19 Feb 1904
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1904
Page
1
A collage of wry observations and quips from a Freeman-Tribune page essays: personal devil, Edward, Sage, and Cannon jokes, social habits, longevity, kitchen virtue, luck at Monte Carlo, cotton scarcity, mushroom IDs, Vanderbilt speed, and Hamlet trial. Humorous vignettes, no names specified.
A titled foreigner announces intent to marry from abroad and insists the bride be tall. The declaration notes the suitor’s own height as short, and the plan involves crossing seas to wed.
Dr Bevan of Chicago doubts the drug treatment's usefulness in pneumonia yet observes that most people will still call their family physician upon recognizing symptoms.
A report claims Ali Asghar Khan Atabek Azam, described as a Persian grand vizier, toured across the United States under an alias. The piece notes he did not pay for meals and did not seem to face arrest despite the lengthy name. The tone mocks the idea of high status avoiding scrutiny.
A Massachusetts school ma am gives up a chance to inherit a fortune in marriage plans. She likely believed other fortunes or matches might come, but remains focused on her status as a Massa chusetts school mi am.
Parse of reports from Muscatine Dubuque Burlington Grinnell and Council Bluffs runs the gamut from a 2000 mile death defying journey to Nova Scotia to a political jury influence case. Fines for contempt of court and a tied divorce story entwine with a fatal shooting mystery and a severe fire that wipes out Buck's farm holdings. The Ledger editor Junkin dies after a lung rupture while Campbell faces a lye attack with sanity questions on the table.
The article reports Ida County cases including a 60 year old Montana house proprietor dying of heart disease in Dubuque, a man forging checks in Ida Grove, and a railroads case in Waterloo. It notes Boone official’s confession of a $6,000 shortage, Des Moines threats to a family, a Corning bank failure with solvency assurances, and Waterloo’s Carnegie library dispute ending with two Carnegie gifts totaling 70,000 dollars.
The supreme court sustains Judge Kenyon ruling Hardin county had no authority for the contract with Allbrook and Fleener Carnahan & Bilderback. Allbrook must repay 6586.37 and 4344.24 paid to the firm, while the county’s legal action recovers the funds. The decision ties to earlier political fights in Hardin county and EDora area.
Des Moines reports show Senate and House handling routine measures Feb 10 to Feb 12. Bills consider biennial elections, state funds deposits, bridge levies, and monuments while capital improvements, census duties, and fish protection gain traction.
William E. Slifer faces first degree murder charges for the December death of his wife, once ruled heart disease, then chloroform, with evidence of his purchase of the poison in Marshalltown. He is jailed without bond. trial likely in September term. equity cases may be heard in May. Sneak thieves report thefts in Marshalltown Tama and nearby towns. two Rockport men bound over for alleged attempted burglary.
Des Moines reports a proposed law requiring preference to veterans of the Civil War in all public appointments across the state. The measure shifts burden of proof to discharge officers, allows mandamus or certiorari reviews, and aims to protect veterans from unjust dismissal by officials in state, county, city, and town offices. The piece also notes related Iowa political moves and a separate campaign in the Seventh district.
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