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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1907
Page
5
A local office over Jefferson County State Bank in Fairfield offers loans money, prepares deeds and mortgages, and handles bad debts collection. Probate business is solicited from the Northside Park area of Fairfield, Iowa.
Service claim notes an office located at a residence two blocks east of Leggett House offering guaranteed work completed. No additional details provided.
A Denver Republican cartoon presents December calendar verses urging early Christmas shopping. It lists daily hints from Dec 1 to 24, warning against delay, noting finances, gifting rules, and concluding with a moral to avoid rushing. It ends with a passagelike verse about a child’s question about Santa Claus.
A reflective verse on mortality fate and fame as December’s joy contrasts with ominous portents. The poem asks what use wealth or status has when life’s end looms and earthly bustle distracts from deeper meaning.
The Magness family wins a $2,000 life insurance claim from Modern Woodmen of America in Iowa City district court. W F Magness disappeared after June 1899 with letters from South Dakota and Minnesota. under the seven year law the estate collects. The order plans an appeal to the supreme court.
Charles W. Briggs of Wapello Iowa argued in a Friday night State University debate between Iowa and Illinois on federal control of corporations engaged in interstate business. Briggs, a lifelong Louisa county resident, is noted for diligent study and steady work.
In Wapello Iowa on December 16 Heinz Pickle company loads seven to eight carloads of pickles from the Rock Island depot brine storage. Cars carry seven hundred bushels each and are filled with all sizes before sorting into classes. This year’s crop reached about 10 000 bushels with farmers paid around 5000 dollars.
Walter Wilson aged about thirty was killed when struck by a Rock Island train east of Oskaloosa Iowa at 6 PM He sat in the middle of the track and was dragged about a thousand feet before the wheels passed over him He was unmarried and from Rose Hill Iowa
The ad promotes Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and tonic for stomach and liver issues. It cites native roots and glycerine extraction, urges readers to request a free medical booklet, and pitches All-Healing Salve for sores with a postal order option. It also mentions Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for stomach and bowel regulation.
S D Fell Iowa farmer of Clarence county nears a million after Miss Inna Jeans wealthy Quakeress heir left about 5 million to Swarthmore college with a condition ban on athletics. Trustees declined the gift triggering a reversion to heirs. An intimate says Fell already received 25000 and could gain over 1 million if the rest is distributed.
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