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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
3
On Thanksgiving morning Grogan, a desperate robber, confronts Joe White in a riverfront alley. After Joe offers help and shares his meal, Grogan yields the iron rod and agrees to abandon crime, choosing work to avoid starvation. Joe’s mercy echoes a moral from his mother.
An elderly journalist recalls his best meal, a Thanksgiving in 1888 near Columbus Mississippi. He traveled from Memphis with an artist to cover Mississippi education, joined a quail shoot, found no birds, but was invited to a black family's cabin where a mammy cooked rabbit, ash cake, and hominy with coffee, defining his finest feast.
A group of Minnesota editors toured Western Canada and report huge railway expansion and rapid settlement. They note increased grain lands, growing towns, and visions of Western Canada becoming a world bread basket. The piece cites new land rules allowing 160 acres at 3.00 per acre plus existing homesteads, 1908 crop yields, and government agents offering free lands and transport details.
A Kansas cyclone scare causes Bill Baumgartner to flee with family to a ravine as a funnel wrecks his home and crops. A separate vignette features Letty, a child slave in a Bible lesson, quipping about Noah and the flood.
A testimonial from a woman describes coffee harming her stomach and nerves. She switched to Postum and reports better digestion, regained appetite, steadier nerves, and the ability to walk longer. The letter promotes Postum as a coffee alternative from the Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan with a reference to The Road to Wellville.
A farmyard lament reveals Aunt Jane feeding corn to favored fowl while Old Gobbler warns of fate on the chopping block. The speaker recalls affection, jealousy, and a dream of execution as the moral of avian appetite.
Poem fragment praising peace and prosperity across nations. Mentions rivers and white mountains and a call to give thanks to a higher name. Reflects a religious tone and celebratory mood from The Sunday Magazine.
Vance Greenway reunites with his wife Caroline after a staged dramatic scene to prove his independence from his wealthy father. They return to Greenvale for Thanksgiving, where Vance plans a fresh start and a new life with his wife in their first home and his father’s blessing.
The piece cites Mrs Enos Shearer of Centralia Washington recounting years of swollen limbs and troubling secretions. She credits Dean’s Kidney Pills for rapid improvement after doctors said she would die. The ad cites 50 cent boxes sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and urges readers to obtain the remedy.
An old advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It claims a constitutional remedy will restore hearing, offering one hundred dollars for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo as makers and local druggists as sellers.
The article contrasts Greek customs with enslaved workers wearing skull caps and notes the dignity of going bareheaded among free citizens. It discusses the popularity of fine white fabrics and promotes Defiance Starch as safe for delicate materials, claiming its strength reduces the quantity needed for a perfect finish.
A moralizer and a demoralizer debate wealth and entitlement in a terse exchange. The remark implies substantial funds sustain privileged sons, while the path to status is swift once wealth is present. The dialogue captures social critique of wealth and mobility.
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