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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1898
Page
4
A lively farmers club meeting critiques how lawyers dominate legislation and how farmers must engage in public affairs. Citations include remarks by J. Funck and references to Eminent quotes on morality, politics, and the role of the citizen. Nebraska’s stance supports constitutional ideals and national unity amid war.
In Omaha on June 14 Hon. Wm. J. Bryan denounced colonial policy and warned war brings hardship and expense. He urged justice and universal peace only when right prevails globally, saying enforceable by force while oppression continues.
The preparation is praised as quick acting and safe for nasal catarrh. It promises direct reach to inflamed surfaces, claiming rapid relief in acute cases and broad physician and patient endorsement for its curative powers and ease of application.
Advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as the only catarrh remedy quickly absorbed by diseased membranes. It claims to liquefy secretions, moisten and heal nasal passages, reduce inflammation, stop head pain, restore taste and smell, and be mailed for 50 cents from Ely Brothers in New York with full directions.
In a French village, Abbe Savten uses his dog Oremus to test a stubborn farmer Le Faiard. The dog ignores a Friday sausage under the priest’s left hand, proving the miracle is in faith, not appetite. Le Faiard repent and joins mass, becoming a helper at the church.
An advertisement claims eczema is a blood disease and asserts Swift's Specific is the only remedy that can reach deep seated disorders, while condemning doctors and mineral mixtures as harmful. The copy markets the product as a universal cure.
A Detroit woman narrates her five year battle with ovarian trouble and constant headaches. After trying various doctors, she credits Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People with curing headaches, tremors, weakness, and weight loss, restoring vitality and happiness.
The Fairfield Tribune prints an offer from T A Slocum M D of New York promising three free bottles of his New Discoveries for readers with pulmonary tuberculosis and other chest conditions. Readers are asked to write to 98 Pine Street New York giving address to receive the free medicine, with a note that they saw the offer in THE TRIBUNE Fairfield Iowa.
In a western city years ago two riggers faced a perilous repair atop a very tall church steeple. They lashed light ladders outside, and one man climbed to summon an extra ladder. While working at height he steadied the ladder as his partner ascended. A solder pot spilled, scorching his hands, but he held firm until the other man could descend.
An editor from Crookston Nebraska visits the school and lauds the resourceful schoolmaam calling her the pride of the town and a jewel of bril liancy. She drew an iceberg on the blackboard and quickly replaced it with a fireplace keeping the school safe though pupils later caught colds.
A Japanese wedding custom marks the union with a ritual where the bride bathes the groom’s feet. The act symbolizes humility and the couple’s shared path, reflecting cultural emphasis on service and harmony.
Transacts general banking business with loans at reasonable rates for real estate or personal security. Offers safekeeping of wills and valuable papers at no charge. Interest on deposits at 4 percent per annum for six months or more.
Officiating bank officers listed include J. E. Roth as President Jos. Ricksh er as Vice President and John Davies as Cashier. The note references no interest on demand deposits.
Directors named J E Roth J Pyhshes A Howard A F Cassel Lee T G McKenney CD Leggett and Wes Louden are recorded as directors.
A long roster records stockholders meeting attendees including J. E. and James Louden E A Howard D G Higley W E Bradshaw Geo W Ball R F Rateliff Roth Wm Cawk J 7 Allender and many others such as A F Cassell H Booker Keith Walgren J Ricksher T R Howlett Ward Lamson R W Lamson D W Templeton Eugene Campel H Watkins Adam Messer Mrs N Slagle and more as listed. The fragment shows a gathering of names rather than a specific action or outcome.
An army officer explains military burial rules prohibit flowers on a soldier or sailor’s coffin. After a rumor of a death at Chickamauga, sympathetic flowers were sent to officers whose quarters, not to the coffin, since only a flag is allowed on the casket.
A 16 inch harbor defense shot produced 54 320 foot tons of energy and bored a 16 44 inch hole through 20 inches of compound steel eight inches of iron 20 feet of oak 5 feet of granite 11 feet of concrete and halted in a six foot brick wall.
An issue from London Punch features a patient lamenting weariness and insomnia with no appetite, while a doctor jests that marriage might help. The brief quip satirizes medical consultation and social advice with sharp humor.
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