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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1905
Page
6
Levi Smith, an East Side barber at 507 East Second Street, attempted to take his life by turning on gas after domestic troubles. Neighbors note frequent quarrels with his wife. A passing officer detected escaping gas. Smith was found unconscious and may be saved by Dr. Beck.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul southwest limited westbound wrecked at Ottumwa May 1. Engineer Harry I. Dikes was killed and Fireman Claude F. Warren injured when the engine derailed on a curve and overturned two sleeping cars. No passengers were hurt. The same engine had been in a similar wreck here two years ago.
Articles of incorporation signed for a new Webster City manufacturing firm named National Hatchet company with capital of 50000 dollars. The patent tool to be produced serves as hatchet hammer wire cutter leather punch nail puller screwdriver and has detachable jaws. With changed jaws it also becomes a hoof trimmer pruning knife bailer applier stock marker pipe wrench and more.
Charles Thomas cried as he left Des Moines bound for the Fort Madison penitentiary. He told his wife and parents he would return in September, drawing a two hundred strong crowd at the depot. Thomas walked beside Deputy Sheriff Ash with wrists cuffed, shaved his mustache, and thanked officers as he departed.
An editorial urges parents to openly teach children about marriage birth and the sacredness of person warning against letting others corrupt their knowledge. It argues ignorance breeds vice and emphasizes frank parental guidance. Des Moines Daily News May 1 is cited with a separate police tale.
The writer rails against a rural fraud they call the Country Loader a corny product of greed and unrefinement born to inflate land holdings. They contrast him with the industrious farm boy who rises to leadership in politics commerce religious and educational circles.
Miss Dennison quarrels with her betrothed on a bleak night as they walk to a hotel. She tries to force him to stay, storms off, and is haunted by a shadowy pursuer. A stray boa, a watchful policeman, and a sudden rescue lead to a reconciled couple arriving safely at the hotel, where their power dynamic shifts.
Grifan, a former resident who wandered the country as a tramp printer, served in the Civil War and recently recovered about 300 in back pension money. He spent the funds hosting a largely attended banquet for printers of the state while the girl’s fate remains grim.
A reader asks where birds go during winter. The article notes roving patterns: bobolink to southern rice fields, robin, mourning dove to Tennessee Arkansas and Louisiana, hummingbirds to Central America, woodpeckers migrate just south enough to escape winter, meadowlark lingers near springlike weather, and waterfowl travel south to open water in Texas and other southern states. It also laments slaughter of northern birds in the south and mentions scarce visits from snow birds and some finches in this prairie region.
The stomachless man is described as no longer a medical obstacle to surgeons who can access and even remove it if needed. He can maintain nutrition with a strict diet, though meals offer little pleasure, and many such men now work in varied occupations from clerks to express riders.
Des Moines reports Iowa lacks comprehensive child labor laws with only a ban on boys under 14 in coal mines. About 2,630 children work statewide at an average $122.66 annually, across roughly half the factories. Over 15 years, child labor rose 327 percent, driven mainly by Mississippi valley button factories.
The Fairfield Tribune remains the leading Jefferson County newspaper delivering local news, business updates, and community notices to residents through daily editions and the weekly supplement.
Poem laments a ruined Sunday plan by a sweltering week and fickle forecast. The speaker, in Des Moines, laments the weatherman's interference and imagines punishing the source of ruined mood with comic hyperbole. The piece blends humor and frustration over unpredictable weather.
A Chicago Chronicle poem mocks a missionary who traveled with money from Standard Oil. It notes heathens recoil and refuse to listen, listing crude fates, and ends with the speaker claiming no saintly outcome. The verse satirizes colonial religious missions and corporate funding.
The Monte Carlo death marks the end of a sensational career as the Marquis of Anglesey, who spent over a million dollars annually for six years before bankruptcy and creditor pressure. The piece notes the era’s costly private entertainments and warns Americans against similar excesses.
A civic plea condemns cruel acts by boys shooting songbirds returning for spring. It notes killing robins and other birds is unlawful and barbarous, urges citizens to aid law protection and curb brutal warfare against these useful creatures.
The April issue of Twentieth Century Home features the first of three articles by Dr J Madison Taylor on Conservation Human Beauty. Taylor examines physical attractiveness focusing on body shape and poise as the central factor.
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