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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
5
Framed as a motivational verse urging perseverance through hardship. The speaker, attributed to WHndm Francia Barnard in To-Morrow, invokes enduring courage to weather night and battle and to trust in eventual harvest and triumph.
Uncle Peter and Peter Bines confront ruined fortune and mounting plans for a western enterprise. Mauburn frets over love and titles as Mrs. Drelmer maneuvers with Blanche Wybert. Shepler praises a young man's resilience and hints at westward opportunities.
At a Park Avenue reception a debutante with golden hair twirled a chaperon’s wedding ring 50 times to test a trend she calls the latest superstition. She hopes the next man she meets will propose, while avoiding an awkward encounter with Billy Haverstraw as Jack arrives.
A witty exchange features a sympathetic speaker lamenting tonsillitis as a dreadful malady while a coarse Goth responds that it keeps people from trying to sing. The brief humor centers on cultural melodrama and social quirks.
The colonial secretary of the Bahamas reports for 1905-1906 that no complaint of error or delay has been received by the telegraph department for fourteen years. A household tip promotes Iron and Defiance Starch, claiming it stiffens shirts at home with less wear and tear and pleasant ironing.
Lord Knollys has served as King Edward's private secretary for 36 years and is the only man the king fully trusts. He oversees the vast royal correspondence with help from a corps of assistants.
An 19th century style ad claims deafness stems from tubal inflammation and catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness cured by Hats Catarrh Cure and promotes a drugstore sale with a Pantr y P ul s product and Tuladon Ohio contact.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew, resting at Ardsley on the Hudson, did substantial work on his reminiscences. He doubts publication but thinks the writings may interest his son and will likely reveal his long public life and many prominent connections.
Advertises Brandreth's Pills as a vegetable laxative tonic that cleanses the stomach and bowels, stimulates kidneys and liver, and purifies the blood for all ages. Claims the pills have been used for over a century and are sold everywhere in plain or sugar-coated form.
An American Inventor reports a rare solid mahogany bridge in Palenque, Chiapas near Guatemala. The 150 plus foot long 15 foot wide wooden span uses iron braces, is pedestrian and team used, and timber was hewn from the local mahogany forests amid rubber plantation clearings.
A reflection on old year start traditions noting New Year calls once were prominent but declined with alcohol use. It promotes Postum as a wholesome beverage, citing a Staten Island doctor and his daughter who use it during Yule Tide gatherings and offer demonstrations to visitors.
In Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta large city populations are scarce yet prairie farming thrives. The 1906 crop totals and rising wheat oats barley values highlight lucrative returns. American farmers flock to Canada West for free homesteads and cheaper land while railways open new agricultural opportunities and a growing settlement wave.
Mrs Margaret Emmerich of Clinton street Napoleon Ohio describes long kidney trouble with back pain blurred vision dizzy spells and inability to work. She credits Deans Kidney Pills with quick relief and a complete cure saying they saved her life. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a bottle Yoster Miburn Co Buffalo NY.
Dr. J. McBryde, president of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg Virginia, has been placed on the retired list as a pensioner of the Carnegie foundation. He is the first educator from Virginia to receive the distinction.
A 4 writer notes that masks originate to conceal emotions in North American and Indian practices. In combat, warriors hide expressions such as sympathy or fear to avoid telegraphing feelings to opponents and risking defeat.
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