
A three year old girl asks what a peculiar noise is while her mother tucks her into bed. The child quips the cricket should get himself oiled, adding a humorous take from a Young People's Paper tone.
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Young People’s Paper
Beard Elixir Claim Sparks Legal Warning
A consumer accuses a seller named Young Kallow of a false beard growth elixir claim. The dialogue suggests a six week promise and a demand for confirmation of a supposed “barefaced lie” in the exchange.
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Young Kallow
Dimiggist
Let Us Believe We Can and Have for the Rest
The line appears as a brief closing remark likely from a historical figure or commentator. It expresses confidence in continued success and progress for future endeavors.
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de Pinod
Crossing the Bar
The article discusses death and pain at the end of life, noting heart cessation as common but exceptions like poisoning. It asserts most deaths are painless, cites fear of death as mental distress, and explains how the breath or suffocation can end life with reduced pain, including gunshot and chest disease cases.
Coloring Flowers and the Art of Colorful Hybrids
Horticulturists create many flower colors by forced culture and hybridization within limits. Florists alter color by introducing dye into petals, producing greens in carnations and other hues in violets, irises, and chrysanthemums. A Tunis tale shows a girl accidentally coloring water, inspiring dye uptake by stems and varied petal tones.
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Tunis
Franklin as a Savage in Paris Memoir
The Marquise de Crequy recalls meeting Benjamin Franklin at supper in eighteenth century Paris. She details his appearance with long hair, brown coat, plum vest, red striped cravat, and his odd eating habits, noting his eggs, asparagus, and “philosophical lagout” as evidence of a savage charm.
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Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Marquise de Crequy
M. Franklin
Mme. de Tesse
Brittany
Inez
Dirty Lassa Describes Filthy Town Conditions
An English correspondent portrays Lassa as a dirty town with brick pools of water flooding streets and fetid main drains. The Chinese quarter, ragyabas scavengers, and pigs rooting in rubbish near the amban’s residence are noted, with the cemetery nearby and corpses’ disposal linked to local scavenging.
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Lassa
wLite
Notice of separation and financial disavowal
Alfred Nelson says his wife Kintia J. Nelson has left his home and he will not be responsible for any debts she contracts from and after September 8 204. This notice is dated October 8.
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Kintia J. Nelson
Alpred Nelson
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