21 Mar 1889
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1889
Page
1
The page lists fresh oysters at a Deland restaurant and prints ads for medicines, horse remedies, and insurance. It notes Rev. E. M. Dwight traveling to Santa Fe for health and mentions local printers offering affordable job printing. It also includes testimonials about Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Ayer’s medicines.
Judge Leggett reports Centerville in a feverish state after an unheard of number of fires. Seven alarms in one day, with a near miss near the square and a large blaze at the southeast corner. Ten fires in the week through Thursday. Blood's Sarsaparilla advertised as a spring purifier and health booster.
A seller announces stock for fruit trees three miles west and one mile north of the city and offers delivery with no extra charge. Also promotes The Home Magazine edited by Mrs John A. Logan, describing its fiction, travel, home arts, and a Europe letters feature, with subscription details and free copies for new subscribers.
The Stetly Factory plans to dispose of its cider and jelly plant located east of town. It will sell the machinery and building separately or together to any interested buyer, with options for ervaren and possible relocation.
Purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as the people's favorite spring medicine. It claims to purify blood cure scrofula salt rheum regulate kidneys and liver repair nerves strengthen the body and check chronic disease progress restoring afflicted parts to health. Try it this season.
The article recounts 1835 output of 100000 corn cans 27000 tomato cans 100 pickle barrels and 22 thousand seed corn bushels valued around 10000. For 1889 plans call for 158000 tomato cans and 75000 corn cans in 5000 to 7000 cases. Fairfield company fared well despite overstock and Gobble’s ordering experiences hint at growing demand.
Mrs. Luther Lutz of Shelby North Carolina credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with dramatic relief after seven years of illness. After coughing for three months she slept through the night and, using one bottle, she was miraculously cured. Clarke and Junkin offer free trial bottles.
A 1859 clipping notes a box of white powder labeled Anthony salt. An analysis reports it as 9820 percent pure, claimed to rival the highest grade from Onendago New York. The note mentions a Mr McElkoey and a Wit Ward and references Anthony, Kansas.
Advertises Dr King's New Discovery and other remedies for sale with refund guarantee. Letters discuss Peter Yost's county farm steward petition and a critique of mutual support and costs. Includes promotion for Hood's Sarsaparilla as a health defense.
Advertises Frank Winn offering every farming and gardening implement and the best harrows cultivators and plows. Notes Woolford's Sanitary Lotion by D G Ligley Fairfield claiming cures for skin ailments and a guaranteed satisfaction or money back. Also mentions Clarke & for sale.
Odd Hocking county court once valued a woman as property with costs and wages, restoring her to her husband. A Perry county horse case used habeas corpus to regain access to the animal. Other anecdotes recount juror pranks and eccentric lawyers in 19th century Ohio courts.
A Stonington recluse known as Zeb the hermit fisherman lives in a filthy waterfront hovel. He started with $90, built a 500 foot seawall by hand, then ten stone houses earning $7 a month each. He still fished, turning $390 to $590 yearly into property or savings, amassing about $50,000.
A lyrical verse asks if peace can dawn for a troubled heart and seeks solace beyond stars. Annie S. Swas pleads for respite from noise and weariness, imagining a shore of calm where burdens fade under a vast, loving horizon.
A London Telegraph correspondent notes white bread is common in Norway while heavy rye bread remains dominant. Two women bake large flat loaves on a wooden table near a clay floor and open fire, continuing for forty days to feed a large family.
A lyric reminiscence of a man awaiting his beloved, describing a tender homecoming. The speaker anticipates trembling with joy and touching her hand as in youth, followed by silence, perfume, tears, and the embrace that confirms his rightful place.
A Blackwood's Magazine note recounts a 1747 dinner with a long list of courses and fine items. Potatoes served in a silver cing, abundant wine from French and Spanish vineyards, costly silverware, glass, and linen marked the era.
A 20 year gap shows ninety two U.S. lightning rod makers reduced to three with small output. The Cleveland Plain Dealer predicts spectacle industry profits as many children now wear glasses, branding the lightning rod a major 19th century humbug.
Fragmentary lines evoke a sensed reunion and unseen presence. A vague reveal centers on Agata hidden within an old embrace, with emotions of tremor, silence, fragrance, and ache filling the scene.
The fragment describes a lavish multi course meal with fish flesh and sweets, detailing courses and dishes such as first course fish second course turkey pout salmon pickled salmon grilse and quaills. Desserts include raspberries and cream strawberries and cream and various sweet meats.
Chambers' Journal collects witty and amusing toasts from banquets. The samples include jests about Women, a deaf and dumb couple, a writer of comedies, and a shoemaker dinner remark.
The Writer argues that advertisements in periodicals are informative and valuable. Reading ads yields ideas for editorials and practical knowledge, countering the notion that ads are waste space in literary publications.
Professor Nehring argues the dog descends from surviving wolf and jackal species. Jackals and wolves can be tamed and recent attempts at domestication have been successful. Herr Ronge has tamed a young wolf that now follows him like a dog.
A young lady speaks with a blind man and learns he could tell she was a woman and a blonde from the color of her voice. The blind man says LT saw it in the voice color, surprising her.
The New York postmaster argues government rail mail rates could drop proportionally to private freight cuts enabling a new one cent letter rate now. A eastern paper staffer questions Edison phonograph kisses claims and jokes about Rivland the anatomist and a giant beret tomb in St Germain suburbs.
Sufferers are told catarrh and hay fever are caused by living parasites in the nasal membranes. A simple home remedy, claimed to cure catarrh, catarrhal deafness and hay fever in one to three applications, is offered by A H Heon and Son of Toronto with a pamphlet for ten cents.
A manufacturer sews the 54 Trade Mark inside each blanket to prove it is the strongest blanket for the money and will wear well. It warns that many imitations are sold as 54 blankets and that none are genuine unless the mark is sewn inside.
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