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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1894
Page
5
The St. Louis Republic notes that flour prices have fallen sharply since the prior year yet bread loaf prices and size have not improved. It cites farm price data, home baking rise, and retailer hesitation as factors for declining loaf quality and stagnant cost.
The Majectic passed over the bar at Liverpool with three feet of water under her keel. Liverpool engineers report the bar now holds 20 feet at low tides under worst conditions after removing 9 feet of sand. Over three years 3,888,000 tons of sand were moved, about 7,525,888 cubic yards. A recent week saw 155,000 tons dredged, Brancker lifting 120,000 tons.
A caller at the New York post office asked Postmaster James Gayler for mourning stamps. He carried a letter in a mourning envelope and urged government printing of stamps that would harmonize with black borders. Gayler promised to take the idea to Washington.
A new usher at Herrmanns Theater debuted last night and will work the rest of the week. The striking young woman, who wore a Titian tinted wig, declined to reveal her name and did not provide personal information. Manager Hill said the arrangement was a bet with a friend and that he knew only this much.
Thousands of unemployed servant girls seek situations as city employment offices see fifty applicants per job. Suburban housekeepers and nearby country houses can now obtain all needed servants and even dictate terms, reversing scarcity from the fair.
The California Midwinter exposition is outlined to cover 160 acres with 75 buildings plus kiosks and small restaurants. Gates will open on New Year's Day drawing visitors to the event in San Francisco.
A pale hungry boy entered a Main Street restaurant at 7 30 p m begging to sell papers and earn money for his father’s neglect He sells all papers by canvassing tables and finally leaves with coins Then a bystander laments abusive fathers and a second boy jokes about buying minstrel seats The Buffalo Express reports a harsh scene of child toil and poverty in a city dining room.
In a light exchange at the lakeside, Miss Dovecote dismisses travel gossip about many new marriages while Spooner proposes a sudden visit to the lake and Miss Dovecote agrees with a fluttering, affectionate response.
In 1893 a maid of Athens stood with companions in a local drug store and asked for milk shake, as the Detroit News Tribune recalls the town once famed as the eye of Greece and mother of art.
Mrs Swizzles calls to her husband from the balustrade that she is ready except for her hat. He naps on the sofa and jokes for Maria to wake him at 9 60 o clock, delaying their departure for the theater.
Mrs Fizzletop scolds her son Johnny for making a grease spot on the new sofa with bread and butter. He responds that the seat can be used when company arrives in the parlor. This exchanges shows domestic humor from a Texas Siftings piece.
The piece recalls a New York man dining in a Boston restaurant as he jokes about the other man nearby. The waiter quips that little will remain by the time he finishes, eliciting a shared laugh.
The Agriculture Department reports December farm prices across crops. Corn at 57 cents per bushel is 2.4 cents below last year, near 1880 89 decade average. Wheat at 52.1 cents lags behind, rye 51.8, oats 28.8, barley 40.6, buckwheat highest since 1858. Cotton plantation price 6.00 cents per pound, down from last year’s 8.4 cents.
The Washington Post reports that the title father of the house passes from Charles O’Neill to Richard Parks Bland of Missouri as Bland becomes the senior member in continuous service. It notes Bland at 58 in his eleventh term and Sickles, who served since 1857 with a 32 year gap, is a notable earlier entrant.
A well known English sportsman traveling with his wife in Spain during the Barcelona explosions caused a muddled foreign office telegram. The inquiry wrongly described him as in Barcelone and under watch, then he reported being jailed and blamed the telegram for the 24 hours in custody.
Ladoga center rush James Tobin, a towering 6 foot 240 pound star, led the Ladoga team after a two year diet of ice cream since July 1 1892. His dramatic recovery followed years of indigestion and vanished strength.
The surrender of King Lobengula and his warriors gives the British complete control of Matabeleland. The campaign against the blacks is described as short and sanguinary, with whites aiming to exploit rich gold reefs and push civilization through orderly governance and peace among tribes.
Evan A Cochran marries Mary Conley, then 14, in 1891 as her father Samuel Conley fights to keep her. A habeas corpus case ends when Conley is admonished in court and the couple is allowed to marry. The bride receives a new hat as they leave.
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