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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1907
Page
6
G W Cloyd of Plunk Missouri recounts a near amputation after a runaway bowling bar incident four years ago. He refused amputation and used Bucklen's Amica Salve from F S Shriners druggist in May to cure the wound.
Des Moines May 18 Orren Wilson of Knoxville Iowa wrote to I Frank threatening violence after dunning him The note on a postal card led to Wilson being indicted by the federal grand jury that began work Thursday Wilson is a well known farmer near Knoxville Iowa
A Pennsylvania family claims their five year eczema ordeal ended after using Electric Bitters. They state initial doctors gave hopeless prognosis due to lung involvement, but after trying the tonic several bottles were used and the boy fully recovered. The testimonial appears with promotion for blood medicines and bodybuilding tonics at F. S. Shriner's drug store.
Evangelist Billy Sunday vows to expose Knox ville liquor joints before leaving. He criticizes city drug stores selling liquor and denounces whisky tied to Washington society, addressing business men and promising talks on card playing and dancing later in Des Moines.
Billy Sunday berates high society in Washington and New York, denouncing divorce and infanticide while attacking alcohol and gossip. He urges Knoxville Christians to resist express companies as 1,800 hearers react with mixed expressions. His daughter Helen is named Chicago valedictorian in a telegram received.
The preacher will not deliver the Monday evening sermon after holding day and night services. He plans to adjust the schedule accordingly.
Le Mars May 18 a sensational case where Addison Carpenter sued Oliver King for 10000 dollars alleging alienation of his wife’s affections has been settled out of court King paid 1500 as compensation King disclosed intimate relations with Mrs Carpenter with husband’s connivance while King had loaned money to the couple Both families are prominent pioneer clans and public pressure sought to avoid trial revealing scandalous details King 64 a Civil War veteran lives with an estimable wife and grown children in Adaville.
Alexander Benton of Fort Edward New York praises Dr King's New Discovery as his best friend curing his asthma six years ago and aiding his son's wife with incipient consumption The testimonial notes dramatic cough relief and elimination of symptoms with a guarantee and trial bottle free.
A brief item notes pins are placed to jab at public figures and the demand is for the longest pin.
Smallpox spreads across southwestern Town with Riverton enforcing entry bans and armed guards at roads. Five new Riverton cases emerge Tuesday as Sidney and Hamburg tighten controls with patrols and refusals for travelers from infected towns. Rural mail deliveries halted as authorities seek safety before resuming service.
A Portland telegram announced Dubuque sailor Frank Gruetzmacher, long believed dying in a Portland hospital, is on the road to recovery. His wife, who left Dubuque weeks ago to marry him as he lay ill, has cared for him and now rejoices at his improving condition. The man enlisted in the navy years ago and courted his bride during a furlough.
Mrs S S Gillette of Des Moines received a letter containing 100 from Visby Sweden two years after her purse was stolen in Bridgeport Connecticut. The sender offered no clue to the thief and Mrs Gillette still does not know who took the money.
Waterloo Iowa May 18 residents claim the city has the smallest baby. An eight weeks old girl weighs one pound eight ounces at birth no incubator used she rests on a pillow over warm water bottles and grows. Now four pounds two ounces with clothes. This is the second child in the Crandall family. the first weighed six pounds at birth but died. The father is an Illinois Central freight conductor, and hundreds have viewed the child.
Grundy Center resident Jacob Slifer builds a memorial costing 1500 dollars. A grand marble monument rises with a granite statue of the dog weighing 600 pounds, honoring the animal that saved a child's life.
May 18 in Clinton Iowa Otto Hubler and Emil Huebler with James Deye forced entry to a Lincoln township dancing party at Henry Cachays home. A fight broke out injuring several women. the trespassers were arrested and fined five dollars each for disturbing a lawful assemblage.
A small black and tan dog waited six days for its master in a Clinton hallway, refusing food. Abandoned and weakened, the animal was taken by officers and put out of its misery after the long vigil.
Brother Andrew of the New Mellory monastery departed Dubuque for Chicago after his sister Mrs. John Sheehan died. It is the first time in thirty-two years he left the Trappist monastery as death nears.
In Atchison Globe chatter a setting hen sets the scene with a wry line about hard work. A local man, calling another “the second biggest fake,” sparks curious gossip as townsfolk ponder who ranks first.
A brief line notes that saying "here's to you" captures the essence of taking a drink in a saloon. The remark frames a common social toast as a simple gesture marking alcohol consumption.
A humorous old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle laxative for bowel regularity. It claims the appendix never complains and guarantees the pill’s effectiveness through F S Shriner, druggist, with a 25 cent price.
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