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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
3
A testimonial claims cancer can be cured permanently by a specific remedy. Mrs Shirer describes a jaw lesion turning cancerous, then allegedly healed after taking the product, with emphasis on the medicine removing poison from the blood. The notice invites readers to request an ebook and contact physicians, offering free advice.
In "Child Life In Colonial Days" the author traces why early Virginians and settlers gave dramatic names to their children. Examples include Mara and Gershom from biblical allusions, and Experienced Waitstill Preserved Hopestill Wait and others from personal trials and hopes.
An old Youth's Companion quip touts a divining rod built from a steel bead and wooden handle shaped like an anchor. It jokes that any man seeking one should visit a hardware store and ask for a pickax.
A Chicago News column contrasts a fool aligning with the Straws driven by the wind with a wise man allying with the wind itself, offering a concise parable on strategy and prudence.
The passage notes that the United States' first savings bank was established in 1816 establishing a historic financial institution.
Advertisement promotes quick Jell O desserts with flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. It claims two minutes prep no shaking just add hot water and cool. Also touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with money back guarantee and E W Grove signature on box priced 25e.
The Tribune advertises for a correspondent network across county townships, inviting interested residents to call the office or write to the editor for terms and particulars.
Slim ad touts No-To-Bac as a wonder-worker to quit tobacco easily and forever. Claims it makes weak men strong and promises a free booklet. Ads direct readers to Sterng Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York for purchase.
Chicago alderman John Powers announces retirement. Judge Gibbons withdraws from the Chicago mayoralty race in favor of John Maynard Harlan. Kansas House passes the Pestanas election bill to end fusion by banning repeated candidate names on ballots.
The Philippine commission forms civic government for Bulacan province while Rev Father McKinnon says 800 priests will withhold sacraments from Filipino Federal party members. Insurgents raid Catbalogan during Federal festivities but retreat in disorder. Judge Taft is set to become the first civil governor. Archbishop Chapelle vows church reorganization in the islands.
In the British House of Commons the pro Boer amendment to the reply to the king’s speech was defeated 91 to 243 while the reply was adopted 297 to 78. Somalis attacked a British force of 500, killing seventeen including Lt. Col. Maitland. A French chamber row erupted over the religious association law. Powers reject King George’s Crete annexation plan. Senor Villaverde to form a Spanish ministry.
Reports detail a violent spree with lynchings and robberies across Illinois and neighboring states. In Terre Haute a mob hanged George Ward after freeing him from jail, then burned his body. Chicago saw torture and robbery of grocer Charles Telita, while Hyde Park and Woodlawn homes yielded diamonds and silver worth 1550 dollars. Scranton Mississippi reports a white man John Knox lynched for killing a boy. New York burglars stole jewelry valued at 380000 dollars from Francis B Hoffman's residence. An officer captured an armed burglar in Chicago. DeKalb man H M Thomas was forced into a cab, robbed and shot in Chicago. Albert Shenkle pled guilty to assault under guard in Cerrollton Ill.
Bank in Des Plaines Illinois failed to reopen after a two week bank run. Ashland Steel mill in Ashland Kentucky resumes after thirty days idle, employing 300 workers. Swan Peterson Floral of Gibson City Illinois incorporated with capital $30 600. J H Prince druggist of Prineston Illinois assigns liabilities unknown assets about $7 000. Iron workers warn Morgan steel trust will not crush small outside producers.
A string of fatal incidents includes a factory fire at an Alden stop factory in Waukeegan Illinois who two women died and ninety injured in a Wabash railroad wreck near Benton Indiana. Others include drownings in Low Moor Iowa a death at West Palm Beach Florida four children perished in a fire in Litchfield Pennsylvania and miners killed in Diamondville Wyoming. A convict died in a Nebraska penitentiary blaze and a Greenfield Indiana worker killed aboard the Pennsylvania fast mail. Two unidentified men crushed by an electric car in Chicago and a 12 year old killed by a live trolley wire at Kokomo Indiana.
John Milton Clarke longtime messenger in the U S sub treasury Boston is dead Seth Starbuck Cumberland counties pioneer Ill dead at Greenup Kentucky aged 85 Lyman B Crosby Civil War veteran and Indiana Eighty seventh captain dies in Chicago Major I N F Crozier merchant Cushing Colorado Territory and vice president Bank of the Indian Territory dies suddenly in Guthrie Oklahoma T William M Evarts jurist orator and statesman dies of pneumonia in New York
A Mantua Ohio blaze from a saloon origin near midnight wiped out a large portion of the business district with losses estimated at 75 000. The fire originated at J W Rosensteel's saloon and left extensive damage. Other fires hit Duluth Minnesota and Columbus Ohio causing sizable property losses.
Twenty seven Monmouth college boys were fined for fighting and rioting. The item notes disciplinary action against the students and the local campus incident.
A Mountain Lake reflects a cradle of nature and time. The speaker praises the lake as a resting figure amid green hills where brooks murmur of trials and tearful foams. The poem links the lake to human mortality and eternal rest as mountains keep watch.
A New York Sun report describes a middleman known as the soaker who helps pawnbrokers and customers, claiming he earns 10 percent commission by pawning goods for repeat families who retrieve items on payday and return them soon after. He says his method avoids social snobbery and emphasizes polite, respectful conduct to maximize returns.
In a Detroit Free Press anecdote a lawyer mocks legal jargon as an executor debates proving an aunt was alive for prior annuities. The will required annual checks of life, leading to a comical dispute over past payments and affidavits before settlement.
In the west the Ames shovels stood as steady currency for two decades, a symbol of honesty for Oliver Ames & Son. Benson’s Porous Plaster is extolled as the universal external remedy, superior to Capsicum and Belladonna plasters. Endorsed by 5,000 physicians and druggists with 55 top awards, it cures coughs and rheumatic troubles. Seabury & Johnson advertise 25-cent sales with prepaid postage in the United States.
Henry Warn a German farmer near Denison Iowa killed his son William and burned the house, outbuildings, and cattle through arson and gunfire before shooting himself in the burning barn. Neighbors tried to intervene as Warn arranged the scene to ensure total destruction. fire hydrant and hog houses were staged to seal fate.
Rev. Maine of Afton Methodist Church attended a Creston dance as a spectator paying a dollar at the door. He spoke to participants and later preached on dancing and card playing, warning he would shepherd his flock and watch for any lambs straying to social events.
Des Moines reports both city and county jails under smallpox quarantine. Police announce no court for ten days and night watch units are under medical surveillance. A intoxicated woman jailed earlier was found to have broken from the smallpox quarantine.
Panic swept Farmers' and Merchants' bank as word spread of insolvency. Depositors from nearby areas crowded the building seeking withdrawals but the bank remained solvent and withstood the demands.
Major H G Curtis former member of the U S insular commission that organized Porto Rico died Saturday at his Atlantic Iowa home. He had returned from Washington last summer frail but his strength never fully returned to former vigor.
Three youths George Mitchell George Dayton and Daniel Maltby were badly burned in Clinton Iowa when they detected escaping gas in a vacant building and lit a match. The basement exploded and the house was blown to pieces.
In Ottumwa Iowa on March 1 the miners rejected the scale proposed by operators and the joint convention began considering the operators scale. No agreement had been reached at this writing.
Ottumwa Iowa March 2 miners and operators in the second and third districts have agreed on the price for all coal except mine run at last year’s scale.
Jefferson City March 4 The house rejected a medical licensing bill by 84 to 42 after Christian Scientists opposed it as prohibitive to healing without state board license. The senate engrossed the same bill Tuesday and is expected to pass by a strong vote.
The annual inter scholastic meet at Regentsfield will be held May 24 and 25 under similar conditions as last year. All contestants will be hosted at the expense of the athletic association or fraternities. High school athletes from Michigan Ohio Indiana Minnesota and Wisconsin may compete.
Perry Treath former first assistant Postmaster General of the United States buys Big Fish island in St Margaret's bay about forty miles from Halifax and plans to build a palatial summer residence there.
The text explains how tribes used smoke rings and fire arrows as signals over long distances. One ring warned of enemies, two or three indicated danger or camp locations, and multiple arrows conveyed imperatives and attack plans. The system functioned both by day and at night for rapid communication.
A foreign man entered a large jewelry house on F Street and asked for second hand watches. The clerk claimed they sold only new watches, but the man persisted and finally bought a watch with a second hand for $50. The episode ends with the clerk admitting all watches have second hands.
A New York Herald note argues that workers employed by government entities show higher tendencies to theft than those in private jobs. It suggests many thieves confess that speculation led them to misappropriate funds and end up in prison, reflecting a cynical link between speculation and crime among public money handlers.
A young man leaving a party at the Kenhurst club confesses awkwardness with his hands. A masked robber with a revolver instructs him to hold them up, and the youth complies. The incident appears in the Chicago Tribune.
Archaeology notes that some Egyptian obelisks bear figures mounted on two wheeled vehicles resembling early velocipedes suggesting ancient interest in wheeled transport.
Silks are described as absorbing dyes with greater ease than any other fabric, highlighting their superior coloration potential for textile work.
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