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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
16
Lincoln J. Carter presents The Flaming Arrow at the Grand Opera House this Saturday. The Western drama follows a colonel’s daughter loved by an Indian, with villains inciting war and a dramatic rescue ending justice for the culprits. The cast includes many prominent names and a full-blood Indian tribe is featured.
The Grand Opera House will give three prizes to readers who guess the riddle answer. If 14 Perlee dogs with 3 legs catch 48 rabbits with 75 legs in 25 minutes, how many legs must 24 rabbits have to escape 1000 Fairfield dogs with no legs. Mail answers to Louis Thoma. Winners announced in The Daily Journal on Saturday December 5 with prizes of seats.
Correctionville Iowa November 26 Professor R K Bliss of Ames head of the Iowa State Agricultural College animal husbandry department has been assisting local committees in planning a farmers short course to be held February 8 to 13 1900 under college auspices. He announces two cars and prize winning livestock from the International Live Stock exposition which starts...
Charles Molander offers twenty eight Short Horn cattle nearly all pure Bates at auction on Tuesday December 15 at his Lockridge Iowa farm. The sale includes 16 registered cows and heifers, 12 bull calves, a team of draft ponies and stock, hogs, and assorted farm implements with hay, oats, corn, seed corn, and a catalogue available by mail. Cash under $10, terms over $10 with bankable note and 5 percent interest.
A manuscript student, James Watts, pursues a fiction career after answering Pendennis Gardner's ad. Gardner mentors Watts with a paid course and a sample scene, guiding tone and rhythm. Watts applies lessons, but his wife Frances elopes, and Gardner later offers a final, discounted lesson.
A narrated train ride from a Missouri station to Ozark unfolds as a lyrical meditation on travel. The narrator bonds with fellow travelers, witnesses slow schedules, humor, and a pastoral journey that transforms arrival into a shared spiritual experience.
A set of curiosities posed by Thomas Brigg in The Strand asks why an elephant pushes heavier loads with its head, why a horse moves farther on wheels, how one man on one foot resists three, why a longer car travels faster, and how a baby can push a chair twice its weight.
The Moors occupied Spain from 711 to 1492 A D. In the first four centuries of their rule they excelled all northern European nations in science literature and the arts.
London suffered 110 million cubic feet of coal gas loss last year in a single company as gas seeped from a main over time. No explosion occurred. gas seeped through tiny crevices when heavy vehicles passed, gradually escaping until enough to fill 300 zeppelin balloons.
The women of Mexico organize a mothers congress with its first meeting planned for December. President Signora Luz Gonzalez Cosio de Lopez leads the effort to protect advise and assist mothers in need.
London papers report a U S Japan agreement to maintain the status quo in the Pacific and safeguard China's integrity. The Pall Mall Gazette calls it a welcome contribution to world peace, not an entangling alliance, and a useful complement to the Anglo Japanese alliance aiding U S Japan relations.
A reader warns that carrying firearms on Sunday could lead to arrests and fines as city authorities enforce Sunday hunting laws. The piece urges residents to respect the Sabbath and avoid guns on Sunday to prevent legal trouble and fines.
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