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Fairfield Tribune

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 19, 1880

Page

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Iowa Legislature Debates Prohibitory Liquor Amendments

Proceedings outline petitions from Blue Ribbon Club Cedar Falls and others seeking prohibitory liquor laws, plus House and Senate actions on related measures. Bills introduced cover tax sale notice, boards of equalization, school laws publication, and various local charters, with adjournments and joint conventions over Feb 9–14.

Senate Des Moines Blue Ribbon Club of Cedar Fal’s Winneshiek County Womans’ Christian Temperance Union of Atlantic Appanoose County Wapello County Hedges Merrell Boards of Equalization Senator Thrill Wilson Nichols Benton Meyer Committee House Supreme Court State University Capitol Committee On Agriculture Lake Knight Merten Hays Egbert Davenport Carson Homan Stephens Clayton Natural History and Geological Society Hutchison Caldwell Seventeenth General Assembly Evans Russell Stout Organization of Waterloo Agricultural Works Montgomery County Henry County Dubuque County Shelley Gaylord Dickinson County Johnson Board of Supervisors Greene County Traverse Larabee Harmon Independence Chase Eldora Errell General Assembly Webb Nielander Kimball U. S Lawrence Clinton County Yeas Greene Larrabee Harvey Mackey Glasgow Iowa Hornaday Simpson Bloom Wicks Duncombe Porter Newbold Prouty es—Baker Barnes Bicknell Blair Bosworth Bridges Brown Dickinson Linn Cobbey Cochran Coomes Dean Dotson Downing Dungan Epperson Campbell Alford Wright Lyon Frank M. Mills W. W. Witmer P. P. In- Falls Mills Uncombe Jared Fuller Fort Dodge Matt. Parrott James Lee Mr. Parrott Fort Madison E. C. McMillan Jackson Mr. McMillan Anamosa Ansel T. Martin John O. Bard Martin Des Moiais Keokuk County Greenlee Kellar Hebard Woolson Arnold 17Th General Assembly Ft. Madison Madison Girls’ Department State Reform School Mt. Pleasant Mutual Life Insurance Companies State Horticultural Society Judiciary Committee Fremont County Chickasaw County Scott County Ways and Means Committee On Ida Grove Beach St. Paul 16Th Jordan Department of Industry Foster O’brien Boards of Supervisors Casey Lewis Hutchinson Stockton Perrin McDaid Parker Seaman Stutsman Robb Nagle Union Hardin Co Muncey Payne Tool McGregor Newenold Citizens of Shrader Goodykoontz Clark Garber Young Anita Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Jones Lee County Page County Poweshiek County Webster County Grand Jury Madison County Scott Fr.adison 15Th General Assembly Committee On Judiciary Marshal Bryan Nays Jennings Fisher Pearson State Agricultural Society New York Baker Beck Owning Olin Malvern Mills County Birmingham van Buren County King Haines Fortadison Pulic Board of County Supervisors Cenanitine On Fish and Game Keokuk Cedar Rapids & Marion Railway Congress Ilowa Supreme Court. Com Committee On Appropriations Alsu Ee Mc David Agricultural College Haney The Mutual Insurance Company Springdale Patterson Struble Francis Gay Dakota City Council Lambert Mutchinson Wapello Committee of Ways and Means Lucas Organization Independent District of

Warmest Iowa month on record noted with various incidents

The article recalls January 1880 as the warmest month in Iowa on record, mentions appointments and deaths, a Shenandoah fire, a Pella blaze, a robbery attempt near Davenport, a drowning horse incident, a Cresco wagon maker found dead, a Des Moines murder allegation, and obituaries including Danford Eddy and Rev. T. S. Berry, with a separate essay defending women’s virtue.

Iowa Charles A. White United States Geological (Consolidated) Survey Clarence King Pella Johnson Wm. Towsley Fairport Musatine County Forest City Clear Lake Taylor Station Pottawattamie County Geo. Hummel Edwards Cresco Des Moines Vermont Clayton County Grinnell Ringgold County T. S. Berry Simpson Centenary College Indianola Cass Co Illinois 114Th Illinois Infantry Garrett Biblical Institute Evanston Carlisle Corning

Lunatic sues the State over four years pay

A patient at the Nebraska Asylum claimed $6 000 for four years of work at $4 a day. Captain Baird, acting as Justice of the Peace, ruled against the State and awarded the man the full amount. The steward Taylor sought an appeal and a ninety day stay, which the justice denied.

Lincoln Journal Baird Mathewson Mr. Taylor Capt. Baird Taylor

Widow's search for morning papers ends night visit

On a warm summer night two young men chatted with the Widow Bedett on her piazza. She wandered the front yard asking what she sought and finally revealed she was looking for the morning papers. The visitors departed after her reply.

Bedett

Trust in Hop Bitters Against Comic Ailments

Mrs Partington warns against quack rostrums and promotes Hop Bitters as a cure for general dilapidation chronic habits and comic diseases. The note claims it saved Isaac from a severe extract of tin fever and extols its universal remedy.

Boy Farragut recalls Essex battle at Valparaiso

Journal of a twelve year old midshipman aboard the Essex describes the 1814 capture by British ships Phebe and Cherub at Valparaiso. The boy, later famed as a great sailor, details fear and bravery, gun duties, a skirmish over a pet pig, and his early education after the assault.

Farragut Essex Phiebe Cherub Bay of Valparaiso Murphy Hillyar The Phebe Porter

Christmas poultry trade ships 5000 turkeys to England

Poultry shipments from Canada and the United States to England grow for the Christmas trade. One vessel carried at least 5000 turkeys and nearly equal numbers of geese ducks and chickens, with prairie hens and fresh eggs sent in large amounts. Some consignments reached Parisian markets.

Canada United States England Parisian

European Agents Try to Worsen China Japan Tension

Report notes efforts by interested Europeans to provoke a quarrel between China and Japan, but without impact. It cites past cholera data from last year with 168,000 cases and 101,000 deaths, or about one death per 500 inhabitants, and states the outbreak is now completely subdued.

China Japan

Grace and meat prompt a minister’s visit tale

An irate father warns his son that marriage to Grace will lead to banishment and poverty. The son responds with a quip about Grace before meat and promptly searches for a minister.

Grace

Man Reports $65 Theft Then Receives Partial Return Note

A man who lost $65 was sent a note claiming the thief stored the money and would return some of it later. The note reads I stored your money Remors naws at my conshews and I send some of it back. When remors naws agin I ll send you some more.

Remors

Nurse Endorses Dr Bull’s Baby One for fretful children

A nurse stresses Dr Bull's Baby One as a trusted remedy for fretful or sickly infants, recommending it to parents seeking relief and care.

Bull

The Wild Turkey Its History Habits and Varieties

This passage traces the wild turkey from America as the progenitor of the domestic bird to its global spread. It notes abundance in the southern forests, migration, feeding on acorns mast grains and nuts, and encounters with domestic turkey crosses that improve size and vigor. It describes hunter methods, yard traps, flock behavior, and crossing rivers, plus the three wild turkey species American Mexican and Ocellated with the latter the most vividly plumaged.

United States Georgia Mississippi Florida Europe Mexico England Francis France Charles the Ninth America

Ice in West Virginia Penitentiary Incident

A man named Ice is confined in the West Virginia Penitentiary after reportedly freezing onto another person's property. The incident details and motives remain unclear.

Ice Penitentiary of West Virginia

Adam Sets Fashion of Bridal Tours With Eve Journey

Adam and Eve begin a new life after their wedding in Eden. The couple's travel style introduces a trend of bridal tours and postnuptial journeys shaping early partnership narratives.

Adam Eve Eden

The Welsh Clergyman Read Scriptures in Five Languages

A New York clergyman anecdote recalls a Welsh minister visiting rural Pennsylvania. He staged multilingual readings in Hebrew Greek Latin and Welsh to impress deacons and an amused congregation. A laughing parishioner kept silent, and the minister secured the church post.

New York Pennsylvania Wales Thas

Dr Bucknill on Habitual Drunkenness in England

The text cites Dr Bucknill arguing that the English upper class has grown sober in recent years but a small minority remains indulging in alcohol. He suggests national and global benefits if drunkenness were eradicated and mocks absinthe as a cure, while disparaging American drinkers.

Bucknill

A Test of Indian Courage at an Intertribal Fair

A recent Indian Territory intertribal fair showcased home crafts and portraits. Yellow Bear of the Arapahoes sat for a photo after resistance, while Osages and Lipans refused the tent, fearing the camera's spirits and loss of good mood.

Indian Territory Yellow Bear Arrapahoes

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Yoran Hull Palmer Hoarnaday Jasper County Railroad Commissioner Druggists’ Association Mouse Shenandoah State of Nebraska Boy Farragut
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