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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
2
A collage of notices and ads from Fairfield items including Typhoid illness of Smoke The Court, Fritz & Droz cultivator sale, A V Frazey undertaker, Crail's Restaurant ice cream claims, Kellogg's Bakery baking update, and a mix of graduation notices, bakery promotions, marriage licenses, local events, and community remarks. Includes small-town commerce, personal notices, weather hopes, and civic notes from May into June.
The Ledger editor quotes 29 year old market figures to challenge the logic of today’s high protective tariff. He notes wheat corn hogs steers horses wool and other prices then vs now and asks why higher tariffs then produced lower prices. His aim is to convert readers to protection.
A Malleable Iron Co. team faced Turney Wagon Factory champions as rain and mud did not dampen enthusiasm, ending 17 to 5. Simultaneously rural mail carriers beat postoffice workers 15 to 6 at the fair grounds. Highland Park of Des Moines and Parsons College played on Alumni field, 8 to 1 in favor of the visitors. Later city bar members and court house residents gathered at Alumni field for casual play.
Fairfield high school boys defeated Mt Pleasant by 3 to 2 on Alumni field in a swift, exciting game. Casualties included a hit 16 inches above a catcher’s eye, two sprained wrists, and a dislocated glove as both teams played with intense effort and crowding action.
Located at the corner of 2nd and Briggs St the English Lutheran Church lists services: Sabbath school 9 30 a m morning service 1 p m Christian Endeavor 630 p m and evening service 730 p m. Pastor Rev W Luther Bright to preach with a quarterly Holy Sacrament June 16th for new members baptism of infants and benevolence offerings. Strangers welcome.
On Tuesday evening June 18 D W Robertson's Famous Moving Picture Company of New York City returns to the Grand Opera House Fairfield Iowa with all new pictures plus entertainment by N L Baker baritone and Harry Willard premier piccolo banjo soloist among others Reservations for seats in advance urged.
The Kanawha Record announces lease of the paper to Prof Geo H Mount after this issue. Mount, two years as Kana wha public schools principal, brings printer editor experience and plans to devote full energy to the paper as subscribers and ads grow. The Tribune wishes him success.
A marriage notice records a ceremony held Saturday afternoon at approximately the customary hour in a Lutheran church setting. The brief item notes a wedding taking place, naming no additional participants or details beyond the venue and time.
Rev W Luther Bright joined in wedlock Norval B Caviness and Jennie M McCleary near this city. Both are young people of estimable character with Caviness a farmer by occupation. Best wishes accompany this couple as they begin life together.
Miss Cora Wheatley aged twenty, niece of C G Taylor of Jefferson city, died after a horse shied at a stump during a holiness camp meeting run. She worked as a stenographer for Hanna Garment factory. Parents reside at Hillsboro. Mother treated in Kirkville Mo. Father arrived by morning train. remains to be sent to Hillsboro tomorrow.
June is forecast as stormy and freakish with multiple storm periods. Hicks, St. Louis astronomer, predicts severe thunderstorms hail tornadoes and volcanic and seismic disturbances. Hackensack forecaster Devoe outlines a weather menu for the month with varied conditions from frost to heat and heavy rain.
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