Highwaymen Threaten Story City in Nighttime Heists
Bandits hit a Story City area, dynamiting safes at a post office and a meat market. Police and residents report alarm and police pursuit as investigators gather evidence and canvass the areas.
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01 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
1
Meat theft reported with $30 taken in incident
A brief note records a theft where the culprit took $30 from meat stock. No further details on location or individuals are provided in the readable text.
Bold gang robs Story City post office and meat market
A gang blew safes at the Story City post office and Alsager meat market between 2:15 and 3:00 am taking $150 cash and $850 in stamps from the post office and $30 cash from the meat market. They escaped by hand car after severing telegraph wires and dynamiting both safes. Police and a local posse pursued but saw no sign of the robbers. The gang is suspected to be the same as the Gilman bank attackers earlier that week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Story City
Alsager
Iowa Central
Henderson
Gilman
Marshalltown
Iowa
Nichols forfeits handicap bout with Bert Gotch in wrestling
After fifty one minutes Nichols of this city forfeited his state championship challenge against Bert Gotch of Fort Dodge in a three falls handicap match. The mat tore from the ferocity of the wrestle and officials stopped elbows to stomach punches as the fighters battled on bare floor before an audience of about two hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kid’ Nichols
Lawrence Pergne
Bert Gotch
Fort Dodge
Nichols
Gotch
Boyd
Nichola
Etringa
A. G. Packman
Woolstock
Arthur Macke
City council rejects pro rata meter fairness plan
City officials at city hall Tuesday night refuse pro rata settlements for heat patrons with meters. They keep the standard flat rate, split duties between two hands, addressing post office and meat market robbery. Postmaster Henderson is linked to O J Henderson. government bears loss of cash and stamps, not the postmaster, as a robbery occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
O. J. Henderson
Change in Iowa Poor Farm Inspection Under State Staff
Dr M C Mackin resigns as state inspector of county poor farms to become first assistant at Clarinda State Hospital. A reform plan shifts county and private farm inspections to medical staff of four state insane hospitals, aiming to curb abuses and tighten supervision. About 110 institutions to be inspected semi annually. Mackin may urge state supervision of baby farms. For sale eight Duroc Jersey boars 100 to 200 pounds G W Coleman Rural 3 Martin phone 1208.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Mackin
Independence
Witte
Clarinda
Mackin
Board of Control
Duroc Jersey
G. W. Coleman
Roral
Martin
Gearhart Lecture Praises Centuries of Progress in Webster City
G A Gearhart of Buffalo NY spoke at the Baptist church on The footprints of the centuries drawing a line from early times to modern progress. He urged puritanical honesty and the golden rule in business and praised women’s emancipation and equal rights, closing with a call for brotherhood and faith in the present era. The Baraca class program drew a fair audience despite bad weather and the lecture was hailed as one of the best Webster City has heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baptist Church
G.A. Gearhart
Buffalo
N. Y
Gearhart
Webster City
Mason Arrives in Webster City Fifty Years Ago
Fifty years ago on November 20 1855 Fr Mason arrived in Webster City from the east without railroads nearby. He walked thirty five miles from Low Falls now Iowa Falls to reach the new settlement and became known as the paper of Webster City with many Hamilton county friends hoping for his continued prosperity in the town. The notice urges residents to patronize honest industry to make Webster City the best town on the Illinois Central between Dubuque and Sioux City and to support northwest Den Matnen in rows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FR. Mason
Webster City
Lowa Falls
Mason
Hamilton County
Webster
City
Illnois Central
Duboyne
Sioux City
den Matnen
Renwick Fire Threatens Main Street Buildings
A morning blaze in Renwick destroyed three frame structures on the north side of the street. Loss estimated at $3000 with partial insurance. Buildings owned by the State Bank and C. W. Yeoman. a small vacant lot owner unknown. Fire started from a defective chimney as high winds spread flames along the street, threatening the south side briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Renwick
Freeman-Tribune
State Bank
C. W. Yeoman
Yeoman
Local notes recall Webster City history and early rail progress
Thirty seven years ago weddings were announced at J E Dain and J E Corder homes in Homer. The Freeman reports plans for an Anti-House Thief meeting at the court house led by T A Conklin, with A E Atwell selling oysters and C M Arthur opening a new livery stable. Blairaburg votes five percent tax for Illinois Central railroad, Cox and Worthington receive first freight car as Illinois Central line nears Webster City. John F. Duncombe urges Webster City support to complete depot as track reaches eleven miles east of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Dain
J. E.corder
Homer
Hamilton County
Eat
Court House
T. A. Conklin
A. E. Atwell
C. M. Arthur
Webster City
C. T. Penton
Chicago
The
Freeman
Messrs
Cox & Worthington
Iowa River
Illinois Central Railroad
Hawley
Blairaburg
the Freeman
John F. Duncombe
Ilinois
Ellingson firm orders local light dray for butter house
Webster City company to support home industry orders a specially designed light dray from Chae Wiese, Seneca Street blacksmith and wagon maker. The vehicle will be built for the butter egg and poultry operation and finished as soon as possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster City
Ellingson Butter, Egg and Poultry House
Chae, Wiese
Seneca Street
Hanson Purchases Mrs Neal Residence at North Side
1 Hanson buys the Mrs Margaret Neal residence on the north side for 800 dollars. Mrs Neal plans to return to Pennsylvania to reside with her daughter and will take possession shortly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanson
Margaret Neal
Also Mentioned on This Page
P.O
Mra. Dawson
A. M. Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Bert
Gatch
Institute Radical. Change
Ted
Insane Hospital
Baraca
F. R. Mason
Iowa Falls
Neal
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