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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1900
Page
3
The text urges women with female troubles and irregular or painful menstruation not to lose hope when doctors seem unable to help. It notes physicians are busy with other diseases and may not fully understand the delicate female system, and it suggests giving a fair trial to an unspecified remedy.
Advert shows Bradfield's Female Regulator claim as a natural cure for irregular menses leucorrhea falling womb nervousness headache and backache. It touts a 1 dollar bottle and urges women to try it with a free illustrated book from The Bradfield Regulator Co Atlanta Georgia.
A family question prompts a quick dessert idea using Jell O. Prepare in two minutes, add hot water, then cool. Flavors include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. Available at grocers for 10 cents.
Advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with 25 cent price and refund if ineffective. Claims E W Grove’s signature on each box. Tribune seeks a township correspondent and invites office calls or editor contact for terms and particulars.
Advertisement for Dr Hobbs Sparagus Pills claiming cure for kidney problems. Sample free offer and dealer Sterling Kennedy Co located in Chicago or New N.
One seven room house with summer kitchen and coal and wood house. Good barn for four horses and two buggies nearly as good as new. C. C. Walker of Fairfield Iowa advertises this property.
A digest of key events: Gage submits annual report. Isthmian canal panel backs Nicaragua canal. Congress chides war revenue cuts. Peck report on Paris exhibit draws critique. Army bill passes with amendments. Hitchcock reports. butter price bill clears House. Pension rolls reach 993,520. Hay hints at resignation over treaty ratification. WCTU adjourns. Liscum’s remains arrive in Washington. Ship subsidy bill expected to pass Senate. reciprocity fears linger. Minnesota to pick Davis successor Jan 7. Towne named to Senate. Goebel-law repeal shifts Kentucky. Toledo mayor resigns from Lincoln club. Beckham Sowers victory margin publicized. Illinois legislators named to vote for Cullom. session prep begins. Montana totals show Bryan ahead of McKinley and Debs.
British capitalists have offered D. H. Louderback of Chicago twenty thousand dollars a year to manage an underground railway in London. The proposal signals a push to revive construction and operation plans despite prior failures.
Grace Robinson released on orders in bonds theft case in Libby Montana. In Cresco Iowa a 16-year-old named Eide killed his elder brother. W J Zahl jailed in Antigo Wisconsin for kidnapping two children. John Gibson captured in Maysville Kentucky for baby torture. Chicago street car robberies lead to one capture. Four masked men rob Western Lumber in Portland Oregon of 6000 dollars. Sam Steinlein shot dead in Clarksville Tennessee by former employee. An unknown man commits morphine suicide at the Cully hotel Ashtabula Ohio.
Senator Titus defends the Titus amendment arguing the lack of house journal entry does not invalidate the law. He cites the prohibitory liquor amendment case as precedent and says emissions not harming rights should be disregarded. He has consulted with AG Remley and AG-elect Muller and seeks early supreme court review.
Reports detail boxer clashes near Paoting with heavy German casualties and Boxers totaling 2,500 while Fu Hsiang loses rank but holds command. Lingan Fu court, UK and Germany adjust China demands. indemnity talks. Kruger interview demand. Chinese credentials questioned. In the Philippines Aguilar killed at Santo Domingo. Funston destroys 100 rebels at Nehico river with ongoing hostilities and multiple engagements this week leaving fifty four rebels dead.
The article notes the czar’s steady progress toward recovery. Cecil Rhodes proposes conciliatory terms to pacify the belligerent Boers. King Oscar of Sweden improves and attends a state dinner. Royal family members inspect returning units in London. An agreement sets aside 20883 monthly for Countess Castellane. An Anglophobe demonstration in Cologne is dispersed by mounted police. Dutch support for Kruger greets his arrival. Holland and Portugal quarrel over a Dutch consul issue. Lord Roberts hints at a conciliatory Britain toward the Boers. Chile’s cabinet resigns.
Minority stockholders of Ameri can Steamship claim forced sales at low prices. Standard Oil stock leaps to 810, up 3 from open. A receiver appointed to dissolve Stevenson Field Co. in Columbus. P N Jenkins Beloit files for failure. American Steel and Wire rumored to seek Gates ouster. Denver and Rio Grande raises preferred dividend to 5 percent. Eastern capitalists eye Twin City Rapid Transit. Express firms brace for record Christmas trade. J E Tilt Shoe workers refuse wage cut in Chicago. Lorain steel mills resume, 2000 idle workers rehired. Money values slide amid market tightness. Kansas City telegraphers strike on AT & SF threatens general spread.
In Ames Iowa on a December morning two hundred fifty students slept through a blaze that destroyed the north wing of the Iowa Agricultural College main building. The dormitory and first floor recital rooms housed a valuable botanical museum collection.
A lamp explosion at a Beverly lodge killed one man and scarred another. Edward B. Quinn died in New York from scalds after leaping into a hot bath. A 70 mph gale wrecked ships along the New England coast with five sailors drowned. A Grand Trunk hand car collision near Inglewood Junction claimed five lives. The schooner Mary A Brown wrecked off Portsmouth killing six. Construction roof collapses in Clinton Indiana fatally injured two men. A Northern Pacific train wreck near Rocker Montana killed two. The iron ore barge Charles Foster sank with eight drownings. Horace J. Hayden of the New York Central died after a fall from a window.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Rev William Howard Day general secretary of the AME Zion church in Harrisburg Pennsylvania Colonel John S Williams Indiana politician in Lafayette aged 77 William Wirt Henry grandson of Patrick Henry in Richmond Virginia Charles L Drummond city editor of The Sentinel Fort Wayne Indiana Rev Alfred Williams Momeric former logic professor at Kings College London Robert Lomax died in Sonoma California age 85 leader of anti Mormon raids at Nauvoo Illinois in 1844 Mrs Mary L McLean mother of John R McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer died in Washington John C Weideman head of the Weideman company wholesale grocers and liquor dealers Cleveland Ohio also deceased.
Fire destroyed the business portion of Etna Illinois and a block of business buildings at Nashville Arkansas. Loss placed at one hundred thousand dollars.
Lorain Ohio reports the Lorain Steel company has restarted operations across its blooming, converting, finishing and shape mill with over 3,000 workers. Officials expect blast furnaces to resume soon, potentially adding about 1,000 more jobs.
Keokuk Iowa December 10 Harry Taylor son of a prominent family and express messenger on the Adams line from Keokuk to Des Moines has been indicted and jailed on his confession of robbing the express company safe of 1000 dollars on the night of September 24 Sioux City December 11 Andrew Kincanan 20 from Grand Bury Texas blew out gas in his Vendome hotel room and was found dead next morning Des Moines December 8 Annual meeting of the Iowa Sheriffs Association elected officers President George Garner of Boone secretary treasurer A W Mitterer of Eldorado Des Moines to host next meeting
In Aurora a coroner’s jury found Mrs Megney Fridland died from bowel trouble and a complication of doctors after a two day illness. Six physicians treated her, none twice, as her seven children watched, and her husband faced arrest after returning from Streator.
Irvin Dickens a Black resident of Howard township Rockville Indiana says he is 108 years old based on his calendar. He asserts his birth year was 1797 while the Adams administration was in office in North Carolina.
The Newark Trades' Union and Labor Council has formally withdrawn from the Ohio Federation of Labor, signaling a formal separation in the state labor movement. No further details were provided on the reasons or future affiliations.
Bay City Michigan December 10 health board orders public schools closed after discovery of smallpox in Essexville. The action aims to prevent spread and protect students and families during the holiday season.
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