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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
3
A wife recounts difficult labors with four children, suffering long pains requiring chloroform in the first three deliveries. She credits Mother's Friend with the last birth, a healthy boy, noting only brief pains and calling the remedy the grandest.
A promoting ad asserts Mothers Friend strengthens the body and mind for labor, relieves morning sickness and nervousness, eases muscle expansion, and shortens labor with fewer postnatal complications. It claims druggists sell the preparation for $1 a bottle and offers a free illustrated booklet from the Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta.
A family question turns to a quick answer with Jell-O as a ready dessert. Prepare in two minutes, add hot water, then cool. Flavors include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10qfs
Advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming cure for colds in one day. Offers 25 cent price and money back guarantee with FE W. Groves signature on each box. Tribune seeks correspondents in every township of the county and invites terms and details.
An old newspaper ad touts Dr Hobbs spa pills claiming to cure all kidney ills. It offers a free sale and directs readers to Sterling Kemeny Co in Chicago or another location.
Por Sale offers a seven room house with summer kitchen and coal and wood house, a good barn for four horses and two buggies, nearly as good as new.
Summary of dramatic events including U S Supreme Court case on the flag and Puerto Rico and the Philippines, a $60 million rivers and harbors bill, Hay Pauncefote treaty actions, and army strength debates. Also reports robberies, a bank heist, a kidnaping suspect, a double murder in Florida, and a Cleveland murder sentence set for April 1901.
City council passes a resolution prohibiting prize fights in Chicago. Grover Cleveland counsels Democrats to stay true to their faith and let rank and file decide. Minnesota statewide results show McKinney leading Van Sant by 77 460 to 2 254 for governor.
Allied powers in Pekin accept the China terms and an indemnity of 200 million dollars for Boxer outrages. Washington releases the joint note signed by envoys. In Cebu a Filipino force battles fifty Americans led by Lieutenant Evans. MacArthur enforces wartime laws at Manila as US troops push insurgents from northern Luzon. Nelson’s court martial sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. A southern Luzon battle results in heavy Filipino casualties.
Reports say General Dewet's force was repulsed after severe fighting by British troops near the Orange river. British news notes reinforcements and efforts to stem Boer incursions into Cape Colony and Natal.
Edward A. Cudahy Jr. returns home after 36 hours missing, his mother claiming a kidnapping. A. C. Metzger of Newark shot and killed at a Hopewell hotel, killed one wife in Hopewell, another wife in Newark. Two African American robbers burned a trading boat at Arcadia Mississippi, killing the owner, his wife and baby. they were captured and confessed. The Dicks & Sally safe at Sally South Carolina blown and $7000 stolen. Michael Fryman tortured by masked robbers on the Blue Baptike north of Hamilton, Canada. Harry Rogers, a well known ho-
Adam Tuchscherer a dry goods dealer in Menasha Wisconsin files a voluntary bankruptcy petition. F A Walker appointed receiver for Northwestern Scraper Co at Anderson Indiana. Arbuckles withdraw their suit against Woolson Spice. Kaatz Goldstein clothiers of Goshen and Elkhart Indiana assign. New York stock market hits two million in turnover. Wall Street transactions reach two million. Rail road groups to discuss telegraphers trouble with Santa Fe officials. Snyder Harris Bassett Co Philadelphia wholesale clothiers assign with liabilities of 275 and assets of 150. Santa Fe labor bodies stay neutral to telegraphers strike. Santa Fe telegraphers strike called off. James St Maxey Springfield Illinois real estate dealer and auctioneer files bankruptcy petition with liabilities 56783 assets about 125000.
The wreck of the German training ship Gneisenau off Malaga is now put at thirty five deaths. In Chicago Henry Bonn was found dead in a collapsed folding bed at home. Firemen died after a steam pipe burst on the Domingo de Larringa. Beaver Falls saw gas explosions injuring seven and wrecking three houses. Frank Burns’s eight three year old son burned fatally. Chadron mourns a landslide burying Thomas Burns and two helpers. Jennie Hall sank near Cape Henry with captain and two seamen drowned. Fred and Harry Miner killed by a runaway car at a Wagner mine slope. Sneedville boiler explosion claims William Edwards and Pleasant Trent. John Hellenburger dies after a fall near Bayview. Albert Smestead maimed and dies jumping a train at Ridgeway.
Justice Henry R. Beekman dies from apoplexy on steps in New York. Lt. Gov. Davie Tl. Nichols of Colorado from ISU to 1895 is dead. Rev. Dr. Cyrus A. Bartel, longtime Boston Unitarian minister, passes. Bill Hailey, guerrilla leader Qu atre ll’s lieutenant, dies in Missouri asylum. Jockey Harry Tally dies after surgery. Dr Justus Townsend, Illinois physician, dies in Springfield. Theodore L. Poole, U S marshal and former congressman, dies. George W. Pattison, publisher, dies in Birmingham Michigan. Joseph W. Vance, elder Ann Arbor University official, dies.
The Franklin Baker company cocoanut dealers in Philadelphia suffered 150000 in fire damage. In Columbia, D C, the Jerome hotel and several Main Street establishments were destroyed, losses totaling 142000. fires also hit Cold Brook Mills near St John New Brunswick at 100000, Knechtel furniture in Hanover Ontario with unknown missing, and Matthews Bros picture molding in Toronto at 50000.
J Hurd president of the Laboring Men's Co operative Life association says his group will pay no more toward prosecuting Myrtle A Wright and R W Neff of Pagosa Springs Col for the alleged murder of George A Barber. A Colorado sheriff seeks funds to continue the case citing high costs and collected evidence including autopsy notes and chemical tests. Barber allegedly poisoned for a $10 000 life policy in Wright’s name.
Dr. Clark of Youngstown reports a letter from John J. Morna at Experimental Sanitary Camp Cuba claiming a voluntary test of yellow fever transmission by mosquitoes. Morna says he will sleep nightly in a mosquito-infested room after exposure from fever patients. two bitten men contracted the fever, challenging the theory. Morna, once a Youngstown coachman, served in the hospital corps during the late war.
Des Moines reports Jessie Lincoln daughter of Robert T. Lincoln has divorced Warren Beckwith whom she married three years ago. Beckwith alleged to work as a railroad brakeman in the West while Jessie is said to be in New York. She met him in Iowa as a visitor to Senator Harlan's family and married over family opposition after admiring his football prowess at Iowa Wesleyan College.
Fort Dodge Iowa reports Andrew Carnegie offers 380000 for a city library. Earlier donations include Julia Haskell 10000 and J Duncombe with others boosting to 30000 held in trust by Webb Vincent. A special election levy may fund the project under the 2 mill tax on city valuation.
The nine year old son of Louis Tonhose of Judd is missing after being kidnapped last Tuesday by two men posing as book agents. Detectives scour the region for the boy believed held for ransom. In Mason City, Thomas Edmunson was found dead hanging from a barb wire fence after a party quarrel, with murder suspected. Des Moines reports Secretary Root approved Brisco-Denny farms as the site for a new army post, donated by the city for 400 acres.
Estherville Iowa December 21 1900 John Freeman confessed to killing his wife and burning their house He struck her with a shoe chloroformed her and placed her on a bed Then he covered her with excelsior saturated it with gasoline and set the house ablaze His motive was to gain her property.
Ottumwa Iowa completes deal with Ottumwa Savings Bank to provide cash for buying the library site as Carnegie offered 50000 toward the project, contingent on the city supplying the site and funds. The decision now rests with Carnegie.
Jeheil Tone, senior member of Tone Bros., wholesale grocers, died at his Des Moines home yesterday at 12 45 P M. He was 67 years old.
A couple’s week‑long engagement is strained by jealousy after overheard conversations. An argument in the hall leads to a quarrel over loyalty and a ring, threatening the wedding guest list. The Free Press notes lingering doubt about the bride’s choice.
A collection of dated snippets mocking mispunctuation and quirky ads. Examples include a hospital trained woman offering care for epilepsy and hysteria, a fashionable shooting party portrait blurb, a Texas ad seeking a boss hand for sheep that speak Spanish, a horse dealer offering a gray charger, and a club member asked about a one eyed man named Walker.
The Indian Lancet discusses death as a process defined by disintegration and cellular decay. It cites cases like a worker in caustic potash and electric shocks as near instantaneous, while noting preserved cells can be revived under proper treatment.
A tall besotted man weighing a hundred stone knocks on a kitchen door. The stern woman rebuffs him shouting that she is a woman and not kind. He mutters regret about missing a bicycle on the stoop as bolts close.
A Dublin archbishop, frail and partially paralyzed, fell near his home. A bright little girl helped him to his feet and offered to guide him home. She said, My father's the same every day, proving her confidence and wit.
A Chicago Record quotation centers on social struggle, noting progress is about self-improvement and controlling others while reflecting the period’s attitudes.
In Sydney at Mrs Macquarie's chair a hungry immigrant and a shark harvest lead to a wool market corner. The broker's pick sparked prices, boosting the duo to wealth. the immigrant later runs a tavern in Woolloomooloo.
A humorous dialogue from Syracuse Herald where two passengers discuss a life guide. The first cites a book that helped most, the second reveals the city directory as that book, linking to the idea of bill collecting. The piece highlights city life and a witty quip about occupation.
A government official enforces a rule to burn all old linen from Ceylon hospitals every three months. The inspection notes compliance and records tally of towels and hospital supplies during the periodic check.
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