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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1892
Page
7
A city store announces a deep seasonal sale to clear fall and summer goods. Items include Ladies’ silk mitts, stockings, linens, ginghams, lawns, prints, corsets, rugs, curtains and blankets at greatly reduced prices with a closing date of September 1 1892.
A public notice advertises bargains for Normal Ladies featuring 15 cent embroidered silk handkerchiefs and Japanese folding fans in various colors. It promotes silk specials including 22 inch black silk at 89 cents and Faille silks in new shades with discounts on silk suits and trimming silks.
We extend a cordial invitation to Normal students to call on us even if they do not wish to purchase. In the rear of our room we furnish materials for those desiring to copy, make notes, or write letters. All free of charge.
Local items cover new sidewalks and planks, pump connections for water works, and a new son born last Monday night. Quarantine due to scarlet fever affects the Lazenby family. varied community activities include church services, a missionary society postponement, a Prohibitionist convention, and a state fair invitation for veterans.
Jones and Fullen advertise home money to loan on easy terms. Local readers are invited to contact for favorable mortgage options and quick service.
The People's Party meeting at the courthouse drew only five or six interested attendees with no delegates chosen to state or congressional conventions. J T Boltz spoke for hours in a rambling, disjointed park address titled From Barbarism into Perfect Civilization, drawing sharp ridicule for his proposals including land government ownership and single hundred congressmen. Public mood remained skeptical as party supporters were advised to seek college student housing options at Wells & Garrettson's bank.
A noon Friday eastbound train found a man’s body near the track three miles east of the city. Coroner’s inquest in Fairfield ruled accidental death, likely from trying to board a moving train. The man, about 32, was a blacksmith named Joseph Stewart. Frank Winn of Libertyville identified him. burial occurred Saturday afternoon.
The Gainesville commerce notes Gaines & Cummings sold to Lou and Frank Gaines, who become Gaines Bros yesterday at noon. Jacob Funk advertises wood for hire, offering fifty to one hundred cords. Brown's Novelty Store promotes stone jars and jugs at five cents per gallon.
Inventory item list offers 15 to 25 ct Sisle Thread Gloves at 10c and shirts at 49 cents from Shoalts and Barger. The ad emphasizes low prices and value deals for available garments.
Threshing begins with oats yielding seven to twenty bushels per acre. Henry Hawk family visited parents. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Brown from Burlington visiting at J. F. Nelsons. Quarterly conference approves sale of old parsonage and construction of a new one. Salina boom persists with painting on homes and a successful ice cream supper raising twenty dollars for the church.
Specimen cases from New Castle Wisconsin Harrisburg Illinois and Catawba Ohio report neuralgia rheumatism stomach liver disorder and severe leg sores improved by three bottles of Electric Bitters and Bucklin’s Arnica Salve. George D. Clarke markets these remedies.
Heat slows harvest with many workers quitting due to prostration. Threshing continues as Alex Gordon reports an average of 23 bushels of oats per acre. Ada Fulton from Glasgow visited Mrs. Vic Toothaker. Ada Slickenbottom and Minnie Flincspach spent time with relatives. An excursion to Ft. Madison is planned by several locals.
An advertisement touts a salve as best for cuts bruises sores salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns all skin eruptions and piles. It guarantees satisfaction or money back with a 25 cent box price offered by Clarke and Junkin.
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