This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1888
Page
3
The notice announces a 60 day sale on footwear on both north and south sides with all stock reduced in the same proportion. After 60 days the entire inventory will move to the north side. Hunt & Ho.
In Jefferson county Iowa 1888 a mild fall persisted to Christmas with heavy rain the night before and after yet the season proved merry. Merchants report Christmas trade up fourfold, churches held festive services and children received gifts and food for twenty three families. Flora Chester as Queen Bountiful and various school programs filled the day with generosity and joy.
StanCliff and Zeigler took in 1 000 pounds of poultry last week as part of their processing capacity expansion.
Frank Arnold preached at Batavia on Sunday December 23. Charles Magill and James Shoemaker return from Chicago after a dentistry school. Miss Carrie Osmond comes home after seven weeks in Osceola. Lucretia Marey and Re Ewing visit Ada Hurd in Burlington Friday. Students plan New Year entertainment by the Elzevirs at Libertyville. Moore and Condit home from seminary for Christmas. Prof Condit back from Corning for vacation. Ellen Mitchell to visit Ada Hurd in Burlington Thursday. Paul McClintock of Burlington injures nose and lip when horse ran away. Voorhies reports a fine line of ladies muffs for the holidays. Charles Barnett of Woodruff Cigar Co. visits with wife and two girls. Barnett reports sales of 10 000 cigars and favorable reception in town.
The column records local happenings on the southern side of Des Moines Township including deaths, farm sales, and social gossip. Grandmother Fisher dies at 97, interred at Winsell chapel cemetery. Kirkhart rents James Fry's farm. Duckworth’s saw mill suspends for winter. A cattle stampede disrupts a courting couple near a protracted meeting. A Baptist Christmas tree ritual replaces the well tradition with Rebekah drawing presents.
C B Q EB R announces holiday excursion tickets on sale December 24 25 31 and January 1. Return validity through January 3 priced at one and one third fare for round trip to all points on the line.
The latest Rock Island Series annual Iron and Steel for boys and girls of America is ready for distribution. Enclose ten cents and address to Geo H Smith in Chicago to receive a copy by return mail. Previous volumes also available.
The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Jefferson County Agricultural Association will be held at the court house in Fairfield on the second Saturday in January 1989 at 1 PM for the election of officers and other lawful business. Also includes several medicinal ads and product claims from Clarke & Junkin's and local druggists.
An advertisement touts a salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and other eruptions. It claims to cure piles or money refunded and offers 25 cents per box sold by Clarke and Junkin.
The ad proclaims Electric Bitters as a highly effective remedy for liver and kidney diseases, skin conditions, malaria, headaches, constipation, and indigestion. It promises complete satisfaction or refunds, with bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar at Clarke & Junkin's drug store.
Perry King offers flour at reduced prices with a fresh car load just received. Each sack is warranted for quality.
Sufferers are told a living parasite causes these ailments and a pamphlet offers a new treatment requiring one to three applications by the patient. For catarrhal discharges a special remedy is offered to women. A. Dixon & Son of Toronto, Canada, charges ten cents for the pamphlet.
A DeMARCE advertises a fine lot of saw shafts with balance wheel, saws, bob sleds with chilled runners in iron, and complete bobs guaranteed to carry 7 000 pounds at reduced prices. Also offers jacks to speed saws at cost. Call to inspect.
The verse traces generations using Castoria as a cure for infant crying and a remedy repeated from childhood through adulthood, ending with dependence as she becomes a mother and gives Castoria to her children.
Grain and feed prices list corn oats eye Timothy hay and rye seed at 22 to 75 cents per bushel, hay 5 to 6 per ton. Cattle cows heifers stockers feeders beef steers 225, 275 to 300, 525 to 550 per cwt. Hogs 450 per cwt. Sheep 2.50 to 5.00 per cwt. Potatoes 20 to 25 cts per bu onions apples cucumbers etc. Poultry prices include ducks chickens turkeys and eggs per dozen or per hundred weight. Market figures reflect regional grain feed and farm stock values.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.