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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1879
Page
4
Sweet William visits his town true love with a book of poems. He reads many verses to her until she yawns and grows drowsy. She then reveals a sweeter, simple poem she learned as a child, starting with Now I lay me down to sleep.
Theresa suspects her husband Ernest of betrayal after reading an advertisement from Constance Brown. A wild chase through Victoria Station leads to misread signals, disguises, and a Brighton-bound elopement plot involving Captain Potter. In the end the truth unravels. Constance is exposed and the couples reconcile with a proper wedding.
The Maxwell land grant in New Mexico faces the nation’s largest foreclosure action with 1 800 000 acres and more than 7 000 000 in accrued interest. The English company faced loans from the Dutch market, a dramatic six day court term, and a quick end as Judge Birdseye signed the foreclosure decree at term’s close.
In Cumberland Pennsylvania a woman with scrofula suffered brain pressure from a diseased skull. Her son, a self taught craftsman, built a wire hoopskirt saw and began removing the skull cap. He died during the procedure. The daughter then completed the operation, finishing days of delicate work and relieving her mother.
A woman undergoes a desperate six month operation to remove diseased bone without anesthetic. She fainted during the procedure but persisted aided by her mother's urging. Instant relief followed, though the disease was not cured and she remains an invalid for life. The case, though extraordinary, is well authenticated and not fictional.
Louisiana St. John a wealthy spinster died in New York on July 22 1879 and her will filed for probate. Her fortune includes East St Louis real estate valued around 400 000 to 500 000 and about twenty New York City properties including Madison Avenue and Broadway holdings. The bulk of the estate goes to heirs at law, nephews and nieces all named St. John living in Canajoharie New York.
The Tribune notes mass Irish rent protests morphing into calls for peasant ownership and Fenian sentiment. It cites Mr Parnell guiding demonstrations in Limerick and Munster with armed crowds, provoking English anger and labeling all Irish as conspirators while warning that Home Rule rhetoric inflames passions and risks rebellion.
The passage describes stirring up Ireland to fury to boost prestige and power in Parliament. It notes a man likely to prevail who wields an angry bulldog, while both he and his opponent appear unconcerned with the bulldog’s fate.
A collection of old fashioned home dishes with steps for sauce for pudding peaches in cans barley soup imperial gingerbread Brattleboro fricasse and chicken dishes. Includes instructions on preparation times ingredients and serving notes with emphasis on simple domestic methods.
A physician reports yellow fever germs found in ice and urges boiling ice before use. The notice notes the danger and promotes boiling as the safest method to kill germs. He also advertised for a lost umbrella, showing faith in humanity.
A bachelor recalls mishearing a chorus as angelic singing and sends a bottle of Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup to Mrs. 8 with his compliments. The anecdote portrays his hopeful, humorous misinterpretation and caregiving gesture.
An Potpourri of patent medicines and tonics advertised for household use. Claims include McIntosh Electric Belt pamphlet offers, Twin Brothers Yeast bread aid, Eilert's Tar and Wild Cherry for bronchial health, Eilert's Daylight Liver Pills, Uncle Sam's Condition Powder for livestock, Dr Jaques German Worm Cakes, Carter's Extract of Smartweed, Kidney-Wort, Uncle Sam's Harness Oil, Dr Winchell's Teething Syrup, all promoted with testimonials and pharmacy-sell language. Prices, cures, and general health benefits emphasized.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve promises quick relief for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions. Guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box available from all druggists.
The New York Tribune notes light colored butter sells slowly. Some lots are well sold at 8 to 10 cents while makers should use the Perfected Butter Color from Wells Richardson Co to secure top prices. The ad also touts Kidney-Wort as a remedy forBiliousness and related symptoms.
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Discovery as a universal cure for throat chest and lung ailments including consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis hay fever and hoarseness. It claims the medicine cures when others fail and offers a free trial bottle with regular size priced at 1, urging sale by Druggists and dealers nationwide.
This ad claims Hop Bitters is a simple medicine made of well known remedies and cures aches pains and bruises for humans and animals. It emphasizes its own effectiveness and urges buying from all druggists.
Professor Brooks of Joan Hopkins University reports a May 29 breakthrough in artificial oyster propagation. Using eggs mixed with male cells observed under a microscope, he describes fertilization, embryonic development, and the first swimming larva, with hopes to grow larvae to shelled oysters amid a summer spawning timeline still unsettled.
In the Pennsylvania coal fields the average pay of the miners is two dollars per day, of the laborers one dollar and twenty eight cents, and of the boys fifty cents. Boyhood is candid and middle age reticent. The Whitehall gold mines on the narrow gauge railroad near Fredericksburg Virginia, formerly owned by Commodore Stockton, have been purchased by Boston capitalists and operations will begin October 1. the mine yielded 2146,000 in seven months years ago.
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