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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1898
Page
2
Short items note freezes, pension news, divorces, licenses, and upcoming events. Teachers exam dates, new lumber yard opening, a library Easter festival, and a divorce suit with alimony. Local sales include seed potatoes and livestock prices, with court actions and upcoming inspections.
The paper reports cattle prices at a sale, a March 31 public sale of estate goods near Fairfield, and Monday school board meetings county wide. It notes a correction about Journal ownership, a local death in Ottumwa, a Mt. Pleasant glee club visit, lightning deaths of two horses, revival efforts by Rev. Shawhan, property sales, and a Cuban Relief Association forming with committees across wards and townships to raise funds at local banks. Plains, Fairfield, and surrounding townships are cited with committee duties and fundraising plans. A call for two car-loads of horses to Star barn by April 2 concludes.
Readers are told that catarrh is curable by Hall's Catarrh Cure, a constitutional remedy taken internally. The ad claims it heals by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars if it fails. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and other storefront goods from local sellers.
At R. J. Wilson's home on Thursday evening the pupils of Prof. and Mrs. Luce and the Mandolin Club presented vocal and instrumental solos duets and a trio. Notable numbers came from Miss Ball Miss Owens Miss Wall and a trio by Misses Wall Ball Heizer. The Mandolin Club received the longest applause for its polished tone precise time and fusion of technique with artistry.
Advert says Electric Bitters cure back pain kidney issues malaria nervous troubles and more. Describes tonic effects on liver nerves and blood with relief from constipation headaches fainting sleeplessness and melancholy. Purely vegetable mild laxative and guaranteed, fifty cents a bottle at J. D. McDowell's drug store.
Having sold stock in Glasgow to my sons, all debtors are urged to settle with Unkrich Brothers in Glasgow. H. Unkrich. We offer Ladies and Gent's Gold Watches with matching chains at surprising prices, plus silver table ware and other jewelry. Pure Neat's Foot Harness Oil sold at Buack & Muir's.
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