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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1902
Page
4
Fragments of aphorisms and miscopied maxims appear in this Buffalo Center Tribune page item. The text strings several proverbial lines, some garbled, referencing love, wealth, virtue, and social cautions with scattered names and phrases. The piece reads as a collage rather than a single coherent report.
Russell Sage argues wealth should be taxed to regulate fortunes, condemning curbs on capital while defending capitalists as captains of industry. He urges using wealth to maximize the greatest good and warns against mistreating the rich as dangerously imprudent.
A collage of quotes from Shakespeare Patrick Henry J Q Holland I G Saxe Frederick Douglass and others emphasizes self reliance perseverance and personal achievement. The text praises virtuous resolve and individual effort across law love battle and business.
An excerpt from Ladies' Home Journal discusses color symbolism with gems. It links red for courage and intense love to ruby, green for hope and joy to emerald, and blue for constancy and friendship to sapphire, mentioning other stones like turquoise and the forget me not as symbols.
Des Moines May 28 Drake University won the state college field meet by a landslide with 66 2/3 points. State University 19, Iowa College 14, State Agricultural 11. Seven state records fell, Charles Pell led with 12 1/2 points, Thompson and Young 3 10 each.
At Cantril Keowaunua on June 2 Albert Hale a farm hand aged 1 shot Dora Donohue aged 16 through the heart then killed himself in sight of bystanders. Hale who was injured will recover and says infatuation and jealousy caused the murder suicide in the street near Donohue's home.
Promised by President Roosevelt to aid the Army of the Philippines national encampment, thirty members of the Town Society met in this city to plan the August gathering August 18 14 and 15. Officers were elected and work underway. notable generals from the Philippines campaign expected to attend.
P H Harrington, named as an alleged Brady gang member, is jailed by Sheriff Dyer in Chelsea for the murder of Marshal Smith last December during a bank robbery attempt. Transferred to Toledo for trial. other gang members, including McDowell Edwards and Page, were captured in Camden Point Mo and sentenced to ten years in Missouri prison. Detectives have pursued Harrington since a noted fatal shot in the attack on the marshal.
Washington Sheriff Teeter arrested two young men, about 25, with skeleton keys and goods from a general store. The haul includes shoes, two pocket knives, watch chains, a seal ring, and various small items. Authorities seek further information from other officers statewide.
S F McConnell, chair of the Democratic State Central Committee, issued a call for a Des Moines meeting at the Savery House on June 3 to set a date and place for the state convention and name temporary officers. The convention is anticipated in Des Moines, possibly August 13 or 20, with last year’s held August 21.
Mrs Herbert Haskett and her infant were struck on a Cedar Falls trestle by an Illinois Central passenger train. The mother walked on the track while wheeling the child in a cab, a curve blocking the view for the engineer. The woman died instantly and the child died a few hours later. They had just left a funeral nearby earlier in the day for Thomas Philpot’s two year old son, who had been struck near the same spot by an Illinois Central freight train the day before.
Ila Noble, convicted of the murder of Thomas Morgan on January 23, 1902, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The defense overruled a motion for a new trial. Noble appeared subdued but regained composure, and the case will be appealed to the supreme court.
Washington May 1 observes Necrology Day with a vast Arlington gathering. President Roosevelt delivers a commemorative oration focusing on duty to country, humane warfare, and Philippines policy. He emphasizes avoiding cruelty, condemns lynching, and contends for gradual Philippine self government before independence.
Des Moines May 29 Justice Weaver dissents in Sarah Kuhn murder appeal. He cites neighborhood prejudice and concealment of a disability as factors that affected fairness. The trial concluded with Kuhn’s husband poisoned, and a will favoring Kuhn plus alleged intimacy with Andrew Smith are noted as possible motives and prejudicial elements.
Michigan wins the intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association meet on Marshall Field with 38 points, Chicago 26, Wisconsin 19. Five records fall and one ties. Chapman of Lake University vaults 11 feet 3 4 inches to defeat Deborak and McGee. Kellogg of Michigan breaks two mile and Richards ties 120 yard hurdles. Swift of Iowa sets discus mark, Keachle of Wisconsin lowers mile record, and Moloney of Chicago lowers 120 yard hurdle record. Relay won by Minnesota-Iowa-Northwestern not affecting team totals.
In Des Moines thirty five of thirty six gamblers pleaded guilty before Judge Silvera and paid a total of 410 dollars to the city treasury. Four Black defendants who could not afford the fines agreed to leave town at once. Also reported is a wreck of the Rocky Mountain Limited near Avoca. The eastbound train derailed after traveling at seventy miles per hour. the tender jumped the track and damaged the train as it slid for about a mile.
In Invent corn husker news A W Richowts claims a massive machine designed to harvest corn with four horses and boys assisting The unit stands 39 feet long 19 feet high and weighs 6500 pounds Wealey Irwin found guilty of murder in the second degree at Shenandoah after trial Clarinda May 20 details follow
In Washington the Senate failed to reach a vote on the Philippine bill after hours of speeches by Patterson and others, urging independence for Filipinos and criticizing U S control. The House passed the immigration and temperance measures, extending silver coinage debates and inflation fighting, with amendments on subsidiary coinage.
A Chicago meat shortage looms as 44 meat markets exhaust stock and 70 percent of 55 city restaurants face meat scarcity by Sunday night. Jewish kosher markets close, leaving 85,004 residents without regular meat. Teamsters and box makers threaten actions if supply chains aren t restored.
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