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Officers include J. E. Roth as President Jos. Ricksh er as Vice President and Johnn Davies as Cashier.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1898
Page
5
Officers include J. E. Roth as President Jos. Ricksh er as Vice President and Johnn Davies as Cashier.
A compilation of numerous individuals and surnames including Louden Howard Ig weric Ball Retcliff Roth Kieksher Lamson James Tempieten Campbell Watkins Messer Slagle Parrett Manateey Scott Prewitt Turney Co McLane Mowery Bradshaw Parrot Gobble Anderson Herring Fordyce.
The New York Tribune staff correspondent surveys Santiago de Cuba’s postwar prospects. Iron ore and sugar lead exports while manganese copper and timber potential rise. mining at Juragua and Basquiri courts American capital. Sugar remains dominant though beet sugar pressures Cuban cane.
Governor William P. Lord of Oregon argues Porto Rico should be retained as a permanent U S territory for a coal station to safeguard naval and merchant fleet needs. He says Cuba might require different handling than the Philippines and that annexation could occur only if conditions demand it. Chicago Record.
Corporal J B N Fitch of Company I Seventy first regiment writes from Yonkers about the Santiago fighting. He recalls marching through fire on the marrow road, heavy casualties, and marching up hills as the Spanish soldiers fired. He notes the bayonet hats, fierce combat, and captures in the blockhouse with hard tack and water calming the wounded.
Captain Minot of the Cumberland recalls the Cuba battle on July 1. When a soldier fell unseen, Americans propped him as he stood and inferred the shooter’s range from the wound. They fired to that range and killed several Spanish sharpshooters in a tree.
In 1880 Nadine Boulitchoff used a benefit in Rio Janeiro to aid enslaved women. She requested the money be spent to buy their liberty, freeing seven women who had suffered severe abuse. The audience, including Dom Pedro, celebrated with the national hymn as the slaves thanked her on stage.
A poor boy finds a pin on the ground and places it in his coat. A rich passerby is impressed, adopts him, and thirty years later the former boy becomes a South African millionaire who repays a debt to a former schoolmate with a £2000 check, saying his success began with a pin.
The San Francisco Argonaut recalls how Thomas Bailey Aldrich once escorted Fitz James O Brien to a hotel when he was intoxicated and indebted. O Brien later begged for $25 from a publisher, wore a placard proclaiming he was starving, and wandered streets until a $6 settlement ended the episode.
A filed patent sought protection for an ant guard drawn with chalk around a table to deter ants. The idea, likened to chalk making legs slip and soap on railways preventing starts, was deemed not patentable as chalk had prior use and no new invention was shown.
A London correspondent sends an English rendering of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch describing the Church of St Mary in a hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and St Disilio church by a red cave.
The Ostrich reports a deadly blaze with 277 dead from 400, noting at least 128 saved without naming victims. The brief paragraph avoids details and ends with a teaser about continuation on page 18, while warning readers about the sparse coverage and somber presentation.
A Detroit Journal item records a patient voicing despair over fees while her attending physician urges life and resilience in a sobering medical exchange. The brief note highlights financial strain in care and the human impact of medical billing.
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