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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1888
Page
3
Various 1885 Fairfield items include promotions for Scott & Son and Voorhies stores, a note on limited July marriage licenses, insurance offerings by Jones & Fullen, and rental adpoints. Mentions militia encampment plans, barbed wire sales, and medical tonics with quotes from local shops and clinics.
A county woman claims a seven year battle with a severe illness ended after three months of coughing and sleepless nights. She reports immediate relief from the first dose of Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and credits a single bottle with a miraculous cure. Mrs Luther Lutz is named by W C Hamrick & Co Shelby N C. Free trial bottles offered at Clarke Junkin s drug store.
The Richland Telegram notes the death of Jesse Stubbs of West Elkton Ohio at seventy eight. An early abolitionist and underground railroad director, he funded a freedman family purchase in 1858 and influenced Republican circles alongside Salmon P. Chase. He later joined the Prohibition movement.
Mrs. Fels, mother of Mrs. M Allmayer, died Friday evening in Fairfield after a heat related collapse. She had been an invalid for years and passed away at 7 45 PM after efforts to revive her failed. Funeral was in Keokuk with Rev E K Fischer officiating. Mrs. Fels born March 10 1826 in Odenbach Germany married 1848 to Elias Fels. They came to America in 1869 and settled in Keokuk Iowa in 1873. She leaves seven children including Nathan Rosa Minnie Mrs M Allmayer. others live in Ottumwa Philadelphia and Richill Missouri. The family sympathy is extended.
The article describes J W Surned’s new residence rebuilt after last winter’s fire. It sits on a 50 foot by 200 foot lawn fronting 32 by 46 feet two story with basement, cherry red pressed brick, gray stone trim, and bronze green frames. Inside features a bright south facing living room, dining room, family room, library, many bedrooms, steam heat, and a ventilating system with antique oak mantels and walnut stair trim.
E K Foreman of the hotel Chester is in Albia. George Clark and Ltarry Junkin spent Sunday in Burlington. Maurice Davis of St. Louis is here buying horses for the St. Louis market. Mrs E M Sickles and daughter Eva arrived from Chicago. Mr and Mrs J E Dougherty visit Mt Pleasant and Trenton. Mrs J A Spielman and daughter Belle returned from Colorado. Ed Campbell moved his Council Bluffs office to the new Federal building. Mrs C C Reynolds returned home to Oberland Kansas. C M McElroy heads to Plattsmouth for two weeks visiting his wife’s mother. Munsell of Mt Pleasant now runs the city telephone office. Dr. Jones Red Clover Tonic advertised as cure-all for illness. Sixteen issues of The Tribune for 25 cents.
West Granville resident G G Treat praises Allcock's Porous Plasters for rheumatism neuralgia and local pains. He reports neighbors benefited and notes marked relief when properly applied. The Enterprise mocks a Brighton adder incident and suggests city action on snake bites and whiskey shortage.
A. H. Thompson of Rockford Illinois reports using Papillon Catarrh Cure with less than one bottle and being cured. The extract of flax remedy is advertised to cure bronchial and chronic catarrh as well as rose cold and hay fever. Large one dollar, sold by Clarke and Jun in.
The Great Rock Island Route promotes its lowest rates for an excursion season to Kansas Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and Dakota. Departures from Chicago August 21 September 11 25 and October 9 23 1888. One round trip fare first class 50 day return. Tickets read via Rock Island Route with lines to principal points. Write Win Rickey Davenport Iowa or E A Woollenook Chicago Ill.
Advertisement touts swayne ointment as a simple external remedy for eczema salt rheum ringworm piles itch sores pimples and all itchy skin eruptions with no internal medicine required and at a low cost.
Moisture and intense itching worsen at night. scratching causes bleeding. Swayne’s Ointment claims to stop itching, heal ulcers, and remove tumors, available from druggists or by mail for 50 cents from Dr. Swayne & Son, Philadelphia.
Pupils who failed in at most two branches may take another examination at the Union School in room No.9 on Thursday morning August 16 at 8 o'clock.
The ad touts Papillon extract of flax as a cure for eczema salt rheum erysipelas and other skin diseases. It cites Mr P Algier of Hartford Ohio as a five year sufferer cured by Papillon and notes large bottles priced at one dollar at Clarke and Junkin's drug store.
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