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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
1
A miscellany item list from Weekly Tribune notes Prof Puppe of Berlin discovering a flea germ, jokes on Carnegie, telegraph football, royal marriage, anti mosquito groups, wills in estate settlements, and Tennessee negro political action against cocaine with a ballot note.
A sample of garbled reminders spans topics from mosquito control methods to theatre counts and political fates. It mentions Clyde Fitch plays, Senator Clark’s ear operation, Manila transport Logar brides, and a San Domingo president’s rumored resignation amid a beauty contest.
The piece notes Herbert Spencer influence on many lives and philosophy. It adds a quip about Greenland yielding gold and wishes such discoveries occurred where people could live comfortably.
A stenographer notes the expert repairer restoring a typewriter without tools. The tale recalls Don Carlos mayoral figure who, upon learning his daughter eloped with a coachman, sent letters declaring her death to show his capacity for pretense.
A duke proclaims he will never come back to New York while a carnival clown recalls a familiar boast about money. The colorful scene mixes aristocratic defiance with circus whimsy in a fleeting urban vignette.
After mending broken knuckles Uncle Bob Fitzsimons will give boxing lessons to ambitious youngsters for a percentage of the gate receipts.
A German scientist asserts a new process could reduce radium price by thousands of dollars per ounce, a finding that may reassure consumers of meat butter eggs and coal about future costs.
The cable relays that Englishman Winston Churchill will visit seeking a wealthy American wife. It notes he has no coronet to offer, only a name built by his own accomplishments, and it predicts watching the progress of a hunter with such handicaps.
Marshalltown plans to sue the county for more than 10000 dollars claiming county should spend taxes paid for city roads. The city and county dispute who bears road costs and the suit's outcome is awaited.
Adel December 21 verdicts by Coroner Lodis praise Sleator 18, fault the Milwaukee for hiring an inexperienced operator. The inquest found death from a head end collision on the Des Moines and Spirit Lake division near Adel. Wreck victim details include Frank Finnicum Oscar Dyer Walter Ward.
Day-old notes report Colombia seeking only money settlements over isthmus tensions while panama unity efforts collapse. Gorman and Roosevelt feud looms as Oscar Straus upholds civic leadership intrigue. Dreyfus revision rumors echo in Paris as Nordau survives a Nihilist shot.
Terre Haute Indiana December 21 a reduction in coal prices at Sullivan and Greene county mines from 2.25 to 2 for lump and from 1.75 to 1.50 for mine run is announced. The move shows the mines could have earned more but must seek buyers at the reduced rate, illustrating the claim that coal from that field cannot be delivered to Indianapolis and the gas belt.
Chicago Board of Trade quotations for December 19 show daily price levels across grain and commodity futures. Traders monitored corn wheat and oats with activity varying by contract and delivery month.
San Francisco December 21 millionaire Clarke who wed Mrs Rosalind Bowers known as the Sweet-Pea Girl has filed a suit for divorce alleging she and confederates prompted him to drink making him not responsible for his actions.
Mrs Katharine Soffel, recently released from Western penitentiary after a two year sentence for aiding the Biddle brothers escape, signs to play the leading role in A Dangerous Woman in Pittsburg.
In Des Moines notes from 1903 discuss calls for stricter segregation of the feeble minded after a paper by Dr. George Mogridge. Judges Kinne and Robinson push for laws to prevent propagation, while Curator Aldrich reports a seven foot six inch mastodon tusk from D. F. Schell. Banking data show modest bank growth but deposit declines, and farmers push elevator legislation modeled on Minnesota. Ada Hazelwood sentence commutation is granted. Inaugural plans falter over venue, with parade reduced.
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