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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1906
Page
4
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday fair and warmer as forecast for Iowa. Washington special report notes the outlook covers today and tomorrow with mild conditions and rising temperatures.
Harry Benson of St Louis and Bonk Ralston of West Chester were business visitors in town today. Miss Nellie Gardner of Wellman visits friend Ruth Brindley. W Ralston of West Chester came yesterday. Mrs J A Y Ashby and her sons Homer and Gerald went to Keota for a short visit.
Wm King and Fred Bragg traveled to Titus and North English on business this morning. New linen waist patterns are now at Blair's. Marion Anderson, 42 41, went to Chicago yesterday evening on No 30. Eli Van Sickle of West Chester went to Ottumwa on business. Miss Mary Blattmner returned home at Rubio after a city visit. Miss Verne Ashby and Miss Laura Noyes went to Ottumwa for a teachers meeting. MeShields headed to Des Moines on business. Manton Hebner will cover at Stewart's Pharmacy during his absence.
Ek A Madden longtime local resident dies in Omaha on Tuesday. He was an uncle of the Sherman boys and had lived in this city before moving west.
Keeley R. Madden former resident and longtime Adair county merchant died Tuesday at Immanuel hospital Omaha at 51 years of age. He represented his district in the legislature for one term in 1890s and was active in the Masonic order I O F and Methodist Church. His remains were sent to Bridgewater for burial beside his father with I O F and Masons providing escort. The estate report notes a 245000 dollar shortage.
A stream of brief visits and travels across Brighton Keota Fairfield and Columbus Junction includes M W Bailey visiting Brighton Hleswick in Fairfield Mr and Mrs Everett Fleming in Keota Ed Harvey visiting Columbus Junction L B E Buck and wife to Haskins and more. A new boy born to Mr and Mrs Joe Morrett in East Washington with others traveling and visiting relatives across the region.
The New Store offers conveyances for elderly ladies and others unable to walk to the Grand Easter opening tomorrow. Those in need should notify the store and will be picked up and guided safely to the shop.
The $150000 sensational suit by Mae C. Wood against United States Senator Thomas Platt and aides was dismissed by Judge Kennedy as no appearance was made for the plaintiff. Wood claimed she authored a book The Love Letters of a Boss containing letters from Platt.
Berlin on April 1 reports the Reichstag backing the budget committee proposal to lower the sugar duty from 14 to 10 marks per metric hundredweight and urge the United States to place German raw sugar on the same tariff basis as Cuban sugar in the U S market.
New Haven April 5 United States Senator Depew will not seek re election to the Yale corporation the university secretary office announces.
In Chicago the city council has become Democratic though the majority backing the high license remains. Milwaukee mayoral race shows Sherburne Beck leading D. Rose by 1,707 votes. Socialists tally 16,720. Dowie plans Zion City return amid revolt chatter as a major clash looms next week. A miner is freed from the Courrieres pit after twenty-five days underground. Senator Depew’s health falters preventing Senate return this session. recovery expected. Mark Twain announces retirement from lecturing on April 19. British shipyards win orders for three Brazilian 10,000 ton cruisers. Princess Ena of Battenberg to be styled royal highness as Spain’s future queen.
Edward Kelley and Nellie Severance wed at Marietta Ohio and, on a nitroglycerin wagon carrying thirty five quarts, rode fifty miles before returning alive. Kelley left for Syracuse to shoot a well after the ceremony amid a hazardous honeymoon journey.
President Flower Luther of Trinity college urged Berkeley school youths to be the engine not the ornament, praising the educated youth as superior to sixty years ago. He cited Springfield and Hartford pupil tests showing 25 percent better answers today.
A Peru Indiana dispatch reports Henry McFarlane of Fulton county marries Bertha McGregor with a quirky agreement. He must wash dishes daily except Sundays and kiss his wife before and after meals, among other promises. The piece shifts to humorous quotes about spring, ending with a comic aside from Grace G. Bostwick in Lippincott's Magazine.
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