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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
2
Harris R. Cooley delivers a Sunday address focused on reforms for penal and charitable institutions. He emphasizes humane treatment, oversight, and moral improvement. The talk outlines goals for justice, rehabilitation, and social welfare enhancements.
A Webster City program lists events from 9:30 A M with Miss Mable Billing and children drills to 7:00 P M with an International Operatic Company concert. Baseball games Webster City versus Ellsworth at West Side Park and 3:30 P M at Ball Park precede band performances and a dinner picnic at Chau tauqua Park.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the city license fee on itinerant grocery peddlers prohibitive and illegal. Patents on silos and related notes follow, with letters from H L Doty of Webster City and Prof. J B Davidson discussing hollow clay block silos and frost resistance.
Several farmers inquire about silo construction and I recommend hollow clay blocks as the best material for silos. This method, widely believed to be superior, has gained support among livestock feeders and farm operators.
A splendid orchestra performed July 6 and 7 near Thatcher Beach with soprano Jennie Thatcher Beach and harpist Sig Antonio Barillo. the program featured lively selections and strong musical pairings.
A camp at Chautauqua Park invites visitors to erect a tent and spend the week enjoying the program. Friends are invited to stay with campers. Management offers tents for rent to participants.
An events note lists a July 4 performance by Opera Company of International with Sylvester A Long Webster and a city military band accompanying. A July 7 entry follows.
The dispatch reports Mrs. Thomas Davies in Manchester claiming her Oldham ambulance-driver husband stands to gain a share of a Kansas fortune worth 60 million dollars. It notes his 1870 move to Kansas, later wealth from minerals, and a hoped 2.5 million dollar portion.
A dynamite cap found by Eva Thorp near a ditch injured her hand severely. The blast likely came from discarded blasting material left by workers. Authorities assess the incident as an accident while the child was picking up the object.
In a Times Republican note the public denounces speed mania while calling for rapid transit and fastest trains and ships. The piece urges telegraphic updates on broken speed records and highlights the role of newspapers in shaping the speed discourse.
A San Juan del Sur dispatch reports that a follower of Telaya was murdered in Nicaragua amid unrest. Col. Ramirez, once director general, was imprisoned then released by government orders. Rumors of Zealaya preparations and plots to hand forts to enemies of Gen Men a highlight ongoing instability and military intrigue in 1918 Nicaragua.
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