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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1898
Page
4
A veteran, Dr. L. J. Clark, recalls his Civil War service and wartime wounds. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health after a drastic weight loss. Now 59, he promotes the pills through Hatch Post and Chicago connections as a proven remedy.
List of miscellaneous claims allowed by the board at their April session 1898.
Court record lists sheriff fees paid to B F Black amounting to 34.80 with an additional 34.80 for witnesses for the state in 1840. Attorneys for the defendant show 6.08 for witnesses. A separate entry for D C Collins shows sheriff fees of 69.00 and 670.00 for state witnesses.
A historical ledger lists payments for pauper relief including physicians such as Dr C B Emerson Dr T R Loehr Dr JG Freenor Dr HE Clement Dr M C Carpenter Dr BR B Stephenson Dr WH Aylesworth and others. It also records purchases of goods from vendors like Western Supply Co Held Kerrick Lon H Israel and F W Voorhies with various totals.
W Fordyce and AW Jaques, commissioners, served two days each during the April term of 1898. Fees listed include a total of 8290 and 3290 for the sheriff BF Black.
A vintage classified style note promotes Cascarets candy cathartic claiming to cure constipation. It offers product pricing at 25 cents in Oc. and a money back guarantee if not effective, valid through druggists.
Listed are numerous real estate deeds dated February 1898 in Fairfield and surrounding additions. Transactions show buyers and sellers such as B F Black Samuel Thrash Elnora Coykendall Luella Colburn Wm Deal Aaron Edwards G W Fell Hattie Fell Frances Houghton N M Hackett J C Howell Emma Carpenter Anna Moss Ward Lamson Mary Neis Luella Pillgren Joseph Monfort and Mary Trail with various lots blocks and additions and price amounts from 1 to 1400 dollars.
The Fairfield Tribune prints a free offer from T A Slocum M D of 98 Pine Street New York promising three free bottles of his New Scientific Treatment for consumption and bronchial problems. Readers are urged to write with their address and to mention the Fairfield Tribune.
A Cascarets advertisement promotes bowel education with a 10c price and a 2c offer. It promises druggists refund money if the CCC fail.
Fragmentary text notes a face signature associated with CA BSTORIA on an Atlantis ledge ledger. No clear event or date is provided.
A 1898 letter from T J Scott of Cherokee Texas praises Peruna and Manalin as life changing cures for kidney disease and la grippe after many doctors and medicines failed. The note references a booklet Facts and Faces and offers free copies from the Columbus Ohio firm.
Chancery filings include multiple divorces, partitions, and foreclosures. Divorces granted for John W Ellis and Alice Masters. partitions decreed or continued in several cases. Foreclosures and injunctions continued or settled, with referees discharged and costs handled.
New York April 12 Dr Briggs withdraws from the Presbytery of New York and the Presbyterian Church. He cites conscience and seeks union with the holy Catholic church while remaining free to pursue orders in the Protestant Episcopal church.
Sixteen members of the Chicago Naval Reserves led by General John McNulta visited the Board of Trade in uniform and impressed a fundraising committee, which collected nearly $1,000 for their benefit in a short time.
Relief in six hours from kidney and bladder disease by New Great American Kidney Cure. Quick relief of pain in bladder kidneys and back for men and women with immediate relief from retention of water. Sold by J D McDowell & Co Druggist Fairfield Iowa.
A 10 000 word dictionary published by Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady N Y promises a concise complete work. It omits needless variants to maximize meanings in limited space making it useful for those with or without prior dictionaries. To obtain one send a two cent stamp and note the paper.
An explosion from dynamite purchased for rock blasting wrecked A E Miller’s farmhouse near Adel Iowa. Miller’s wife and two daughters were burned and buried in debris. the elder daughter died, while the younger daughter and Mrs Miller were gravely injured. Miller was unhurt but traumatized.
An old ad promises a tobacco habit cure called No To Race for fifty cents or one dollar calling it a guaranteed method to make weak men strong and blood pure available at all druggists.
Patients Anna M. Kinssley of Independence Iowa and Geo W Colz of Waterloo Iowa report long lasting dyspepsia relief after using Hood’s Sarsaparilla. They cite improved appetite and general well being after several bottles. The ad promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifier sold by all druggists at 1 dollar, six for 5.
Transacts general banking business including real estate and personal loans at reasonable rates. Custodian of wills and valuable papers without charge. Interest 4 percent per year on deposits for six months or longer.
OFFICERS: J. E. ROTH, Prest. JOS. RICKSHER, V. Pres. JOHN DAVIES, Cashier.
Readable fragments show a roster including Boe Louden Howard Higley Bradshaw Hunt Ball Ratliff Roth Simmons Roth Hawk Allender Louden Cassell Booker Walgren Ricksher We Geo Clarke Lamson Lamson Ame Parrett Manatrey Scott Prewitt Turney & Co. McLane Mowery Leggett Bradshaw Hester Parrett Gobble Anderson Herring Fordyce.
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