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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
13
A fairy tale tableau unfolds as Cinderella and the Prince chase a playful slipper amid stepsisters, a Fairy Godmother, and would-be royal intrigues. In the moonlit hall the slipper drops, the Prince claims Cinderella, and a kiss seals a pretend royal pact.
A Boston Transcript quip contrasts a woman’s alarm at a mouse with calm patience over a dressmaker’s bill, highlighting gendered humor about domestic life. It reflects early 20th century observational wit and social norms.
Two farmers, Nic Thomas and William Walsh, were indicted by the Franklin county grand jury for the holdup of John Wessels a German farm hand near Latimer. Wessels, paid the day before, was enticed to the rear of a building after drinks, overpowered, and about 150 dollars stolen. Both men are well known locally.
Divers recovered $100,000 in gold and silver from the sunken Panama liner Finance. The cargo, destined to pay government employees in the Panama canal zone, was retrieved after two days of attempts when a diver reached the vessel’s strong room.
Washington November 29 delegates from shoe leather and belting industries urged free entry of hides before the House ways and means committee. The session heard claims of monopoly in hide production and discussed tariffs on leather goods cork rubber pens and pencils precious stones silverware jewelry and buttons.
In Ventura California three Santa Paula youths Clif ford Tharp Cuba Tharp and John Blues aged seventeen nine and thirteen respectively perished from cold after venturing into snow covered peaks north of the Santa Clara valley on Thanksgiving day. After two days of search the bodies were recovered at Timber canyon ten miles from town.
The Associated Press reports Frank H. Hitchcock has accepted the offer to become postmaster general, marking the first cabinet position filled in Taft's administration.
Letter from I W Oakley of Montrose Pa credits Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills with curing years of nervous exhaustion after trying many remedies. The ad notes the pills cost six cents per box and feature a portrait of A W Chase M D on every box from the Buffalo New York company.
A dialogue with Prof Fulcrum exposes a brutal science of mind control via trepanning and memory erasure. A father pays to force love and discovers his son marries the girl anyway, as memory concocts a new bond. The tale ends with a wife confessing covertly manipulating Walter to win him.
Washington reports a Chicago letter carrier, David J. Block, claims a patent to turn bodies into gold or silver statues for vast sums. He promises two-year corpse preservation and shows metalized flowers and rose-scented pins as proof, while avoiding public disclosure of the process.
St Marys church parish members organize a new popular bank modeled on Canadian successes. The bank combines savings and cooperative features, allows deposits and loans against savings, and converts deposits to redeemable shares held by depositors with officials drawn from shareholders.
Miss Amanda Saylor 55 and Alfred Chappel near Rockwell Iowa wed on Thanksgiving day after a long acquaintance split by time and reuniting in marriage The groom about sixty owns three farms in the county and has been married twice before Miss Saylor has lived at home all her life with her mother recently passing away The couple are siblings of L E Chappel banker in Brookings South Dakota.
The Des Moines Daily Register and Leader offers new subscriptions free for the balance of 1908 with payment of 4.00, valid through Jan 1, 1910, with Daily and Sunday to Jan 1, 1910 at 6.00. It claims a heavy news service, Iowa News Service, Ding’s Cartoons, market pages, Chicago livestock reports, and a strong editorial page. Delivery is same day in town and on most rural routes, via publisher, postmaster, or newsdealer.
Iowa Falls residents report a winter coal theft scheme where well to do families send children to pilfer coal from Illinois Central cars in station yards. Police join railroad secret service to halt the practice, noting many thefts target local dealers and supplements the family winter fuel supply.
John St Clair, accused of nearly killing a black man last August then firing at an officer, was tracked to Olivet mines in Oskaloosa Iowa. He confessed surrendering after waiving examination and went back with Sheriff Thompson, who had come for him.
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