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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1901
Page
6
Batavia readers hear about visits and travels of residents including Gay Sutherland and family in Mystic Fairfield trips by Ed Alfreds and Mrs Alfreds. The community notes cover illness church services school opening, local marriages births and a hardware firm dissolution. A horse accident injures Earl Howard and Rev C Springer heads to Illinois for a funeral.
Ben Gifford of Omaha visits friends and relatives here. A B Cleasby moves furniture to the J W Fry property. L E Warner of Fairfield seen on our streets Thursday. Mrs C H Linder returns home after a week in Abingdon and Batavia. W E and James Cowan called to Howard County for Mrs Geo Cowan’s illness. Grandma Barber remains very ill.
Mr and Mrs Fr O Danielson Mr A F Cassell and daughter Esther travel to Creston for a week with relatives. Mrs J W Briggs visits her parents in Burlington. P A Smith visits friends in Lockridge. J M Kyle and W R Smith ship two car loads of cattle to Chicago. Helda Newburg visits Anna Hayes in Lockridge. Archibalds of Estherville Ind visit in the area. Selma Sodergren returns to Burlington after a week with her parents. Flora Smith visits Burlington. W Damm ships hogs to Ottumwa and two car loads from Lockridge and Periee.
A Thursday evening skating party at Graf's pond was well attended with many attendees enjoying the event. A baby boy was born Wednesday January 2 to Mr and Mrs Ernest Rauscher. Wm Ziehlman of Henrietta Texas visited his old home this past week. Andrew Trabert of Stanton returned after attending his mother's funeral. Mr Bowman has been seriously ill for some time with doubtful recovery. An oyster supper is planned at John Quick's Wednesday evening. A large crowd is hoped for. An English meeting was held Sunday evening at the Swedish Lutheran church with a large turnout.
Jan 8 reports show Mr Gayner of Monmouth LiL visiting J B Youmans and Miss Ella McConsey of Ottumwa spent holidays with H D Davin. Mr Matt Piospect suffered a severe accident when a leading animal struck his finger, requiring amputation below the joint. Mrs J B Youmans ill with La Grippe. No. 2 teacher sick early week. Revival began Jan 1 at Pleasant Grove led by Rev Howe. No 2 literary society thriving. weekly Friday gatherings and Epworth League planned.
Sunday evening at Prairie Chapel for the young people. Mrs. Wm. Lynch of Chicago visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Salladay. Mr. and Mrs. George Kientz spent New Year’s Day with Mr. and Mrs. John Blough. Miss Carrie Davis and Mayme visited Birmingham last week. E. B. Shaw visited relatives in Kansas last month and is critically ill with catarrhal pneumonia.
Holidays brought social events as residents report good cheer and a lively swapping of homes. Families gathered, parties were hosted at the Tayer house in Glasgow, and neighbors enjoyed games and music. Farmers pursue Missouri and Oklahoma opportunities while Illinois visitors seek homes. Perry Hickenbottom and Wm Silver report hogs stolen from Glendale feed lots. Anna Adams visits Brighton. Wm Stever marries and moves to the Lute farm.
Advertises Dr Kings New Life Pills as boosting strength and ambition via stomach and liver action. Claims a 25 cent box will make you feel like a new being. Sold by Geo D Clarke, druggist.
A poet in Cosmopolitan laments duty over romance. He rejects sonnets to Sylvia and envisions duty as a guiding force, claiming love is an unbreakable amulet and thoughts of love rival distance and duty.
The article discusses the tiresome work of deciphering government code dispatches. It explains varied practices such as changing key words or numerals, and the difficulty for novices versus experts. It notes the war era Spain dispatch example and U S cryptographers quickly obtaining the key.
The Tribune reminds advertisers that the only reliable way to reach its readers is through advertisements published in The Tribune. Officials emphasize the strong reach and attention Tribune ads command within the community.
Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin touted as a remedy for indigestion and stomach trouble. Geo D Clarke druggist advertises Stops the Cough and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim to cure a cold in one day with no cure no pay and 25 cent price.
A New York Sun tale recalls a mill town boarding house keeper who grew rich after a clever mill boss kept tender steaks by hammering them under a four ton hammer. The scheme boosted boarders and profits, turning humble meals into fortune.
The article describes Turkish dining without tables or chairs. A low wooden frame in the room center holds a large tray and a bowl of food. Diners sit on cushions around the frame, using spoons and napkins, sharing a meal of soups and later substantial stews, with serving etiquette highlighting gracious gestures to guests.
Our consul in Birmingham recalls Barbers noting that a fast black dye for linen thread could command its discoverer a premium. He observes that over time the black fades from thread and even new linen thread lacks depth. English black cotton socks have lost elasticity, and the last cotton black dye was the work of an English chemist whose secret German buyers exploited worldwide.
A gray bearded man in Chemung County recalls a boy who once climbed his orchard fence to steal apples. The younger man acknowledges the shared history and the two shake hands warmly in a cordial reunion.
An editor rebukes a junior writer over a verbose column about a blaze at a palatine mansion. The editor urges concise reporting, noting a quick front‑page shout of Fire is preferable to detailing distant lines about Jeremiah Dickens’s upper story threat.
A discussion cites Harvey Sutherland on the skin lungs link and how perspiration affects the blood. It notes toxic effects from tar or varnish on skin and references a boy coated in gold leaf dying from internal poisons, plus remarks on tar sealing pores and pigmenting the skin in Western and Southwest communities.
A Milford Massachusetts household faced a dinner mishap when a helper from England served a rich pudding. With two family members delayed the mistress told the girl to heat it. The girl, overwhelmed by the two portions, begged a friend to let her off as she could not heat another bite.
A Sunday school boy named Johnny, on his eighth birthday, writes to his papa. He recalls temptations and says he thinks of his father and declares Get thee behind me satan to resist wrongdoing.
Monks used black marble dust boiled in wine nine times to note hours in the Middle Ages, a favored method among learned religious scholars.
William Bucker took up a roan heifer calf with a white stripe and reed in Walnut Township Jefferson County Iowa on a Sunday at 1 00 posted before Justice J W Myrs. George Re Horn acted as auctioneer.
A New York Sun article compares sutures to tailor work, detailing materials like catgut silk and kangaroo tendon, absorption times, sterilization methods, and the diverse needle types used by surgeons. It contrasts absorbable and nonabsorbable threads, notes germ presence after cleansing, and parallels stitching choices to garment sewing practices.
Quotations show a woman named Georgiana praising outfits in a way that makes the speaker feel ordinary clothes are hideous. The clipping also notes international marriage durations: England 28 years, France and Germany 26, Norway 24, Russia 20.
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