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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1888
Page
4
In Brrooklyn the Rev T DeWitt Talmage argues religion adds to vitality not drains it. He cites biblical longevity, health as a Christian duty, and divine care to claim practical religion promotes long life and reduces worry, promising eternal life beyond.
Joy speaks of tears and employment when Sorrow offers guidance. Sorrow claims youth can still learn, inviting Soy to stay so Joy may be comforted. The dialogue frames sorrow as a teacher and a path from grief to a hopeful response.
The tale follows Pat McNair and Biddy as they quarrel and reconcile over a tumble-down house, love, and a skind horn, with Pat planning a new partnership while Biddy vows to return to him. A telegram misread as hearse sparks public laughs around Jolliby’s misfortune and a village chase for a bill.
A route agent known for dry humor receives a telegram misread by co worker Jolliby who pretends a funeral arrives at 7:30. The hearse waits and the undertaker piles in, while the agent remains unaware, heightening the mistaken dead body joke until the moment of truth.
A drenched Texas town crowds a chilly station as a drunk man, later revealed not drunk, tosses gun cartridges into a stove. Panic erupts with a fire alarm, injuries, and a stampede, ending with the man calmly leaving town on a streetcar while spectators realize the shells were empty.
A young girl named Lina on a first ride in steam cars spots pumpkins among corn shocks near farms. She exclaims about big oranges and asks to stop to buy one that she says will go all around. Lina has five brothers and sisters.
The two conductors in a railway car banter about sleeping-car staff with humor and a jab about keeping a wide berth, reflecting light backstage banter on train life.
A paper by Mr. P B Delany before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers urges forming a committee to investigate causes of electric death. It argues the topic deserves serious study, seeks prevention methods, and hopes the institute will pursue broader, coordinated research to illuminate an obscure subject.
In a local exchange Mrs Clinchy recalls her husband’s brave death in an accidental fall. She describes her child’s near miss and credits the moment that prevented worse harm, noting her husband broke his neck without a sound.
A Boston lady is praised as the belle of the night while Captain Gatling calls another woman the bellethe electric belle and always on the wall. The remark highlights social glamour at a recent event observed by attendees.
Miss Spinster tells Mrs. Smith she often looks for a white horse, while Mrs. Smith replies that she always scans for a gray horse. The exchange reveals a light, playful chat about imagined horses.
A governess riding a horse car in a English town meets a man flashing a diamond ring then loses her purse. She later finds the same ring in her pocket, appraised at at least 150 dollars, while her purse held only two shillings. The ring slipped from the thief’s finger during the theft.
A collection of civilian and public life items: Sen Hawley to give Fourth of July oration in Philadelphia. George Sturge dies in England leaving over 1.25 million dollars to charities. Poet John G Whittier congratulates Dom Pedro on Brazilian abolition. Queen Victoria to gift painting to Bismarck. Gladstone pivots to the picture business and vows no new portraits. Moody receives a 70 thousand dollar hotel at Northfield adjunct. Sarah Bernhardt reportedly has 800 unread plays. Beard grows five feet on Joseph Mason of Fielding Illinois after fifteen years. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr visits California to study Chinese labor. Sheridan led Potomac cavalry, 75 battles, 205 flags, 160 pieces. Nast once roamed an organ in Sands Street church in Brooklyn. Russell Sage directs three banks and attends meetings for ten dollars each. Sage’s income funds butcher and vegetable needs. Jefferson Davis, age eighty, reveals war-era concerns, including Sheridan’s first commission from West Point.
A health note touts a vegetable remedy that allegedly purifies the blood and cures diseases by cleansing the kidneys, described as the only blood purifying organs in complete health.
The kings of Burmah reportedly kept elephants to execute treason suspects. Condemned prisoners were paraded publicly to frighten foes. An elephant would grasp the neck with its trunk, lift the victim, and stomp or knead them into pulp, delivering a terrifying display of power.
A witty exchange in a dark hall leads a maid to reveal she was kissed by her fiancée, triggering a shocked parlor moment as the other young woman learns the same man kissed her too and she faints.
In a dialog, a woman declines marriage to Henry saying she will be his sister. He retorts he will not share the estate. The piece notes D. N. Wheeler recently graduated from Elliott's Business College in Burlington Iowa and now works as a bookkeeper for Weir Plow Co. in Dallas Texas earning 75 dollars a month.
Inspector Byrnes in civilian dress overhears a cabbie overcharging a fare. He rides to City Hall and receives a ten day sentence. The vignette ends with a courtroom quip about the judge and costs.
Frank J. Cheney and Co. of Toledo swear as senior partners that their oath offers a one hundred dollar reward for each uncured catarrh case. The cure claims internal action on blood and mucus surfaces and notes testimonials. Also mentions price of 75 cents and distribution by druggists. A Richmond item notes girls carrying literature to school and wearing a three foot tistle.
A sales blurb touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure that promises big returns from a small outlay. It urges readers to correct blood imbalances to end headaches backaches and illness, claiming pure blood will transform them into a new person.
The Moxie People market a large 75c bottle of concentrated Moxie syrup to prevent counterfeiting. With ice water a bottle yields seventy five half tumblers of beverage, claimed to be as strong as the original X and to double endurance for the overworked and tired at three cents a day. Eminent chemists call it the richest nerve step aid known, with no loss of effect from long use.
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