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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1898
Page
5
The science of osteopathy began with Dr. Andrew Taylor Still. It describes treating disease without drugs or surgery by manual adjustment of bones and attachments to restore harmony and freedom of bodily functions and fluids. The goal is to ensure all life substances can act in harmony.
Advertises a cure system claiming success across nervous disorders headaches sciatica lumbago facial palsy asthma catarrh consumption spinal issues goiter eczema rheumatism and many organs with liver kidney stomach and rectal diseases. Says 90 percent of chronic cases abandoned as incurable previously are helped and 80 percent are cured.
The excerpt dwells on flowers and a statue like beauty awakening joy. It mentions roses, lilies, a nightingale, and bells on Moscow towers. It references Conjured Agrow with heavenly fire and a character named Ernest Jarrold in a Yellow Book context.
Fernand Langren notes in Century that Pueblo women head households, own homes, and shape daily life while men play minor roles. He praises Pueblo pottery, detailing coil-building, absence of the potter wheel, and meaningful symbolic designs linking old and new.
London World reports that La Societe des Sciences Psychiques in France fractured as a faction pursued talismans love philters and fortune telling. The remaining members formed a new society while interest in mystical quackery persists despite ghosts being scarce.
The throneroom of Spain is a grand crimson and gold apartment with a crystal chandelier and large carved gilded chairs. It is noted as the finest thrones for ceremonies where the boy king and queen regent sit, with daughters sometimes joining the reception of the court.
The Indianapolis Journal notes a grim view of overwork among Americans and laments national self-destruction. It also recounts a Norwegian superstition where a cock placed in a boat supposedly crows when passing a drowned body.
Article traces evolution from black powder to smokeless advances including cordite composition nitroglycerin gun cotton and vaseline. It explains manufacture risks methods acetone solvent practical uses in navies and explains cordite’s size codes and charge comparisons with gunpowder. Also includes a Kentucky tale of Jesse James stagecoach robbery anecdote and a Roundtree gift watch.
In a Sunday school room a Brooklyn Episcopal church lecture drew attention as hymn numbers on the board appeared 4 11 44 7 11. The four numbers triggered a joke about policy and 'craps' with visitors guessing meanings but the tale ends as a curious local anecdote reported by the Times.
A writer details the humorous exchange when two locals meet in a Japanese town. They bow from knee level, press palms, then emit hissing breaths and rapid compliments in falsetto, each seeking precedence before the polite contest ends and they part relieved.
An eel skin leather factory on a quiet street near London Bridge crafts many items from common eel skins. Skins undergo complex processes to become pliable leather used for whiplash lashes harness laces and other flexible tough articles.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy recalls a hostess presenting his poems. He bluntly calls them dreadful drivel, prompting her to defend their sentimental value as verses from her husband. The exchange highlights humor and affection in a remembered gift from early courtship.
A terror stricken editor admits authorship as a strong minded woman approves the piece with sharp wit. She then proposes marriage, highlighting a humorous exchange captured by the Chicago Tribune.
A humorous exchange features Effie and Uncle John debating who truly speaks through the language of flowers. Uncle John questions whether the gesture conveys the sender’s intent or merely the recipient and the bill.
An elderly out of town customer visits a Cleveland wire shop and exposes a billing quirk. The itemized bill shows four wheelbarrows at 16 dollars and a wooden door at 4 dollars, totaling 20. The patron argues the subtraction error, explaining the 4 should reduce the total to 12, not add. The tale ends with the clerk realizing the miscalculation.
A Detroit Free Press quotation recalls McGuffin who laments worse luck than others. The tale notes a single counterfeit half dollar always chosen by his wife to be kept in his pocket, a running joke on his misfortune.
The ad promotes No To Tobacco as an easy permanent quit aid claiming to make weak men strong and full of life. It promises a cure guaranteed with a booklet and sample free, and lists druggists selling it for 50 or 61 cents, with addresses in Chicago or New York.
A French observer argues timidity shapes youth and lifelong temperament, linking it to analysis and philosophy. He cites Virgil Horace Constant Michelet Amiel and Carlyle as timid yet brilliant, notes agoraphobia in crowds and stage fright among actors and speakers, with Cicero and Sarvey and Paillet offered as examples.
Patti joins a party of Americans where a banjo playing youth entertains with rag time songs. The young man hopes a famed singer will judge his art while she secretly loves every melody. She finally sings for the group causing several listeners to go mildly insane.
A nervous old lady asks Mr Steamboatman if danger exists. The deck hand replies there is plenty of fear but no danger. The exchange appears in Harlem Life tone with maritime imagery and social quips.
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