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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1898
Page
2
The store touts Royal Wiltons Body Brussels Moquet Axminster and more with an enlarged inventory to double the carpet business this season. It claims the newest patterns and unquestionably low prices with no back numbers.
Dress goods department clears selected items at deep cuts. Prices drop from 69c to 49c and from 1.25 to 87c, from 1.00 to 75c, and from 75c to 50c. Limited quantities available.
A domestic goods vendor declares they can undercut the lowest cash prices on items including First-Class Shirting at 5c to 9c per yard and good calicos at 3c to 5c per yard, inviting comparison.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered times for lines and daily service notes. Mentions tam schedules at 7:15 and 11:00 with additional entries around 1:42 3:40 and 12:40 daily with Sunday exceptions unclear.
March updates report tax receipts of 48 924 10 by Hopkirk treasurer and sessions of the board of supervisors. Birth of a thirteen pound daughter to the Daub family. Balloon ascension planned by Calvin C. Coats. Social events include a Beatty hall dancing party. Obituary notes A J Elwood dies of pneumonia. Potatoes for sale 2000 bushels. One marriage license issued to John J Kyle and Sylvia Frazey. Easter hat sale success at Flower Millinery Parlor. Farmers club meets April 9 to discuss County Government led by John Williamson. Guardianship and estate appointments noted. Ladies Improvement Club to elect officers. Court bonds status updated. Infant death in Mt Pleasant and Watterson lecture set for April 20. High school drill trip to Ames for declamation contest.
The final Waterloo contest ahead with Conner to speak on Leeds's The Policy of Bismarck. Power leaves for Colfax as district orations proceed. Local deaths, fireside burglaries, and arrests for hog theft and tower climbing headline a busy week. Parson college awards honors in oration and declamation while church and civic events run public programs.
Readers learn that Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages through constitutional internal treatment. The advertisement claims to destroy the disease's foundation by affecting the blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure.
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