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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1910
Page
3
Fairfield notes a bustling Saturday with crowded streets and no vacant hitching rack as merchants plan big spring stock cleanups. The Tribune previews cattle feeding profits, tax debates for a soldiers monument, and local political shifts while clerks report December revenue and school and church activities resume.
Archbishop J J Glennon learned that gift boxes labeled Pictures at his silver jubilee contained 144 Lemerci ds paintings and 296 Old Testament subjects by J J J Tissot copies. The works were purchased by Jacob Schiff and placed in the Astor library. Laytes presented the collection for the new cathedral.
Murray W Ayers of Transit Bridge New York faced a near fatal decline with yellow skin sunken eyes and weight loss of 40 pounds. He credits Electric Bitters with restoring his health and strength after failing medical treatment. The tonic claims to aid stomach liver and kidney troubles and is sold for 50 cents at F S Shriner's.
Marshalltown Iowa marked fifty years since becoming county seat of Marshall County with the removal of records from Marietta by bob sled on December 31 1859. Ten oxen pulled the sled while W C Smith retired county judge rode the safe. Women served a turkey dinner as officials celebrated the transfer. William Battin the last living judge who took office January 1 1860 remains a local memory.
A Montreal physician reports receiving a letter from Dr. F. A. Cook about Arctic exploration rumors. He claims hunting success near Lake Edward and Lake St. John in Quebec and says he seeks privacy to rest, even at lecturing losses.
A severe winter blizzard causes widespread suffering as grip illness returns with stuffed nostrils sore nose chills fever head ache and a coughing throat grip. Dr Kings New Discovery is urged as lifesaving with a testimonial from A L Dunn of Pine Valley Mississippi who credits one bottle with curing three weeks of grip. For lung ailments and bronchitis its claimed supreme remedy is offered at 50 cents or 1 dollar guaranteed by Frank S Shriner.
F. T. Frazier advertises sharpening services for knives and scissors including surgeons instruments barbers tools and other implements. He offers ground and honed edges new razor handles, German silver key checks and other small metalwork with satisfactory results and reasonable prices. He signs from the Dewey Hotel in Fairfield Iowa.
Mrs. W. G. Gibson of Lexington Kentucky reports her three year old daughter recovered from a severe bronchitis after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She praises its speed and safety and notes a full recovery by October 23. Sold by J W Jericho & Co Jan.
At Almendares park in Havana the Athletic Club of Cuba defeated Tulane University 11 to 6 in a historic upset. Tulane, out weighed and outplayed, fell behind from the start as a large Havana crowd watched notable former college players participate.
Jesse Lindsay, 18, attempted suicide to force marriage with Miss Mattie Lambert in Macomb Illinois. He drank carbolic acid after failing to win parental consent, collapsing as bystanders aided by doctors worked to save him. The girl cried for help as he lay unconscious, with poor recovery prospects.
A public sale on Wednesday January 12 1910 at 10 a m will offer 5 cows one fresh 8 yearling steers two-year-old steer 4 two-year-old heifers 2 yearling heifers 5 calves 3 steers and 2 heifers a full-blood Shorthorn bull and various farm implements including a farm wagon riding cultivator breaking plow deering binder hay ladder corn sheller two sets of harness a fanning mill and other articles Grain includes 5 bushels seed corn and 20 acres stalk pasture Terms announced sale day by auctioneers C H Johnson T B Allender W C Brawner Clerk
Notice states the partnership between B. A. Whitmore and J. R. Lippman of Fairfield Iowa under the firm name B A Whitmore D has been dissolved by mutual consent. J R Lippman will collect and receipts for all accounts due and pay all lawful debts of the firm dated December 31 1909
The La Fuerza fort, protecting Havana, is the western hemisphere’s oldest still-used building. Begun about 1538 by Hernando de Soto, it withstood pirate threats and served as barracks, a storehouse, and a residence for island captains. The quadrilateral fort features twin walls, bastions, a moat, a sentinel bell, and the bronze La Habana statue facing the gulf.
Local advertisement claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube caused by catarrh can be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It offers a $100 reward for any deafness due to catarrh not cured, notes product existence from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and mentions other products like Hall's Family Pills.
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