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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1910
Page
8
W H Quinn, owner of a modern residence lit by acetylene gas, died in a cellar explosion Saturday night after investigating a gas line fault. His wife and daughter escaped, others wounded, and the event followed a recent census and railroad board activity report from Des Moines.
Des Moines April 14 John Sunberg of Whiting Iowa Seed Corn Growers association outlines soil building soil preparation testing seed corn and planting by local conditions. He urges testing ears four root strength and avoiding deep cultivation or excessive ridgeing while warning against plowing at night. About the explosion Wapello Ia April 14 B F Rouch travels to Sterling near Bloomington W by death of his brother in law W J Quinn
Rev William Sunday and crew wrap six week Danville Illinois crusade with 3044 conversions announced as bank offering totals 8891 19 dollars surpassing expectations per Commercial News as they head toward Bellingham Washington for new campaign.
Marshalltown Iowa April 14 six ty three years of wedded life is a record by Mr and Mrs Cyrus B Quintard of this city who celebrated their anniversary Monday both were born in Norwalk Connecticut and have known one another from childhood Mr Quintard is 84 and his wife 79 they came to Toledo Tama county Iowa in 1565 nine of their children are living with thirty two grandchildren and twenty one great grandchildren Mr Quintard served in the Civil War and both of his grandparents fought in the Revolutionary War
Yesterday's installment of the serial "In the Springtime" had a mix up. The break is corrected today and readers can straighten out the continuity without losing the connection.
County teachers will meet Saturday April 16 at 10 30 AM and 1 30 PM in the High School. Mrs Hattie Moore Mitchell of Des Moines will deliver an afternoon address. Everyone is invited. 5112
Ben Wooster of the Globe barber shop and his sister Mrs. Fred Ferguson left for Minneapolis Kansas after learning of their sister Miss Dorothy Wooster's sudden death. No further details were available beyond the fact she was a young woman about 18 and had planned a visit.
A playful exchange notes a mechanical device for setting tenpins and jokes about one for knocking them down. A New York lawyer criticizes la w delay while a Yonkers Statesman snippet questions a client’s bill payment.
In a tale of pride and memory an aging officer recalls a battlefield scratch that made him famous. A visiting youth asks a blunt question and the Colonel erupts with a stern lecture urging him to read the country’s history.
Prof F C Ensign of Iowa City visited Washington high school Tuesday. A former university professor and now state school inspector for the three state institutions he commended the school, urged laboratory expansion, praised the planned grammar school course, and supported practical courses in commercial work manual training and domestic science.
The guidance promotes nourishing easily digested foods to maintain youthfulness. It advises hot milk and milk cocoa, strict dietary limits for greasy skin, avoiding pastry and rich foods, and reducing hot liquids for flushed faces. Pale individuals should eat underdone meat and lightly cooked eggs with milk pudding and consume hot milk liberally.
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