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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
2
A collage of witty remarks and short items covers international politics. notes on Europe America Greece and Russia mix with local quirks from Ann Arbor to Philadelphia. humorous asides about education wages and a Yale balance of mind and money appear amid a starved news week.
In Mt. Vernon New York doctors opened the skull of a boy with lockjaw and injected antitoxine into the brain. The operation initially succeeded but the boy died.
A quip notes telegraphs to China are available at a dollar per word yet still affordable for a drink. The speaker suggests ample Chinese words can be sent without breaking the budget.
In a tense political standoff King Peter faces a cabinet crisis as lingering figures accused of failing to aid Alexander's assassination remain in government. A crisis appears the only lever to compel their removal.
The piece argues for clear labeling of colonial possessions in the south Pacific highlighting the prevalence of scattered islands. It notes time’s revenges, recalls boys leaving farms for circuses, and comments on a West circus losing tent men to harvest work. It reports China borrowing money from Russia illuminating complex Russo-Chinese cordialities.
An Ohio man who killed five wives faces execution by electric chair amid questions of his sanity. The Ohio court declines to grant mercy, deeming it unsafe to doubt the verdict or delay the sentence.
The piece reports the death at Dakota City of rs. Gilter Franklin aged 49, born in Illinois when it was a territory, and remarks on her long marriage. It then describes a horticultural oddity at W. F. Warnebold’s Jersey Ridge fruit farm with apples sessile on trunks, likely from heavy rains and pruning. It continues with Charles Holada’s penitentiary life reflections after involvement in James Gallaugher’s murder, and finally notes Frederick Derming Tucker taking the Mason City Memorial university presidency, with praise from Minnesota and Yale connections.
In Keokuk longtime statesman Colonel Richard Root died on the 28th at Camden, Maine. The report notes his prominence in state and national politics and his residence in Keokuk.
The Iowa report details a forged check scam affecting thirteen banks and merchants in Iowa City, a lawsuit from Monona County over malice claims, a Justice Smith case fining trustees over overcharged damages, a fatal assault case in Council Bluffs, a Humboldt suicide by necklace strangulation, a Burlington yard accident killing Ray Lilley, and a record claim of Peter Hansen in Monona County at age 15 standing six feet five and three quarters inches tall.
Professor L I Parker recounted a then little known story of General J M Street and the Sacs and Foxes in central Iowa. Indians offered land to Street’s widow for his burial on Agency City soil, then insisted on keeping a square mile for Mrs Street as part of 1842 treaty negotiations. Chief Keokuk finally reserved the land around Street’s grave, honoring a friend and ally amid treaty talks.
Frederick Derming Tucker, head of the agriculture department at Minnesota State University, has accepted the presidency of Memorial University in Mason City and will be installed in late August. A Massachusetts native and Yale graduate, he is described as a successful pastor and accomplished speaker with strong scholarly attainments. He is endorsed by University of Minnesota President Northrup who wished to keep him at Minnesota.
On Main street bridge a horse and cart driven by Mrs Anson Soules plunged through the railing and fell twenty feet to the river rocks. The horse died. Mrs Soules suffered serious spinal injuries and may not recover. Clifford Soules, 16, was unhurt.
An American boy, age ten, becomes the first child to ride in Santos Dumont’s airship. The event is described as a pleasant novelty and a highlight of the day’s aviation chatter.
Des Moines reports Sen. Crossley of Madison county vows a stronger push for a primary elections law in the next session. He will team with Rep. Greene and seeks penalties like general elections, voter registration by party, and separate party tickets, aiming to reform primary governance.
Fashionable men of the East wear coffee colored coats to match women's tea gowns, while some men naturally lean toward a ladylike style.
A fragment cites the rapid reproduction of the housefly with figures: a female lays about twenty eggs and each egg yields a fertile fly within three weeks, suggesting a single female could yield millions. The text shifts to a domestic scene where Mrs Upmann scolds Delia over a polka-dance guest in the kitchen and parlor.
Des Moines reports a Waterloo led exhibit at the Iowa State Fair to feature products from its factories and a 30 by 250 foot tent. The Waterloo group envisions展示 including the Twentieth Century spreader and other goods with a Waterloo band and decorated train cars.
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