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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1910
Page
5
Local notes announce fresh candy at the Vienna bakery and Fox & Dewey stand for an ice cream supper Friday April 15. Residents advertise treats, social hours, and community activities while visitors and locals share day trips and errands in Havre and surrounding towns.
A notice in the Journal of the Shiloh banquet clarifies an error in a prior list. A Hunter of Company E 15th Iowa was omitted despite being a speaker at the event and present at the Shiloh battle.
The Journal highlights a switch to an eight page form and a new Miehle press. The press office is torn up during expansion to meet emergencies, with plans to call on the Press and Democrat offices when moving day arrives.
The steamship Tennessee five days out from Honolulu received a weather message from Table Bluff California. The message was verified by the navy department and traveled a distance of 4,580 miles.
A troubled couple in affluence quarrel until the husband contemplates suicide by river. He saves a drowning wife, revives her, and resolves to change. A year later a baby arrives as love triumphs through self blame and renewed commitment.
Professor K E Barnard of Yerkes Observatory reports Halley s Comet shrinking as it nears the sun. He notes the tail grows as the mass decreases and warns the head may pass millions of miles beneath Earth. The article also includes moral reflections and historical meteor showers.
The prince regent told officials that rumors claim the late empress grand dowager left a vast fortune. He says the amount is not large enough to fund reforms and plans to urge publishing the exact sum in the Official Gazette to dispel public doubt and aid navy reorganization after naval commissioners return to Peking Shanghai Times.
A report says an 18,000 horsepower English battleship could be powered by gas engines without funnels but Sir William White calls it exaggerated for now. Progress continues with about a dozen British battleships using gas engines for auxiliaries and small vessels likely to follow. Proponents note weight and space savings and Lord Graham predicts no oil use in high power installations.
A tongue in cheek note suggests ladies’ tailors who design outfits a wife can wear without her husband, the cook, or a wrench will be popular and likely well paid, per the Watt on Times.
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