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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1901
Page
3
A Scotland Yard detective explains how examining cigar stubs helps identify criminals. The method notes differences in how ends are cut or bitten to reveal tools used or teeth type, aiding profiling in investigations.
A Chicago family moves near a street car barn housing mules. A 4 year old girl believes a mule is calling her father, saying Arthur, Arthur, Arthur. The mother explains no one is calling. the girl implies the mule is one of her father’s more sensible friends.
A daily family question leads to a quick dessert suggestion. Jell-O is prepared in two minutes with hot water, then cooled. Flavors include lemon orange raspberry and strawberry. Available at grocers for 10 cents.
Cure claim for a home remedy ad featuring E W Grove signature on each box. Box priced at 25 cents with refund promise if it fails to cure. Publicity notes strong product endorsement and pharmacist retail context.
The Tribune calls for local correspondents in all townships with terms and particulars available at the office or by addressing the editor.
Foreign and U S stories run through the week with notes on war gifts for McKinley, Pettigrew against ship subsidies, Hay back at work, Hitt diplomacy bill, Bryan at Lincoln banquet, and Cleveland denying McKinney vote. Crime against property and public figures also appear, from jail fires to kidnappings and thefts.
Shanghai reports arrests of Prince Tuan and Chaung by China while terms from the powers are described as harsh. Conger signs the joint note with reservations to avoid US war if terms fail. A Boxers massacre near Pekin and treachery against Kang Yu Wei followers are noted. Britain may withdraw from the allied command. China accepts terms and calls for a conference as an armistice is declared pending negotiations.
Official reports indicate customs in the Philippines will exceed $20,000,000 for the current year. The island faces a leper population of 30,000 as officials report. Army officers are accused of conspiring to control Philippine hemp output. The Philippine commission has sent its first draft island tariff laws to Washington.
A collage of 1890s headlines notes Americans in London outraged by Washington and Newark dispatches on the Hay Pauncefote treaty. It also records Paris Christmas joy, Dreyfus appeals, and Royal and European news amid severe UK weather.
The National Trust company of Delaware is incorporated at Dover with a $1000 capital and a headquarters listed as Indianapolis. The nation’s only glass marble factory, Steubenville, is in receivership. American Steel and Wire reportedly earns $10 million in net for the year. Judge McPherson in Philadelphia appoints John N. M. Shimer and William P. Stoake as bankruptcy receivers for C. R. Baird & Co. Santa Fe Railroad reports gains and savings banks react to the Old Town bank failure. National Steel’s 1901 wage scale appears near settlement with no shutdown.
A list of deadly incidents across several states reports James Powers killed by a trestle fall in Chicago stone yard and John Norton struck by a bolt in Iowa. Others include a buggy crash in Ohio, Mrs. Freeman Reed hit by an engine in Lima, August Deckrow killed in Coburg, McHenry county deaths near Harvard, a Brookville house fire, Japanese laborers struck near Curbank, Charles M Russell near Urbana, a Dubuque roof fall, and a lamp explosion in Allegheny.
Edwin L. Brand Chicago photographer dies suddenly. Thomas J. Dickey Hardin County resident dies at Steam Boat Rock. Emanuel Thebault French slip builder dies at Ponton Harbor Michigan. sailor on lakes forty years ago. A. I. Pierce Texas cattleman and multi millionaire dies at Pierce Station. Lord William Armstrong inventor dies. Rev Dr Thomas Murphy Philadelphia Presbyterian clergy man dies. Montagu Martin Klondike artist dies of typhoid fever at Good Samaritan hospital Dawson December 5. Dr Randolph N Hall Illinois Medical College president dies. Dr George W Northrup University of Chicago divinity professor dies.
Fire at Calgary N W T damaged area. Schramm and Schieg's wholesale dry goods store in Burlington Iowa ruined. Grand Rapids Bookcase company plant destroyed. Losses: 75000, 50000, 50000. Fire in a business block at Fourth and Main streets Columbus Ohio caused 50000 in damages.
Joseph Hugill, a prominent Akron OH figure, suffered paralysis during an annual Knights Templars toast led by the grand master. His recovery is doubtful. Also noted is Washington Cook of Warren IN declared unsound mind and to be committed to Longcliffe asylum at age 26 after heavy tobacco use. A $100,000 bequest is placed with Vineland NJ training school directors by Thomas H. Winter as executor of the Maxham estate.
A Norwich Connecticut reader reports long standing catarrh relieved by Peruna with no attacks since starting, noting weight gain and better appetite. Other testimonials hail Peruna as a universal cure for coughs colds and diverse catarrhal ailments across the United States.
Des Moines reports action in Washinton county district court to settle biennial amendment timing for officials terms. The misread dates sparked suits by office seekers. A funeral for Dr A Y Hull in Des Moines follows news of his death in Kiowa Kansas. Dr Hull, a pioneer legislator and newspaperman, was father to Representative Hull.
Warren Beckwith, son in law of Robert T. Lincoln, returns to Cres ton from Chicago resuming duties with the Bur Mneton officers. He denies reports of a divorce asserting no domestic disturbance exists and says his wife will join him in Cres ton soon.
Des Moines hosts three day meeting closing with Prof A W Stuart of Ottumwa as president. W F Barr of Des Moines named secretary. Main events include George E MacLean of the State University of Iowa speaking on The Iowa Educational Creed and Deed and Richard C Barrett delivering the annual address.
Frozen and evidently insane Johnnie Tonhose, 99, of Judd Iowa, was found in a Louisiana barn loft ten days after his disappearance. His parents offered a $500 reward for his return or the arrest of abductors. The lad survived on cellar vegetables and appears to have been kidnaped.
In Clinton Illinois on December 81 Jacob Mathiessen a respected local business man dying of consumption was paraded around the city by members of the uniform rank Knights of Pythias to whom he belonged as he bade them goodbye.
Al Wood editor of The Saturday Advertiser was arrested in Fort Dodge and sent to Winterset after the Iowa Supreme Court rejected his appeal. The case, pending four years, resulted in a penitentiary sentence for perjury.
Ila Judd reports a 6-year-old boy, son of Louis Tonhere, missing since Tuesday. Tonhere offers 500 for the boy and 1,000 for the kidnappers as police and neighbors search. In Milwaukee officials say evidence ties J A Montague, the Irish Giant arrested over a Montford bank robbery, to the LaCrosse policeman shooting last October.
Coroner adds rider to accidental death verdict stating the British bark Primrose Hill was under manned with too many apprentices aboard when it sank near Holyhead on December twenty eighth.
Madison Wisconsin January 1 reports Matilda and Gustav Buchtofferson remarried after a split lasting three years. This marks their third remarriage following previous divorces.
In a light exchange Miss Hankypank defends kindness to birds while clashing with Clara Denger who criticizes Harry Singleshell. The dispute centers on a rumor that Singleshell feathers his ears when he rows, sparking gossip among peers in a Chicago Tribune style vignette.
A New York World snippet relates Larry Nota Preak asking for eye glasses and the optician offering nose glasses. The exchange highlights confusion over vision aids and how glasses are described in playful dialogue.
A quoted exchange recalls a feud moment where a rival allegedly gave a lamp that consumes a half gallon of coal oil each night, highlighting petty rivalries within the group.
A correspondent describes a cow grieving after her calf is butchered. The mother cow misses the orphan and shows distress through lowing, lack of milk, wandering, and tears-like weeping, evoking sympathy from the writer.
An open air meeting in northern England ends with a man shouting Hurrah for Jackson and another replying Hurrah for a jackass. A Devon canvasser recalls a voter backing Poll Early, mistakenly voting for a non existent lady candidate.
A Tennessee Baptist preacher born in a large family had 18 sons, 16 in the Union army and 2 in the Confederacy. In his 88th year he disclosed his wartime loyalties by claiming his sympathies favored the Union by a 14 vote margin.
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