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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1909
Page
5
The piece portrays Chopin’s devotion to the piano and his musical genius. It recounts his birth near Warsaw, exile after Poland’s subjugation, and his development of a Romantic piano language through the Study in C Minor and other works.
The article traces Chopin from a melancholy Polish upbringing to piano prodigy status in Vienna and Paris. It notes royal and noble patrons, his feminine temperament, early concerts, romantic entanglements, and the perilous flight during revolution, ending amid flashes of courtly recognition and love.
The article recalls Chopin's years with George Sand, their turbulent pairing from 1830s to 1847, and how Sand both inspired and exhausted him. It notes his health decline, their separations, and Liszt's tribute, framing Chopin as a genius whose melancholy remains potent.
A Chicago Post report details a planned monument at the Grand Canyon brink to honor John Wesley Powell, the Illinois soldier and scientist who first navigated the Colorado River through the canyon. The Obama era? No.
Jennie Madden returned from Washington Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Henry Jentz left for Texas. Elisa Fulton remains ill with fever. Mrs Myrtie Hanlon of Washington visits Lydia Madden. Baraca and Berean classes hosted farewell for Chas Dunbar before move to Minneapolis. Miss Bailey of Washington visits Brighton for gym class. Fire drill caused excitement as chimney fire on Mary Israel’s house proved minor.
In Pilotburg oats and wheat are being sown with mixed grains. Scarlet fever quarantine lifted. Wellman Charlie Rickey and Frank Matthews plan summer building. Jas Haller to raise a barn. Johnniehing finishes school and attends auto school in Cleveland. Sam Nicola buys the Fred Herr farm at 68 dollars per acre, 120 acres. Marquam Bros sell Chris Bockhurst a Shorthorn calf. Mr and Mrs Jas Haller and Mr and Mrs Frank Matthews visit Marquam home Sunday.
Lillian Crone begins spring term at Gray school while Edith McBride recovers and returns Wednesday. Lyman Bunce and John Grossman tiling for Dave Miller. T M Beenblossom sells a horse for 8256 and adds a house expansion. Eureka Telephone Co to meet Saturday at Eureka schoolhouse for officer elections and routine business. Ethel Waters visits Eureka neighbors. George Fetes' team bolts at Marcus Kuhn’s auto, breaks harness but no injuries.
The Edgemere Yacht club of Detroit plans three catboats to compete in the Taft cup races at Toledo. Kentucky remains the sole state open to turfmen for spring racing. Harry Payne Whitney shipped a dozen polo ponies to England for international contests this season. Kid Beebe, a Philadelphia lightweight, earned his first knockout in two rounds in Philadelphia. The Target rowing launch used by Coach Conibear at the University of Washington has been purchased by the student body for coaching purposes.
The piece notes a 1919 population projection of 100 million, a New York pastor wedding seven couples and baptizing nine children while officiating at three funerals, a buried prehistoric forest found 400 feet underground near Sandy Hook, Chicago’s Onion Club hosting a nine course onion dinner, and concerns over officer shortages causing desertions in the American army.
Patent attorney W Bishop in Washington reports Iowa recipients for patents issued on the 6th. Names include H L Conwell Davenport 917006 amusement device and F E Baker Oskaloosa V1z 521 heating system, among many others across Des Moines Exline Marshalltown Sioux City Mason City and Waterloo with various devices and improvements.
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