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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1913
Page
7
Prof Henry C Emery chairman of Taft's commission and Yale professor of protectionism asserts that current tariff efforts are flawed and will stay flawed. He warns any revision would betray Democratic principles and harm American consumers, suggesting the party should resist tariff changes while Emery remains influential.
The state highlights a graduated inheritance tax drawing substantial revenue in 1912 with estates like Astor paying 3 150 000 and 71 states paying over 25 000 each. Taxpayers pay promptly as claims are settled, and the levy targets wealth not poverty, curbing bloated fortunes by taking part of estate principal for public use.
The parcel post system shifts advantage to local country merchants over distant mail order houses. The zone plan sets a focal rate of five cents for the first pound and one cent per extra pound, with eleven pounds delivered for about fifteen cents, aiding rural retailers both on price and delivery time alongside rural telephone use.
An advertisement promises a hundred dollars reward for a case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The message includes testimonials from F J and a note about the National Bank of Commerce in Toledo verifying the firme's credibility. It claims internal action on blood and mucous membranes with testimonials and states the cure costs 72 cents per bottle and available from all druggists.
A rural dealer can beat far distant catalogs by combining local newspaper ads stock of needed goods rural mail delivery and telephone orders with parcel post delivery. Advertising alone won’t help unless stock meets community needs and orders are promptly fulfilled.
The sixty eighth Indiana General Assembly received Thomas Marshall’s last message before becoming vice president. He urged a workingmen's compensation act a public utilities commission anti watered stock law inheritance tax law popular election of U S senators and a state penal farm. He condemned state supreme court injunction rulings.
President-elect Woodrow Wilson arrived in Chicago at 1 40 pm to be hosted for the day. He rode in a closed car to the home of David B Jones after a quiet train arrival at Englewood amid heavy security with 25 secret service men 25 police and 25 mounted officers present at the depot.
Buy B P S paint and China Lac in Thoma s for sale at local shop. Selected items include B P S enamel and China Lac coatings suitable for furniture and hardware finishes. Limited stock reported with prices not listed.
A note credits Rev T S Linscott D D with Copyright 1912 for SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. No further details on edition, publication venue, or rights are provided in the fragment. The item records authorship and year.
A dated Sunday school handout lists study questions on Genesis chapters three and four. It poses analysis prompts about the serpent, Eve and Adam, sin, temptation, and consequences, referencing passages Genesis 3 and 4 and a lesson for January 26 1913.
News of the death of Dr. S. D. McFadden, 48, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church and vice president of Highland Park college, comes from his home in Highland Park. He died of pernicious anemia after three weeks ill, leaving a wife Mary Eldridge and three sons and siblings. Funeral services set for January 9 at 2 p.m. in the college chapel. Burial at Glendale cemetery.
Winnebago Nebraska resident W H Chapman credits Foley's Honey and Tar Compound with curing his two children's coughs after a doctor’s medicines failed. He says a 25 cent bottle saved him a doctor's bill and avoided opiates. L S Bradshaw & Co. ad.
Rev. J. C. Templeton of Hamilton Missouri was a Sunday guest of Rev. W. W. Montgomery. The brief notice records a clerical hospitality engagement between two Methodist ministers in Missouri.
In Batanga Elat Kamerun Mrs McCleary writes from 1912 Thanksgiving about a hearty meal and heat, church life, and arrivals. She details wreck losses from a steamer, native crowds at services, a German gunboat claim, Roosevelt assassination rumors, and new colonial expansion including a saw mill engine, dormitories, and school expansion while noting the warm climate and ongoing efforts at Meter and Batanga stations.
Helen H. Jeffries, cashier for Richard W. Jeffries Co., was robbed after leaving the bank in Camden. A man threw red pepper into her eyes, grabbed a satchel with five hundred dollars, and fled. he was chased for three blocks, captured, and identified as Alfred W. Cooley, son of a city councilman. Jeffries suffered severe eye injuries with possible loss of sight.
Meeker Colorado January 11 A. P. Jones an Oregon man arrived at Grand Valley in a prairie schooner with four young children in a pitiable state and barely alive. Two little girls lay dead from freezing while the other children were in a serious condition after two nights in a severe blizzard with no protection.
Berlin report says Mrs. Walter F. Powell of Boston was inoculated with Friedmann tuberculosis bacilli at his institute. She is the first American treated and her husband will report back to America on the cure’s efficacy. Dr Friedmann notes the procedure is delicate and requires training. He offered government access for investigation, suggesting a three month inquiry.
The Iowa Tract society of Nevada reports December receipts of 7 269 83 for Seventh Day Adventists in the state. The year end rush yielded 84 remittance letters totaling 2 800, with 1 300 designated for foreign missions.
The Senate found Judge Robert W. Archbald guilty on four of the thirteen impeachment articles by a wide margin. The vote on each article was reported as the chamber prepared to continue weighing the remaining charges while Archbald and his wife remained secluded in a Capitol committee room.
Keep Foley's Honey and Tar Compound on hand to head off a cold. It contains no opiates, soothes inflamed air passages, stops the cough, and may save a big doctor’s bill. In the yellow package. L. S. Bradshaw & Co. (Advt.)
Four girls aged 8 to 10 confessed in juvenile court to being members of a child bandit group led by Katherine Gregg 10. They admitted robbing Denver residences and stores for months and said they believed they had stolen at least $1000 in diamonds and valuables.
Referees appointed in the case of Raymond N. Watson et al versus Elsie Watson et al offer the estate land of C. F. Watson deceased for private sale by January 18, 1913. The 160 acre property near Cedar township in Jefferson county Iowa may be sold in parcels or whole to the best offeror with deed delivered by March 1, 1913.
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