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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
1
The piece blends local notes on road drag fines in Clay County, waterworks contracts in Council Bluffs, paving costs in Sheldon, and editorial opinions on tariffs, elections, and public policy. It references Des Moines reports, mentions Editor Newett and Roosevelt, and weighs commission government and labor law issues.
In Hertford assizes a post office case features Anthony Trollope cross examined by an Irish barrister who taunts him about his fiction Barchester Towers. Trollope admits his book contains no words of truth and the lawyer wins the case by exposing his honesty as fiction.
Saunders Norvell recounted a story to state hardware dealers at the Coliseum noting how he advised a customer on window display while in the jobbing business. The customer listened, but later adopted the changes using goods bought from a competitor. The anecdote highlighted competitive dynamics in retail displays.
Professor Bliss Perry recalls a suffrage meeting where a member moved to elect a woman to the town school board. The chair asked for questions and a distant voice asked how to achieve a smooth hip effect, creating a moment of comic interruption.
Mark Sheridan recalls a cold provincial theatre night when a basined ablutions mishap exposed him to the audience. He jokes that the moment was a hit and, later, was urged to run the 100 yards for a possible record.
The speaker notes memory shapes the present with vision from the past. She says today, though misty in the morning, holds the richest promise when viewed with open hands. The poem praises the value of the current day over private visions of the morrow.
The Kansas City Journal notes Susie Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, kept a diary recording family sayings. Twain reportedly reviewed the diary after Mrs. Clemens showed it to him, and Susie later wrote she would avoid further entries fearing her father reads it.
The czar cheerfully ordered a tooth pulled to calm a melancholy valet. He learned later the wife had no toothache and the husband used him as an executioner to punish her, revealing the ruse.
Washington Star reports on Uncle Joe Cannon rarely wearing a silk hat while his secretary L White Busbey dressed sharply. A lobby tale at the Arlington hotel recounts a visitor misidentifying Busbey as Cannon, highlighting the secretary’s fashion compared to the congressman.
A rigid colonel watches Captain approach without a sword. The captain borrows a blade to satisfy the officer, but the colonel remains puzzled as the captain leaves swordless again. The captain’s sword appears then disappears, while the colonel and his wife debate the officer’s true state. Trials reveal character and hidden flaws as weeds surface.
An English tourist tours Ireland with a guide who highlights the Devil's gap, peak, and reap. The tourist jokes the devil owns much land, to which the guide replies that, like many landlords, he lives in England.
The late Auguste Van Biene forgot about a pocketful of gold coins while delivering the line I am penniless. A handkerchief reveals the gold as coins pour from his pocket and spread across the stage while the audience laughs. Also mentioned is Speaker Champ Clark’s hospital visit and a humorous hospital letter requesting magazines tobacco and Sir Walter Scott novels.
A medical advertisement urges consultation with Dr Wilbert Shallenberger for chronic diseases. It claims lifetime study, personalized formulas, and pure drugs. Free confidential consultation and examination offered. reference from Drexel State Bank Chicago. Letters directed to 766 Oakwood Blvd Chicago Illinois.
Train schedule lists daily routes including No 7 28 am No 16 12 07 pm No 14 3 08 pm No 12 10 12 pm Limiteds to Chicago and Omaha Sioux City. Freight and passenger connections operate between Des Moines Fort Dodge Eagle Grove and Ia Dak lines with multiple freight slots and express services.
A collection of brief maxims on usefulness independence happiness and restraint from Bila Wheeler Wilcox William Penn and Thomas Carlyle. The quotes emphasize that sorrow need not mean unhappiness and that patient restraint avoids self harm while pursuing one’s work and life purpose.
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