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Newspaper

Webster City Tribune

Location

Webster City, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1903

Page

3

Local Newspaper Clubbing Rates Listed for 1903

The Freeman-Tribune publishes low clubbing rates with Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean Iowa Homestead Wallace's Farmer and other papers. A limited time offer ends December 6 1903 with 83 cents extra for subscribers outside Hamilton county.

Freeman-Tribune Pub. Co Chicago Weekly Inter. Ocean Chicago Daily Tribune Iowa Homestead Inter-Ocean Iowa State Register Wallace's Farmer Maraxine Woman's Home Panlone. Cecreeses Chiago Daily Tribune Hamilton County Freeman Or Tribune Inter Ocean

Editorial chatter on Roosevelts era and party lines

Editorial comment highlights Roosevelt and canal credit while condemning Gorman as a Napoleon. It criticizes Maryland politics over civil rights, praises canal progress, notes comptroller currency report on bank growth, and denounces the Chicago Chronicle for partisan attacks in a Hearst papers era.

New England Old Middle States

Roosevelt Outlook Shapes 1904 Election and Budget Debate

The piece suggests Roosevelt could win a larger 1904 majority if Democrats oppose the Panama Canal, noting possible Republican gains in the South. It cites economy in government, warns against extravagance, and highlights Treasury requests for 624.5 million dollars for 1904 versus 605.3 million the prior year, signaling rising costs.

Gorman Roosevelt McKinley Lee Jackson Jeff Davis Bob Toombs Congress Treasury Department

Newspapers clash in personal quarrel over public issues

The Charles City papers and the Sioux City Journal trade barbs over editors Sloan and Wright. Accusations of drinking and hypocrisy erupt into personal attacks, while readers view the bickering as a trivial spectacle unworthy of journalism.

Ceder Rapids Charles City Sioux City

How to get good roads by a senator from South Carolina

United States Senator A C Latimer argues for a three level funding plan to build better rural roads. He proposes national pay half state a quarter and local a quarter with tax increases of one mill to fund projects. Latimer emphasizes farmer needs and local labor to complete improvements.

United States A. C. Latimer South Carolina Treasury Harper’s Ferry

Funk Heir Tale Spurs Iowa Estate Scrutiny

Davenport Times reports M L Pinkley of Milan Illinois claims kin to Jacob M Funk of Webster City Iowa. Funk a prominent bachelor left no will. heirs include Pinkley through a presumed sister, with attorneys pursuing possible large fortune and executors to be appointed as search continues.

The Davenport Times M. L. Pinkley Milan Illinois Jacob M. Fank the Times Webster City Pinkley Funk Mr. Pinkley Times Katherine Funk Jacob Jacob M. Funk Pennsylvania Hay

Holiday visitors fill Webster City with family trips

Personal notices list Howard Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Miracle Goetzman, Miss Wyckoff, Mrs. Keltz and many others traveling to Prairie City, Randall, Marshalltown, Waterloo, Des Moines, Ackley, Spirit Lake, Rolfe, and other towns for Christmas holidays. Members of Ames College and Coe College return home, and locals plan gatherings with relatives.

Howard Baxter Harrisburg J. M. Blake Prairie City Bell Miracle-Goetzman Winona Minnesota L. L. Estes Chloe Wyckoff Randall B. F. Keltz Marshalltown Sam Arnold Chicago Kate Andrews Des Moines Geo. A. Holbrook Waterloo Mary Brockshink Peterson Miss Carry Sells Woolstock Arthur Beightol Beightol Litchfield Company W. H. Cook Vernon Thos Frazier Stanhope Wm. N. Maakestad Geo. R. Strever Kamrar St. Joseph Laura Faus J. R. Faus Robert Stearns Town City A. C. Voss Jewell Webster City John A. Johnson Frank Frick O. BE. Atkinson Stratford Grace Paffenbarger Geo. Wambach Will E. Brown Cedar Rapids Brown Ice Skate Company J. A. Stover J. E. Fardal F. A. Gates J. D. Hunter Ruth Tuttle Katherine Lane Grinnell Harry Goddard Minneapolis O. H. Mantzheimer Primghar CO. T. Fenton B. A. Goodspeed Atlantic J. L. Kamvar W. O. Pyle W. J. Zitterell

Road improvements promise regional economic boost

A public appeal urges farmers to back road funding arguing higher land values, $40,000 local circulation, and tax relief. Merchants and citizens gain from increased spending and government help for roads, with a call to lawmakers to act in the public interest and claim the treasury benefits.

United States Congress

Along Piccadilly the Tide of Social London Flows

Sydney Brooks in Harper's Magazine observes Piccadilly as the center of London social life where the street becomes a studio of human types. He notes dazzling crowds, club windows, and assorted figures from Thackeray to Dickens, with Regent Street offering a grander sweep but Piccadilly remaining the brim full tidal pulse of London society.

London Piccadilly Perfect du Mauriers Phil Mays Benneath Thackeray Dickens England Empire Regent Street Sydney Brooks Harper's Magazine

Life and trade in frozen Russian markets and hunt life

In the winter the meat and carcasses stand frozen outside stalls and markets on ice as rivers stay frozen and skating is common. In Asiatic Russia hunting sustains people with fur from ermine fox sable Sea otter and others and huntsmen pursue elk as snow recedes.

Russia

Merchan t Buys Repeats At Auction In New York

A Louisiana merchant travels to New York seeking bargains on cloaks buys a lot at auction. After shipment home a head salesman flags the garments as out of style. He returns them, then later repeats the purchase only to find he has bought the same lot again.

New York

Engagement Breaks Over as Reader Debate Sparks Clash

A Philadelphia Press line reports a fiancé urging his fiancée to abandon novels for more substantial reading. She replies that such suggests she is capable of infidelity, prompting the engagement to break.

Philadephia Press

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