05 Jul 1883
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1883
Page
1
A compendium of Iowa notices reports drownings at Oxford Mills and Creston, fatal railroad runover, mine suffocation, and a large fire loss at McGregor. It notes state finances, livestock, wool growth, reunions, and legal cases, including a forest of local disputes and civic events across multiple counties.
The Muscatine Journal notes Iowa's shift from a mainly agricultural state to a robust manufacturing center from 1850 to 1880. It lists capital, wages, materials, and product values, highlights numerous industries, and cites census figures showing $353 million in capital and $71 million in products. It also mentions specific agricultural implements produced and a broader push to meet farming needs. The piece closes with a reflection on character through a tale about Demetrius, a coward turned hero under fire.
Long digest of brief items including Jersey cattle sale totals in New York, floods at Ashland Pennsylvania, Lee statue unveiling at Lexington, a New York millionaire drowned at Saratoga Lake, a fatal sawmill explosion in Missouri, a Princeton astronomy professor's death, a Muskegon lumber dock collapse, barbed wire royalty talks, a Elberton cyclone aftermath, emigrant and pauper immigration concerns, a cotton seed oil mill fire in New Orleans, rising business failures, a fatal gravel train collision in Montana, pauper immigration controls, threats against a count, a Missouri murder arrest, and forged bond arrests in New York and New Jersey.
The report lists hangings at Ft. Smith Arkansas on June 29 involving Martin Joseph, William H. Finch and Trialista a Seminole Indian. It notes a six-prisoner escape in Vandalia six months earlier, an assault on Kate Murray at Louisiana Missouri, a Chicago boarding house murder by William Ray, and various UK and European updates including Lord Morris and the Curragh affair.
An Oshkosh woman declares she values a roller pin above money, saying every time she loves a husband she cuts a notch in it. She brandishes the worn wood, noting its battle marks resemble damage from a sausage chopper.
A Iowa Republican convention nominates Sherman for governor and Reed for Supreme Court judge after acclamation for incumbents Manning Akers and Sherman. The platform repeats 1880 GOP principles, supports prohibition, tariff reform, anti saloon policies, and Pension protections while urging orderly politics and industry development.
A poet learns the season turns with a poem starting Hot floats the horse fly in the soup While she can craft a fancy screen her plain stitching on the old man's pants draws attention The remark about the noblest mind shows the speaker notes character over content.
Solicitor Rayner refused two long‑pending offers to settle cases against the government. James A. Rhomberg of Dubuque, Iowa, faces a $103,000 judgment from unpaid whiskey tax assessments over $400,000. Paymaster Smith, late U.S. Army, had bondsmen offer $500 to settle $33,700 in claims.
A horseback traveler questions a woman at a rural Arkansas cabin about a school house amid many children. She says none, explains she takes no pay and lets the children scratch, while the husband is away in town. A deputy raid once took him for whisky. A boy and children distract the rider as he leaves.
The ideal future woman, as per the Boston Traveler, blends intellect with elegance and tasteful attire. Education should not eclipse aesthetics nor inflate vanity, with Professor Sargent warning against excess in refinement. True beauty lies in simplicity, preventing dress from becoming a social restraint.
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