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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1910
Page
5
Local and personal items showcase The Fair and Rothschilds with prices on dress goods, wash goods, and kitchen cabinets. Mentions Vienna bakery, Caloric Fireless Cook stove, and several residents visiting Brighton, Muscatine, Letts, and Denmark Iowa. Eli and Jane play at the Graham and Iowa Wesleyan Glee club appearance noted.
An Omaha report touts alfalfa leaves ground into meal mixed with wheat to make bread and pastries. It notes green color, higher price than wheat flour, and potential as insomnia remedy in tablet form. Alfalfa flour production, cultivation, and economics across Nebraska Kansas Wyoming Colorado are described.
A reception will be held in the south room of the M. E. church after the Friday concert for Glee club members. The young people of the church and town are invited to attend and meet these men from the neighboring college. Umbrellas priced at $1.00 and up are available at Rothschilds.
The Western editor of the Congregationalist Reverend Joseph Hayes Chandler predicted a united Protestant church for the United States and then the world before the Congregational Ministers Union in Chicago. He said Chicago would be headquarters for the central district and urged moving beyond narrow methods to form one great church.
Kansas insurgent Representative Victor Murdock is accosted by Mrs. McHenry of Wichita near the House office building. She urges temperance in his politics while recounting her anti whiskey activism and seeking reform from the congressman.
A speaker remarks that Mrs. McHenry is nearly as regular as Uncle Joe Cannon, highlighting a comparison to a well known political figure in a casual aside.
The piece discusses how birds signal fortune at sea with the albatross as a good omen and the magpie as a bad one. An anecdote about a conversation with a seaman links magpies to ill luck. It notes beliefs in water sprites and superstitions among Bohemian fishermen toward drowning cases.
A terse clipping shows a critic questioning medical advisement and patronage with snappy barbs about circulation and coins. The text reflects tension between reader opinions and editor commentary.
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