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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1887
Page
2
The article from Airfield Iowa on December 7, 1887 notes Senator McPherson optimistic about New Jersey turning Democratic in 1888 while trusts shape public sentiment to challenge them. It mentions potential Republican prospects for Iowa and Allison’s growing boom in a quiet campaign.
Jacob Sharp, known as the New York boodler, receives a new trial and is freed on $10,000 bail by the court of appeals. He shows no sign of joy, aware that public opinion remains unchanged.
Senator Allison warns the Senate will defer to the House on a patriotic tariff reform measure. The Kansas liquor cases uphold state police power to shut down manufacture and trafficking without compensation. Supreme Court wins benefit Iowa farmers while encouraging anti monopoly effort through court resistance and new laws.
Congress met at noon with Mr. Ingalls presiding. Turpie of Indiana admitted after no objection while Faulkner of West Virginia faces a seat investigation. Carlisle elected speaker 163 to 148 over Reed, a Republican candidate.
Henry Watterson plans a January Harpers article advocating a revenue tariff. Senator Edmunds will reply in February defending a protection tariff. This marks the magazine's second political discussion, the first in 1860 on the Territorial question by Judge Douglas and Mr. Seward.
The passage notes both sides trading blame for the tariff issue. It cites the New York Sun crediting Democrats in Ohio with aligning with their party while the Chicago Tribune attributes a Republican defeat in New York to current tariff policy.
The Creston Gazette prints a letter by James W. McDill arguing freight rates should not rise with farm prices. He contends transport costs should reflect weight not price, criticizing railroad officials and asserting railroads serve the public, not farmers' profits. He notes a bushel of wheat weighs the same from sixty cents to a dollar and transportation to Chicago is unchanged.
Capt Coleman of Weymouth sailing between Atlantic City and New York suffered a persistent cough. After trying Dr King s New Discovery for consumption he found instant relief and his children shared the same improvement with a single dose. Free trials at C S Clarke Son s.
A St Louis Republican analysis argues the nine industrial states in the Northeast hold half the nation’s wealth. It cites manufacturing capital and product growth from 1860 to 1880, compares profits to agricultural states, and condemns federal policy taxing farm states to subsidize industry.
In Lowell Mass a local firm sells more flood Sarsaparilla than any other medicine and has earned steady satisfaction for ten years. The ad claims merit in purging impure blood and invites readers to try the remedy and experience its curative powers.
Cures piles salt rheum tetter burns scalds sores wounds infant sores and chafing. Treats nipples eruptions of the skin and catarrh. Pleasant to use and guaranteed to satisfy. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Clarke & Juukin.
A editorial urges Iowa to keep money and young workers at home by promoting saving and building and loan associations. It describes farmer shares, quarterly payments, and loans at six to eight percent to build a self sustaining local industry and reduce dependence on eastern money. The piece emphasizes education of farmers, mutual trust, and broader cooperative efforts to strengthen the state's economy.
The New York Herald and the Courier Journal spar over the tariff as a campaign issue. The Herald asks Mr. Watterson whether the Democratic party should stay in power four more years and if he is certain the tariff plan is wise for the country.
Purports to be a peculiar medicine prepared by pharmacists with a formula of sarsaparilla, dandelion, mandrake and other agents. Claims to sharpen appetite, aid digestion, and treat blood impurities and a long list of ailments. Includes customer testimonials and price: 100 doses for one dollar.
Matters of record list numerous warrantee deeds and quit claims from 1887 and earlier, detailing transfers of town lots in Snook's and Whitwood's additions, Fairfield, Perlee, Batavia, and multiple farm tracts. Names include Mary C Smith, William Morton, Mary J Fry, Susan E Williams, Eleanor Armstrong, David Alter, John H Byers, Harvey L Brown, J F Bennett, and many others with acres, sections, and dollar amounts.
A compiled list records numerous deeds and quit claims from 1887 detailing transfers of land parcels in townships 71 to 75, with grantees including Gregg, Garber, Gilbert, Coop, Hawk, Hosatte, Pickering, Holmes, Maxwell, Marcy, Martin, Hadley, Knight, Coppock, Randell, Newhouse, Nordyke, Pickett, Newland, Owen, and Heaninger. Prices range from $50 to $24,500 for hundreds of acres, with dates from 1864 to 1887 and standard warrantee or quit claim deeds. The excerpt also lists local farm commodities and market figures for fall wheat, corn, oats, hay, and related goods.
A long testimonial list extols Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as a speedy cure for bronchitis. Various patients describe relief from coughing hoarseness and fatigue, noting recovery after using the medicine. Prepared by Dr J C Ayer & Co, Lowel, Massachusetts, sold by all druggists.
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