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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1903
Page
2
A mosaic of wry vignettes and sharp quips on society, politics, and culture. Bits reference Harvard germ theory, Japan’s navy, Morristown wealth, horse racing, and public taste, all with a satirical newspaper voice. Notable lines poke at immig ration, propriety, and the price of fame.
An Omaha judge restrains a woman from speaking to or about a neighbor, a case framed as government by an injury of a tongue. Other items note Mme Monteith declining to come to America and a fortune teller’s ominous prediction.
Des Moines reports flood losses may top 1.6 million in Des Moines and vicinity. Water rose to 243 feet with streets four miles from city center submerged. Traffic halted, police increased, and relief efforts organized by the city, county, and Associated Charities with clothing and food donations distributed.
Edwin S Hooley, president of Evansville Terre Haute Railway and New York stock broker, won control at the Des Moines Fort Dodge railway stockholders meeting. Three Rock Island friendly Des Moines directors were ousted and new directors Norbert Heinsheimer Roswell Vail and Lawrence Pearson elected. Special meetings set for July 9 and June 11 to decide bond indebtedness action and Rock Island redemption questions.
Des Moines residents begin returning to waterlogged homes in bottom lands as transfer wagons run. Many salvage little and start cleaning mud filled houses. Repairs, reinforced foundations, and levee decisions loom while authorities delay until flood risk subsides. About a thousand people reoccupy the district that has been flooded twice in a year.
Watertoo June 4 Charles C. Clark of Burlington was elected grand master of the Iowa Masonic Grand Lodge by acclamation a signal honor not seen in twenty five years. Officers named include Grand Master C C Clark Grand Senior Warden P J Martin Waterloo Grand Junior Warden Thomas Arthur Logan.
The flood leaves factories idle and 35 thousand tons of ice lost as schools churches and fairgrounds open to sufferers. Two days of business shutdown, widespread damage, and mounting losses to homes, stocks, and public works prompt calls for a tax to fund levee construction. Levee breaks flood Keokuk area, flooding 40k acres and causing $750,000 in losses with the river at Warsaw eight inches above 1881 levels.
Des Moines June 4 no extra session will be convened to address floods. City council sought a special session to pass a levy for duke jobs to employ many men, but any such measure would not take effect until after the next session and taxes could not be collected this year. The council committee has not yet asked the governor, who will not act until the committee files its plan.
In Marshalltown on June 6 Mrs Bev Olson was fatally burned when a kerosene can she placed on a stove exploded after she stepped out briefly. Her husband and child were badly burned but alive. Police report details are limited and conditions appear critical.
June 5 1903 notes from Des Moines cover a stone embankment around a power plant, interurban assessability by the executive council, and May inebriate reports. It reports a three woman exhibit committee for the St Louis exposition and river protection debates. It notes a Rock Island bridge plan and a acetylene explosion near Red Oak with injuries.
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