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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1898
Page
4
A respected local merchant, Mr. Gillette, runs a diverse shop with silversmithing, fine jewelry repair, and a full line of optical goods. He offers free vision examinations, guarantees reliable workmanship, and has earned a strong reputation for enterprising, progressive service with high consumer confidence.
A. W. Jaques firm in Fairfield established 1882 drives growth of western cities through real estate security loans and property dealings. The article lauds Jaques as prudent, reputable and among the state’s leading liberal lenders with extensive mortgage experience.
Voorhies & Bros operate prominent flour mills with substantial buildings and modern equipment. They produce Straight and Cream of Wheat flour, corn meal, mill feed, hay, straw, and wood, offering custom grinding and top grain prices. The business is portrayed as a leading, prosperous local institution.
Among local photographers Browning J G Browning holds high reputation for superior work. He has extended experience, a neat studio and reception room, and an operating department with latest equipment. He specializes in portraits and pictures and also offers water colors ink and crayon.
The piece highlights Browning as up to date with glossy and platino finishes, offering carbon-effect results. He specializes in children's pictures in various sizes and styles, guarantees high quality, and maintains satisfactory prices. Browning is described as an expert and courteous professional.
A M Jordan operates a long established lumber business since 1887 offering rough dressed and manufactured lumber plus sash doors blinds window frames mouldings and house trimmings. The firm stocks shingles lath siding flooring and building materials for trade or private customers with satisfactory terms and competitive prices. It is described as a progressive prosperous institution contributing to the county’s business life.
The firm is a leading local carriage maker and dealer offering carriages, buggies, wagons, and Deering binders and mowers. They emphasize quality, reliability, on site supervision, and in stock items sold at competitive prices. They invite inspection of stock and repairs.
J. Hammon offers tailoring as a leading merchant establishment noted for superior workmanship and upright business practices since opening here. The ad highlights ongoing quality and trust in the trade.
Two Iowa residents report long lasting dyspepsia and nervousness improved after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. They credit appetite restoration and better well being after several bottles. The ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifier, priced at $1 or six for $5.
Congressman Botkin's Statement from Washington on April 1 1898 praises Dr S B Hartmans medicines. Columbus Ohio is cited as the sender and a testimonial notes excellent curative qualities.
Centrally located store offers new and stylish foreign and domestic woolens including cassimers worsted tweeds meltons ceviots diagonals. Workmanship is artistic with perfect satisfaction in material fit and latest style. Mr Hammon’s metropolitan sensitivity and moderate prices assure first class garments.
The City Harness Store run by W A Warwick and manager M S Dougherty offers a large stock of fine and medium harnesses robes horse blankets whips brushes curry combs and horse furnishing goods. Harnesses are made to order repaired promptly and every item is guaranteed. Prices are reasonable and the shop is presented as a reliable popular local firm with strong community trust.
Dr. Frank Fourt stands out as a leading local dentist with broad expertise across the field. He is praised for excellent practice, reliable care, and superior gold and porcelain crown and bridge work, underscoring his skill in preserving natural teeth and performing fillings and extractions.
Dr Fourt is a close observer of professional progress and keeps pace with all improvements in the field. He enjoys liberal and high class patronage and is esteemed as a highly proficient member of the dental profession.
Simpson and Crail operate a local meat market offering prime beef veal ham mutton pork bacon and smoked meats at competitive prices. They emphasize cleanliness purity and customer satisfaction with a focus on quality and value. They also deal in kettle rendered and home made lard and have built a growing trade in the area.
Otto Woelhaf operates a premier restaurant and oyster parlor in Fairfield offering a fresh menu and confectionery while serving regular dinners from 11:30 to 1. The establishment is described as neat and welcoming with reasonable rates and first class service attracting locals and visitors alike.
The well known and popular bakery establishment of Messrs. Lauer and Cornell is described as a leading confectionery operation in the local business scene with a strong reputation and long standing service.
An advertisement extols Swift's Specific as the only remedy to cure eczema, claiming doctors and topical treatments fail. It recounts a daughter's severe skin outbreak, two health springs, and patent medicines before the product purportedly cleared the disease and restored hair.
A New York chemist T A Slocum offers three free bottles of his claimed cure for consumption and lung diseases to Fairfield Tribune readers. He asserts lasting cures and asks readers to write to 98 Pine Street New York with their address. readers should mention seeing the offer in the Tribune.
A unhappy girl taunts her father who bursts into tears and condemns harshly as he vows to stop the unjust reproaches. The scene ends with the father sobbing while a chair creaks under him.
An observer recalls a quarrel outside a hotel at a main street corner where a little old black man spoke angrily to a companion. He warned that if struck he would retaliate with two licks and force the other to the ground, a quote reported by the Den ver Post.
Mr F compliments Mr T on a liquid voice and jokes that it never dries up, prompting a puzzled reaction. The exchange is light banter in a London Fun style.
A dialogue from the Somerville Journal recounts a heated exchange where one character vows to go to the end of the world for the other, and the reply coldly suggests an act of suicide, ending with a stark exchange of resolve and coldness.
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