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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1908
Page
5
An advertisement notes reliable service with an office next to the post office in Fairfield Iowa. It mentions access via a stairway in the alley or from the telephone office stairway and provides the contact phone 51.
Fairfield Iowa advertisement notes a dentist location on the south side of a clothing store with phone number 106. The brief listing identifies the practice in the local business directory.
Marjorie, new to the suburbs, becomes close with a family dog Fido. On a warm day the dog’s tongue hangs out, alarming Marjorie and prompting an urgent call for help.
A man grabs stones to scare off dogs but finds himself overwhelmed as the stones pile up. Unable to bear the burden, he throws them away and the dogs approach peacefully, licking his hands.
A harsh portrait of desert tramps living in Death Valley in the Mojave region. The piece describes their clothing, wandering, dependence on handouts, and constant danger from heat and thirst, including assaults on travelers for sustenance.
A narrator recalls a backyard grindstone and compares his boyhood labor with two boys turning knives. He notes the sharpened tools and the discipline of his past, contrasting it with modern play while urging self-reflection on sin and duty. The piece ends with a moral prompt and a quote from Auerbach.
An Austrian wins a fortune sleeping on a train while a French passenger sues the Paris Lyons Mediterranean railway after oversleeping past Lyons to Trevoux. He claims damages to his business and seeks return ticket costs, but the court rules passengers must wake themselves and the company cannot be expected to know when a passenger sleeps.
A writer says Moscow’s streets are haunted by about 50 000 beggars who define the city’s character. They are described as integral to Moscow, with some aged and worn enough to rival the Kremlin and monastery doorways. Their presence lends power to the churches.
Kaiser William II travels the entire Berlin underground with a large suite to inspect the new suburban line and terminal stations. At the final stop he admires majolica tiling from his Cadmen factory and awards the motorman a special order for the trip.
The London Lancet urges pedestrians to stand up for street rights as motorists encroach. It warns that heroic pedestrian actions would raise doctors’ and surgeons’ caseloads, reflecting the medical profession’s view on urban traffic conflicts.
A newly married Philadelphia girl caused amusement at a downtown hotel dinner. Her father-in-law, honoring a godchild, asked about a baby carriage. She claimed to have bought a “beauty” for ten dollars, sold as a seasonal reduction, triggering laughter from guests.
The Gaulois recounts a morning stroll by the prince of Wales in St James Park when two boys followed him. One boy, after removing his cap, says a friend bets the prince is English heir while the other bets he is a Parisian. The prince smiles and notes both bets win.
Prince Demidoff, 23, staying at Khartum, departed for a six month hunting expedition southward with a doctor and chef. A companion operates a cinematograph to record lion hunts aboard a private steamer costing about £25 daily, as they head toward French Kongo and the Atlantic coast.
Albert five years old visits with his grandma to buy a birthday present for his mother. After many rejections he asks for something useful. They are urged toward opera slippers but he objects saying his mother has many and prefers button boots that cannot be taken off easily.
Francis Bacon urges discretion, noting talkers repeat what they do not know and stressing secrecy as prudent and virtuous for public life. He argues that quiet speech preserves truth and guards against credulity in conversation.
A quotation from Comte de Montalembert extols a man’s life as a poor but consecrated offering to a great and holy cause. It argues that when one commits to such a cause, he should endure all its consequences and dangers without shrinking.
Mrs Nellie Gregg Tomlinson delivers a poem at the State Horticultural Society meeting in Des Moines praising the Horticulturist. It contrasts labor in nature with politics and commerce and celebrates sunrise garden toil, orderly cultivation, and reverence for the Creator as climate tests perfection in fruit and flowers.
Poem extols the horticulturist who battles pests diseases and weather to plant enduring orchards and landscapes. It compares his patient, God given work to sculpture and painting while envisioning future generations amid fruitful groves and blessed rest.
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