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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1879
Page
4
Independent recounts a rustic fable where a crow mocks a farmer for his scattered corn and busy tricks. The birds chide the farmer’s efforts while urging him to sow more and hurry, warning that his kindness will lead to trouble.
A New York Herald discussion on Brahminism emphasizes India as a living, continuous civilization with powerful religious laws. It contrasts India’s enduring culture with Egypt’s ruins, noting how Hinduism and social forces resist Western influences and maintain social order despite imperial power.
A group of gentlemen electricians observed a Sunday experiment linking Manchester and Halifax via railway wires and Bell telephone transmitters to Dr Mellor's Halifax sermon. The test showed clear voices at rest, but articulation and sentence length suffered due to transmission interference, though improvements are expected.
Report describes a church test where a transmitter under the pulpit carried spoken words to distant receivers, revealing sound leakage from adjacent wires. Prosecutions planned to refine the setup and extend the system to railway signal boxes. It notes prior use between Dr Mellor's chapel and an invalid lady's home three miles away and a successful link to the residence.
The Egyptians Contemporary Review outlines four races of mankind depicted in tomb murals: red Egyptians, yellow Ramu, black negroes, and white Tamehu Libyans and other Mediterranean groups. It notes Libyans as varied in skin tone across dynasties and mentions early contact with seafaring northern nations during Thutmose III’s reign as Egypt expands its rivals.
A reader tours Greenwich England noting longitude from Greenwich, the Painted Hall, English naval art, Nelson and Franklin relics, ship models, and naval museum exhibits. The park and observatory overlook a scenic hilltop view, with Queen Elizabeth’s old oak and springtime Londoners enjoying common games.
The narrator visits the observatory atop a ship channel town, noting the clock and the great black time ball used to set chronometers. He describes scientific instruments inside and outside, the precise observation of celestial and terrestrial phenomena, and the town’s quiet life with whitebait and a shabby lace shop from George the First era.
The author contrasts Spain’s rich resources and capable classes with widespread fear and corruption. He argues a parasitic elite profits from insecurity, stifling business and reform while literature and government are misused to sustain ignorance and plunder.
The Washburn Moon Manufacturing Company of Worcester wins a US Patent Office decision. The ruling (May 12) grants priority to Henry W. Putnam for automatic barbed fence wire machinery, affirming exclusive rights for Putnam and his assignee against S M Stevens and Illinois backers. The case narrows manufacture to Putnam, Ellwood and their licenses.
The article cites Mr Jacobs on 1492 Europe holding £33,000,000 of specie with metals valued three times earlier. After 1492, stock tripled by 1600 and nearly sevenfold by 1640, causing prices to rise and money to fall to about a quarter of its former value, shifting mint and trade dynamics toward the East.
A historical ad note promotes Dr Bull s Baltimore Pills claiming an honest indifference to ponies complaints. Sold by druggists for 25 cents.
Kidney-Wort claims to cure kidney and liver troubles by purifying blood and boosting internal organs, with broad effects including rheumatism relief. Carboline deodorized petroleum hair renewer touts modern improvements and strong sales. Tutt’s Pills marketed for dyspepsia head ache liver complaints and renewed vigor, promising pure blood and solid flesh.
A Boston woman disliked the medicine her husband brought for a fourteen year headache and neuralgia. After one dose Hop Bitters gave relief and she urged twenty two families in her circle to adopt it as their family medicine.
The May sessions cover debates on the treasury and legal tender bills, military and civil rights issues in the south, and the Warner silver bill. Senators Blaine Eaton Hampton and Logan spoke on the resumption of coinage policy, while amendments to pension payments and post office staffing were debated. The House advanced the silver coinage measures, including denominations and certificates, and adjourned without final action.
In Washington on May 24 the House spent the night debating the silver bill. Amendments proposed legal tender status for silver dollars and coinage limits. The vote on passage failed 114 to 97, with Gillette and Weaver voting yea and Valentine voting nay. The enrolled bill was sent to the Senate and the House adjourned until Tuesday.
A Detroit grocer postulates lost books to test customers. Replies reveal small debts far from stated, with one even at 380 dollars minus fifty cents. As each returns, they laugh, shake hands, and admit they knew it was a joke.
In 1878 American and English societies distributed 3,850,376 Bibles across many regions. Russia received 740,823 in 69 languages, Turkey 64,508 in 9 languages, India 243,616, China 159,103, Japan 61,398, Italy 52,828, France 133,160, Servia and Acumenia 128,170, Spain 68,393, Austria 274,262, Germany 465,108, South America 35,348, Mexico 30,000.
The ad claims 11 hundred thousand dollars yearly by women on artificial remedies and urges investing a small share in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription with Pleasant Pellets. It asserts the medicine cures dyspepsia and debility, tones the system, and delivers lasting health rather than cosmetics.
A collage of old ads and anecdotes featuring Golden's Liebig's Extract of Beef claims and cures, labor advice on getting rich, Crook’s Wine of Tar health claims, Seamon's Dyes ease of use, and Tremont House Chicago lodging rates with proprietor Joan A. Rice.
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