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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1907
Page
12
The Fairfield Tribune lists publisher P. E. Boesen and prints subscription rates for one year in advance six months and three months. The paper is entered as a weekly newspaper at the Fairfield Post Office as second class mail. A drop of ink makes millions think.
The piece mocks Senator Allison and criticizes efforts to force railroads to accept demurrage limits. It cites Lincoln's advice about not swapping horses midstream and notes Governor Deneen’s interview with Roosevelt about a two cent fare agitation in Illinois. The Fairfield Ledger favors railroads and opposes the demurrage bill, arguing producers face limits and railroads disregard shipper costs.
Company M of Fairfield launches subscription drive for a new armory costing perhaps 15000 dollars. The Burlington Hawkeye highlights Fairfield’s past efforts and urges public pressure and unity to fund the project, noting town size irrelevant to the outcome.
Owing to our small kitchen and dining room and many strangers expected for Rev. Billy Sunday’s tabernacle meetings, townspeople should yield space as much as possible. Meals will be fifty cents for all during the period, regular boarders exempt. Those with rooms near the Leggett House to let should notify Chester & Trowbridge.
Senator Allison suggests a tariff investigation at the new session to study schedules and their impact on business. He recalls a decade ago when a bipartisan committee found no clear price rise under the then Republicans, but political changes undermined its conclusions. He warns such efforts may again lack lasting value with a Democratic Congress.
Danny Curtin, a 16 year old New Yorker and Carnegie hero medalist, will invest his $2000 education fund in study to become a civil engineer. He emphasizes education as the key to success, urging night study, correspondence courses, and broader learning to sharpen thinking and future opportunities.
Des Moines News argues against protectionist rhetoric and tariff harms, condemning swearing and drinking as weakening habits. It urges politeness and discipline, linking moral steadiness to true strength, and challenges readers to choose honesty and self-restraint over aggressive posturing in the political arena.
The noted wrestler Farmer Burns avoids smoking chewing drinking or tea or coffee to stay physically strong. He claims these habits hinder his muscle building and overall vigor.
Dover Delaware March 30 word reached here late last night that the little son of Dr H N Marvin who was kidnapped weeks ago had been found wandering in the woods near his father s farm where he had been abandoned by his captors Detectives were told to cease work as telegraphic communication was scarce it is believed the kidnapers fled in fear of exposure and punishment.
Fort Dodge Iowa March 30 Bert Carland and Will Sindlinger two men convicted of extensive thefts from Illinois Central box cars while employed at Central shops were sentenced to eighteen months each in the penitentiary. Paul Hintce received nine months for stealing a horse from a farmer. Andrew Swadling got six months in the county jail and a $100 fine for robbing rooms in the Tremont hotel.
The George Hummer Mercantile flour and feed mill in Iowa City was gutted by flames early today, with losses over 10000 dollars all covered by insurance. Fire started in the engine room and climbed a chute to the third floor, with alarm at 1230 am. Machinery in the engine room and grain in the elevator were damaged. new machinery was ordered today.
Morris Rosen, a 19 year old Russian Jew who landed at Philadelphia on April 9 after violating a ship line agreement, will be sent back to England with an immigration officer. He was found in Waterloo and faces deportation for entering the U S unlawfully despite earlier rejection for eye disease. He used aliases Rosenfeld and Rosenblatt and had worked for Cohen in Waterloo before being detained.
The firm reports last week’s property transfers including 120 acres in Cedar township from J. P. Manatrey to E. H. Ruvy for 7200 dollars and 45 acres in Walnut township from E. H. Ruvy to J. P. Manatrey for 2500 dollars. The R. Shafer residence on south 3rd Street sold to Wm. Roberts for 2400 dollars, with several city rentals also completed. Fairfield agents invite buying selling or renting inquiries.
In Waterloo a New York kidnap scare unfolds as Louis Vogt resembles the missing Marvin child. Detectives arrest the Vogt family at a show, verify details, and release them after determining the boy is not the Marvin child, though resemblance is strained.
Eight freight handlers at the Illinois Central freight house in Fort Dodge march out over unsatisfactory wages and unmet terms. Local officials deny labeling it a strike, saying it is not an organized action.
A fire at Ed Brown's farm, 1% miles east of Niota Illinois, burned the house and four horses two cows pigs three buggies harness grain and farm implements to ashes. The origin is unknown and no insurance was carried. Loss estimated around 2000 dollars.
Iowa university students will receive spring swimming instruction. E A Rule, director of physical training, recommended the program which was approved by the regents. A swimming float will be placed near the Iowa river athletic park for boys and coeds to learn in a healthy, potentially life saving activity.
Andrew Schwendemann was sentenced in Black Hawk county to five years for uttering a forged instrument and three years for forgery. The sentences run concurrently. This marks the third time the man has been sentenced from the bench in the term.
A clever thief named Jack steals items from Rose described in playful verse. The Philly and Houston papers note the cheeky mischief and suggest Rose may or may not return the kiss as part of the tale. The poem contrasts northern and southern customs with a bold kiss at the end.
Public sale of Hoghton farm holdings near Fairfield and Birmingham on Wednesday April 16 at 10 30 am includes 14 horses and 32 high grade Shorthorn cattle with calves, 45 hogs and 35 fall sows plus farm implements a McCormick corn binder mower and a Dain hay rake several young horse and cattle stock and a registered Duroc Jersey boar all items described as in good condition and ready for sale
Loader nearly new Dain Side livery Hay Rake 16 inch Plow 16 inch Breaking Plow Cultivators 4 Section Harrow Grinder Disc 3 Wagons 2 5 Surrey Hack Buggy 2 Hay 2 Tank Heaters one Tank 3 Work Harness set Driving Harness single Harness one Stalk R 1500 bushels Corn some Hay Cream Separator Some House articles.
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