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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1898
Page
8
The New York Herald summarizes Hawaiian language features noting a 12 letter alphabet plus a borrowed thirteenth T, with pronunciations for vowels and consonants. It contrasts high and low caste speech, explains variations in aloha usage, and highlights phrases like Aloha nui loa as expressions of affection.
Detroit woman recalls a Kansas case where her husband was jailed by a spiteful real estate dealer. At the trial she leveled opera glasses at the judge, was fined $1000 for contempt, apologized, and then the judge fined the prosecutor $250 for insulting a visiting lady.
The narrator recalls printing errors in song proofs and a concert programme misprinting his future. A sentimental line became Ive never once regretted the row I made that day, and a concert listing wrongly listed Mr Blank To Marry Maude Valerie White Crabbed Age and Youth, as reported by Cornhill Magazine.
A quip from Brooklyn Life on married life comparing the ideal of paradise to reality. Aspley notes that there are worse mistakes than thinking one has found paradise, while Colum bus jokes about discovery.
A Milwaukee rough rider lauds Colonel Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. He contrasts swells with fighters, noting the democracy among ranks, private enlistment, and generosity of wealthier fellows in sharing stores with those in need. He commends their uniforms and rugged, western image.
Medical science has made little progress in Turkey as missionaries report communities left ill from smallpox, allegedly neglected to fulfill divine will.
An injury to the tongue is repaired by nature with more rapidity than is the case with any other part of the system. This observation notes the tongue's quicker healing in contrast to other tissues.
A fire at Oswald Quay in Hamburg caused by spontaneous combustion destroyed cotton merchandise valued at more than a million marks. No casualties are reported.
The famed physician Dr Schweninger, said to hold real sway over Bismarck, treated the chancellor for facial neuralgia with sharp questions. After a clash over questioning, Bismarck relented and the impertinent doctor won his trust, becoming a close confidant.
W B Boyd of New Brunswick New Jersey writes from Belfast that ordinary English and Irish people express strong pro American support amid the war. He notes Belfast's mayor William Henderson welcomed him and discussed American affairs as views of Anglo American cooperation grow among common people in Britain and Ireland.
Gulfport Mississippi notes a claimed discovery of a yellow fever cure in McHenry this summer. A married woman sick during quarantine recovered after eating four miles worth of plums from relatives, without using doctor prescribed medicine. The piece mocks state health officials for taking credit.
Jessie A Schley describes her peaceful mission to Madrid where the queen regent granted a hearing but could not act without ministers. She notes protection by officials and a later meeting with Duke Almodovar de Rio who expressed support for her peace resolutions. Facing mobs she left Madrid hidden to Lisbon with British ambassador escort.
A San Francisco Examiner retrospective describes the Ladrones or Mariana Islands: 17 islands with five inhabited, rice as a key product, and Chamorros as early inhabitants. It notes names, languages, clothing, marriage ages, hunting, epidemics in 1897, and Spanish claim by discovery.
A Rochester Democrat quote jokes that naturalized Spaniards should avoid baseball as a Spanish pitcher cannot hit the grand stand. The remark reflects humorous stereotyping about immigrant players in early U S sports culture.
A blaze starting in the Northern Pacific depot office ripped through Bismarck last evening, gutting the central block. The fire consumed warehouses, the First National Bank, the post office, numerous stores and residences, leaving many homeless as firefighters fought a doomed, widespread inferno. Insurance may cover half the loss.
Detroit man Gimbly adamantly rejects an accident policy and vows to let it lapse citing extreme luck. The next day he suffers a twisted back from tossing a baby, highlighting a ironic twist to his stance.
Adolph Sutro former San Francisco mayor dies after a long illness. Wealth estimated at 4 million dollars from the Sutro tunnel in Nevada. He funded baths in the city the Sutro historical library and a large park, plus other benefactions. Born in Prussia in 1830.
A Berlin physician argues in a medical paper that private hospital nurses collude with undertakers, sharing circulars offering up to 25 dollars for favorable work. He states this practice has persisted for fifty years in Berlin and other large towns and urges employing women guided by higher motives or sisterhoods where possible.
M Berthelot’s investigations into ancient chemistry describe glass mirrors found near Rheims dating to the third and fourth centuries. The mirrors show a lead coating with a whitish lead carbonate layer and calcium carbonate from local waters, with no other metals or organic binders detected.
The Hungarian violinist Edouard Remenyi reportedly discovered Johannes Brahms in Hamburg in 1853 when Brahms was 19. They toured, reached Weimar, and Liszt invited Remenyi to Altenburg where he declared Brahms the greatest composer since Beethoven and sought protection for him.
The Minories parish church of Little Trinity, noted as the Dartmouth burial site, bears on its wall the stars and stripes as the Dartsmouths coat of arms and the eagle as the Washingtons emblem, foreshadowing the flag of the United States.
The 77 year old Gladstone pressed for Irish pacification amid duty and risk. A Liberal MP asked Healy what he thought, and Healy replied that Gladstone had chosen crucifixion for Ireland, an assessment quoted by the Birmingham Post.
The Niagara river carved its channel over 86,000 years, 200 feet deep and 2,000 feet wide, seven miles long. Researchers show the falls advanced from Queenstone location seven miles downstream and have retreated no more than one foot annually in the last fifty years.
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