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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1898
Page
8
The article explains fainting or syncope as temporary loss of consciousness from brain anemia and heart weakness. It notes common triggers, describes symptoms, and offers immediate first aid including laying the person flat, loosening clothing, fanning, fresh air, cold water on face, chest, and gentle stimulation such as smelling salts or pepper. Youth's Companion.
In a 1870s tense exchange Ben Butler urged a Sunday session of Congress while Sam Randall resisted. Butler mocked religious regard, invoking biblical wit about pulling creatures from pits on the Sabbath. Randall urged restraint, predicting future meeting in a better world.
A humorous exchange from the New York Journal recalls Hazel and Nutte discussing early fear of crossing the ocean. Nutte admits initial groundless apprehension while Hazel probes the emotional moment with light banter.
A Swedish bank note from 1661 is cited as oldest European bank note while the British Museum in London holds a Chinese note dating back more than three centuries earlier, highlighting the long history of paper currency.
A man can float without moving his limbs if he relaxes, throws his head back, and allows his body to sink into its natural buoyant position. This stance enables effortless buoyancy in salt water.
Sioux City April 23 William Michael a Syrian peddler was shot in the head by footpads and may die as blood poisoning sets in.
Waterloo Iowa April 22 The convention of the Women s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West closed after a two day session with final reports and a closing meeting.
George A. Smith, arrested in Chambersburg Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in district court and received a one year sentence from Judge Hindman.
The family of the late Senator Wilson of Fairfield presented to Washington’s public library a collection of over 6 000 volumes. The set is largely composed of public documents.
Cepark Ramps Ia April 25 N M Hubbard Jr son of Judge Hubbard veteran solicitor for the Chicago and Northwestern in Iowa and former Annapolis student left last night for Washington to accept a navy commission.
D. L. Forney aged 90, the United States oldest physician, died this morning at Burmndon Iowa. He was the first graduate from America’s first medical college founded in Baltimore and left many prominent relatives.
The Iowa State Amateur Rowing association executive committee met in Cedar Rapids and decided to hold the annual regatta at Ottumwa on July 26 with junior and senior singles doubles and fours events.
Des Moines city council approved a resolution giving all city employees who volunteer or join the U S service 60 days pay from enlistment. Upon honorable discharge and return they are to be reinstated in their previous positions.
A. W. Brown of Modale, formerly a banker in Missouri Valley Iowa, shot himself through the heart in the home of his wife. After a paralysis stroke ten months earlier he feared a second attack and had five prior suicide attempts halted each time. He leaves a wife.
George Andrews former deputy warden of the Anamosa state penitentiary asks Governor Shaw to permit recruiting a company of 100 convicts from the Anamosa prison. Andrews, an old soldier, says he can select 100 of the best fighters if they are released on parole.
Charles Beverly managing editor of the Daily Statesman Press Marshalltown shot himself in his office yesterday. Despondency and ill health are cited as causes. Beverly founded the Press two years ago and earlier led the What Cheer Patriot and Jefferson Souvenir. he once served as clerk of the Iowa senate.
Warren Beckwith of Mount Pleasant, son-in-law of Robert T. Lincoln, passed the exam by Examin ing Physician Barnes in Creston Iowa for enlistment. Beckwith, a six year veteran and war enthusiast, recently drew attention by eloping with Lincoln's daughter and now works as a Burlington clerk in Creston.
In Des Moines Estella Willoughby files in district court against the Iowa State Insurance Company and F. Overton seeking 3000 dollars for alleged assault by Frank Pierce acting as an agent. Pierce, a former constable known as a fearless fighter, faced prior conviction for killing an old soldier and was recently paroled.
A Bangor lawyer researching Wiscasset records found a 18th century smock marriage. Brides wore white sheets to avoid a husband’s liability for debts, sometimes with witnesses present. The practice appeared mainly among widows in Maine during George III era.
A New York Herald summary notes that a healthy man with average appetite and thirst would, over 70 years, consume about 9644 tons of food and drink. A 150 pound person would weigh roughly 1,280 times his weight in edible intake, while smoking would yield fantastical quantities such as a 16 foot long giant cigar and a half ton of tobacco for a pipe smoker.
George du Maurier argues in Harper’s Magazine that lines are not inherent in nature and that artists use conventional symbols to depict form. He notes John Leech’s tusk engraving as a historic example and defends the wood engraver’s reliance on simple black and white interpretation.
A bachelor recalls finding a bar of music sewn inside a necktie as a gag gift. He shows it to a musician who identifies the tune as Bless be the tie that binds, a playful discovery reported by the New York Sun.
M B Hall of Spokane reports his four man Klondike party brought out gold dust and drafts totaling $200000 in a statement. Other brief items note low literacy in Russia, Jamaica coal purchases, Iowa Central weekly earnings, a planned Alpine balloon crossing, and Charles C Moe of Chicago injured after saving a woman from a runaway wagon.
Yesterday the bulletin on Gladstone reports his condition is not as favorable as recently while U S warships at Hong Kong don war paint and prepare for action. The City and Suburban handicap at Ep som yielded Ray Ronald the win for L Brassey’s 5 year old colt.
In a New York Central freight wreck at Fairport New York yesterday, dead were conductor John Hare and brakeman Edward Jones and fireman Frank Dowd. Injured was Buffalo engineer Fred T. Wadeleigh. In Illinois Hillsboro circuit court a verdict awarded Miss Clara B. Hamilton $5000 against Harry Heston Thacker for breach of promise. The Maxim cavalry gun weighs thirty pounds and fires 700 shots a minute. Siamese horror of odd numbers leads to houses with no five seven nine or eleven windows. Rev. W. S. Buchanan leaves Sioux City for New York en route to Argentina after a day at home. family stays behind.
United States Senator Edward Cary Walthall of Mississippi died in Washington on Thursday. He was born in Richmond Virginia on April 4 1831. The oldest tree in the British Isles is the Brabourneyew in Kent 3000 years old. Lord William Beresford's five year old bay colt. A Scotchman builds a bicycle that folds and fits within three umbrellas space. Mexico has had fifty five presidents since 1821 sixteen have died violent deaths. French invention yields wood gas for illumination.
The Milwaukee jury found Antonio Bal Istiere guilty of murder in the second degree in the case involving James Soulsman.
The bulletin notes Berlin bakers now wrap fresh bread in paper bags to prevent dirt from handling. It also reports the suspension of Sher wood Thompson Co cotton brokers in Liverpool, a Blanchard cooperative colony spring recruitment with good permanency prospects, English Bank holding antique silver ingots, Edward Bellamy’s Chicago stop en route to Springfield where he will die, and Morelos flax cultivation moving past experiments toward commercial promise.
Mrs Edward Drexel Castleton of Washington Court House has gone to her mother's home in Chicago after a marriage of less than a month. She says her husband deceived her about his wealth and abused her. her mother supplied the money for the departure. Castleton denies the wealth claim and the abuse.
Washington April 22 The resignation of Postmaster General Gary from President McKinley’s cabinet is described as due to private business needs and health though some say opposition to war. Gary, of Quaker background, implies no dispute with Cuban policy but fears embarrassment if war begins.
Michael Gernhart a 63 year old janitor at the Chicago postoffice was seriously injured when an elevator car descended on him while he washed windows under the rear elevator The accident was attributed to the elevator conductor Edward Griebenow who was said to have moved the car after orders were requested He was taken to St Elizabeths hospital after initial examination and Gernhart had served the post office nearly twenty years
Father Maurice J. Dorney of St. Gabriel's Church has received a U S government commission as chaplain and sailed to join Captain Robley D Evans aboard the battleship Iowa off Havana to serve the fighting men.
Miss Clara Barton will depart Washington for Tampa tonight to join the Red Cross steamer Texas. She will be accompanied by Dr. E. W. Egan Mr. Cobb of New York and Miss Lucy Graves. They expect to reach Key West Thursday the Texas arriving the same day.
Bangkok April 26 United States Minister Barrett says after capturing the Philippine islands America should negotiate with Great Britain to exchange the Philippines for Britain's West Indies colonies.
Ottumwa reports C. S. Chacey a Cedar Falls Normal student who vanished last week has been located wandering along the Cedar River near Waterloo. He is declared insane.
In Oro Grande 380 miles east of Mojave a Santa Fe Pacific west bound passenger train was held up at 3 am. Engineer Gufford was killed and a passenger injured in the incident.
A Horton spinster recalls a childhood sweetheart who proposed in youth and was refused. Each anniversary since then she receives a businesslike letter asking again for marriage. The routine letters continue yearly, leaving doubt about a future union.
The census shows Egypt has a male majority by about 160 000, spread across upper and lower Egypt. Only Dongola province has more women than men. About half a percent of Egyptian women can read and write.
Advertisement for a surgeon specializing in surgery and diseases of the pelvic viscera for both genders and nasal and throat conditions. Office location described as over the post office, outside stairway, indicating a street-level entry.
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