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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
3
A long list of author names, titles, and medical ads appears, mingling literary catalog entries with Dr Pierce’s medicines Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The text promotes their non alcoholic, non secret formulas and notes their claimed benefits for nervous, digestive, and female health, alongside bibliographic items and public notices.
Public sale set for Monday October 14 1907 at 10 am on the Jno S Louden Farm seven miles southeast of Fairfield and six miles northeast of Birmingham. Described items include 17 horses and mules 7 brood mares 6 mules 24-year olds 23-year olds 2 yearlings 1 blind horse 13-year-old filly 1 2-year-old filly Norman stallion six years old 35 head of cattle 15 cows 1 short horn bull 15 yearlings 12 steers and 3 heifer calves 75 hogs 64 shoats 10 brood sows 1 Poland China boar farm implements wagons hay loader corn binder cultivators two-row and single-row walking cultivators gang plow sulky plow walking plow harrows seeders corn planter mower side delivery rake discs bob sleds feed grinder hay ladders work harness hay and straw stacks and other articles. Terms 12 months on sums over 5 with note bearing interest 8 percent cash for sums 5 and under 5 percent discount for cash on large amounts. Lunch on ground. Auctioneers G M Roberson MO S Louden W H Cooper.
Book and story listings show multiple titles and authors from Sidney and Martin, including Old Town Pump and A Story for Boys. The Long catalog notes volumes across Turgenieff translations and Shakespeare editions alongside children's fiction and biographies.
The United States government funds a horse breeding station in Fort Collins, Colorado, to create a distinct American carriage horse. Breeders invest heavily in imported breeds, but deterioration occurs outside home environments, so a national horse type is pursued to combine style and utility. The article argues the trotting horse is overemphasized for speed and unsuitable for general use, while demand for refined carriage horses remains high but supply is depleted.
The Fertile Clay and Peat company has started peat briquette production in northern Iowa. Six hundred acres of peat beds lie near Fertile, formed from ancient Goose Lake deposits. The peat is 10 to 40 feet deep and described as decayed vegetation sometimes termed pickled vegetation by scientists.
A witty remark notes people enjoy abuse only if wealthy and jokes the rich must be the most joyful group, rivaled only by political bosses. The piece ends with an offer: one dollar buys The Tribune for a year fifty-two times.
Mrs James H Titus of 107 Clinton St Warren Pa credits Dr A W Chase Nerve Pills with curing twelve years of nervous dyspepsia. She suffered slow digestion dizziness and weakness but reports full recovery and urges others to use the medicine. Sold 50c per box by dealers. authentic items bear Dr A W Chase signature and portrait. Thoma Son druggists Fairfield Iowa carry the product.
The Chicago Evening Journal urges opposition to the parcels post as outlined by Postmaster General Meyer. It argues government competition with express firms would harm small merchants, risk monopolies for big mail order houses, and provoke widespread unemployment, predicting Congress will reject such legislation and that Roosevelt and Meyer would err in backing it.
Success Magazine argues that true fulfillment comes from loving one’s work and seeing it as a great unfolding of human potential. It condemns drudgery and the unearned dollar, urging readers to embrace labor as a noble forge of character and life’s meaning.
A lament over a nobleman reduced to whining about his labor and apologizing for work, portraying a tragedy of divine stature constrained to toil and deprivation of rightful status. The passage contrasts expected regal power with a weary, self-doubting attitude.
A London Graphic quote from J A Sterry endorses stair climbing over elevators, crediting it with reducing dyspepsia and minor ailments and criticizing the modern elevator craze. The remark frames stairs as a healthier daily habit.
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