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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1899
Page
3
A narrator describes dining in a seraglio with cushions and shared bowls. Soup, boiled meat, vegetables curry, Zagazig pudding, fruit, and rice are eaten from a communal tureen using flat scones as plates. Coffee is served in brass cups by a dark maid named Lily in the Desert.
The Fortnightly notes a sensitive mind turning inward and distracted during prayer. It cites a passage describing God and angels invoked while a fly and coach noises intrude. The analysis attributes inner contradictions of Donne's career to this restless mental state.
A quirky court note from a Chicago Daily News clipping reports a judge punishing two inmates for literacy lapses. One man, illiterate, is imprisoned until he consents to learn, and the next prisoner must stay jailed until he teaches the first in the dock.
The San Francisco Call reports a ferocious swordfish duel off the Santa Monica long pier near Los Angeles. Two large fish leaped, charged, and battled with side blows and lethal thrusts, one piercing the other's body and keeping its weapon until the foe ceased swimming.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt notes that wealthy Britons demand exacting standards for domestic staff. Servants in livery are tested on posture, manners, grooming, and even card handling, with masters scrutinizing every detail as part of a rigorous hiring ritual.
Mrs Hohmboddie asks for a reading from a Scotch dialect novel. Mr Hohmboddie recites a wooing speech in thick dialect, describing a declaration of love while she humorously misreads it as medical symptoms. The exchange reflects light domestic humor from Collier's Weekly.
While at Cassel, the German emperor and his brother Prince Henry stayed in a castle near their school. A master, hoping to win favor, hinted at the next Greek exam to Prince William who then wrote the topic on the board so no one gained an edge.
A visitor and a stranger exchange sharp words over a painting revealing a clash between old time honored precedents and modern tastes. The quote highlights the era’s iconoclasm and evolving literary propriety.
Laurence Gronland, noted socialistic writer who died in New York, was blunt in his attack on the modern industrial system. A friend asked if Russian despotism was worse, and Gronland replied that both are extreme, with the former the worst possible and the latter the worst conceivable.
The Philadelphia Record notes Sakubona as the first Kaffir greeting learned by strangers. The phrase translates to I see you, and delaying the greeting signals reverence toward the visitor.
A New York Herald special notes anti expansionist letters among captured documents in the Philippines. General Henry W. Lawton has fallen to rebel fire at San Mateo. Twenty Americans killed or wounded as troops suffer. Transports Senator and Benmore with the Forty fifth infantry and two batteries of artillery reach Manila. Aguinaldo’s wife has recently died from exposure and hardship. Washington officials praise the current Philippine situation.
The article notes June W. Gayle, a Goebel Democrat, elected to Congress from Kentucky's Seventh District. It also mentions Captain George W. Melville nominated as engineer-in-chief and rear admiral, holidays adjournment for both houses, a federal quarantine against cattle fever, Chief Justice David L. Snodgrass announcing Senate candidacy, War Department notice of General Lawton's death, and 25,000 pension applications for veterans of the late war.
A string of incidents reports porch theft in Chicago, suicides in Kansas and Washington, arrestees in Iowa and New York, robberies in Chicago, and a forgery conviction in Pittsburgh. Notable names include Francis J. Dewes, Frank McFadden, Charles C. Condon, Jeremiah Kendrick, Emma Endler, James L. Taylor, J. H. Sanders, Mrs. Janis Cramer, Robert J. Knox, and Mrs. Marion Purkiser with diverse outcomes and dates.
John Rutland of Medford bankruptcy petition with liabilities of 174615 and no assets. Notices announce a 10 percent price advance at J B Coates Thread Co Pawtucket. An American syndicate buys English holdings in G H Hammond Packing Omaha. Dillaway Starr and a Boston firm assign. Contracts let for 3 million in Cheyenne improvements on Union Pacific. James R Keene reportedly clears 5 million in Wall Street flurry. Port Jervis National Bank suspends. George B White of Hyndman files bankruptcy with 491200 liabilities and 200 assets. Yellowware makers raise prices 5 percent. Eastern Furniture Manufacturers raise lines 10 percent in Philadelphia. Wilson Co Baltimore assigns, liabilities 80000 assets 50000. Mullanphy Building and Loan in St Louis assigns. Westinghouse Air Brake declares 2 1/2 percent regular and 5 percent extra dividends. Marathon County bank recharters with 60000 capital under old name. A deal reportedly pending to consolidate Detroit and Lima Northern Ohio Southern Lake Erie and Western Monon systems.
Five individuals lost their lives in a severe fire described as a mishap. Emergency responders arrived to scenes at multiple locations, with authorities investigating the cause and circumstances surrounding the fatal burns.
A sequence of disasters left numerous dead and injured. In New York tenement fires claimed John Barrett and family, Richard Nickerson, and Annie Farrey, while Tenth Avenue fire killed Mrs. Kate Fox and son. Columbus elephant trainer M. J. Meagher died. Quincy Illinois church school fire killed six girls and injured four family members. Chicago worker William Labuhn died from a grain chute fall. Poaststown Ohio man John Nears mortally injured by a runaway horse while returning to his wife’s funeral. Uniontown Pennsylvania mine blast killed forty miners. Tiffin Ohio captain R B Bever fell from a scaffold, suffering extensive injuries.
Revised casualty figures from the Colenso battle show 137 killed among non commissioned officers and men. Rumors persist that the Duke of Connaught may succeed General Lord Roberts as commander in chief of the Irish forces.
Bernard Quaritch art dealer died in London aged in his 70s. Myrtle Peek better known as Mrs W B Hoffman died at Silver Lake Mass. Henry Maxfield owner of Maxfield House Paua Ill died. first fireman on a Baltimore and Ohio train. Dwight L Moody evangelist died at East Northfield Mass. Lt Col D L Mountingdon retired US Army medical corps died in Reone Italy. John B Mesker flatboat pioneer died in Levansville Ind aged 76. James Hume Janesville Wis pioneer manufacturer died of heart disease aged 50. Williams Poynter father of Gov Poynter died at Albion Neb aged 7. Bushrod Underwood famed Army of Northern Virginia scout died in Washington aged 56.
A string of fires causes heavy losses: Florence Hotel Bank of Florence Opera House and city hall in Florence D C. Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad car shop in Dubuque Iowa. large burn in Detroit Texas. 3000+ workers displaced by a New York blaze at Milburn Street. J M Berry flour mill in Atlanta destroyed. Westervelt fiber pail factory in South Bend Indiana. Hastings Minnesota business district fire destroying nearly three blocks with about 200 000 loss.
Colonel S W Ray of Port Arthur Ontario bought the Tbex mine at Sumpter Oregon for 300000. The Jewish women council will hold its second triennial meeting in Cleveland March 4 to 11. A new malting plant will begin operation in Milwaukee January 1. The Charleston court of inquiry report favors naval officers after a Luzon coast grounding. Prussian teachers are banned from hunting as immoral. President McKinley subscribed 100 to the Lawton fund. John Leedy reports 1500 typhoid cases at Cape Nome. Ted Sloan and E C Bald arrived in New York from England. Colonel Wingate succeeds Kitchener as Sudan governor general. Libel defendants in Chicago Times Herald case denied access to circulation books. Thirty three Belgian schoolchildren drowned by ice. Transvaal November gold output listed at 611788 ounces. Western Base Ball league appears to be collapsing. Los Angeles attorney for Charles Cole says he will remain in Boston under warrant. Cole is at the Van Nys home with his wife and son, refusing interviews.
Cincinnati reports that the Salvation Army served dinner to 3,500 poor yesterday and handed out 1,500 provision baskets. The combined effort equates to a meal for each of about 2,000 people.
A Missouri man and Bob Wright clash over a red barn in Dodge City. Wright hires the worker to whitewash the barn and keep Mose Waters away. The two fight. Wright rides to Fort Dodge and later negotiates a truce as Waters cools.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Marie as a venerable name used across French society from peasants to nobility. It highlights the name Marie in its French form and its festival ties to the Assumption on August 15 and mentions royal and noble families bearing Marie in heirlooms and legal documents.
The New York Sun reports astronomer Garret P. Serviss correcting the belief that Arcturus is red. He notes its hue shifts with the horizon and air, appearing pale yellowish near the middle sky, rich orange through a telescope, and vastly brighter than Sirius.
A Chicago Record quip notes the morning shopping scene as shop girls gossip about their dreams while customers avoid peak hours. The lighthearted line reflects social chatter during consumer routines.
The Detroit Free Press notes a discussion about inviting Gim Bleton to join a new club. Briggs suggests he is a married man, Griggs confirms he has been married over a year.
In a Chestnut street studio an artist laments a redheaded dream derailing his work. He recalls fellow artists countering hoodoo tales with quirky habits like an opera hat and pink pajamas, while another friend buffers emotion with raw onions.
Lord Beaconsfield and Napoleon praise tactful winking as a means to manage people while Nelson and General Gordon warn that focusing on small flaws can ruin the day. The quotes frame restraint, patience, and attention to outcomes over petty faults.
The late Horace Mann spoke at a boys reform school opening and said saving even one boy would justify all costs. In a private chat, a gentleman pressed him to soften the claim, but Mann replied that he would not change it even if the boy were his own.
In Ilerr Joan Booth's Memoirs of the Iron Chancellor a tale recounts Bismarck at age 26 boasting a prodigious appetite. He ordered 25 oysters, then 50 more, then 100, insisting on no other food as spectators watched amused by his feat.
A humor item quotes a classroom exchange about a $50 loan to a father and $5 weekly payments. Johnny asserts a one week payoff, joking that the father would sue in court by then, in a quip cited to the New York World.
A Plain Dealer clipping notes rumors about a neighbor named Blinkinoff being seen drinking. An observer recalls seeing him the other night attempting to drive a spigot into an ash barrel, mistaking it for an older device.
A fragmented reflection notes that all great deeds require help and fear power, while acknowledging that ether was known to early scientists and suggesting a broader, unsettled view of scientific progress.
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