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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1907
Page
4
A university profile notes many students treat athletics and social life as primary, neglecting academics. Professors report absences, skipped readings, and mockery of academic effort, while campus leaders are often involved in sports, debates, or fraternities rather than scholarship. The professor argues play should not dominate college life.
The piece contrasts New York and Chicago scams, noting New York buyers and sellers fall for small-time fadeouts while Chicago exposes major frauds. It highlights forged deeds, missing owners, and even likens scams to selling a navy yacht to gullible strangers.
Gov Floyd of New Hampshire cites cradle shortages as cause of falling farmer numbers and rising costs for roads and schools in farming areas. Prof Edward A Ross of Wisconsin contends large families foster class antagonism, famine, war, competitive dwarfing of women and cheapening of men.
A Missouri clubwoman claims a husbands hour is essential to influence politics, comparing it to equal suffrage and noting the approach works even for single women. She urges preparatory acts like slippers, dinner, and a private chat to secure desired outcomes. The speaker states she is not married.
Commissioner Bingham of New York argues policemen should not be blamed for crime waves any more than firemen are for fires. He suggests it is equally true that a swell does not always cause ocean waves.
In Tomahawk Wisconsin a fish was found to have a pint beer bottle in its stomach. The cork had been removed and the bottle was empty.
A Washington paper notes women have learned to avoid wasting strength on useless tasks. Yet some women still attempt to reform others by harsh confrontation.
A flood of items from Iowa report drowning of Gra Clark after rushing water in Nishnabotany. Totals include deaths, wrecks, court actions, injuries, and births of figures tied to Waterloo Des Moines Dubuque and other towns with names like Tallerday Botsford Loz Luz Marr Poots and Dacy.
Riots in Steubenville and Louisville injure several. parades mark Labor Day. Prince Wilhelm finishes a New York visit and tours Niagara Falls. Richard Mansfield buried in New London. Fairbanks warns of political drift and urges commerce at irrigation congress in Sacramento. National Letter Carriers and United Postal Clerks hold conventions. Earthquake shock logged in Washington. Autoc Racing accidents injure several in Brescia and Denver. Fires in Houston and Bay City cause major losses. Multiple deaths including judges, officials, and a railway wreck near Charleston. Police arrest Fremont officials over labor violence. oil trusts and lumber trade debated. Various international tensions and accidents reported.
A Chicago watchman William Krebes was stabbed while guarding a scene described as a thwarted robbery. The report notes the assault as part of ongoing crime concerns in the city.
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