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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
5
A lengthy editorial piece analyzes Democratic support for Roosevelt in the upper house, Republican fault lines over rate regulation, and the Des Moines press’s stance. It notes editorials attacking Cummins, compares papers, and questions export claims while praising current momentum for rate control.
Drafts mention local editorials and public notices across Iowa cities. Discussions cover press stance on advocacy, fish and game protection, railroad valuation standards, county financial audits, and a critique of the Capital’s 1901 doctrines.
Blairsburg residents and visitors are noted in this county roundup. Emma Holt and Ada Ball leave for Cedar Falls to attend the state normal school. Mrs. C. E. Dodge visits Charles City. W. C. Baker travels to Carlisle for his father's death. Various townsfolk provide Thanksgiving reports and local events including shop changes and sermons.
Mixed ad style list shows ladies cloaks priced from 3.98 to 20 dollars across sizes ten twelve and above. Items include children's cloaks five to seven dollars and several price brackets for ladies cloaks labeled ten to twelve fourteen eighteen and twenty dollars.
The Marion Register questions tariff policy and hides prices amid calls for free hides. It recalls Blaine advocating tariff abolition on hides and argues for reduced tariffs on boots and shoes to avoid higher prices. Local notices toast weddings and visits in Webster City while readers discuss economic shifts.
Olaf Oastlin and Charles Dee camp and trap north east of town while J H Oaland helps at Citi zens Lumber yard during the rush. Our new school building is modern and nearly finished and will house the school after the holiday. Miss Zitterell spent Thanksgiving with parents in Webster City. Levi Neese leaves Sunday for Jewell to begin winter term. Teachers in the community use the teacher library as Mabel Wilber of Stanhope visits Stratford. Nels Sandell moves to the Olander property. G W Anderson moves to Crane property. G F Hook finishes a new livery barn. Rev E S Benjamin begins a series.
Mr and Mrs Waddel of Eagle Grove returned home after a week with their daughter Mrs T C OC onnor. Miss Celia Chalfant went back to Webster City after visiting relatives two weeks locally. Miss Charlotte Green a teacher in school district No 6 visited home in Webster City. W O McConnell and Allen Park shipped fat cattle to Chicago yesterday. Mr and Mrs T C OC onnor spent Sunday with T M Hughes. Gerbers baby ill last week while Mrs Allen Park left for Illinois after her mother s death. D J Hawke visits his former home at Kewanee Illinois for a week.
Stanhope residents catalog visits and travels with relatives and friends. Mrs Charles Tripp returns to Sioux City after a visit with Dan Knight's. Mr and Mrs Joe Batterson return from Cherokee. May Brewer spent Thanksgiving in Stratford. Vivian Hazen home from Jewell for a few days. Rev Ed Wright leaves for Spencer to locate. Mrs Wright to follow. Sim Stark of Des Moines visits Stanhope. Miss Pearl Brewer from Jewell attending events.
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as ideal for scrawny babies. It claims fat reserves prevent nerve discomfort and that fat babies are happy, comfortable, and cry less while fatness supports bones and muscles. It emphasizes the product's palatable taste.
Consumers are urged to request a free sample and ensure the label appears on every Emulsion bottle wrapper. The label instruction emphasizes the sample offer and labeling requirement for the product packaging.
Webster City schoolgirl returned home Thursday to enjoy time with family and friends. Miss Amy Hakes of Stratford visited Saturday. Mrs. Mark Bishop and her son from Nevada arrived Friday to see her mother Mrs East. Miss Lottle McClane of Des Moines spent Friday with Mr and Mrs Fred Runkle. Dac, 4.
John Moore of Lane Moore Lumber visited his brother Geo last week. Mrs. J B Johnson visited country friends. Mrs. O O Hitrem and Mrs. Jesse Nelson went to Webster City on Tuesday. P B Osborn and Mary Diggerness visited Webster City Wednesday. J W Pitzer returned from North Dakota with a government claim. Postponed sales due to cold weather. Miss Reece visited Webster City. Local teacher Holma ill with tonsillitis. John Chriftland and Carl Kalvig left for Norway. Blanche Olson and Chas Johnson head to Cedar Falls for school. Mrs. Gua Lakin to Dysart Iowa to sick nephew. Mrs. Harry Lakin to Des Moines to visit sister. Lutheran church women held supper and sale. Ladies Working Band to host chicken pie supper with goose exchange. Mrs. McNary of Bart, Indiana visiting Noah Lakin’s family. Rev Elwell of Ames lectured temperance at M E Church.
Judge Whitaker rules Wolgamot guilty of misrepresentation in the Wolgamot brick deal on Second Street. Court annuls the deed and restores the lot to D. C. Chase.
Wren thanks Webster City residents for their support while hospitalized for ten days with stomach trouble. He explains prison rules limit letter frequency and access to newspapers, notes classification affects mail and visits, and urges correspondents to use drafts or money orders for funds.
Chase and the deeds to ten lots from Chase were exchanged for a building in block J Railroad addition owned by Wolgamot. The city later condemned and destroyed the building. Chase then sued to annul the trade alleging Wolgamot made false representations about the structure.
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