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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1900
Page
2
McElhany’s Gléarind Salé IN Sil06S features an Easter sale with a large assortment of shoes priced low. Baby moccasins 10c, baby soft soles 19c, baby and children's shoes under $1, ladies’ styles under $2 with many items at about half price.
Footwear sale advertises men's box calf shoes in black or tan in odd sizes at about half price. Features latest style at $3.00, with plain figures and a single price for all.
The page lists shops and products from McElhany’s to Brown’s Novelty Store, including cigars, paints, garden seeds, window glass, and Mull’s remedies. Notices cover real estate, auctions, and a piano sale, plus church revival plans, a driving call for correspondents, and local obituaries and school staffing updates.
Monday morning the board of supervisors met as a court to hear mulct tax cases. J. W. Peterson shows no evidence of liquor sales since 1900, while D. G. Higley faces scrutiny from a lenient druggists’ record. Prohibition advocates are denounced as fanatics though the mulct tax is remitted, and taxpayers may pay the cost amid community strife over law enforcers and reformers.
You can buy a 35c. broom of John H. Shaefer at Fairfield for 25c. It will save you the storekeeper's profit.
The writer requests correspondence with parties shipping dairy butter to discuss business. Identifies WM. Grelck, Plano Illinois, owner of Plano Creamery, inviting replies to explore potential mutual benefits.
J. W. Quillen states that from May 1st wool will be received and handled on the ground floor of his warehouse, outlining the new process for storage and handling.
We carry no trash or pot metal machines but offer good high grade fully wanted goods from $19.75 up. Every educated person or over of the ism should see our Vertical Feed Davis Machine before buying at any. We carry the only complete stock in the city to select from and sell on same as for cash.
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