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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1903
Page
8
A committee from the executive committee of the Commercial Association met with Washington representatives today. Led by Willard Welch, they plan vigorous efforts to secure the proposed rail line from this city to Washington at the earliest opportunity.
George Carson bought a new naptha launch for the town river and tested it on Saturday at Coralville. The craft twisted its front line screw during the trial, forcing him to haul the launch from the water to free the propeller. The launch is described as a fine speedy craft.
Train No. 41 The Rocky Limited will resume westbound July 1 and No. 42 eastbound July 3 after temporary suspension due to western floods. The city column also notes visits, estates sold at Denver, hospital stays, and upcoming local events including a Presbyterian Sunday school picnic on July 1 at Virgil Hartsock’s farm.
Miss Iva Stauffer and Albert E. Clearman married at the Stauffer residence with Rev. C Y Leach officiating. The ceremony featured a roses and smilax canopy and Episcopal ring service. After a supper the couple left for Rock Island Illinois to begin life with Clearman employed by R T & P in Moline.
Mrs A M Greer and Aliss Jewett with Miss Adelaide Clark entertained at a Friday afternoon card party. Prizes went to Mrs G N Seidlitz of St Louis and Mrs Hal Stewart. Elegant refreshments were served during the afternoon.
Mrs Jack Lindsay entertained a Friday morning Euchre party for friends. Prizes were awarded to Miss Startsman and Mrs Watter Davis.
Mrs. Sid Byers hosted a ladies and gentlemen party Friday night in honor of Miss Nolan of Chicago, guest of Mrs. Geo. T. Reddick. Attorney W. J. MacDonald held a dancing party at the country club with about 30 attendees, supper served at 11 after an 8 o clock assembly.
Manager D W Coffey and Mrs Blrs will leave tonight for a short vacation to Coffey's former home in Monroe Jasper county to spend the Fourth. Coffey leads Iowa Telephone Co. operations in Iowa City area. his parents live in Monroe. A second item promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a quick healing antiseptic for cuts bruises and burns available from druggists.
Jay Chatham, superintendent of the Town City Water Works, returned from Detroit Saturday after attending the International Water Works convention. He said the convention was largely attended with great interest and that delegates visited Detroit waterworks on Friday. He praised Detroit’s plant as one of the finest in the United States and noted he was under the weather much of the trip.
Salt Lake dispatch reports Theodore Davis Boal, a Denver architect and former Iowa City resident, injured when his carriage veered after a rut. He suffered a broken leg, head injuries, and concussion. Samuel Newhouse, the other occupant, was unhurt.
The article traces ancient gunpowder use from Hindeo rules to sieges and battles across centuries, noting Arabic, Greek, and English adoption. It ends with Joseph Chamberlain recalling a nurse’s rhyme about stags, rivers, and lakes used to mock Beaconsfield and Salisbury after their Berlin trip.
A glacier drifts across the Arctic Ocean while moss grows on its surface and seeds carried by wind take root in sea-soil formed from moss decay. Eskimos call the process the duck and ducklings, noting plant life on these moving ice mountains and that poppies do not bloom in the brief northern summer.
The text urges maintaining an appearance of prosperity to gain credibility and support. It warns against visible hardship and advises prudent home economies to hide distress while projecting capability and confidence to attract favorable luck and opportunities.
The passage laments time as the sole irreplaceable resource. It contrasts recoverable losses in wealth friendships and property with the impossibility of reclaiming a spent moment, a setting sun, or a year already past. It emphasizes the irreversible nature of time.
A compact collage of quippy exchanges shows a playwright debating act count with a critic, an office boy’s sly hearing of a scowling employer, a classroom pun about freckles, and a town and country proverb echoing pride and vision.
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