11 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1887
Page
1
The Webster City weekly paper prints market reports including Wheat Corn Cattle and related prices. Editor CHAS D. HELLEN announces corrected weekly timings and weekly market notes for readers in Hamilton County.
Miss Kate Eyer writes of a New Year’s party at Melbourne and a lengthy river trip. She recounts boating in the Vixen, picnic plans, fishing on Lake Florence and Lake Poinsett, and travel back via Jolty barges and the Josie with a lively Florida river journey tone. The letter notes mild 78 to 83 degree weather, ripening fruit, and plans to visit St Augustine.
The account portrays an ardent reformer whose independent stance and fearless style unsettled opponents. It describes decisive leadership, public scrutiny, and dramatic clashes over policy and authority within a charged political arena.
A garbled yet vivid account recalls a 1881 Dayton to Cincinnati speed train run by a chief engineer named Lyndon. The two-coach passenger train covered seventy miles in sixty four minutes, averaging 78 miles per hour, with multiple city stops and telegraphic routing notes. The report attributes extraordinary speeds and mentions scientific data on gas behavior, temperature, and chemical topics tied to the era’s curiosity.
An old advertisement touts Dr. ER McLean’s Strongethening Cordial and Blood Purities at 50 cents per bottle from Geo. Wepeed in Manchester Michigan. Testimonial claims wife’s recovery from paralysis-like condition after two bottles. Also promotes Dr. McLean’s Little Liver Pills and other remedies. The piece includes public notices urging correct addressing of mail and warns against adulterated baking powders.
A bustling rural notes column reports local legal notices, shop chatter, weather, and community events. It mentions tradesmen like Mr Bullworts and Dr Tl Me Less Velocative Oil, plus arrivals, school activities, debates, and a funeral-like reflection on a child’s death, with scattered names and places across the county.
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