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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1921
Page
4
The article argues that publishers pursuing large special editions do so from community duty rather than profit. It notes a 52 page issue by the Tribune as an example of effort beyond regular work, yielding public service value that money cannot fully repay.
Fairfield city council imposes a Tuesday and Thursday parking curfew on both sides of the square to reduce noise during band concerts. Officials cite crowded crowds, auto traffic, and playing children as disruptors, urging polite restraint to restore hearing enjoyment for spectators and performers.
A columnist laments the vanished vigor of Fairfield's Ladies Improvement Society once active in city welfare. The piece urges current and former members to rekindle efforts, press the new mayor and council, and reclaim leadership in civic improvements for a more inviting, livable Fairfield.
The Iowa Federation of Labor at Burlington passed resolutions urging President Harding to free Eugene V. Debs and for Congress to recognize the Irish Republic. It also urged repeal of the espionage law, a bold stance for a veteran labor group.
A Cedar Rapids Gazette opinion argues about the espionage law and antiwar sentiment, questioning who slipped passes into law and urging focus on domestic issues. It notes Irish societies growing in the U.S. and calls for strengthening home governance before meddling abroad.
Wallace's Farmer argues Iowa farmers should defend farm values by maintaining prices at about 70 percent above prewar levels while urging other sectors to adjust down. It warns a general price drop to prewar standards could bankrupt many farm owners and erase recent land value gains. Davenport Democrat notes the farm journal's stance.
Lee Mabry of Albemarle overcame a 15 year paralysis from a wood accident to publish Sunny South Sunshine reaching 6000 readers and 2000 free shut ins. After wartime paper costs forced a halt he now funds himself by magazine subscriptions and daily cheerful letters bearing the message Cheer up.
A light column features wry observations on public life and quirks of daily chatter. It jokes about work slumps, auto theft rumors in Detroit, and curiosities from Burlington and New York headlines plus a string of puns and humorous anecdotes from readers.
The May 1 report from the U S Department of Agriculture Bureau of Crop Estimates shows six key crops priced below prewar averages. Wheat, rye, and buckwheat rose above, while corn barley flax potatoes and cotton fell, with Michigan and South Dakota highlighting the regional declines.
A Boston Herald correspondent describes two cats on a fence under moonlight. The first cat silently embodies suspense and surprise, while the second—a scarred, earnest fighter—expresses a vigorous, unconventional message and exits with utter abandon.
A rural doctor treats Greg Bryson a crippled blacksmith. Bryson repays with faith and future patients, funding a climb from poverty to prosperity as the physician’s practice expands across the county. The story highlights trust, repayment, and community loyalty.
Mallorca is praised as a peaceful, leisure filled island where daily life seems stretched and unhurried. The writer notes intelligent, hard working people with striking beauty, especially the women, yet insists strict religious repression and Arabic influences temper their joy of living.
The Boston Transcript notes experiments using music to treat insanity and counter the effects of overwork. It mentions a possible antidote for the stress associated with a grapho phone in a flat overhead.
The Detroit News recounts Marguerite Bellisle Foures a beauty linked to Napoleon in Cairo where he wooed her while her husband Lieut Foures was dispatched. After a divorce Foures faded from court life and she later married Henri de Ranchoup then fled to Brazil with a young officer living to ninety two.
A discussion notes that chewing gum origins are English not American with 1635 English writer John Bate proposing a mouth glew recipe. The method uses isinglass dissolved in water, strained, scented with cinnamon marjoram rosemary flowers and brown sugar candy for flavor. The excerpt cites Mysteries of Nature and Art as the source.
Early French papermaking traces to Saracen influence with noble estate vas sals and monks driving the craft. The first dated paper specimen is a 1190 A D bond to Jews linked to Richard I’s crusade financing.
The text traces shawls as the earliest garment, noting they preceded scissors and varied with climate. It argues the shawl evolved into later clothes including the toga and modern attire, with soldiers in the Civil War still using shawls as overcoats.
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