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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
3
A retro article notes baking powder quality claims and ingredient disclosure, then shifts to an astronomy moment detailing the upcoming full moon near the sun and earth, with Venus Saturn Mercury Mars and Jupiter visible at dusk and dawn. Prof. Watson explains gravity and the moon's locked rotation in plain terms.
The moon will be unusually bright on December 23 and 24 due to a rare alignment of circumstances. Its reflected light is expected to illuminate the sky, drawing public interest during the holiday period.
The Iowa Beef Producers special reached the city at ten this morning stopping at Burlington station for fifty five minutes. Officials of the railroad and leading agriculture men gave addresses to school children about studying agriculture and stock raising. Visitors inspected Hereford Shorthorn and Galloway prize cattle as talks on care and breeding were offered. John Lamson accompanied the train through the state and seventh eighth grade scholars and thirty five high school students visited.
The ad argues sickness and kidney disease threaten workers, calling health their capital and stating Foley Kidney Pills restore strength by healing kidney and bladder troubles. It urges to buy the genuine yellow-packaged product from L. S. Bradshaw & Co.
The county board of supervisors convenes this afternoon with architect G M Kerns of Ottumwa reviewing tentative jail plans. They expect to issue revised complete sets to reduce costs while ensuring substantiality and convenience in the new structure.
Elizabeth Spitler sued FE J Droz to reclaim part of a $1000 loan from her husband to E J Droz. The November term ended without judgment but Judge D M Anderson decided the case yesterday. The plaintiff received a $500 judgment plus costs.
In St. Louis 21 year old Jack W. E. Barnett, 39 inches tall and 34 pounds, wins a license to marry Dorothy Warfield, 19, who weighs 130. The wedding party includes Mrs. H. L. Morris, seven feet four inches tall, as matron of honor. The couple’s union ends a circus sideshow romance with rival suitors such as a human ostrich and a wild man.
I D Jones and his wife celebrate their fifty six year wedding anniversary at home in Fairfield with family gathered nearby. They were wed December 11 1856 after a Missouri stint and have mainly lived in Fairfield. Jones aged 80 soon to be 81 and his wife near four score two. Friends and relatives nationwide send good wishes.
Denver report states a bill will require health certificates for couples seeking marriage licenses in Colorado. Senator-elect Helen King Robinson plans the measure with support from tubercular disease prevention groups, women's clubs, physicians, ministers, and charitable institutions.
Parsons college students led by Martin Gearhart pledge six thousand dollars for the endowment fund over three years. Emma McEwan Christel Richardson Lena Doherty Ralph Case and Fred Wise organized the drive after chapel and the student body celebrated with a holiday and a jubilee march to FE. R. Smith’s canvass office for the fund.
Washington December 13. Butter eggs fresh meats dressed fowls vegetables fruit and other perishables can be sent through the parcel post after January first per Postmaster Hitchcock. Fresh meat and vegetables may be shipped only in the first zone and perishables must be plainly marked perishable. Live insects reptiles may be shipped but packages must be wrapped to prevent escape. Fruits seeds and vegetables may also be shipped by parcel post.
London December 16 The Commons backed Premier Asquith in sending an English warship to transport the body of the late American Ambassador Whitlaw Reid to New York. Ogden Miles Reid, at sea, arranged funeral details. The London ceremony is planned for Westminster Abbey with a report of a possible St. Pauls cathedral procession.
Miss Mabel B. Hunt and Otis B. Anderson were married this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock by Justice of the Peace A. W. Jaques in Fairfield. Both are well known locally and will reside in Fairfield with their circle of friends extending congratulations.
Dennis Reardan, a painter, fell thirteen stories from the Security building in Chicago and was killed when a rope broke. A second painter clung to the rope end for five minutes before rescue.
The annual meeting of members will be held in the Court House at Fairfield Iowa on Saturday January 11 1913 for business before the body Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation will be offered T S Laughlin president Board secretary Culbertson secretary
The Arch bald defense opened today denying all charges in the Katydid culm case. Attorneys Worthington and Simpson led the defense as court commissioners called witnesses for the defense.
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