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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
4
A long collage of satirical items cites New York teachers, Yale students, Schwab, Carnegie, Jeffries and Corbett, Vanderbilt, poison gas humor, and a bevy of quick quips. It riffs on politics, sport, medicine, court, and press humor with pointed lines and playful wordplay.
A town in Underwood loses many dogs to poisoning including the watchdog Old Dick. A Chicago Great Western train derails near Luray but no lives are lost. Edwin K. Hurley is fatally shot while cleaning his gun in Wapello. A non union blacksmith in Sioux City threatens a union leader and is arrested. Iowa reports insect plagues, crop losses, and widespread flood damage to bridges and roads across multiple counties.
Iowa counties report real estate valuations rising about 30 percent over the last year with farm property leading gains. Benton county farms rise from 45 to 56 per acre while Ringgold grows from 10 million to 13 million in value. Town property also climbs, signaling stronger business and population growth. personal property rises more modestly.
City engineers fortify the power plant with impermeable stone brick concrete and clay walls rising above flood levels. Attorney General Mullan clarifies interurban assessment rules while Iowa departs no Woman's department at the St Louis exposition, forming a three-woman committee to advise on women’s exhibits. Flood control debates rouse opinions on river walls channel enlargement and bridge plans for the Des Moines River. Governor Cummins proclaims Flag Day June 14.
A torrential South Carolina rainstorm washed away rails and mills. The Pacolet Clifton area suffered mass destruction with 40 to 150 dead feared, 2,000,000 plus losses, and 500 homeless. Clifton No 1 3 and Converse mills wrecked. Union isolated. rescue efforts urgent.
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