This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1909
Page
4
An advertisement promotes heating devices including stoves heaters and ranges with emphasis on quality and latest models. It invites readers to examine new lines installed by W. Young and to become regular Trade customers visiting the store.
The Tribune invites correspondents in every neighborhood to report Jefferson and surrounding counties. Readers may contribute to any section not yet represented. Contributors should sign their names and provide a full mailing address, including route if applicable.
A lettered update lists residents at a Birmingham camp meeting and local incidents. Frances Polan travels on crutches after an ankle sprain, while a boy thrown from a pony near Eldon suffers bruises. Willis Glotfelty spends a week at the State Fair, and teachers Nellie Beck and Loreda Hayden plan assignments and travels.
Mr M Damm seeks relief for rheumatism at Excelsior Springs. Peter Rogers marks his 85th birthday with many friends sending wishes. John Farmer buys land in Henry county near Denova at 75 dollars an acre after selling his Salina farm. Bert Howard slowly improves from lung fever tied to threshing dust. his son Earle is unwell. Teresa Nelson recovers well from appendicitis. Mr and Mrs William Kennedy and children visited Lamansky home. Frank Smith returns from Stockport in a new run-about.
The region experiences frost and a sharp weather shift as residents plan for the State Fair. Estens Norton and family head west to Seattle for several weeks ending in October. Charles Knerr returns to visit after 18 years, with a reunion at Mrs. Hildebrand’s home drawing 42 relatives. A German Lutheran missionary meeting drew a large crowd. School starts Monday with Katie Berger and Carrie Williams as new Mohawk and Sharp Corner teachers. Earn Hinkle reports Minnesota work scarcity. Will Ross and family visited relatives.
The community notes a light Friday shower that helps dry dust and ease heat. Ransom Whitmore baled hay for Ben Parrett while Billy Crawford advances home remodeling with lumber on the ground. Edwin Fuller visited with his son George south of Ottumwa. the railroad enlarges the Bernhart depot. G. W. Hidy is sick. I. C. Cook, formerly of Cross Lanes now in Batavia, has been taken to Hot Springs for treatment.
Eldon residents joined a camp meeting in Birmingham on Sunday. Clarence Weber traveled to Ottumwa for a business trip on Friday. F. E. Fender, Mr. McClure, E. E. Hilles, I. C. Griffitts and Glen Smith visited Ottumwa on Wednesday. Mrs. Alice Smith and her daughter from Ottumwa stayed with relatives in Eldon this week. Others, including Mr. Stevens and Geo Seitz, also made Ottumwa trips. I. C. Griffitts shipped poultry to Ottumwa buyers on Saturday. J Currens visited Ottumwa recently. Bernard Seitz spent Sunday with family at home.
Sunday September 5 1909 service at Par sonville church all day with Rev Tennant assisting Rev Pool. Basket dinner invited. Several local residents listed visiting relatives and attending fairs in Ottumwa Des Moines West Point and Des Moines. Will Morrisons own a new piano and several residents travel to the State Fair in Des Moines.
Mr John Coleman ill with typhoid fever. Emery Pearson Silas Pearson and Mrs S H Watkins visit Pueblo Colorado. Ella Stansberry and son Fred return after weeks in Colorado. Irwin Glatfelty and Nels McCleary depart for Des Moines. S N Biddle and family move to Guernsey Iowa for teaching work. School opens with Miss Mary Pool principal and Miss Mayme Davis assistant. enrollment 85 in two rooms. Rev Nash of Birmingham preaches at Presbyterian church. Mrs J R Laughlin and Goldie Anderson go to Des Moines. Mrs C B Morley Packwood visits H D Davis home.
Dott Hisel, a frail but hopeful wife and mother, died August 29 1909 after a lung fever. She leaves Charles Hisel and son Leonard, with a life of devotion, funeral held at the M E church with Rev C L Tennant officiating, she is described as refined and devout.
Paris doctors test beard versus beardless kisses for germ transfer. A bearded man allegedly carried many germs while a beardless kiss yielded few, prompting health officials to warn against facial hair.
A Chicago Daily reporter sought an interview with John W. Gates after a bold intrusion into his office. Gates initially threatened eviction but impressed by nerve, offering the man a job at 150 dollars a week the next day.
Sunday visitors viewed portraits and relics at Independence Hall for the first time when the guard admitted only descendants of signers. A lone old man claiming to be a descendant of Thomas Jefferson insisted he belonged, insisting he was descended from the man who wrote the declaration.
A Philadelphia Times snippet recalls Jefferson authoring the declaration and asks confirmation. The brief reflects a curiosity about the wording and authorship attributed to Jefferson in historic context.
Martin Fagan, a local resident near Tenth and Clearfield, was arraigned before a Germantown magistrate on a charge of habitual drunkenness. He claimed a twin brother John shares the blame, while the magistrate noted past confinement and sent Martin to accompany John.
The Panama Canal project will use almost a million tons of cement with shipments in government steamers carrying about 8 000 tons per voyage. It is expected to take four years to deliver 4 800 000 barrels at the current shipment rate, while the government gains by using its own vessels avoiding demurrage charges despite storms affecting loading and unloading.
An imperial edict from the capital of China renames Grand Secretary Na Tung to acting capacity while he mourns his parent. He is instructed to resume duties after a hundred days of mourning and to align his filial piety with state service to meet the throne’s trust.
A Yale anecdote features a nine foot by six foot skull described by a man in a blue hat band, provoking a quip from a crimson hat wearing counterpart about another large head at Yale. The exchange highlights campus humor over a striking fossil find and a playful rivalry in dress.
The Louisville Courier Journal references a speaker noting a seven member family to be sent away for the summer and jokes about issuing bonds as a method to fund it. The remark frames a light economic quip on travel expenses and public finance.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.