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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1879
Page
4
A lyrical meditation in a June setting describes a moonlit night and a hunter in the southern sky watching past lovers. The poem blends nature imagery with warnings of fate as a maiden eyes shining rings and fragile wedding dreams become binding destiny.
President Hayes vetoes the legislative appropriation bill and opposes repealing key U S election provisions. He argues Congress would erase federal safeguards at congressional elections and laments lifting protections that ensure fair voting, urging new measures instead.
In Washington on May 26 to 29 the Senate and House debated monetary coinage as legal tender up to $10 and $20, militia deployment, election law repeal, and a cattle inspection clause. Amendments shifted inspection duties, adjournments followed, and the President’s veto on the appropriation was processed.
The piece argues that noodles offer a cheap, nourishing alternative to eggs and meat. It claims noodles contain egg-substance and wheat nutrients, reduce meat use, neutralize effects of fresh produce, and serve well in soup or other preparations as a healthy, clean substitute for macaroni.
Aesece clubs provide girls an opportunity to acquire a young man described as skilled with a bow. The unusual program aims to foster talent and companionship in unconventional social circles.
A fragment reads Tears cannot restore my wife therefore I weep inscribed on a French tombstone. The line conveys mourning without overt detail.
A narrator recalls childhood mischief from historical times describing pranks such as blocking chimneys, placing gunpowder in a cigar, and tampering with doors and carts. The piece contrasts past thrills with present restraint while musing on boyhood as nature’s plan for future manhood.
A reprint discusses W S Temple's guidance on avoiding poor butter. It cautions against heating milk, warming churns, or cooking butter, and warns that sour dirty vessels and decomposing vegetables spoil flavor, resulting in cheesy grease and poor butter.
A collection of Confucian maxims urging self discipline to benefit others. Emphasizes equity justice sincerity filial piety humility and loving one’s neighbor as oneself in daily conduct and response to others.
A condensed portrait of Charles O Conor, detailing his rise from office boy and newspaper carrier at eight, to apprentice, student, and finally a celebrated lawyer. The narrative emphasizes diligence, reverence, perseverance, and steady work as the path to success despite early poverty and slow recognition.
Along the Persian Gulf in Bahrin the arid coast thrives despite little rain. Divers tap fresh water by diving to sea springs, pulling up water through a goat-skin bag and returning for more. The springs are believed to originate from the Osman hill several miles away.
A man asks Dr. Brown to cure his eyes. The doctor soberly prescribes stealing a horse as a remedy, reasoning five years in state prison would leave no whiskey and supposedly heal the eyes. The patient doubts the plan.
A collection of game snippets and quips on marriage gender roles and manners. Jests about bachelors and married men, sea bathing cures, temper in women and men, a verdict on court silence, a pickpocket and a polite sunbeam, plus a Macbeth misquote about “a deed without a name.”
A Czar's mercy and wit are shown when a guard refuses to admit Prince Mentchikoff at St Petersburg. Peter the Great rewards the loyal recruit by making him a general and count, establishing a powerful imperial line.
The Denver News laments two recent cases where intoxication led to violence. A would be murderer and a murderer blame their crimes on liquor, while the writer urges sobriety and warns that many will follow the same tragic path when drunk. The piece condemns drink as an excuse and calls for avoidance of alcohol.
An advertisement touts Dr Bull’s Baltimore pills for indigestion and Dr Tutt’s Pills for fever and ague with money back guarantees. A humorous anecdote follows about an errant husband who, after creeping home late, rocks a cradle only to be told the baby is not there by his wife, Mary Jane.
In the rushing, noisy crowd, amid sounds of gladness, a melancholy chord of the heart is touched by an invisible hand in a fleeting, reflective moment.
A description of Kidney-Wort as a gentle constitutional medicine addressing torpid liver unhealthy skin weak bladder and enfeebled stomach. It claims relief for acute lumbago piles indigestion and notes cases twelve years' standing cured. Druggists stock it.
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