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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
2
Local pages report events in Webster City Iowa including weather notes and community notices. Prominent mentions include civic actions and upcoming holiday preparations affecting residents and businesses.
Mulberry Center U B church plans a Christmas tree and exercises on December 24 inviting all. The paper asks for correspondents in Hamilton county to send weekly news and notes illness and public health alerts. RL Riley receives a rocking chair as thanks for leaving the farm.
An advertisement states the signature on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets is the remedy that cures a cold in one day. The claim emphasizes a quick cure and widespread availability.
The notice lists Ben Davis apples at 3.50 and Wine Saps or Roman Beauties at 4.49, well below market values by 1 to 2 dollars. It cites freight at about 5 percent and mentions three carloads bought early, with Michigan Baldwins, Northern Spies, Wagners, and Greenings available at Stanton EK Hoyt's grocery and china store.
The ad from W. B. Kearns & Co. of Webster City Iowa markets Red Raven Cigars as a superior smoke at 10 cents. It credits Kearns as distributor for Little Franklin and Black Satan 5 cent cigars and invites customers to ask their dealer for Red Raven.
The Druid Siding Central station will be renamed Reinicker to honor a local bachelor whose land around Breeze Hill supports the line. The new name, six miles east of Webster City and three miles west of Blairsburg, awaits a completed station house before a grand opening.
A Chrysanthemum Society was organized at a recent meeting with officers: President Louis Follett, Vice President C. D. Carpenter, Secretary Mrs J F Robinson, Treasurer Miss Lulu Gray, Executive Committee Mrs Wesley Martin Miss Florence Baxter Thomas Angwin. An admission fee of fifty cents to join. A chrysanthemum show will be held next fall and all interested are invited to join.
At the regular meeting of the M W A Camp No 416 held at their hall Monday night, officers were elected: Wm J Hubacher V C Ed Sweeney W A C Wiese BE B G F Tucker Clerk J SH Servis Es cort Lars Larson Sentry F J Greenwood Manager long term C R Cummings Manager short term Drs Drake Richardson and Desmond Camp physicians. After the election seven candidates in waiting were initiated.
Miss Sarah R. Wickware arrived home Saturday after traveling from Hamburg aboard the Deutschland, delayed nine hours in a severe Atlantic storm. She studied at Leipzig University for nearly two years and returned early to tend to her ill brother Dana.
The Northwestern district advances road improvements including rebuilding north and south city bridges with stone piers and iron super structures. A new water tank will replace the old Willson avenue tank and be sited north of the elevator to clear train signals. Workmen lay the foundation as the project proceeds.
Alfred Rose transfers to Frank Rose a undivided interest in the near 18-89-26 land valued at 000.00. Frank Rose transfers to Alfred Rose an undivided interest in part of ne quarter and nw quarter in 18-86-26 totaling 16 25-100 acres for 1,000.00. P L Peterson transfers to J L McFarland a wd lot 1 block 2 and 5 feet of a side lot 2 block 2 in Stanhope for 2,000.00. JS Ferguson transfers to MF Ferguson a wd interest in ne quarter sec 6-86-26 for 475.00. Ann Carna transfers to Wm Robertson a wd tract in ne quarter ne quarter totaling 6 52-100 acres plus a strip in 34-89-23 for 687.70. Emogene Brewer transfers to Geo D Cook a wd half southwest quarter northwest quarter southeast quarter in 17-89-25 for 80.00.
James Welch reports a firm that bought local canning machinery will operate next year if farmers here grow the corn needed. They ordered 1.5 billion cans for shipment in three months and seek contracts for about 1200 acres, with Tanner Welch at the First National Bank to complete arrangements.
A Des Moines reader praises The Freeman-Tribune for opposing live pigeon shooting as cruel. The letter urges state lawmakers to ban the practice, notes humane substitutes, and cites Roosevelt and Edward VII as supporting humane reforms. It also mentions broader calls to regulate horse docking and check reins.
Frank T. Campbell, once a city resident linked to a local cracker factory, surfaces as a key advocate for a Duluth to Gulf railroad. He describes English capitalists’ interest, a potential expert survey, and a route crossing Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri with connections planned to Rock Island and Pittsburgh Gulf for a through Duluth to the Gulf line.
Patent medicine promotion promises quick cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tabs and refunds if it fails. Stanton R. Hoyt grocery offers Yeast Foam Baking Powder and Chase & Sanborn products with large free gifts and table ware for Hamilton County customers.
Mrs Kathrine Carson was bitten on the arms by a ferocious dog shot by neighbors. The dog, kept for protection in a lone residence, likely had a temporary fit. The town enjoys a boom with 400 new houses and a $100,000 courthouse, as business and residential plots sell briskly, while a census in 1910 looms.
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