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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1898
Page
2
Domestics Price Challenge Against Cash Offers
The vendor boasts lower prices on all domestics than cash prices and claims savings on goods such as first class shirting, calicos, and other fabrics with yard prices quoted at 3k 3% and 5c. The message emphasizes aggressive price undercutting across categories.
Daily Rail Schedule Fragments From East Mall
Fragmentary timetable shows numbered trains with frequencies and times. The notes include daily except Sundays and a fast mall reference, with several unclear entries and misordered numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
tFast Mall
Local notes and social items from Fairfield area
Various town briefs including court adjournment and juries, guardians appointed for minors, upcoming marriage of Frederic Spielman and Harriet Israel, Iowa Epworth League assembly dates, bounties for cub wolves, officers to meet for Old Soldiers reunion, multiple marriage licenses issued, Dwyer Milliner wedding, Dr. Monfort’s father’s death, new Weikert grocery opening, and a Parsons college music club performance with Mrs. Luce's solos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Epworth League Assembly
Colfax
Iowa
Auditor Horn
Alex Droz
Cedar Township
Geo. W. Grays
Brookville
T. L. Salts
Patterson Farm
Locust Grove Township
Jefferson County Old Soldiers Association
Grand Army Hall
Fairfield
Clerk Long
John Banach
Katarine Kasmark
Penn Township
Charles C. Doty
May Logan
Ottumwa
Thomas M. Dwyer
Hanna T. Millane
Fredric A. Spielman
Harriet M. Israel
Thomas Dwyer
Hannah F. Millane
A. M. Nodler
Dwyer
J. B. Monfort
Illinois
I. P. Monfort
Hamilton
Monfort
Macomb
H. W. Weikert
Junkin & Baker's
Weikert
Keosauqua Democrat
Parsons College Mandolin and Guitar Club
College Conservatory of Music
Marriage and social notes from Ottumwa to Galesburg
Maggie O Connor wed John Hayes in Ottumwa last Tuesday, surprising friends. Hayes works as a C B Q railroad freight conductor. they will reside in Galesburg. The Women's Improvement Association met at the library with good turnout and eight new members elected to committees for future improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie O. Connor
Ottumwa
John Hayes
Galesburg
Illinois
Miss Connor
Hayes
Mrs. Hayes
Women’s Improvement Association
Martha Hochuly
First Ward
T. F. Higley
Second Ward
L. J. Marey
Third Ward
Hirshberger
Fourth Ward
Nelson Smith
Ora Wall
Camp McKinley and Civil War Echoes in Fairfield
The article notes flags waving nationwide and recalls the 1861 era. It identifies Camp McKinley at Des Moines fairgrounds led by Gen James Rush Lincoln of Ames Agricultural College, rumored for a high federal command and a Confederate service history. It cites a 125000 man call with Iowa to supply three infantry regiments and two batteries, and mentions reorganizing guard regiments to meet government needs. It also mentions Fairfield’s first Cuban flag made by tailor J Hammon, and six Fairfield preacher sons volunteering: Wilson Reed Theodore Hochuly C B Magill Roland Marsh Oliver Boatman, plus Keosauqua’s C M Shephard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Fair Grounds
Des Moines
Camp
McKinley
James Rush Lincoln
Agricultural College
Ames
Fairfield
Wilson Reed
Theodore Hochuly
C. B. Magill
Roland Marsh
Oliver Boatman
C. M. Shepherd
Keosauqua
War hesitates as camps prepare and Havana blockade continues
The morning papers report troops to be kept at state camps to drill and endure camp life while awaiting action. A naval engagement looms with a peaceful Havana blockade ongoing. Morro Castle firing is feared as a trap to close range. Commander Sampson advised to stay out of range until Spaniards reveal intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Morro Castle
Sampson
New York
Remember the Maine Comes Up in War Talk
J. C. Barr of Brookville recalls his three wars starting in 1848, 1861, and the current time as he notes townspeople wearing a red badge and marching for Cuba’s freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
J. C. Barr
Brookville
Cuba
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for All Stages
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. The advertisement claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, building constitution and offering one hundred dollars for any failing case. Proponents urge sending for testimonials and note Toledo based F. J. Cheney & Co. sells pills at 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Mhall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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