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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1879
Page
2
The Tripune is sold to new owners who promise to improve quality and value for Jefferson county readers. The editorial pledges a Democratic stance and urges reader support while noting the first issue sets expectations for future numbers.
Canon City Colorado reports the rush to Leadville and Silver Cliff as a historic fortune seeking movement. trains and stages fill with travelers to mining camps amid four hundred houses already built and noted high wages for workers.
The passage notes improving health care in valley communities with asthma and debility treated locally. It highlights nearby vast coal and iron fields, abundant water power, and impending railroad construction that will transform the area into a major industrial and anti vetaring center.
Advanced sheets present the twenty fifth annual report of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad detailing Illinois and Iowa earnings from freight passengers and other sources, net earnings after expenses, and allocations for rent, taxes, and dividends with a year end debt and mileage summary, showing increased business volume and growing need for more freight cars.
An advertisement touts Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a radical treatment for catarrh while warning against sniffers. It also touts Dr Marshall's Lung Syrup for whooping cough with a 25 cent price, sold by W H L Jones & Bros and endorsed by doctors.
Market report shows prices mostly firm with rises in grain linked goods. Wheat and corn demand up, oats and seeds steady, and butter eggs and poultry mixed as buyers seek supplies. Poultry dressed prices and barrel salutes noted amid varied hide and tallow activity.
In Jefferson county Iowa on a Sunday in October 1874 J M Haley bought one third of the north part of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 26 township 73 range 9 totaling 3.33 acres for 1.54 dollars covering 1873 taxes and costs. Alexander Maxwell holds the certificate of purchase and redeems must occur within ninety days of service or a tax deed will be issued. Dated March 5 1878.
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