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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1898
Page
2
The ad touts pure wool and cotton blankets as well as yarns and cassimeres at competitive prices. It highlights a wide value range from low to high and claims Hay et Co as the city’s headquarters for these goods with items as low as 1.98.
Our offering in Hosiery and Underwear is the largest in our history. Every pair of our Topsy Hosiery is guaranteed fast black or money back. We promote price fairness and extensive selection with money back if not as represented. Indifferent service to none plus first class goods. We invite close buyers to compare prices and variety.
OCR fragment lists multiple times and numbers such as 12:58 and 4:81 with labels No. 1 No. 8 and No. 11. It mentions Sunday and daily operations but lacks coherent context or complete items.
Community notices include business dissolutions J D McDowell Co. Ada Lambertson dinner. Junkin Baker couch sale. Mrs Hershberger tea. Mary Boyd appointed executrix. Luce chorus class. juvenile asylum placements. Y M C A and Y P S C E meetings. hay rack ride. Woodlawn Hotel overhaul by C P Burchfield. Higley anniversary. Wapello football 12 to 5 with return game. October 7 Society Circus for Ottumwa hospital. Woman's Exchange sale to Mrs A McGaw.
Gaw opens a catering business with public support urged. Services at Episcopal church Friday evening. E H Dufford marries in Denver to Mrs. Alice Masters. M E church women plan a Thursday supper. Homes sales and auctions, peace carnival planned in Burlington, and a fire destroys the McElhinny building with partial losses and escapes.
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh with a $100 reward for any case not cured. It explains the constitutional approach and urges readers to request testimonials, listing F. J. Cheney of Toledo as the supplier and noting price and availability. Also mentions Shropshire ewe sale in Southern Iowa and a job ad for a lubricant oil salesman, plus ice cream and soda at a local post office restaurant.
Oliver Boatman remains ill with typhoid malaria. Captain Wilson Heaton is dangerously ill with typhoid fever and unrest persists. Ed Axline suffers malarial fever but not considered dangerous. Joseph Matson has recovered enough to visit in the city. his brother John recovers from a severe attack. Charles Magill in Jacksonville recovering and to return home soon. Samuel Dana remains ill with typhoid fever. Sherman Pickett has rheumatism and mild malaria. Sergeant Ed Lucas has fully recovered and visits Stockport.
Proprietors of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption have given away over ten million trial bottles. They say it cures asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung diseases. Call on D C Collins for a free trial bottle. Regular sizes 50c and 1. Every bottle guaranteed or refunded. Also advertising Plymouth Rock chickens for sale with May fall sale details noted.
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