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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1893
Page
8
Poem by Frank L. Stanton published in the Atlanta Constitution. It laments a soul’s ship weathering a raging sea, seeking safe passage home through night and storm, asking who can reach the wrecks and the captain’s rest.
At Middleton’s ranch Phil Ames wins favor from cowboys after cooking for the camp and enduring a playful retaliation. The crew brands a white shirt as payback, but Phil turns the joke into a clever ration and earns praise from Joe Dalzey and others. Della Middleton and Mr. Middleton approve, and Dalzey vows future dancing in a boiled shirt.
The term tariff traces to Tariff, a Moorish chief with a Spain port near Gibraltar. He levied tolls on passing vessels and his charges were added to goods, becoming a standard price component.
A testimonial touts Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption and other throat chest and lung diseases with a free trial bottle at Geo D Clarke's store and bottles priced at 50 cents and 1.00. The article also notes Misses Anna and Ethel Hood twin daughters of Gen John B Hood will spend winter in Baltimore and be the adopted daughters of their great uncle Mr John Morris of West Chester Pa.
Readers praise Hood s Sarsaparilla for indigestion headaches and various ailments including scrofula rheumatism and catarrh while Hood s Pills are advertised as vegetable. Ayer s Sarsaparilla Almanac Beggs Blood Purifier and other remedies are promoted with claims of cures and benefits. veterinary liniments and skin salves are also advertised along with a joke about Christmas gifts.
A collage of vintage claims and testimonials tout Castoria for babies and children, with side notes on funerals in Paris, Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a cure all, and quips about voting after death. It includes testimonials from T. F. Anthony and local druggists praising supposed remedies and quips on human nature.
A long OCR list enumerates residents and figures such as J. E. Roth James Louden E A Howard D G Girley James Sullivan W E Bradshaw and others. The items appear as a roster or directory fragment with numerous surnames and initials.
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