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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
5
The speaker notes cauliflower seed demand is limited and can be supplied from Whatcom county in competition with Denmark with patient cultivation. Other seeds also grow well on that soil though they require less care but yield smaller returns.
Jam E Curtis notes Denmark leads world flower seed supply with small portions from Algeria and Belgium and Germany. Seed dealers pay high prices. snowball cauliflower brings up to $3.50 an ounce. U.S. growers in Whatcom County Washington lead experiments to produce own seed, with Canfield, Hagerdorn, and Marsh achieving success and contracts with seed firms.
Judge Caswell ruled that rural independent school district treasurers must withhold five cents per pupil from semi annual apportionments for every person of school age. Funds are to be invested by the directors in library books under the rural library law. The decision came in Lowe versus Rural Independent School District No. 3 Eden Township.
Miss Myrtle Harkins, 25, sues W R Kirk, 65, wealthy Nevada resident and former housekeeper, for breach of promise claiming he promised marriage during the summer and later refused. The case filed in Ames pending hearing at next term, with details of the suit and local reaction noted.
Bela Hinkle once Rock Island yardmaster at Eldon was found guilty in Chickasha, Oklahoma Territory, along with others, of larceny related to silk from Rock Island cars. He had served the company for years and previously worked as a conductor on divisions through Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The arrest followed a police probe led by Special Agent R. O. McIntosh, with silk traced to Hinkle's home since his August last year arrest warrant was issued.
Greenfield farmer John Barloga opened a cook stove bought from Gustave A. Butler's hardware and found nearly $1,500 in cash, coins and checks. The money was returned to Butler's store after a bank deposit delay, and later placed in a kitchen range to keep safe over Sunday.
Dec 22 report that the bankrupt stock of goods and merchandise owned by E. H. Skinner and located in Birmingham and Stockport has been sold under court order.
Humboldt Iowa reports its dressing plant handling a flood of fowls from northern Iowa. A 70 worker staff processes about 4000 birds daily, totaling around 8,000 pounds weekly and nearly a million pounds for the season as carloads head to eastern markets.
The mangled remains of Frank Holsey were found in the Rock Island yards in Eldon Iowa around 1130 PM Saturday. Coroner Frank Mills started an inquest. Holsey a day laborer had just returned to attend a family reunion and was believed struck by a switch engine while crossing yard tracks. He survived by his parents and brothers Jep Henry and others connected to local rail work.
Sioux City December 23 The coming Iowa state bank commissioner report details nearly forty bank failures in the year causing losses over twelve million dollars. Eight bank officials killed themselves amid the crash. Forgeries and defalcations reduced losses. frenzied finance and beef trust price manipulation blamed for widespread distress among cattle raisers.
Dedham savings bank of Dedham Iowa is closed. President J G Callon left supposedly for funds and cannot be found. He is said to be short about 20000 and the bank has started suit. The bank held deposits about 80000.
Despondent and partially demented by five years of rheumatism Mrs. Sarah Foote, 80, of Moravia, stabbed herself repeatedly in the throat with a penknife. She died the same day. She lived with daughter Mrs. J. P. Tilmans and had used morphine for relief. Interment planned at Drakeville after funeral at residence.
It is stated that John Wannamaker and Marshall Field never spent a dollar in advertising in Sunday newspapers. They claim to care for ethical relations with their employers, but if their example were followed widely, the bulky Sunday paper would cease to exist.
Eldon Iowa December 26 H Van Horn a passenger on Rock Island train No 12 was taken from the train at the Eldon depot about 2 20 am and died before aid could reach him He traveled from Topeka Kansas to Des Moines The physician said death was due to rheumatism of the heart The body lies at C W Finney undertakers parlors
Flatley quips that nothing is more meaningless than piping hot. Ascum disagrees, arguing steaming flats prove the piping remains cold. The exchange highlights a humorous misunderstanding about steam heating and the phrase’s irony.
A humorous quip proposes a regulator to swap chills to warm days and fever to cold days by a patent medicine man. The notion aims to mock a cure all by reversing weather related symptoms.
An editor in Michigan recalls a hollow tree filled with squirrels whose breathing split the bark. The office notes receipt of a folder on an R Hoe Co octuple newspaper perfecting press with capacity for 96 000 papers per hour, compare to current print run, but price not disclosed.
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