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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
9
Chicago specialist Dr Shallenger, a regular and reliable figure since 1903, is set to visit Fairfield. The note hints at a continuing medical presence in the community, with details pending about exact dates and venues.
Hotel Court announces a one day only period on Tuesday August 17 with a return every 28 days Office hours run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The report lists duty schedules for hardware goods, firearms, leather, paper, and household items under the Dingley tariff, then details modifications in the new free list. It cites Hides, fenceposts, and arts or antiques among items shifted to free status, amid debate led by Senator Aldrich.
The annual corn crop in Iowa shows widespread growth with every county producing 2,000,000 bushels or more. Last year Iowa yielded over 200,000,000 bushels valued at about 153.96 million dollars on December 1. The state emphasizes improved cultivation, seed selection, and adaptation, with corn expositions in Chicago Omaha and Des Moines boosting prominence.
A large cement coliseum is under construction in Des Moines to host conventions and gatherings. Begun in May the structure will be ready before winter and will overlook the river near the public library, opposite the future city hall site.
Prof. Thomas H. MacBride of Iowa State University is a veteran educator who champions forestry study and forest preservation. He helped initiate state forest resource investigations and the move toward a forest and conservation commission, and serves on the commission guiding its work while supporting the Iowa Park and Forestry association.
Samuel Bowman of Eldora, a lifelong blind resident, has been personally invited by Queen Elizabeth of Roumania to join the new asylum as a pen sioner in Bucharest. Relatives fear the long journey while U S minister Knowles endorses the plan, noting Bowman's wards and a new queen funded music hall.
A large black oak, over a century old, on Third Street in Cedar Falls was uprooted to clear space for a flat building. Longtime residents recall it standing through many winters and summers and estimate its age between 100 and 150 years based on growth rings.
Mrs. William Black of Garrison was stung on the head while picking strawberries on her porch and died almost instantly. Despite physician and others efforts she collapsed as the poison turned her body black.
State Superintendent J F Riggs rules 22 pupils expelled from Jefferson High may reenter for the current school year. The students were expelled for throwing stones at the principal after being denied ad mittance for arriving late.
Bulwer states the public man requires only one patron the lucky moment. The line reflects a view on fame and timing shaping political or public life.
A Bohemian meat treatment called Mraslin coats ham and other meats and eggs. It is pliable like rubber, tasteless and harmless, keeping products fresh for long periods. The Mraslin peelable coating comes off readily from ham.
Article reports a public appeal by United Christian party leader William R. Benkert to spare an accused man in Ottumwa from hanging. The piece notes the party’s платформ as the Ten Commandments, its Davenport base, and Benkert’s role with wife Katherine as secretary, highlighting internal leadership dynamics.
C A Parsons notes early turbine tests from 1884 avoided high steam velocities to prevent cutting metal by entrained water drops at 3 800 feet per second. Erosion reached 1/32 inch in 145 hours. Modern compound turbines greatly reduce erosion enabling brass and copper blades.
The Fort Dodge high school, rebuilt after a two year fire destruction, rises with walls left standing and a remodel that gives a far handsomer exterior. The city now has a high school the Regents deem among the finest in the state.
Iowa life insurance annual cost totals 10 645 453 41 dollars, about four dollars per resident. Auditor Bleakley releases three volume reports this year, fire, life (excluding fraternal), and fraternal beneficiaries. The 1908 in force by Iowa life firms reached 112 851 757, up from 100 486 623 in 1907, while payments to beneficiaries rose from 1 207 663 to 1 288 571. Non Iowa companies increased Iowa business from 174 667 735 to 186 439 254, and Iowa non Iowa assessment firms from 78 257 000 to 85 542 620.
H F and L O Pumphrey of Fairfield show remarkable clay ware to Chicago promoters who plan a factory if Jefferson county clay proves suitable. Fairfield businessmen have subscribed 350 to build a kiln for testing samples, with work soon to begin. The kiln is already rising as local vessels sold well. The Pumphreys work on a life size statue The Last of the Indians.
The Mt Pleasant venue will host the Fremont Voters Association of the First district on September 15. An executive committee meeting set preliminary arrangements with J A Keck Stockport as president and others in attendance. Absent members included Dr Schaeffer Keokuk and G C Gardner Washington. The organizers left duties to Mayor Dugade J A Thomas and August Hettich.
Voyager Hendrik Hudson, returning upriver, is pressed by a reporter about the scenery. He avoids criticism and notes that landscape could better showcase advertisements, impressing the correspondent with his timely sensibility.
In Monticello Iowa a monument to the unknown Confederate? No to the unknown and nameless head of the rebellion was unveiled with a fitting program. It honors the departed members of Company H Thirty first Iowa Volunteers, raised in Jones county. The gift came from S S Farwell longtime county resident.
The extension of the Council Blufft Omaha Street Railway line to the school for the deaf will run along Lewis Clark road. The county board granted permission to lay track over the road to connect with the institution’s coal sheds, easing fuel transport that previously required four miles of wagon hauling.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Taylor of Cheer own a rare eight day weight clock, reaching floor to ceiling with a cherry case and zinc weights. The family notes the clock has been in the line for over a century and is a curiosity to generations. The couple also possesses an antique air teapot with a long history.
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