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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1907
Page
2
A Bennett report shows the Senate spent 860 cases of mineral water and other drinkables totaling 6849.54 dollars in the last fiscal year. Per capita use reached about 76 dollars for 90 senators. The list notes odd items like a 26.70 skirt trunk and 88 dollars of feather dusters.
The proposed St Gaudens designs, made by Augustus St Gaudens before his death, were found unsuitable for minting with current Philadelphia mint machinery. No government acceptance has occurred despite presidential approval. The law requires treasury and mint directors to approve before adoption as flat stacking is unachievable due to high relief, risking toppled piles.
The Biological Survey finds hawks and owls partly harmful or beneficial with some species clearly beneficial while others balance both traits. It notes bald and golden eagles cause livestock losses and cites ranges of impact across regions.
Judge Landis delays the grand jury investigation of the Chicago & Alton railroad rebating charges to September 24. District Attorney Sims cites need to submit additional facts to the Department of Justice and seeks a three week postponement. No immunity letter from Bonaparte or Morrison’s promised exemption presented in court.
Rioting between police and striking dock laborers in Antwerp worsens with a killed policeman and several children wounded. Militias summoned. gendarmes arrive. a sabre charge scatters crowds and fires burn in a timber yard.
Edward Meek of Greene arrived home with a bullet hole in his head after a dispute with Tom Crane. Crane attempted to shoot Meek again. neighbors subdued him. Both men had been drinking. Crane was jailed in Charles City after the incident.
In Buffalo on September 4 two thirteen year old Polish youths Tony Carola and Guisseppe Zeppa were electrocuted on a steel tower carrying high voltage from the Niagara Falls power house to the Lackawanna steel plant. A delay in shutting off the current left their bodies suspended for about three hours as blue flames danced in view of thousands of streetcar riders.
Fifteen years of back and kidney trouble described by James R Keeler of Fenner Street Cazenovia NY. He reports relief from the first box of Doan’s Kidney Pills and says two boxes restored good health. His wife and friends also use the product and he recommends it. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Jamie refuses to wash his face, claiming he only bathes below the ears and limbs each night. His mother, frustrated, notes his excuses and the boy insists his face will be cleaned in the morning. The scene blends schoolboy humor with a sly lesson on vanity and routine.
A woman from South Dakota credits dropping coffee with curing years of twitching limbs and night restlessness. After switching to Postum Wood Coffee she reports no twitching, better sleep, and comfort with heavy bedding. She endorses Postum as worth its weight in gold and cites The Road to Wellville as reading.
A missionary bishop recalls F Marion Crawford as a boy in Concord using a missionary box with a silver dollar. He tests if it fits the slit, the coin falls in with a crash, and Crawford loses consciousness. The clergyman and family celebrate the boy's generosity upon his recovery.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairmont Walden's Ridge Tennessee reports using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills to cure a child's eczema in six weeks with sustained relief. She also cites rapid recovery from poison oak on a boy's hands and arms within three weeks after starting the remedies.
New York District Attorney Jerome cites a peculiar example of tampered evidence likening it to a misquoted physician’s prescription. He recalls a July visit where a doctor advised a patient to relax and dress casually. He also mentions talk of a quarrel involving the Neweds and a bride contemplating returning home.
Advertisement for Krause's Headache Capsules from Norman Lichty Mfg Des Moines Iowa promotes wealth as a source of disquiet and offers headache remedy capsules at 25e.
A collage of quotes on character and manners references Carlyle and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It mentions teething for children and a 25 cent bottle price, then notes painting as art for men and habit for women.
A Massachusetts judge postponed a trial when John Quincy Adams failed to appear, sending a letter citing important business. A colleague later revealed the note read in part I cannot leave the smells are biting and I must stay to Friday seeking to honor Isaac Walton.
A father tells his son Jimmy to sew a rip in his bathing suit himself, noting that one day he will be married and will have only his wife to rely on for sewing. The boy protests that his mother will do it, but the father insists on self-reliance.
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