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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1900
Page
3
A narrator describes a lifelong quest to create a new remedy for hair growth. He claims years of toil and wakeful work led to a genic remedy though the text remains garbled and unfinished.
The article notes September as the oyster season with Bluepoint Rockaway and Shrewsbury varieties. It contrasts summer flavor, discusses digestion times for oysters versus other meats, cites Thomas J. Murrey on oyster preparation, and mentions serving methods from raw on the half shell to cocktails. It also advertises the Hock Island Wall Map for schools, mailing details included.
Persuasive advertisement claiming permanent cure for invalids and all stomach weakness with one dose. Describes rapid relief and universal efficacy, promoting Bradshaw & Thoma druggists of Fairfield Iowa as sellers. Ends by asserting safety and consistency of results.
An advertisement touts No To Bac as a minty, magnetic cure for tobacco addiction. It claims to make weak men strong with a guaranteed cure and offers a free booklet and sample from Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
September 18 1900 Jefferson county board proceedings record hearing on A J Boyd mulch tax denial and tax costs. Clerk reports district court fees marriage licenses and other charges while approving the clerk’s report. Board authorizes collection from Caleb Swope estate and items mileage per diem for Hurst Armstrong Williams. Minutes read and approved. Board adjourns to November 13 1900.
Sunday school convention at Chandlers school house three miles northeast of Fairfield on September 23 features sessions from 9 30 am to 4 pm with addresses by John Herit W N Gossick and H H Brighton. Topics cover design of Sunday school officers nominating procedures infant class interest and community benefits with a question box and closing remarks. B T Rains president Elmer Davis secretary invite Sunday school workers to attend and bring song book No 1 Finest of the Wheat.
The United States Express Co. announces it will transport money and suitable relief supplies free of charge from Chicago to Galveston Texas for the Relief Committee or other designated recipients. T. M. Jones, Supt. of Traffic, issues the notice to patrons.
The democratic voters of Black Hawk township will meet in primary at Center school house Thursday evening September 27 at 7 30 p m to nominate candidates for township offices. The meeting will be addressed by county talent. All democrats and everyone in the vicinity invited. E J Johnson Com
An advertising blurb touts Dr Hobbs Sparagus Pills as a universal kidney cure. It offers a free sample and directs readers to Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago.
France pledges withdrawal of troops from Pekin to Tientsin and Chinese peace talks appear in sight as America pushes for settlement. Li Hung Chang assures safety for Americans in China while Russia and Japan engage in troop movements. The anthracite strike expands as 112,000 workers walk out. United Mine Workers issue orders to close fuel using industries. Anticipation of higher wheat values and looming gold shipments to Europe cited.
American troops in the Philippines resumed active operations against insurgents. Two islands in the Philippine group were designated as forest reserves to protect rubber trees growing there.
Reports from Olmuetz Mora via cite clashes injuring many during a Czech German political riot. A bubonic plague case and 112 people under observation in Glasgow. General Botha intends at least three months more fighting before troops are disarmed by Portugal. Paul Kruger at Lorenzo Marques rumored to sail Sept 24.
The Democratic conferees renominated Rufus K. Polk in the Seventh Pennsylvania district. L. L. Brown was nominated for Congress in Minnesota's First district. Colorado fusion ticket heads to J. B. Orman for governor. Maine reports a Republican governor plurality. Roosevelt issues a vice presidential nomination letter defending expansion and silver. Illinois Republicans Vespasian Warner and Democrats John Eddy to hold joint debates.
F. E. Peacock faces arrest in Chicago for fraudulently obtaining 1100 from hotels. An unknown woman attempted suicide at the Palmer House. James Howard’s trial opens in Kentucky for Goebel’s murder with an ex-sheriff testifying to a prior confession. A bandit robbed a stage in California of 30 dollars from an editor passenger. George Forbes, a Chicago bank teller, commits suicide amid private financial affairs.
The Amalgamated Association informs independent iron manufacturers who signed the original scale that puddling rates drop from 6.12 percent to 5 dollars per ton for two months. Meanwhile the comptroller of the currency declares dividends for creditors of insolvent national banks, including 41 percent at the Columbia National Bank of Tacoma and 8.4 percent at the Dakota National Bank of Sioux Falls.
Galveston counts 5000 dead at mayor's estimate as martial law grips the city and looting hushes into fear. A Barge wreck off Erie leaves twelve dead while Duncan Clarke’s troupe perishes in Mounds Illinois. Chicago endures violent winds causing deaths injuries and property loss. Ulah Snell dies after ingesting medicine in a Chicago home. Fire in Cincinnati shelter costs five lives and seven injured. Relief funds reach Texas disaster areas as responders assist Galveston survivors and state governors urge aid.
A Washington dispatch lists multiple notable deaths including Rev. Ella J. Davis of Richmond Indiana Allan Hay first president of the West Shore railroad in New York and Rev John B Maxfield of Boulder Colorado Also noted are Prof Griepenker of Goettingen Colonel Thomas Turner former congressman of Mount Sterling Kentucky Captain Daniel F Stiles retired U S A resident of Oklahoma City Y T Lester A Rose Wisconsin secretary of the Wisconsin River Valley Improvement Association William J Abrams former Green Bay mayor Seely Perry former Rockford mayor Prince Henry of Hesse in Munich and John P Shannon supreme dictator of the Knights of Honor of the United States All are reported as dead with short biographical notes.
Fire at Wisconsin Land and Lumber in Hermansville Wisconsin wiped out its flooring and planing mill. A separate blaze at Narragansett Pier Rhode Island caused about 300000 dollars in property loss. In Pandora Ontario Canada most of the business section burned Saturday with estimated 50000 dollars in damage.
Chicago public schools begin the new term with an estimated enrollment of 240000 students, up about 5000 from the previous year.
Miss Mary Bealer fourteen daughter of Philip Bealer of Fenton Illinois elopes with Albert Barnhard of Cedar Rapids Nebraska. They hire a livery rig and flee Clinton and reach Boone after boarding the Colorado special to Cedar Rapids. Authorities arrest them. the couple claim marriage in Boone though no license was issued.
At Avoca Indiana a hypnotic act nearly ended in disaster when a buried subject survived twenty four hours but only by quick diging after water from a burst barrel flooded the grave. The incident followed another report from Fort Dodge Iowa about a heiress to a million dollars and a Lutheran ministerial aid fund being formed in Sioux City.
A. H. Hrubetz of Manly was arrested in Mason City on arson charges. The 12,000 loss from a Grant and Felden fire a year earlier linked to him led to a second blaze on Feb 28. A detective investigated and Hrubetz was indicted by the grand jury.
Des Moines residents express strong dissatisfaction with the census results. The general opinion among judges and officials is that figures are 10 000 to 25 000 too low, sparking talk of a potential recount. In Sioux City another note counts 350 divorce suits filed this year versus about 400 marriage licenses issued.
Sioux City Iowa Sept 15 Frank King and Henry Willner two well known young men near Whittemore have been arrested charged with the murder of Jens Graveson and Andrew Carlquist whose bodies were found on the track near Sexton last week.
A prominent young farmer A. A. Hubrett was indicted by the grand jury for arson in Mason City Iowa for allegedly setting two fires in stock belonging to N Grant a Manly general merchant. Des Moines report notes Grand Master F M Sargent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen will not seek re election after receiving a better outside offer.
Marysville Ohio September 15 Roslyn Ferrell charged with the murder of Express Messenger Lane and the robbery of a Safe on a Panhandle train appeared in court yesterday and pleaded guilty. Washington September 17 Robert P Houston British MP from Liverpool sent five thousand dollars to the Galveston relief fund.
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