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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
2
A collage of statements touches on health, science, fashion, travel, and politics. References include tuberculosis figures in Germany, Spain’s battleship spending, the Merry Widow hat, a Paris quill factory, and a tornado’s unpredictability. Other items note sun spots, the Sunday Rest league, Tolstoy, and shifts in geography.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes a rumor monger who warns of worse to come but is ignored as New York Herald remarks people are too busy enjoying good times. It says the strongest sign of prosperity is that discussions of hardship have faded.
The Philadelphia Ledger lauds the Gladiator crew for discipline and courage amid brutal sea threats, noting such conduct would shape chronicles of mercy and justice at sea. England could benefit from a similar display of naval character and resolve.
Davenport resident Mrs. Peterson died by suicide in a cistern after ill health. Olaf Sierverston, from Hamilton UK, killed himself in Keokuk county jail. Florence Bender, 22, died ingesting carbolic acid at a Clinton resort run by Carrie Mains. Gus Klotz, 25, fell from a tree near Nashua and died from multiple injuries. The article lists multiple other deaths and indictments across Iowa, including fraud charges in Sioux City and a wild man sighting near Sidney.
Democratic senators drop filibuster threats on the Aldrich Vreeland currency bill. The House passes the composite emergency currency bill 166 to 146 and completes most session business. Conferees near a currency compromise while tariff and military academy measures advance. Sundry civil and pension bills move through conference reports.
J Thornburn Ross a Portland banker received five years in prison and a large fine for wrongful conversion of school funds. G W MacMullen & Co Pittsburg brokers faced liabilities of 1 800 000. W S Stone of Cleveland elected grand chief engineer of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. General Stephen D Lee reported critically ill at Vicksburg. J W Hamby a Cleveland real estate figure sentenced to three years for fraud. Carrie Nation fined 25 in Pittsburg with W C T U support. James Baker alias R C Neal on trial in Philipps West Virginia for post office robberies and murder. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw withdraws suit against Harry K Thaw. Thomas P Moffatt American consul at La Guaira arrives in Guantanamo Cuba.
Forest Park in Chicago and large parts of Central Illinois Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri suffered major damage from tornadoes electrical storms and heavy rain. A list of other incidents includes a Clinton Illinois will case finding a millionaire of unsound mind and a government shake up in the Presbyterian church.
Reports detail the Port Arthur civic dam collapse with three lives lost and half a million dollars in property damage. Battleship Michigan launch in Camden with dignitaries. McClellan Hearst ballot dispute in New York. multiple tornadoes, floods, and accidents across Oklahoma Nebraska Texas and more. Justice Lambert rules ballot boxes must be opened in New York mayoral race. Continues with drownings, ship collisions, fires, legal decisions, and political developments across the United States.
A New York printer praised his mother-in-law after marriage but changed his view as she showed her hand. He privately wishes all her children had been sons. The piece humorously notes sensitivity, optics, and social quirks from a light set of quips.
In Washington Senator Culberson cites a Dallas area boy saved after a near fatal bullet wound. Doctors call the operation a local triumph while the boy’s mother leans on occult belief, saying fate doomed him from the start. The bullet later caused the boy’s death by choking.
To Property Owners II. you own a city or town dwelling and barn or contents of same you can ensure it against loss by Fire and Lightning at one half the cost of old one insurance in a purely cooperative association having 35,000,000 in force and 33,000 policy holders all in Iowa Inquire in your town for the Town Mutual Ins Assn Agent and if you don't find him drop a card to CH Harsh Secy Des Moines Ind and receive full particulars Over 1,600 losses paid since organization.
Reports indicate large Atlantic steamers deploy about 150 firemen. They work in shifts of four hours followed by a rest period, structuring onboard firefighting teams for continuous safety.
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