17 Aug 1882
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1882
Page
1
The report surveys global grain deficits and American opportunities while noting British canal traffic and large land grants. It cites Northern Pacific land values, a prohibition policy affecting railroad dining cars, a farmer’s livestock warning, and hefty costs from the Jersey City strike. It also covers foreign commerce, tax receipts, a Tiverton infant discovery, silk farming in North Carolina, and Lydia E. Pinkham advertisements.
A shipboard or rural tale shows a man praising a sermon he cannot recall, yet noting it cleaned him like a washed Sunday shirt. He concedes the moral effect remains even without remembering the details, comparing inner cleansing to his garment dried but purified.
In a Battle Creek column a reader recalls a female orator criticizing effeminacy and frivolities while a minx taunts her. Another letter recounts a tea kettle burn treated with Thomas Ferectric Or, claiming pain relief and a three day cure.
Iowa notes report a 20 million hay crop value, Waterloo lighting plan, Algona creameries shipping 1000 dollars worth of butter daily, and Fort Dodge opera house proposal for 3000 dollars from citizens. Also listed are prison population, telephones, a Denison Normal Institute session, and various local incidents and business moves across the state.
A New Haven man scolds his wife for letting their child roam dirty and compares the boy to a little monkey. She questions the man's claim about the boy being in neighbor Jones's yard, and he confirms the encounter, saying the boy would pass for Mr Jones's dirty brat there.
Over-eating is warned as a harmful habit along with intemperance in drinking. The advertisement promotes Burxpack BLoop Brrrers claiming blood purification and improved health. Price listed as 1.00.
Population of France listed as 37 673 048 in official census. Hayes saw mill at Muir burned Aug 11 with $15000 loss. Beckey steamer broken in two near Louisville July 11. 30 aboard all escaped. Vogeler interred at Greenmount Baltimore Aug 7 with widespread mourning. Forest fires threaten Shasta town Aug 15 destroying homes orchards and vineyards. Construction train accident near St Paul injures 34. Yellow fever panic in Matamoras with conflicting case counts. Frosts reported in northern Wisconsin and Chicago area. Lake Michigan incident leaves settling snow and slush on deck. Hardy Powder Works blast at Vallejo Aug 11 kills two engineers injures others. fifteen tons of powder destroyed.
In the House of Commons July 31 Gladstone called the Turkish troop statement premature while news of 750 Scots Guards embarking on the Orient for Egypt drew large crowds. Royal figures met the fleet, and Aug 7 comments denied Turkish troop landings to Alexandria. The canal’s status and possible interventions were debated as measures for canal safety.
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