24 Jan 1889
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1889
Page
1
A collage of 1889 local notices includes Perry King butter, P O Restaurant oysters, Voorhies' hats and neckwear, Salvation Army work in Albia, and a flood of commercial notices. The Jefferson county board meets with budget allocations for witnesses, bridges, poor farm, and public buildings, plus tax and road decisions and court clerk appointments.
The board examined sheep claims filed with the auditor under the Twentieth general assembly law and ordered the auditor to draw warrants on the domestic animal fund for 75 percent of allowed damages to named parties. It also approved five months of clerk hire for Jefferson county treasurer John F. Loehr and noted bond actions for local officials.
In Glasgow memorials fifteen decades past recount the life of Charley Ripley of Co. E, 2nd Iowa Infantry. The writer lauds Ripley as pious and well loved by his mother, describing his courage in battle and his death from gangrene after two amputations. The piece honors a noble mother and a brave youth.
Jan 18 Geo Herman returns home to Carroll county John Moore visits western Iowa Ralph Stone takes a pleasure trip to Missouri George and Luther Snider form a joint stock firm and buy a road cart Geo Rambo heads to Ottumwa for coal mining George Snider sells his driving team for 300 dollars
A claimed home remedy for catarrh catarrhal deafness and hay fever is described as permanently curing these conditions in one to three applications every two weeks. The notice notes parasites in the nasal lining and offers a pamphlet for ten cents from A H Ixon and Son Toronto.
Ilarlan and Lowell, stockport merchants, buy oats at strong prices while local writers Douglas and Johnson report good business. Mr George Unkrich of Glasgow offers instruction for a brass band as Stockport prepares new instruments. A narrow gauge train wreck on Jan 11 caused no injuries and spurred talk of a new church and schoolhouse with $200 subscribed and a half acre of ground donated.
Packwoop Jan 19 Nathaniel Bb Lyon of Rawlens county Kansas visits friends here. He plans to settle on a homestead of 160 acres in about a year. F Bottorff’s daughter recovers from a consumption-like illness and attends Sunday school and religious meetings. The M E church congregation is large and the Center schoolhouse pastor is popular locally.
A U S marshal arrested two Bonaparte residents on revenue law violations for selling distillery products without licenses. The report notes Uncle Sam’s vigilance against bootleggers and contrasts state evasion with federal enforcement. Also listed are medical ad claims and a Kansas City drunken incident with a passenger missing money and a hospital transfer.
County attorney E Bainbridge Munday testifies Electric Bitters saved his brother from fatal malaria and jaundice. D I Wilcoxson of Norse Cave Kentucky also credits the remedy for saving his life. Advertised price 4c and 1. Clarke and Junkin's drug store also lists uncalled letters at Fairfield post office dated January 23, 1589 with names and initials of correspondents.
Newark Arkansas farmer C Al Morris says he was incurable but improved after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and is now third bottle into recovery and overseeing his farm. Decatur Ohio resident Jesse Middlewart credits doctors with saving his life after lung troubles with the medicine. Free sample bottles offered at Clarke Junkin s drug store.
A strongly worded prayer calls on an English origin to influence American politics. It asserts financial manipulation, support for monopoly power, and control over parties, while condemning labor unions and labor strikes. The tract frames wealth and influence as guiding forces for the republic’s end in a satirical religious tone.
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