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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1898
Page
2
A promotional line invites readers to consider a broad array of grand values and offerings. The phrasing emphasizes importance and attention for discernment. No specific events or entities are named.
Remnants and fabrics offered at deep discounts with ginghams at 7c per yard and percale at 10c. Madras cloth 10c, best unlaundered shirts 50c to 65c, good calicoes 34c to 5c, lawn 4c, standard ginghams 5c, muslin 4c, summer corset 24c. Ladies handkerchiefs 5c and hose two pairs for 25c. Ladies’ vest 5c.
Train times list for East and West routes with numbers 16 18 12 11 and 85. Schedule notes include daily and daily except Sunday services and specific departure times. Terminology reflects historical timetable formatting and abbreviations for pm am and service days.
Local notes include social gatherings Miss Mary Snook and Miss Mamie Houghton host friends while Miss Lulu Stouffer hosts a dancing party. Prohibition delegates named, churches celebrate Children's Day, and a检 board plans records copying. Also reports on drownings, regents appointments, and railroad settlement payouts.
Company records show Mr. Dibble had a $6 000 life policy and owned his Eldon home and a farm. The widows of Messrs Blosser and Waterson, killed in the same incident, each received $5 000.
Property listing notes an eight room house with cellar and a well cistern in good condition offered by J. B. Monfort.
Mr and Mrs T M Clark and two children faced a runaway as their team dashed toward the square. Mr Clark guided the horses onto the sidewalk before Howell's harness shop, stopping them. Mrs Clark and four month old baby were briefly injured but not seriously hurt. The other child remained in the buggy with no injuries. A separate notice offers pasture for cows at 1 00 per month cash in advance on a farm half a mile south of city limits through Ws Droz, Agent.
Last Friday night the first genuine cake walk in the city drew a full opera house crowd under the Ladies' Improvement Association. Prof Herrick directed the event with five Mt. Pleasant couples contesting against Miss Florence Dell from the city. Dodge and Miss McNeal won the cake, while the second prize went to Mr. Johnson and Miss Dell. The dance at Beatty's hall followed and netted 105 85. Ice cream and drinks are available at the post office restaurant.
MonoDay June 13 Iowa experienced a warm wet week with copious showers and many downpours causing soil washout and bottom flooding. Corn stands reduced by flooding and weeds, yet potential recovery with dry weather. spring crops face lodging rust and possible near total loss. hay crops heavy though timothy and clover lodge. overall vegetation and vegetable output exceptionally large for mid June, threatening harvest yields.
文章警示避免含汞的涂敷药物治疗鼻腔炎症, 并称只有经信誉医生处方方可使用. 介绍 Hall's Catarrh Cure 由 F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio 制造并以内服形式作用于血液与黏膜, 同时提及 Hall's Family Pills 与处方配药在 D. G. Higley 处。
An old advertisement touts Cascarets candy cathartic as a cure for constipation with a money back guarantee if it fails. It lists prices of 10c and 25c and notes druggists refund policy.
A forged fifteen dollar check cashed at John Goehner's hardware store ends with Doughty and an alias McBroom pursued east on the Q track. McBroom jailed for vagrancy. Doughty faces March forgery case and potential grand jury action. Also notes death of Mrs. Sarah Cunningham, longtime Jefferson County resident, with funeral held at Jacob Baldosier’s home.
June 14 entries show J C Carbaugh visiting Fairfield friends and fishing while Mable Swayne completes schooling. W A Adams hauls sheep to Chicago. Robb Howard attends Ottumwa business. Veach visit Batavia. Lillie Manning stays with a sick grandmother in Batavia. Lib ertyville Sunday school convention gatherers part of a busy week. Cadogan to Fairfield. night office closed. Countryman spends week in Omaha and Lincoln. John Prine travels to Lincoln for summer. Ernest Manning home from school to work. Browner shipping hay east. Six locals head to Trans Miss Exposition.
Pro: pr opr ieto rs of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds have given away over ten million trial bottles. The medicine is said to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and lung diseases. J D McDowell Druggist offers a free trial bottle, regular size one dollar guaranteed or refunded.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a pleasant cleansing remedy for kidneys liver and bowels. It claims to dispel colds cure headaches fever biliousness and habitual constipation and encourages buyers to purchase boxes priced 10 25 or 50 cents with a guarantee from all druggists.
The City Council met Tuesday evening with most members present. They discussed sewer work in Johnstown addition and the southwest sewer extension with larger tile, but took no final action and referred it to a committee of the whole for Friday. Mrs Chester, Mrs Louden, and Mr Templeton from the Ladies Improvement Association asked for street and alley improvements and city funding to empty garbage boxes near the square. The Judiciary Committee was ordered to draft an ordinance banning grass and refuse in gutters. The Water and Light Committee reported five hundred feet of cotton hose and an Eastman nozzle, pending trial. The council adjourned to June 28 at 7 30 PM.
June reports showers and heat slowing corn planting. John Maxwell mourns a horse dying of overheating. Agnes Hayes returns home from St Joseph school Ottumwa for summer vacation. John Hayes passes railroad conductor exam on the C B and Q. Mrs C C Clark Wm Ross and wives Mrs Slagle Day and Gifford Hunt visit H Heaton. Carl Bright home over Sunday. S L Frazier attends Children's Day at Batavia Sunday evening.
Many people cannot drink coffee at night and sleep poorly. Grain-O offers a non stimulating, nourishing beverage made from pure grains that looks and tastes like coffee. Suitable for nervous persons, young people and children. Available in 15 and 25 cent packages at grocers.
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