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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1901
Page
3
An advertisement touts a Havana filled Sumatra wrapped cigar named Red Raven as a superior 10c smoke. It prompts readers to ask dealers and mentions W. B. Kearns & Co as distributors in Webster City Iowa with additional 5c cigars Little Franklin and Black Cat also carried.
A brief 1901 Webster City page entry from the Tribune records a Friday date in December with local notices and short notes reflecting the era's community snapshot.
Rev W H Sayre of Des Moines will assist in revival meetings starting next Sunday evening December 8 at Homer Baptist church. The paper asks correspondents in Hamilton county to send news weekly and warns publishers against deceptive subscription practices while urging steady year round quality.
The United Brethren church plans a series of special meetings starting around January 5. Rev. R E Graves of Cambridge Iowa, a leading preacher in the Des Moines conference, will assist the pastor. Christians of all churches are invited to join. The meetings may run three to four weeks or longer if interest continues.
The notice requests readers in arrears to pay up promptly to cover the paper’s high operating costs. It explains that every dollar earned is needed to keep the newspaper running and asks all subscribers to arrange payments.
Amos W. Quinn died Monday evening at his daughter Mrs. Frank Doty’s home after a weeklong pneumonia illness aged fifty two. He was born February 23 1849 and lived sixteen years in Hamilton County with ten in Casa township and six in the city. He leaves a wife a son and daughter Charles Quinn and Mrs Doty and two sisters. Funeral was held Thursday at 2 30 pm at O B church under Elmo lodge L C O F with Rev S J Clark preaching.
Prof. Ford reported a productive Inter-County Teachers meeting at Goldfield with practical ideas for teachers. Prof. Jackman outlined geography work as inspiring. Miss Guinan visited Des Moines Schools and Miss Whitham planned Milwaukee visits after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving programs and decorative drawing marked Nov 27 across grades.
The U B church ladies have spent six weeks preparing for a Harvest and Holiday Festival and Fair with dinner and supper and a sale of holiday goods. The event is set for Saturday December 14 in the old Blanken pueblo building on Seneca Street. Helpers are urged to donate clothing toys furniture groceries dry goods shoes hats caps hardware tin ware notions and other items to stock a department store for the sale.
The Martin Telephone Co reports a major cable outage from the central office to Des Moines and Elm streets, a 150 wire line damaged by water. Suspected hole in casing from birds and sling shots, paper insulating wrapping soaked, new cable delayed by factory backlogs. Company restores limited service by linking five to six phones on a line.
Des Moines News reports Omaha Commercial Club rejected an outside advertising scheme. The Omaha News condemns itinerant advertising fakirs who promise big gains with booklets and trade papers. It urges merchants to use legitimate newspaper ads benefiting home institutions.
Des Moines reader John L. Rendall responds to a November 25 piece by Mark Twain about Christian Science. He argues the article was not meant seriously, praises Christian Scientists as educated, influential, and dedicated, and asserts their beliefs have stood against misunderstanding. Readers are also directed to an advertisement for Christmas shopping at St Hoyt.
A consignment of 180 hogs shipped from Missouri to the stockyards began dying of illness, likely cholera. By last week 85 had died and about 15 more succumbed, with some still sick. The state veterinarian inspected them Friday and will report to railroad authorities. Officials think climate and diet changes, not cholera, caused the losses, and improvements are seen as acclimation occurs.
The Bell Telephone Company's toll line headquarters have moved from Medberg drug store to a central office at Keltz and Little's. The Martin Company dissolved their joint operation after moving from the Hamilton County State Bank building, citing their own lines now reach most Bell destinations and that maintaining two providers would not yield added profits.
The Iowa State Teachers Association holds its 47th annual meeting in Des Moines during Christmas vacation December 26 to 30. Notable events include speakers from Chicago Paris and Toronto, a grand sacred concert, and sessions on moral education pedagogy and music as an educational factor.
The Eagle Grove controversy over shooting live pigeons is debated in editorials from Webster City and Eagle Grove papers. The Eagle Grove Times counters cruelty claims by detailing humane club practices and noting pigeons are killed if wounded and sent to the Chicago market. Charles Aldrich, famed for humane work, has written against the cruel practice, and critics defend the sport as environmental.
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