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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
4
The article notes a chinch bug threat likely to affect next year and push up small grain prices. It also mentions Walter Wellman siding with Peary on polar discovery and Mason City officials overturning a sidewalk roller skate ordinance, with council members described as mostly fathers.
Architects declare the era of land speculation in Iowa largely over and predict permanent improvements will lead a broad building wave through rural districts, transforming the state's development.
Farmers in many sections of the state offer as high as seven cents per bushel for gathering corn. The hired help problem grows more serious on the farm.
Records across Iowa counties show more than 100000 hunters statewide. The note reflects the scale of hunting activity and implies economic impact from license expenditures.
Council Bluffs figure Hon Walter I Smith predicts Congress will pass much beneficial legislation along anti trust lines. Critics call him a standpatter asserting the phrase means little, while supporters seek clear policy aims and outcomes.
Mr Bryan confronts the prohibition issue during a contentious turn. He is expected to lose substantial support yet gain some. Still, Bryan seems unmoved by the balance of gains and losses in his political philosophy.
Ida Grove opposes the Parcels Post project arguing a nationwide law would harm local growth and the mail order sector already influencing the country market. The piece frames the issue as a major threat to regional commerce and national development.
Burlington December 4. The body of Mrs. Marshall Jordan, who perished in the Mississippi river carnival disaster August 20, was recovered north of Fort Madison. Identification was by rings and jewels. an inquest is set for Monday. Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Conover from Mount Pleasant were in the Naughty Girl launch when a barge of explosives exploded.
A pasting advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh in all stages as a constitutional disease. It states the medicine is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces and includes a $100 reward offer for any case it cannot cure. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists address details for F. J. Cheney & Co. as distributors.
A detailed account of Frank H. Leonard's Library Hall lecture on Christian Science. The speaker argues for spiritual reality over material belief, recounts personal healing, and defends Christian Science against claims it rejects the Bible and God. He emphasizes healing, eternal Life, and true God grasped through Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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