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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1898
Page
6
A testimonial extols health as key to beauty, featuring Mrs. W. H. Ensign of Alliance who credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring energy, sleep, and appearance. The ad asserts the pills rebuild blood and nerve cells and offers pricing of 30 cents per box or six for $2.50.
A digest of brief items notes the Parnellite convention at Dublin adopting a resolution against a Britain United States alliance. Other items cover Roosevelt tax settlement, McKinley visit to Chicago, accidents, deaths, and various local notices from Wisconsin and Iowa.
Right Honorable St John Broderick under secretary of state for war is now appointed under secretary of state for foreign affairs succeeding Lord Curzon. Burglars looted A C Mayo residence in Chicago after chloroforming family. $800 taken. Internal revenue Chicago quarter receipts rose to 4 035153 from 1 656014 year ago. Mrs Sherman’s condition slightly improved. Dr N S Lincoln a longtime Washington physician died at an advanced age.
Seven barges carrying about 300000 pounds of naphtha were burned at the Astrakhan district petroleum port in Russia. Three people were killed in the blaze. Leading railroad managers met in Cleveland to discuss stopping rate cutting. Dr. Edmund J. James of Chicago is offered the presidency of Cincinnati University. Secunda Canova of New Jersey was shot by game warden James L. Looker after Canova threatened him with a gun. Gilbert and Budd defeated Heikes and Elliott in Dayton by 94 to 88 in a fifty live third match. Oregon’s special legislative session adjourned sine die after passing the general appropriation bill. Rumor circulates of a new Democratic newspaper to be started in Chicago.
The Methodist Bishop Hartzell is commissioned by the negro republic of Liberia to travel to Washington and request protection under its sheltering wing. The report also notes other world events and notable deaths.
John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a near-fatal illness with jaundiced skin and extreme weakness. After three doctors gave up, a friend advised Electric Bitters, and three weeks of use delivered a marked recovery, convincing him the medicine saved his life. Available at D C Collins Drug Store.
Entertainment clear bright and full of fun and mystery. Grand Opera House presents a show on Wednesday and Thursday evenings October 26th and 27th.
The list shows small changes in prices for corn oats rye timber and other commodities with fruits vegetables and livestock quoted ranges. An advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a health tonic and notes loan offers from A W Jaques with tiered interest.
Questions about premenstrual mood changes prompt advice to seek help. Text asks if you feel like screaming during monthly sickness, if you are easily irritated, or if you get the blues and wish you were elsewhere. Ends with urging action for treatment.
A briefer advert promotes Bradfield Regulator as a remedy for uterine troubles and female ailments. The notice claims it will overcome weakness and rhorea and offers the product for $1 through the Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta Georgia.
A London cab driver is traced to a garret where his gambling ruined him. The heir to £80,000 had the fortune suspended if he gambled again. A detective watched him at a club where he bet £300 and lost, thus forfeiting the legacy before ever claiming it.
A Berlin paper describes women guides employed in the city as largely elderly or middle aged with worldly knowledge language skills and amiable demeanor. They provide trusted care to lone female travelers and traveling parties from Scandinavia and America, with many guides being Russian or Austrian.
In a quotation pairing, the Chinese emperor proclaims China’s greatness and global importance while Li Hung Chang counters that other nations wage the real contests. The dialogue shifts to a Washington Star note and a Chicago Post remark about a man’s appeal to women, hinting at political and personal tensions.
In a light exchange Mrs Caughey praises Ara Bella who is learning to read music while Mr Caughey jokes about reading aloud. An aged Klondike December average is noted as 40 degrees below zero over ten years.
A writer in The Popular Science Monthly claims ostriches enjoy waltzing. The remark frames a humorous look at bird behavior and popular science curiosities.
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