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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
5
Neighborhood notes record large attendance at memorial services in Saratoga. Several residents visit Boone, Webster City, Eagle Grove, and Pomona California. Decoration Day exercises in Webster City noted, with local families traveling and guests arriving for summer visits.
Northeast Liberty reports Miss Leona Buzick returning from Ellsworth College, school closing at Liberty Center, and various visits, travels, and births. A baby boy born May 28 to Mr. and Mrs. L. B. DeMoss. several residents attend ball games in Webster City. multiple visits between Ellsworth, Webster City, Waterloo, Alden, Williams, and other nearby towns. ongoing illnesses and improvements. and local clubs meeting at A. J. Buzick home.
Havana June 4 Gen Ernesto Albert former Havana province governor and Eugenio Arias a former house of representatives member were sentenced to twelve years in prison for the 1918 killing of Gen Armando Riva chief of the national police Senator Vidal Morales was convicted on two charges firing a shot in the street and carrying a revolver without a license A fine was imposed Police Captain Emilio Campina was acquitted Police guarded the jail with machine guns after the verdict
Local notes list residents and visitors including A A Haswell and Grace Haswell visiting the Clifton Richardson and Miller families then returning home. Florence Warrick heads to Blairsburg after business college in Webster City. Elsie Long and baby travel to Williams for a relative visit. Maggie L Smith returns from Waterloo on business. Wayne Whiteman returns to Blairsburg after visiting parents and works on John Ferrell farm. J A Mikel returns to Des Moines after visiting Lenhart family. H H Beaman and wife return to Marshalltown after visiting aunt L M Hazard. Lily Tow returns to Norway after visiting Ethel Swanson who teaches in Forest City. Edna Bates goes to Williams for a brief visit. G B Welch of Lincoln, Nebraska, is visiting in Blairsburg.
Official Chicago Markets report shows hogs open steady to 10c higher with top at 8.35, hogs tomorrow 700. cattle 1000 and sheep 8000 steady. Afternoon grain letter notes wheat near 850 million, oats 1.1 billion, dry southwest, rains Canada, June harvests, and potential July corn rally.
Market notes list grains and basic dairy items with rough price bands. Wheat and corn varieties appear with mixed figures, oats, eggs and butter referenced. The fragmentary text implies context of daily market listings without complete figures.
A suffragette attacked a gallery attendant with a hatchet destroying two paintings and injuring him as a third was damaged. She warned militants would fight, leaving a letter about justice. Dr Francis Forward, Holloway jail medical officer, was assaulted by two women. they faced disorderly conduct charges. Earlier arson hit a cricket pavilion at Earlsfield and a country house near Belfast.
Mrs. Albert H. Gilbert, president of the Home Protection Equal Suffrage club, calls Cleveland wives of union men to march on Euclid Avenue Baptist church known as the Rockefeller church in protest of a sermon supporting John D. Rockefeller over the Colorado mine dispute. The club committee will decide the march date, and questions will be posed to Rev. W. W. Bustard at service asking about Christ's relation to the union and how Colorado mines are run.
A severe electric storm yesterday afternoon struck the Berry hotel at North McGregor. The cupola side was torn, a chimney demolished, and a fireball flashed through the lobby. Miss Anna Berry, touched by the register, was knocked unconscious briefly. others escaped unharmed.
Tampico reports numerous malaria cases among Dolphin crew after arrival from Vera Cruz. The German cruiser Dresden departed Veracruz and anchored off La Barra to keep its crew away from the river’s mosquito population.
Archie Armstrong of Cincinnati died when his motorcycle became unmanageable and crashed into the crowd at the Pittsburgh motordrome last night. A large number of spectators were injured, with several in serious condition.
In Washington D C Mrs Jennie M Eaton widow of Rear Admiral Joseph G Eaton married D Henry Ainsworth of Morristown Arizona yesterday. The ceremony was performed by Rev L Morgan Chambers and the couple left for a summer resort for their second honeymoon. Eaton had been acquitted in Boston last October of poisoning her second husband and the admiral died March 7 1913 in Norwell Massachusetts amid suspicion. Ainsworth, divorced from his Illinois wife eight years ago, reported ages of 40 and 49.
The Ottumwa board of education expelled three high school pupils and will prosecute three nonattending boys for malicious mischief after last Friday night exercises. A special session heard that the youths egged attendees and, after escorting two students home with girl friends, tore off part of their clothing and pulled their hair.
Italian aviator Cevasco drowned on Lake Maggiore after the hydro airplane he rode burst its engine during a flight. The accident occurred near Besta Calengé, Italy, on June 4.
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