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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
1
Long clipping covers subscription rates, political opinions, and editorials. It notes Wilson polling eight Hughes votes, Mormon support for Wilson over sugar tariffs, and Ed Chassell praised as railroad commissioner candidate. Also discusses tariffs, imports revenue, suffrage politics, and potential legislative cost cuts.
A correspondent sketches Professor Challenger's South American expedition to Maple White Land. Malone, Roxton, and Summerlee join Forces with native tribes to battle ape men with stone age weapons while seeking proof of Challenger’s theory and the prehistoric plateau.
The climactic battle ends with the ape men driven to their city and exterminated. Survivors fall from the cliff as Indians surround them. the male extermination marks the triumph of man and the fall of ape rule. Our party returns to camp and preserves independence while observing cautious exchanges with the natives.
On the third day after establishing camp near Indian caves, a panic erupts as Wen, Summerlee, Lord John, and others rush to shelter. An alarm cry spreads and the crowd flees to the caves while figures in trees above seek refuge. The source notes a sudden break from the forest.
The group is pursued by two colossal nocturnal monsters resembling toads, their iridescent skins flashing as they crush and slaughter the fleeing Indians. Gunfire and poisoned arrows slow them, but only native darts finally end their reign, while the captors face a tense wait for rescue and plan secret escapes.
In a surreal return near the marsh of the pterodactyls, a bell shaped cane cage hides Lord John Roxton who laughs and chats with the narrator before wandering off. The scene follows a perilous Challenger balloon adventure and a rescuer chief signaling secrecy.
The group examines a rough score like script on a white surface. Nye solves it at once revealing a map of eighteen cave openings above them with a cross marking a key location. The moment confirms the clue’s importance to the group and hints at a primitive puzzle adventure.
Challenger and companions debate a cave ascent and descent plan. If the cave passage comes out past the linked point they expect a descent of about a hundred feet. They consider using their rope and whether to scout from above, noting there are no Indians in the caverns above their heads.
News from the hospital reports Miss Maggie McDonald of Duncombe and Master Donald Kahl of Woolstock recovering from operations. Michael Zelhan of Jewell and Miss Alice Claflin near city improving after serious procedures. Mrs. B E Read of Blairsburg and daughter Verna Read faced operations, both listed in favorable condition. Sister Mary John of Mercy hospital is improving and hopes to return home soon. Also unclaimed letters list for Webster City post office ends week of Nov 6 1916, with two weeks to claim before dead letter.
Mr and Mrs Tom Woodmansee of three miles west of town are proud parents to a ten pound baby born December 6 1916. Miss Antoinette Klein and Mr George E K Woodmansee were married Wednesday night at the Christian parsonage by Rev C ity Pence. The couple were joined by the brides brothers and wives Frank Klein and Walter Klein. This is the Klein families fourth wedding officiated by Rev Pence in two years in this city. The Woodmansee pair will live on a farm near town.
State of Iowa Hamilton County publishes a sheriff sale notice for the Crandall and Company vB matter. Sale details list property to be sold under court order with date, time, and location to be announced.
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