Christmas greeting and political reflections from The Tribune
The Tribune outlines a festive Christmas page with illustrated reading and local announcements including Fairfield’s first Christmas tree. It previews a New Year page with a historic feature and a school prize, plus notes on private aid versus government, praising General Sheridan and the president’s pension ideas while urging careful attention from Congress and the public.
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Tariff Reform Debate Highlights Soaring Duties
The Des Moines Leader notes Western Republicans push a senate tariff bill claiming reform while sharply raising duties on borax pigments cement vermilion and steel products. The piece warns of higher taxes, a protected monopoly threat, and urges readers to inspect the bill’s real impact on common goods.
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Senate
Ad Valorem
Des Moines
Sensible Republican Soludilre in Cleveland Pension Debate
Republican editors voice fairness on Cleveland's pension course, citing Nevada's Enterprise editor John M Campell a veteran soldier and critic of inaction from Iowa peers. The Enterprise praises his testimony while condemning antiwar voices, quoting passages from its December issue.
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Virginia
Nevada
Enterprise
John M. Campell
Verlee
Yate
Lee
Five Forks
Lowa
Holidays and Winter Weather Bring Rheumatic Colds
The coming cold season will affect thousands of homes with rheumatic pain. The ad notes no cure but cites Hood's Sarsaparilla as having remarkable success in curing this affection and urges sufferers to try the medicine.
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Hood
Tax reform and tariff debate dominate post election scene
A contemporary editorial criticizes Congress for tariff tinkering while Republicans push race issues to derail tariff reform. It warns that racial agitation could scar the party and harm the colored man, insisting lower taxation will prevail.
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Senate
Stamlet
Republican Party
Piles Cure Promised by Swayne and Son
Advertisement for Swayne’s Elixir claiming to cure piles with suppression of moisture intense itching and bleeding. It states tumors form if untreated and asserts the medicine heals ulceration and removes tumors. Available from druggists or by mail for 50 cents from Dr. Swayne and Son Philadelphia.
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Swayne & Son
Philadelphia
State society meeting announced by official channel
The program for a state agricultural and stock breeders society meeting in the capitol rooms will be announced through the State Register. The writer suspects partisan funding from a Republican campaign fund and warns Democrats not to report or attend without invitation.
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Register
Leader
No Mistake Declares Sarsaparilla Superiority
A persuasive 19th century claim urges readers to choose Ifoods Sarsaparilla above all competitors. It touts unique composition and preparation as providing superior cure for ailments from impure blood to poor health, insisting only blood’s product is genuine.
Market declines after election hit agriculture and industry
Market reports show prices for nearly all agricultural products have fallen since the election. Factories have shut down and others reduced wages. The quote argues the situation contradicts pre election promises by tariff advocates and suggests a fault in the tariff system.
Griggs Glycerine Salve Promises Quick Soothing Cure
An advertisement touts Griggs Glycerine Salve as a sure safe speedy cure for cuts bruises scalds burns wounds and all sores. It claims to positively cure piles tetter and skin eruptions with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Sold by Bradshaw Thoma for 25 cents.
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Bradshaw & Thoma
Demographic note on party alignment in the United States
The text asserts that nearly a million members of the Caucasian race in the United States are in the Democratic party, indicating a partisan alignment among a large white voter bloc.
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United States
Democratic Party
Electric Bitters advertised as cure all Liver and kidney diseases
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a pure medicine that cures liver and kidney diseases cleanses impurity from blood and removes pimples boils and rashes. It claims malaria relief and fever prevention with guarantees and a refund offer. Bottles cost 45 cents or one dollar at Clarke and Junkin's drug store.
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Hood
A. Ball
Syracuse, N. Y
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion Claims Quick Cure
An ad touts Woolford's Sanitary Lotion as a cure for itch, mange, and scratches on humans or animals, promising relief in 30 minutes. Sold by D. G. Lighthy druggist in Fairfield.
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D. G
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Fairfield
Blizzard in Canada Leaves Dozens Lost on Ice
A severe Canadian blizzard delays trains from Montreal to Quebec and cuts many routes. Six farmers and their families drown while crossing the ice on the frozen river as two brothers survive a harrowing night on a drifting floe. Rescue efforts continue as telegraph ties up.
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Warden, King & Sons’ Foundry
Craig Street
Fire at Sea Claims Fifteen on British Steamer Almira
Three survivors tell of the Almira disaster off Halifax after a Dec 14 blaze started by a carelessly discarded pipe lighted powdery woodwork. Captain George A. Smith, his wife and two children, twelve sailors, a cook and two mates perished. only the captain and crewmen escaped. The vessel sailed Dec 3 from Birmingham to New York via Halifax with redwood cargo.
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Halifax
St. John, N. B
Nine Workmen Dropped From Bridge During Repairs
During repairs on the Merrimac river middle bridge at Hookset New Hampshire nine of eleven workers were swept over the falls when the structure failed. Three men drowned and three others were saved injured. two Nashua masons and Silas Goodale of Hookset are named among the dead. A Western Union lineman from northern New York was rescued badly bruised after going through the rails. The drowned bodies had not yet been recovered.
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Santa Rosa
Oyster schooner capsizes in James River tragedy
Drowned during a squall near White Shoal light, the oyster schooner Charles Owens from Portsmouth, Va., capsized off White Shoal lighthouse. Captain Henry Beaman and the cook Ridley, a colored boy, perished in the incident.
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Earthquake Shakes Troy Area in New York State
Reports from Washington and Warren counties record a quake felt Wednesday morning just before 6 o clock. Buildings shook and windows rattled for about five seconds with no damage reported.
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N. Y
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Warren Counties
Bursting Steampipe Injures Cincinnati Workers
A steampipe burst in the engine room of the Cincinnati Spring Works at Eighth and Depot streets around 2 PM. Several workers were nearby and three were badly burned with one fatally scalded Louis Rukelhauser a 25 year old fireman died minutes after the incident Henry Demer aged 24 suffered facial and arm bruises.
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Cincinnati Spring Works
Eighth
Depot Streets
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Henry Demer
Lytle Street
Collision in Minnesota Kills One, Injures Two
A train collision on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line near Wapasna Minnesota injured Conductor Mead and the freight engineer, with Brooks killed. A freight train derailed onto a passenger track after a westbound passenger train and a freight train collided in foggy morning conditions.
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Mead
Michigan Claim Rejected Over Upper Peninsula Lands
Washington City December 18 The secretary of the interior rejected Michigan state claims to a tract of land in the upper peninsula The decision affects about 1300 acres directly and over 1000 acres indirectly involved in the dispute.
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Washington City
Secretary of the Interior
Millers Adopt Resolution to Cut Flour Output in January
The Milwaukee convention in session has adopted a resolution to reduce flour output during January. The move aims to stabilize prices and balance supply as mills adjust production.
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Wis
Millers’ ConVention
Presidential vote totals in New York official table
The Tribune lists national presidential results with Harrison 5,453,458 Cleveland 5,554,368 Fiss 249,158 Streeter 143,608 Cowdrey 7 073 Curtis 1,635 Socialist 2,008 Lockwood 7,774. Republican vote up 58,477 from 1884 Democratic up 650,752 Prohibition up 95,780. Total 11,564,957, up 1,512,251 from 1880.
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Fire ravages Drennen barn in Little Britain Township
Lancaster PA December 18 Nineteen line report says thirty three head of livestock four hundred bushels of wheat hay and farming utensils burned with Samuel Drennen's barn in Little Britain Township on Saturday night A thief stole a horse and set the blaze to hide the crime.
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Look Princess Diss De War Released After Six Months
Ann Oidelia Solo mon Diss De War known as the Look Princess was freed from Blackwell's Island prison after a six month sentence for swindling lawyer Luther R. March through spiritualistic deception. She weighed 295 pounds at release and had gained twenty pounds in prison.
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Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary
Luther R. March
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Diss Debar
New Episcopal Bishop for Milwaukee
The Rev. Dr. Cyrus F. Knight of Lancaster Pennsylvania was elected bishop of the Milwaukee diocese on the eleventh ballot at a diocesan convention to succeed the late Bishop Welles. Knight, D. D., 8 S. T. D., born March 1831 in Boston, graduate of General Theological Seminary in 1854. He was ordained soon after.
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Duel with Outlaws Ends in Fatal Train Stop
Train No. 2 near Grenala Mississippi faced a heist as two masked robbers seized the locomotive and money, wounding conductor P B Wilkinson and fatally shot Charles Hughes. Volunteers led by Hughes returned fire with Winchester rifles, but the robbers escaped after six men were counted shot. W H Harris explained the door opening saved the raid. The event echoes Mississippi violence with follow up reports from Wahalak and West Point.
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Jackson
Tenn
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Interstate Base Ball league formed by six cities
At a Springfield meeting it was decided that Springfield Quincy Peoria Davenport Terre Haute and Evansville form the Interstate Base Ball league. A Jan 12 meeting will decide admitting two more towns. Tinkler grain dealer Wea Ind died from cold water bathing. Wilman Co stove foundry Ironton Ohio burned with 250000 loss fully insured. Gen Harrison asked Blaine to be secretary of state and Blaine accepted. Madison Wis gears up for Heard inauguration Jan 7 with parade and ball.
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New York
Gen
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Blaine
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Commodity Prices Across Cities on December 19
Market quotes from Cutcaco New York and several hubs show varied activity. Wheat corn oats pork lard butter eggs potatoes and livestock prices listed with opening and closing figures across Dec 19.
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Local Births Marriages and Deaths in Fairfield Area 1888
List of births with dates and locations across Fairfield Townsend Lockridge and nearby townships plus a December 13 1888 marriage in Round Prairie. Obituaries note multiple ages and causes from pleuritis gastritis pneumonia burns and other illnesses across Fairfield Liberty Lockridge Walnut and Fairfield Ill.
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John A. Marsh
Lida Lute
S. Stewart
Liberty Township
Rebecca A. Tidball
Fairfield
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John Wesley Bross
N. M. Bright
Tillie R. Cronk
Lockridge
Edna Bance
Lola Helon
Fairfield Township
Mary Hammond
Fairfield Ia
Samuel Blair Booker
Bruce Groff
Esther Kaufman
Grace E. Moore
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