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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1898
Page
6
Ward Lamson is located in Fairfield Iowa on the street near Leggett House with directions indicating the second door east of that residence. The note specifies the address in a local context.
May 9 Glendale reports Mrs Hawkins much better while Mrs John Rizor remains ill. Bert Howard and Mrs A Howard show illness with bronchitis. A third son arrives at Bert Howard's home. William R Smith and wife were summoned to Packwood by Mrs Smith's aunt Mrs Anderson's illness. Will Hayes resumes night rail service. Mrs Hopkirk attended Burnett Fordyce wedding in town. Miss Mary Light spoke about The Southern Freedmen. An Epworth League ice cream sociable is planned at Alex Gordon's. M Kyle treated a tooth by a physician when the dentist was absent. Christian scientists would be punished for such an act.
An early advertisement proclaims a universal salve curing cuts sores ulcers and skin eruptions with money back guarantee. Sold for 25 cents per box by J. D. McDowell.
The Improvement Association designates May 19 as Cleaning-up Day with city teams removing refuse that cannot be burned from lots streets and alleys free of charge. Citizens are urged to burn what they can and place the rest for easy removal.
Sunday school at 9 30 a m church services at 10 30 a m Bible study Thursday at 2 30 pm Room two doors east of Leggett House upstairs All are invited.
Go to Ball and Young for the lowest prices on flour and animal feed. Retail offers include bulk sacks and household staples, with special discounts and local delivery options available.
Mrs. Hannah Lind of Columbus Ohio credits Peruna with relieving nervousness despondency and neuralgia after years of ineffectual doctors and remedies. She praises its effect on appetite sleep and mood and urges families to keep a copy of Pacts and Faces while noting free promotional material from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company Columbus Ohio.
Father Nugent of Des Moines addresses a full church crowd at the Catholic mission. Two daily lectures cover Prayer, The Elect, Confession, Sacraments, and Mass attendance with eight o clock evening services. The mission continues next Sunday.
Des Moines reports a cool cloudy week with light showers slowing field work. Wheat oats barley rye are in good condition with potential average yields. corn planting has begun across districts and may need replanting in some May 1 planted fields. Fruit trees bloom in northern districts with no frost damage reported. germination and blooming are later than average but farm work is well advanced except southeast.
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a non stimulating coffee substitute that nourishes and cheers without spoiling sleep. It appeals to nervous persons, youth, and children, claiming the beverage is made from pure grains and tastes like coffee. Available from grocers at 15 and 25 cents.
An advertisement promotes No-To-Bac as a wonder-worker that makes weak men strong and helps quit tobacco easily and forever. It claims cure is guaranteed with booklets and samples, offered by Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York for 50c or 81.
May 4 brief items report St Paul votes for Republican Col A R Kiefer by about 2000. First National Bank of Carthage NY closes as its president absconds. Turkey pledges neutrality in the Spain US war. Columbia University receives 300000 gift from Daniel Fayerweather estate. Pepper’s Station post office looted. postmaster withholds loss details. Edinburgh records January 1898 as mildest in 189 years. Plaudit and Lieber Karl top Derby odds.
A historical item notes the University of Pennsylvania board deciding to offer undergraduate programs for women with equal status to those for men. The rest mentions various unrelated facts including rail labor productivity in Switzerland and a Santa Cruz powder mill explosion inquiry.
Secretar Gage plans to replace Worthington C. Ford with C. P. Austin as chief of the bureau of statistics. He travels to Syracuse and Ithaca to address Cornell students. An Austrian baron, Valentine Unterrichter, is arrested in New York for robbery involving his aunt. Two Cincinnati shoe factories owned by Wolf Bros. and Mauss Shoe Manufacturing burn in a mysterious blaze.
Wheat rose to 1.70 a bushel on the Chicago board with a May option at 1.67. Cornell beat Syracuse 62 to 49 in dual athletics at Syracuse. L. B. Suggs & Co. assigned with debts 68 000 and assets 62 800. H N Martin and wife killed by coal gas in Watertown. Five others injured. Flooding across Indian Territory destroyed corn crop. Vienna jubilee exposition opened by Emperor Francis Joseph. Elks reunion set for New Orleans next week. Scandaga Park fire destroys 100 plus cottages. Prussian blue paint from burnt horse hoof ashes. Spain cabinet to push campaign in Philippines. Major Henry T Stanton dies in Frankfort. Charles H Allen nominated as assistant secretary of the navy. War-time France can field 370 per 1 000. Germany 310. Russia 210. Bank of England requires large private balances.
A Klondike tragedy near Crater lake in B C describes an ice slide giving way under a caravan of heavily laden sleighs. Twenty two men and their supplies plunged into the water and drowned beneath a frozen river, with victims’ names not yet known.
A massive blaze on Minnesota Point above the ship canal destroyed fifty frame buildings. Two thousand residents became homeless within an hour as twelve stores on Lower Lake Avenue and adjacent shacks burned, with total losses estimated over $100,000. The district housed the city’s poorest residents with crowded tenements and unsafe conditions.
At the Halstead mine in Duryea Delaware Lackawanna and Western workers perished while repairing a shaft lining after a cave in. John Monahan Stephen Jenkins and John Titus were struck by falling timbers when a rope slipped, plunging them 300 feet to the shaft bottom.
Lugano Switzerland May 9 Yesterday brought a violent clash in Milan with roofs hurling tiles and chimneys at troops. A second skirmish occurred on Via Torino. Reported deaths exceed 300 and injuries around 1,000 as artillery patrolled the areas. Riots reportedly quelled by the commanding general. Wheat Prices Rally on Liverpool Drive May 10 Wheat rose for May and July futures amid a buoyant market. May at about 1.73 and July near 1.14 dollars per bushel as Liverpool demand spurs gains.
In Mobile on May 9 a soldier from company A Third Infantry was shot and killed by a private of the Nineteenth who was being arrested for drunkenness. The incident occurred at the regular army camp as the sergeant attempted to restrain the man.
The Chicago market report details daily quotations for Wheat Corn Oats Pork and Produce with opening and closing prices across May July and September contracts. It also covers Chicago Live Stock with receipts and price ranges for hogs cattle sheep and lambs and provides cash market highlights for wheat corn oats rye flaxseed and Detroit grain figures.
A car load of parlor furniture and couches will arrive this week as designers showcase new pieces. The message invites readers not to miss the display and highlights stylish durability for lasting beauty.
Local store Junkin and Baker advertises furniture pianos organs sewing machines sheet music and related household goods. The notice highlights a broad selection and services offered by the shop in town.
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