16 Aug 1883
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1883
Page
1
The Oregon Iron and Steel Works of Portland plans construction of 500 cottages for new rolling mill employees. The item appears among a batch of assorted news notes spanning markets, politics, and frontier agriculture.
Iowa items report 125 skulls found in a De Soto mound, Boone population at 3757, Boone saloons and Cedar Rapids robberies, a Des Moines street railway expansion, a Keota coal prospect, and a fatal shooting in Denver. Also notes Old Settlers reunions, Spirit Lake camp meeting, and a drowning near Davenport.
A Boston Globe profile of Cape May's flamboyant local character, the chief dandy, who changes outfits five or six times daily from corduroy and knickerbockers to loud checked suits and a beach pajama look. He trafes in a plain bathing suit for the water and ends with a black frock coat by night, prompting amazement and speculation about his unusual vanity and dressing tricks.
Washington reports August Peat ten yields to the Department of Agriculture show a generally lower condition than July across most states with Arkansas and Tennessee as exceptions on the northern border belt. Corn fields improve in New England Middle States Ohio Indiana and west of the Mississippi though drought and too much moisture hurt the South and Michigan. Overall area condition rose to near a perfect crop but frost fears linger. Spring wheat August first average condition 97, prospects strong in Minnesota while Southern Dakota harvest proceeds. European wheat output is forecast one-fifth below last year, oats strong, barley near 1882 levels, potatoes developing, buckwheat sown at last year’s area, tobacco varying by state with Kentucky 93 and North Carolina 70.
Special dispatch reports a severe hail storm moving from Odebolt to Carroll and Audubon, stomping crops and killing livestock. It wrecked homes and barns, with one woman killed near Odebolt and thousands affected across Brayton Gray Manning Audubon and surrounding farms.
S G Benjamin, first U S diplomatic representative to Persia, describes a cordial Teheran reception. He travels in a landau drawn by six horses, with royal foot runners and guards. In the palace he meets the Shah, presents credentials in French, and the king voices pleasure at a U S legation and permanent ties.
A reflection on how battle outcomes hinge on prevailing opinion rather than force. The idea suggests that public sentiment shapes victories and defeats more than arms or tactics.
The piece cites Moncure D. Conway arguing Americans overstate sentiment for Queen Victoria. He notes ex Governor Halliday praising the queen with grand rhetoric while English loyalty remains restrained. The observation links American provincialism to national fondness and distant enchantment.
A humorous remark notes a true Christian is tested by honesty about fishing claims. It suggests a man’s integrity under boasting about fish weight and size reveals his genuine faith, arguing that resisting the devil is hardest during angling bragging.
A Montana paper recounts Otowatse a Mohican who as a young man was once with the Crees and now travels toward the Great Lakes. He explains scalping began as proof of victory after a tribal dispute over succession and ends with a hunter earning a bride by severing a rival chief’s head.
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