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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1898
Page
4
The article notes equal numbers of tenors to combined baritones and basses, with about twice as many tenors as lower voices and about twice as many sopranos as mezzo sopranos or contraltos. It cites social and cultural factors shaping vocal training and career prospects, including gender trends and parental support.
A London Telegraph story recounts a prime minister hosting English visitors when a guest’s watch, a king’s gift, vanishes. The PM urges quiet and a five minute darkening so guests may return the item. Instead, a silver inkstand, another king’s gift, is found missing.
Frantz Poesing explains to barge office guards that his 64 mark suit and 50 mark book collection, totaling 105 marks, prove he has funds. He argues his personal effects should count toward the money required to proceed. The New York Commercial Advertiser presents his claim.
The Indianapolis Journal reports a calf dispute that cost over $11,000 in a local lawsuit. The piece contrasts civilian conflicts with Civil War era bravado, noting casualties among Kentucky men and a harsh exchange about wartime attitudes.
The article promotes T. A. Slocum M D of 98 Pine Street New York claiming a universal cure for consumption and bronchial lung diseases. He offers readers three free bottles of his New Scientific Treatment by mail to Fairfield Tribune readers who request it, citing letters of gratitude and urging immediate action.
The Independent argues captains must abandon confined conning towers as shells threaten their safety. It contends captains will risk exposure to oversee battles, while Lord Beresford jokes safer shelter lies not behind armor. But heavy projectiles may still sweep away armored towers.
The article explains why electricity has not become the main propulsion for large ships. It notes that a 10,000 horsepower Atlantic steamer would require huge storage batteries, about 334 million pounds, yielding a battery weight of 162,240 tons, far exceeding the ship’s mass.
The British Museum library holds complete editions of Shakespeare’s works translated into fourteen languages. These editions reflect a broad international engagement with the playwright and offer accessible copies for scholars and readers worldwide.
The remedy is non irritant easy to apply and reaches inflamed surfaces. Ely's Dream Balm combines rapid action with curative powers and safety. Physicians and patients praise it as a superior treatment with almost instant relief in acute cases and swift symptom abatement.
Advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as a catarrh remedy that is quickly absorbed and non drying. It claims to cleanse nasal passages, reduce inflammation, stop head pain, restore taste and smell, and is available at drug stores or by mail for 50 cents from Ely Brothers New York with full usage directions.
Europeans live on the outskirts of Canton where they influence little and admire themselves. The city shows narrow streets, ornate signboards, pawnshops with high interest loans, jade markets, and strange local foods and medicines. The piece blends travel notes with humorous anecdotes from a European Magazine column.
The article explains copper and a brass‑like composition metal used to sheath ships. It describes sheets 3 feet by 1 foot 4 inches fastened with the same material nails, sometimes over felt for calking, and the rapid, neat work done in drydocks. A 1,800 ton ship can be sheathed by seventy‑five men in two days at about $4,000 for materials and labor.
Mrs John Jacob Astor backs a new industry showing her image on six Series plates used for intimate luncheons. The famous New York matron appears in six looks from evening dress to bridal gown, including a skating fur ensemble and a summer muslin.
The text explains that three barleyoarns make one inch. It notes that when standards were first set, three well dried barleyoarns were laid end to end to form an inch, with three intended to equal length.
A New York Sun excerpt explains how elephants fear tiny mice and chacanas in their native habitats. It describes mice or chacanas entering trunks, causing pain, inflammation, and death, with elephants reacting fearfully even in captivity.
The piece reflects on actors as social curiosities seen at stations turning platforms into stages. It questions acting as a profitable career today versus Elizabethan times, mentions Dulwich School founder, and notes actors and performers adopting names from other people, including a model who wanted to call herself Alice Burne Jones.
A Paris style hair graft method is touted where a wealthy client receives a scalp transplant from a consenting poor donor. The procedure involves swapping scalps to match hair color and aiming for success, though access remains limited to the rich.
An alledged sufferer recounts severe blood poison from infection via a nurse. After failed treatments, Swift's Specific allegedly cured a lifelong condition, with patient Mrs. T. W. Lee of Montgomery Alabama endorsing 8.8.8 as the only remedy reaching deep seated cases.
A wounded veteran recounts years of illness from indigestion and nervousness, then credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring health and weight. He testifies to a prior relapse and notes notary Lincoln M. Coy verified the affidavit. Druggists endorse the remedy and sell it.
A Bengal post office superintendent recounts a river crossing after a bridge collapse. Alligators chased his oxen, the cart disappeared into a 12 foot abyss, officials and a cook avoided drowning, and the narrator survived amid fears others perished this year.
Bill Sykes of Newberg recounts hiring a man with a squint to inspect a state well. The seller showed a mikyscope and water with so called microbial life. Sykes paid ten dollars but later accused the seller of deception and left in anger.
European students staged a mock execution to test imagination. They abducted a peer, confined him in a dim chamber, and led him to a stool for beheading. A crowd watched as the pretend ritual turned deadly when a touch from a cane caused the victim to collapse and die.
An old lady questions danger while a deck hand reassures plenty of fear but no danger. The dialogue appears in Harlem Life.
Transacts general banking business with loans at reasonable rates for long or short terms secured by real estate or personal security. Custodian of wills and valuables. Interest four percent per year on deposits for at least six months.
A long roster of stockholders appears listed including J. E. Roth James Louden E A Howard D G Higley W E Bradshaw J8 McKenney Ed Hunt Geo W Ball RK F Rateliff W A Lamson Joseph Roth EK F Simmons Chris Roth Wm C Hawk J H Allender J 8 Louden A F Cassell H F Booker August Walgren J Ricksher T K Howlett Geo D Clarke Ward Lamson R W Lamson T L James D W Templeton Eugene Campbell 8 H Watkins Adam Messer Mrs N M Slagle D M Parrett J P Manatrey A B Scott Willy S Prewitt J Turney Co John McLane George Mowery Chas D Sett A C D Bradshaw Mrs Hester Parrett Lee T Gobble A P Anderson C A Herring Dr W Fordyce
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