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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1900
Page
5
A Philadelphia physician attended a seriously ill child in a two room city home during election time. The mother blamed the magistrate for the crime of fraudulent vote registration by neighbors, confessing the family’s role. The child recovered and the magistrate settled the doctor’s bill.
Joe Jefferson recalls David Garrick and Spranger Barry playing Romeo in London with Drury Lane and Covent Garden sparring for the public's judgment. Mrs. Siddons weights their balcony scene, noting Garrick's fierce intensity and Barrys alluring restraint.
A Washington hostess told a caterer she would honor visiting doctors with a fine dinner to showcase the capital. The caterer doubled quantities and wine, noting doctors “eat and drink” and have a larger appetite, while the hostess sought an impressive spread.
The National Druggist warns the pineapple is the least healthy fruit of the tropics. Its juice is alleged to be a blood poison in Java and the Philippines. It is also linked to Malay krushes, dagger poison, and nail poison once used by Jav anese women.
The speaker recalls traveling from Gibraltar to Australia then to the South African diamond mines where he claims to have made his fortune. Miss Crynkle responds with a playful vow to follow to the world’s end as quoted from the Chicago Tribune.
A humorous exchange quotes a man claiming no woman can sharpen a lead pencil and a woman replying that the blame lies with the pencil. The joke hinges on the idea that woman was invented first.
A brief quip from the Indianapolis Press frames a joke about waiting for cheese sandwiches. The waiter’s slowness is downplayed by the optimist noting that longer wait improves the cheese.
An English actor who died on the road was shipped in a coffin to London by his manager as theatrical properties. The cost was four dollars, versus sixty dollars if he had traveled as a corpse.
A reminiscence by a senator recounts rolling a massive boulder on Mount Tom near Hamilton Nevada. The rock narrowly avoided a 12 mule team below driven by Jerry Simpson, prompting an unlikely escape and a vow not to reveal the culprit. The tale ends with the driver’s dramatic escape and the senator’s silence.
A New York businessman displays wallpaper of apparent value 400000 dollars but it is worthless, made of thousands of six percent bonds. The bonds were engraved and printed at a cost of 2500 dollars for a company that failed to attract investors and never floated.
A Lewiston Journal excerpt describes turkeys chasing a yard rag as if guarding a treasure. The farmer notes that once one bird finds something valuable, the flock mobbers it, turning the yard into a running chase until the dog is released. He concludes the scene mirrors human behavior.
An officer recalls how starving troops scavenged mule meat after a shell hit the lines. They roasted flesh, fried biscuits in axle grease, and pressed on despite harsh hunger. Only twelve horses could carry riders six miles for a potential sortie.
An invalid seeks medical advice. The doctor writes a prescription for 2 guineas, charging it as a remedy. Later they meet. the patient claims he was too poor to fill it, so he took no dose, while the doctor notes the patient looked 100 percent better.
The piece notes that in England boys fight to prove physical superiority while in America fights stem from anger. It adds even without quarrel or feeling, a fight may occur if friends dispute who is the stronger, often ending in a mill.
A Philadelphia Press excerpt toward a moral man criticizing a clergyman who uses religion as a cloak. The practical man notes religion as flimsy and likely to catch cold, satirizing hypocrisy.
Mrs Blykins quotes the Chinese minister like women’s costumes as ridiculous. Mr Blykins replies that the view would change if he had to pay for them, implying costs would alter attitude. Washington Star.
The Century prints a quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte told to Dr. O Meara at Saint Helena. He says if offered the throne again in England he would refuse to avoid becoming a bourreau and shedding oceans of blood to stay in power. He adds he is aging and desires retirement and laments fighting Europe.
In Ecuador’s Pacific slope a palm yields hard white nuts used as vegetable ivory. Germany buys about two thirds, with the remainder going to the United States France and England. Harvest occurs in the rainy season as rafts carry nuts down swollen rivers. Workers are Indians and mixed races. unpeeled nuts sell for about 60 cents per 100 pounds.
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