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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1906
Page
4
The Fairfield Journal lists The Journal Printing Company as publisher and editor with A WwW Taylor as editor and Advertising Manager.
A Hearst aide hails him as the country’s greatest creator of intelligent discontent. He is said to be unwelcome in New York and unlikely to find favor in the provinces when he applies his discontented intellect.
A collection of editorial observations notes that Carnegie deserves a hero medal for spelling reforms. It discusses sun melt, Christmas shopping, and Walter Wellman learning polar ballooning from Peary. Mentions Castro’s posthumous appreciation, Gov. Hughes with a GOP-led legislature, graft in Cincinnati, a lawsuit over a physician’s fees, and joint statehood opposition between Arizona and New Mexico ahead of 1908.
The upcoming holiday season brings no joy to the express agent or postman who dread the annual load, signaling a return to the pack horse era of deliveries.
A Maine district with a large potato surplus organized a fleet of schooners to transport the crop rather than wait for rail service, addressing a storage and shipment backlog.
A California girl describes the earthquake by likening it to an ant whose hill has been kicked over, claiming this image captures the event in a brief, graphic way.
Secretary Hitchcock's retirement from the cabinet is seen as gratifying to mischief makers in the Indian Territory and as a potential weakening of Pacific coast defense. The article notes a Santos Dumont tying machine lasting thirty seconds before being disabled by a bump, and contemplates ballooning becoming practical in future centuries. It also mentions railroad companies raising wages and the prospect of lowering freight and passenger rates to balance interests.
The text notes Cubans could avoid clamor for offices to consider forthcoming American soldiers practice marches in Cuba. It mentions a New England revolver maker who died with a $30,000,000 fortune and left nothing to peace societies, while acknowledging ongoing gun proliferation.
Vincent E. Barnes of SpringfieldMass proposes freezing 20000 aw gallons of water in Little River Gorge to form a solid mass that would melt gradually and supply ice water to the city during hot weather.
The Ohio legislature passed a 2 cent per mile railroad bill and Pennsylvania's main line railroad, crossing the state, boosted wages by 10 percent. The public has no cause to complain if this is a case of cause and effect.
Pethick Lawrence, husband of a jailed suffragette in London for rioting in the House of Commons, promises to subscribe 50 dollars daily to the women’s suffrage fund as long as his wife remains imprisoned. He should clarify his meaning before her release.
Mrs. Rebecca Warren of Norway Maine began shipping oranges from California. She traveled to San Francisco on Van derbilt’s steamer The North Star and built a fortune, amassing 17000 in fifteen years. She pioneered carload orange shipments from the state and later married Mr. Warren, with her brand known as the W. H. W. brand.
The White House issued a statement warning the public not to quote private conversations with the president. It argues such quotes are often misquoted and that the president is responsible only for his public words or for what officials are authorized to say.
Figures on Cornell matriculates in twenty years show 42 percent from private schools and 58 percent from public schools. Of private pupils 1333 were dropped after terms, 111 from public schools, and female graduates from public schools are fewer. Consequently the faculty favors withdrawing certificate admission.
The passage reflects on gratitude for health home and friends and urges all to observe a general Thanksgiving Day. It emphasizes that while attendance at church may vary, the occasion should be marked in every home and heart across the land.
Nearly a billion people populate Asia and Oceanica spanning three times US territory. They generate about four billion in yearly trade with the US taking roughly a third and Europe the rest. The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition aims to unite trade through sea shore exhibits benefiting all states, with active participants poised for the greatest gains.
Former Iowa residents now in Washington organize the Iowa Society of Washington in Seattle. The 1900 census listed 20 000 Hawkeyes in Washington, with Illinois at 22 000 and at least 25 000 Iowans in the Evergreen state. The group aims to unite former Iowans with nominal dues, light duties, regular enjoyable meetings, and an auxiliary women’s committee for entertainments.
The piece stresses acceptance of majority decisions as essential to Republican harmony. It criticizes those who push harmony while opposing the recent convention's stance and urges focusing on enacting the primary election law the convention supported. It calls for ending debates and joining the effort.
An exchange suggests Count Bont could write a novel or present on the lecture platform without needing pocket money. His autobiography would sell on candor, and a confessional work on marriage would outdo romance in novelty.
The Burlington and Rock Island railroads will offer the usual Thanksgiving rate of one and one third fare. Amid nationwide debate over rate changes this season, a Western Passenger association meeting opposed specto rates and rumors of a three cent mile rate. Officials then reversed course, notifying agents that the usual rates will prevail.
Crawford county's new court house near Denison Iowa faces $10,000 in damage from a months long leak. Poor plumbing caused settling of the south front wall cracking large stones and loosening ceiling plaster. Leak stopped but future settling remains uncertain.
Mrs Russell Sage intends to give away her $80 million fortune but will not endow churches. She opposes assisting begging letters and aims to aid individuals in need, valuing direct help to those too proud to ask. She views church endowments as unnecessary and seeks to support men and women across social strata who require assistance.
A large Fairfield wedding at the Johnson home unites Erma Ethel Johnson and Edgar Franklin Tyrrell of Oxford Junction. The ceremony, led by Rev. W. Luther Bright, featured floral arches, a smilax wedding bell, solo by Mrs. Dillon Turney, and Mendelssohn’s wedding march. Guests from Oxford Junction and Ainsworth attended. the couple plan a farm home near Oxford Junction Iowa.
Thanksgiving services will be held at the Congregational church at 10 30 tomorrow. The Rev Thomas Osborn will preach. An offering for relief work will be taken with PF J L Block as treasurer. The collection is hoped to be large and is greatly needed.
Calvin Harlan a 65 year old eccentric Quaker who spurned banks was killed by a Harrisburg train near Ashland Maryland. His buggy was struck and the locomotive carried his body for a mile as more than 20000 dollars in gold and bank notes spilled along the track. Railroad workers recovered 5000 dollars in notes and another 4000 dollars in gold while others searched by lantern for remaining coins and bills.
P Cary plans a first class fruit and vegetable garden in Fairfield next spring after leasing twelve acres of the George place on West Burlington street. A veteran of thirty five years in farming since starting in Sigourney in 1875, he has traveled over 250000 miles on his wagon.
Property listing describes a 10 acre tract near Hmite with 4 acres cultivated 41n pasture 2in meadow abundant fruit including 1 acre of strawberries a six room house a barn a shed two wells and a plateran. Contact phone 116 Fairfield with dates Nov 7-8tw and 6th noted.
The piece notes Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 29, with a large turkey crop this year. It explains turkeys are plentiful but fattening is affected by late season warmth, and prices depend on weather. Local dressed turkey runs 18 to 20 cents per pound, undressed 14 to 16 cents.
Pittsburg Landing Tenn November 24 Iowa dedicated a state memorial on the Shiloh battlefield costing 25000 with eleven regimental monuments at 2000 each Governor Cummins and Iowa officials attended Col William B Bell presented the memorial to Cummins who turned it over to the United States government Col Cornelius Cadle accepted on behalf of the war department
The Original Foley and Company Chicago warns that many imitation cough remedies with similar names exist. The genuine Foley's Honey and Tar comes in a yellow package and should be requested to avoid substitutions.
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