23 Nov 1906
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1906
Page
1
Poem urges readers to follow the Red Winds toward the dark bounds of day. It depicts a quest toward a white star as the speaker invites motion and pursuit, featuring vivid imagery of sparks, fire, and distant horizons. The piece appears in Everybody's Magazine.
A dramatic financial collapse follows Consolidated Copper and related stocks in a panic. Percival Bines and Uncle Peter confront ruin after a dramatic two day slide wiping out millions, while Shepler and others scheme amid the wreckage of Western Trolley and Union Cordage.
Graham Saunders recalls a squire’s quiet test to measure manners by noting where a glass sits on the north porch at set times each day for three days. Saunders says he avoids confrontations but found the request a telling hint about expectations of hospitality and manners.
A grateful mother offers a nurse a hand stitched purse as thanks for her child’s cure. The doctor rejects gifts, stating medicine is not a trivial affair and favors are paid with money. He finally quotes a two hundred dollar fee, accepting only two hundred in cash.
A dialogue highlights concerns about drinking before dinner with Father Matthew cautioning against excess and Smarte noting some men are terribly extravagant.
Miss J M Wheeler of Angier recently earned a silver for a 127 pound skate and followed with a 144 pound catch at Ballycotton Ireland, likely the largest fish ever taken by a woman in the British Isles.
Bold claim that Defiance Starch keeps collars and cuffs stiff to the desired degree with gloss or domestic finish. Advertising note urges readers to buy 16 oz for 10 cents from all good grocers.
James' Gazette notes an old superstition about fame guiding a person’s nature and cites Rumpelstiltskin as an example. It muses that modern nam ing of a rebellious House member may echo this Norse idea carried to England. It also advertises smooth iron and Defiance Starch for at home shirtwaist laundering with lasting stiffness.
In Winchester a grocer suspected his till was thinning daily. After firing two clerks and hiring replacements, the money kept vanishing. An officer hiding under the counter uncovered mice gnawing bits of paper worth about 50 dollars that the till held back. The two dismissed clerks sued for damages and the grocer paid them 300 dollars each.
Mrs. H A Fletcher of Manchester New Hampshire credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing her sleeplessness after a severe apoplectic shock. She says the pills restored sleep and strength while drugged sleep failed. The advertisement claims Pink Pills cure nervous troubles blood diseases and offer pricing at 60 cents per box or six for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY.
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