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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
7
A flurry of short trips fills the week as residents travel to Des Moines Cedar Falls Ottumwa Burlington and Keokuk. Many are guests of relatives and friends while some attend lectures games or family events.
Judge Roberts spent Sunday at home in Ottumwa. Miss Anna Lindstrom left for Omaha to visit relatives. O. D. Fryer traveled to Ottumwa on Thursday. Mrs. Dorothy Lowther-Brown of Batavia visited. Louise Manatrey hosted the D. S. club Saturday with crafts and luncheon. Fairfield Council No 627 F A A staged a surprise at Bert Van Tassel’s West Kirkwood home with games and refreshments. E A Hartman home hosted a twenty year wedding anniversary on November 27 with a repeated ceremony and celebratory gaiety.
Marie Knowles and William E Welch wed Sunday at the Knowles home in Dallas Texas The bride, a Fairfield former girl, departs with her husband for Medill Oklahoma after a short Dallas visit. Residents join well wishers for their future blessings.
Announcement of the death of young Marshall Abraham in Perry Oklahoma. The body was brought to the city for a brief service at Evergreen cemetery where he was laid to rest. The bereaved parents receive sympathy from many friends in their sorrow.
The Rev John B Hill oldest member of the Iowa conference of the M E church died at his Agency City home on Saturday morning December 4. He was born July 25 1822 in Pocahontas county West Virginia and became a minister there before joining the Iowa conference in 1857. He served in many stations and for years as Presiding Elder and was on the superannuated list. His funeral was held at the Agency Methodist Church at 2 pm Monday and he was buried in the local cemetery.
A reader from Fairfield writes to Santa Claus on December 4 asking for a new dolly a small piano candy and nuts. Thelma Bennett signs the note.
Fairfield readers receive a child’s holiday letter dated December 2 1900 listing gifts for each sibling. Eddie Roach asks for a gold watch a ball and bat brother Joe for a train and whistle sister Mattie for a doll a ring and a picture book brother Cecil for a teddy bear and all hope Santa will come with nuts and candy.
A six year old girl in Lockridge writes to Santa asking for a doll a go cart a piano for herself and a wagon and blocks for her little brother as Christmas wishes from December 5 1900.
Lockridge and Fairfield children write Santa asking for dolls for Mary Bloomquist eight and a doll for her siblings. Mary asks for toys for younger brothers and sisters while Bessie Prince requests a trunk a book and a bracelet and asks Santa to stay healthy and visit Pleasant Grove church Christmas events.
Two young brothers Leonard aged six and Paul aged three write to Santa in Fairfield on December 6 1910. They request a train and a watch for Leonard and a book a ball and candy for Paul. They invite Santa to come through the door since the chimney is small and promise to go to bed early.
In a friend's box at the opera a witty Parisian listened to Thais while his hostess spoke loudly and ruined the music. After the performance she asked him to the next subscribers night he replied with sly humor that he had never heard her in Faust.
A Norway Maine hen continues a rare laying streak by producing an egg that contains a smaller perfect egg inside. The outer shell and egg are normal, with the inner egg fully formed. This unusual phenomenon follows a prior report of double yolked eggs from the same bird.
The article discusses sharpening stones or hones sourced from slate varieties formed from argillaceous schists of the Paleozoic era. It lists sources in Turkey, Bohemia, Persia, the Hartz mountains, Syria, the United States, Spain, Peru and Siberia, noting Arkansas as a premier American stone source.
The piece explains the preparation of the mock duck egg common in Chinatown. It is coated with lime, clay, spices and rice husk to exclude air, and over time the yolk darkens to green or black. Older, darker yolks are valued in Chinese taste.
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