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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1879
Page
4
A rural romance unfolds across fields and river as a farmer and a maid exchange lilies and a poppy, vow through weather and time, and wed beneath chapel arches where love endures beyond fair day. Their bond remains steadfast despite changing years and weather.
An Iowa Prairie note urges heavy mulch around fruit trees to guard against dry freezes and encourage moisture retention. It contrasts home pork curing into bacon as a profitable farm practice and argues against the idea of a shifting wheat belt, advocating soil rest and fertilizers.
The New York Herald details Moritz Buschs fireside portrait of Prince Bismarck at Varzin. It depicts a practical home, modest furnishings, and a busy reading habit, with Bismarck confessing sins and weaknesses in intimate talks while resisting counsels of raison d etat.
The passage portrays Bismarck recounting failures to warn about invading Hungary and the consequences of his policies. He laments unheeded dangers while detailing his ambitions, statecraft, and the personal toll of power, including remorse over wars and misery caused.
The Natchez Miss. Democrat recalls Captain Thomas Leathers' father’s tale of Tecumseh’s powdered horn found with a screw mouthpiece that could act as a powder funnel. It notes breech-loading guns, likely inspired by Gen. Andrew Jackson, and mentions Hall rifles used in frontier warfare before later obsolescence.
The animal lives in South and East Africa on bushy highlands near rivers. It measures about three feet, with a one third tail, enormous ears, sharp eyes and a pointed nose. It hunts small animals and grasshoppers, sleeps by day, and natives hunt it for fur and sometimes eat its flesh, which tastes offensive.
It is estimated that the country’s lead mine production will fall by fourteen thousand tons from last year while rising demand will widen the supply deficiency to at least thirty thousand tons.
An elegant New York City hotel ad advertises 350 rooms priced from $1 per day with elevator and restaurant. It promotes baggage carriage services and carriage hire and notes access via horse cars stages and elevated railroad to all depots. A caution urges visitors to ensure the Grand Union Hotel sign is visible at the corner near Grand Central Depot.
A Carroll Herald reprint extols the State Insurance Company of Des Moines for prompt cash settlements after the Carroll fire. It lauds the company as reliable and Iowa focused with leaders Elliott and Long named. It also includes an unrelated ad for Cardeline hair renewer.
A historical account recalls the 49 year milestone of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opening with the Northumbria leading the procession attended by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel. The accident killed MP Mr Huskisson as the Rocket struck him during the demonstration.
George E. Waring Jr visits Torre Pellice in Italy to study the Vaudois, a Protestant center in the Waldensian valleys. He describes stern Puritan rigor fused with Latin warmth, the communities’ frugal, dignified life, and the strong evangelistic action that persists despite poverty and Rome’s influence.
Readers familiar with Australia s moving stones learn of similar Nevada curiosities where round iron ore stones roll toward a common center. The stones vary from pea to five inches, lie in basins on bare rock, and move when released from nearby distances, suggesting magnetism or lone iron ore as the cause.
One quart of flour with half cup of butter and three level teaspoons baking powder rubbed in. Add a pinch of salt and sweet milk to form dough. Shape into rounds, place in pans not touching, and bake quickly.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a curative and preventive remedy for malaria fever. It claims the product surpasses quinine in thoroughness and wholesomeness, with positive testimony from physicians and wide social support across the western regions.
Reports in the New York Herald and Christian Standard describe public tests of the Audiphone enabling Deaf listeners to hear ordinary conversation lectures and concerts via sound vibrations conducted through the teeth. Free pamphlet offered by The American Audiphone Co. Cincinnati Ohio.
An assortment of advertised remedies including Wells Butter Color rival products, McIntosh Electric Belt, Dr Winchell's Teething Syrup, Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and "Yeast" by Wis Brothers, plus Kidney-Wort for bowels and kidneys. The ads urge trust in branded products and warn against imitators.
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