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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1898
Page
2
Open for inspection are the latest fashion fabrics and dress goods. Silk weaves and wash fabrics appear in dainty styles with popular ribbons. The shop advertises the best 50c wrappers and new spring wraps and skirts in the newest effects.
A bold local advert markets carpets curtains and rugs as the cheapest in the city with cash purchase incentives and unusually valuable prices.
Fragmented timetable lists various numbers and fractions with daily and Sunday notes. Mentions Fast Mall and entries for No 2 to No 11 across different times, ending with a note that all except Sunday are daily.
Local brief highlights include March 28 city election with four incumbent trustees up for renewal. Sheriff, school and courthouse appointments noted, along with estate sales and guardians appointed. Also reporting tax intake of 12 800 73 and upcoming county and county diplomas exams.
A school treasurer will be elected by voters this year. The current treasurer is Mr. A. B. Scott, chosen by the board last September. Other items include property transfers, naval duty updates, musical at the opera house, marriage licenses issued, a centenarian Ulster Gazette copy, vagrancy arrests, a leather-top buggy sale offer, and library stock transfer discussions with possible city maintenance and reader subscriptions.
Laner and Cornell launch a new wholesale and retail bakery on the east side of the square with plans for an ice cream parlor in summer. Laner brings practical baking and confectionery skills from Ottumwa while Cornell offers extensive experience with the public from the west side restaurant. A grand opening is held Saturday with a complete line of goods on display and public invitation.
The advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and Thorne's muslin underwear specials.
On March 31 1898 at 2 PM the guardian B T Raines will sell to the highest cash bidder the NW quarter of the NW quarter of section 22 township 71 range 9 west 40 acres Jefferson County Iowa at the front door of the Fairfield Court House by order of the Jefferson District Court.
Leather purse found containing a small amount of change. Finder urged to return it to The Tribune office.
A local advertisement lists a Pure Neat foot harness titled Oi for sale at Black and Mohr. The brief notice highlights availability in the shop and invites inquiries from customers interested in the device.
The California Fig Syrup Co promotes Syrup of Figs as the true remedy for cleansing, available through all druggists at 60 cents per bottle. Buy only the genuine product.
Parsons college sent delegates Charles Crail Clarence Leeds and Miss Margaret Young to the state oratorical contest at Indianola last week. Drake University’s F C Allender won with Webster and the Constitution. Charles N Page of I W U was second. Jesse L Conley of Grinnell third. Leeds chaired the Parsons delegation toast Center Rush at Simpson College banquet. Next year’s state contest will be at Cornell college Mt Vernon.
A called meeting in the interest of the Library is hereby called for Thursday evening at the Library at 7 o'clock by order of the Committee.
One and a half inch farm harness offered complete for 23.00 at Black and Mohr.
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