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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1888
Page
3
Across both sides the entire stock is reduced by the same proportion. The sale runs 60 days on both the north and south sides and after that period all stock will move to the north side. This is a serious offer for anyone needing footwear.
Local ads promote trunks and valises at Voorhies and a best cheap underwear line. Scotts advertises rich holiday goods while Bradshaw Thoma showcases hand painted wall pockets. Fry Bros. ships Atchison flour and offers fried groceries. JoAn Spielman sells heating stores. Townley jeweler features watches and chains.
Fairfield news carries a mix of holiday ads and society items. William Keerrs sails to France to buy horses while Fred Merchant plans Christmas with relatives in Pleasant Plain. Local shops advertise jewelry, watches, and fur goods as Christmas gifts.
List of uncalled letters dated December 19 1888 includes Grayson M Anderson W S Garrett W H Gray Isaac N Gray Nora Lawson Logton Mills Morris Orr Ann C Ransom Minnie Rhodes R W Sands B Lear S D Walsh James E Wood recipients urged to claim by stating letters were advertised.
Antique advertisement touts the best salve for cuts sores ulcers and other skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. It promises perfect satisfaction or refunds and lists Clarke and Junkin as sellers at a price of 25 cents per box.
Services will be held at the Lutheran church at six o'clock on Christmas morning. Everybody is invited to attend.
A holiday promotion runs until January 1 offering a valuable free book with a full year prepaid. The notice also promotes Fine Xmas candies at McCoid's and mentions the weekly listing returning.
The notice records the deaths of Frederic Haines aged 11 from Bright's disease at his son's home, Mary Wood Jordan in Pasadena from typhoid fever, Mary Francis Eichhorn from dropsy of the heart after a long illness, and the passing of William Hedge Sr in Fairfield township aged about 78. Funeral details and family ties are noted for each case.
Advertisements highlight candies toys and holiday goods at Post Office Restaurant and Junkin's furniture. Special sales at Allen King glassware and Bradshaw Thoma's store. A hunting accident near Clinton farm injures Mr Detsem with possible eye damage. doctors fear loss of eye.
The Democratic Times reports the death on December 11 of Mrs. Jas A Reed er known locally as Mrs. Nettie West. She arrived in Hays City as a bride a year earlier and left behind a devoted husband Mr. Reeder and son from a previous marriage. Funeral services were held yesterday morning with Rev BE Killinger officiating and a long pallbearers line.
Mr. Robert Israel returns from a trip to Chicago and Mt. Pleasant with an $315,000 dry goods stock. He trades Cedar township land worth $8,000 for the stock and plans deep discounts to clear duplicates, including 25 plush cloaks at half price. Groceries move to a back room as tin ware sells cheap to make room. Israel, raised in dry goods, is eager to resume business.
G A Merich presents a refined holiday goods display in his store. The piece highlights the Fairfield Furniture Store desk as a desirable Christmas gift and mentions Lang's Restaurant and WuHaArt’s holiday candy as part of local consumer chatter.
Clarke and Junkin advertise low prices on dolls and albums while Fairfield Furniture Store promotes rock the housees and toy tables for Christmas dinner. Higley’s east side drug and book store touts Mabie Todd gold pens with pearl holders as a gift option for a special someone.
Wax china bisque and rubber dolls showcased at Bradshaw and Thoma's shop offering a range of styles for collectors and children.
The regular annual meeting of the stockholders will be at the court house in Fairfield on the second Saturday in January 1939 at 1 PM. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected and other business as may legally come before it will be addressed.
The agent again obtains the rights to distribute the celebrated Kansas City Imperial flour, expanding market reach and reinforcing the brand's prominence in local commerce.
Le receives a car load of Perry King items offering four units at lower prices. Every sock is warranted.
A. Demarce advertises a stock of saw shafts with balance wheels and saws, plus a five lot of bob sleds with chilled runners and a guaranteed 7 000 pound capacity. Also offered are jacks to speed saws at cost. Call and inspect.
Woman shoppers at Clarke and Junkin's store claim a chance to win a six dollar doll with every purchase, drawing interest from local families.
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