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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
1
The Webster City Weekly-Tribune offers a collage of quips and notices. It cites China’s empress, Lord Kitchener, a Vanderbilt birth, jokes on Monday wash day, and satirical takes on Barrie earnings, Prohibition era art, and foreign affairs. It mixes ribbing with contemporary tidbits and playful curiosities.
A fragment notes the Chicago Janitresses' union winning the right to scrub, with light humor about women dodging chores and a comparison to a man sneaking out between acts.
A total eclipse will occur on August 30 next year drawing invitations from Spanish astronomers to visitors from this country. The notice suggests beginning journalists should write letters about the anticipated war between Japan and Russia.
Mrs Lena Birse seeks a divorce citing her husband George's inability to play cards as the cause while others pursue settlements for similar reasons, prompting questions about the etiquette of leisure disputes and resilience of marriage vows.
The route of Paul Revere's famous ride is now obscured by a trolley road. It is evident that the great patriot was not sufficiently long-headed to warn the Calantals of all the calamities that were coming.
Cleveland physicians could not restore a dead man sufficiently to survive long enough for a planned operation. They hoped a successful revival would allow the operation to proceed, but the patient died before surgery.
A Beattie woman exposed another woman posing as a man and attempted suicide when denied marriage. The case illustrates that clothing does not define identity.
A popular subscription will begin to raise funds for a monument at a Georgia grave. The deceased man gained fame for writing 4000 poems that were never published in life.
A man with a newly grafted ear on his head is said to be recovering well. Sources claim the auricular organ will endure listening to the doctor’s fee amount without issue.
A man caught in the act of burglary in Paterson New Jersey was ducked in clean water several times and then told to leave town. The report notes he created friction in the air as his clothes moved.
The Marshalltown bigamist, 27 year old Walfred C. Johnson, was sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary by Judge Whitaker after a petition from Marshalltown residents for leniency. The Iowa items cover accidental deaths, murders, fires, court actions, saloon fights, and local tragedies across Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Dubuque, and other cities with named towns and individuals.
Coroner's jury probes the death of 16 year old Dick Robson found in a potato patch near Extra and indicates murder. Witnesses point to a violent death by older, powerful persons. report withheld awaiting arrests. Family troubles and prior deaths heighten local suspense as authorities consider further autopsy.
A newly formed Cape Breton Coal & Iron company in Des Moines with $3,000,000 capital lists N. Coffin as president and Oren Ruif corn as vice president. The firm claims extensive coal and iron lands in Cape Breton Nova Scotia and plans immediate development with favorable external interest.
Albia December 14 Five persons died and nine injured in a Burlington main line wreck three miles west of Albia at 9 o clock yesterday morning The dead include Mrs W E Mitchell and Alicia the infant child of Mrs Mitchell Thomas Beatty Franklin laborer Ottumwa and others The infant was burned to death as flames reached the coach The locomotive jumped the track and the wreck burned rapidly with five cars and the bridge destroyed Rescue crews battled flames as passengers escaped The cause of the crash remains undetermined The train No 3 Chicago to Omaha left Ottumwa late officials reported no speed cause and listed engineer William Wallace and conductor R W Robinson of Burlington
A head on collision two miles east of Adel on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway at 3:45 yesterday morning killed three trainmen and injured several others. The crash was blamed on a youthful operator at Clive who sent the west bound freight through without meeting orders. A separate fire at Whiting destroyed most of the town’s business district including Casady and Whiting store and bank. Representative W. Whiting suffered heavy losses. Richard Kirk of Vinton died suddenly. A local anecdote recounts a goose theft two decades prior and a joke about Brown’s missing chauffeur lingering in town gossip.
Des Moines notices say Madame Adelina Patti will perform at the Auditorium on December 22. The piece notes Patti's famed voice and farewell tour as a strong crowd draw.
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