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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
2
Local letters list many travelers and visitors returning home for Christmas from towns across Iowa Minnesota and Nebraska. Residents and relatives from Des Moines Waterloo Waterloo Ames and Eagle Grove arrive or depart for holiday gatherings.
Marshall E. Foster formerly of Humboldt married Misa Zadee Hack Monday at the bride's father home with a small guest list. Foster, a printer by trade, grew up here and worked at the Humboldt Independent for over two years. The bride is a leading local social figure and the couple visited the groom's parents that night.
Farmers in Webster City area test wagon capacity by loading corn to 108 bushels and 65 pounds and hauling five miles. Adams and Sim Murphy competed near Saratoga Kamrar with loads of 71 15 and 91 15 bushels respectively, then Adams surpassed both. Post office notices and local business updates follow.
The text asserts fresh air exercise and nourishing food aid consumption. It claims millions live healthily with one lung and notes cod liver oil has long been prescribed by doctors, though the old form proved hard to take, suggesting a need for a better preparation.
Webster City residents spent a festive Christmas with light snow and warm spirits. Churches held well attended services with treats for children and the poor. Santa’s generous deliveries, rink outings, river skating and a big noon dinner marked a memorable, buoyant citywide celebration.
The Bank street bridge crossed Boone river and farmers could cross on ice at Sec ond street foot. Howard Grain & Live Stock Co. moved from Jewell to the Fank building at Second Street and Willson. W. H. Howard and sons Austin James Lonie, A. W. Riggs and Geo. B. Kray ran the office. Christmas was mild with birds arriving from the east. A. H. Counts arrived with bride and son Harry, leaving daughter Bessie with grandparents in Ohio. Many readers owe subscriptions. total debt is large and requests prompt payment. Riley Wayman and son Jay rented a farm and will rent their home on south Superior streets to engage in agriculture. Try the daily a mont.
In a district court decision Judge Richard ruled that a $500 life policy paid on J B O Connor’s son goes to the insured children, not his wife, despite a will directing payout to the wife. The case followed the policy terms naming the children as beneficiaries.
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