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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1905
Page
5
A fractured joke notes a doctor Abe who visited patients last week and learns nine of them died. The nurse reports deaths, prompting a grim punchline about leaving medicine for ten. The fragment reflects a dark, antiquated humor style and unclear source attribution.
Lawton C T April 22 reports cowboys say wolves are dead all over the Kiowa Comanche pasture reservation where President Roosevelt hunted last week.
Aunt Jane notes Mr. Spender is neat as Edith recalls Uncle George showing all his clothes only those on hangers remained. The Boston Transcript snippet hints at a domestic remark about tidiness in family life.
A Rock Island train wreck at Laddsdale near Eldon injures mail clerks J W Dunham and Frank McMeans and dislocates engineer Cheshire. Fireman Brunt dies from scald injuries after the incident caused by a brake rod catching in a switch frog.
Mr and Mrs Eugene Miles of Des Moines are visiting at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs J E Patterson.
Fragmented lyric scene features ANTHEM soprano and four voices debating a hat. Characters argue price style and esteem while a hymnlike ending hints at resignation and ironic closure.
In a playful vignette the sun teases a frozen brook about singing again. The brook, half awake, laments it has thawed and mutters a shy reply about telling others to hear it once more.
A quip from the Philadelphia Press frames a physician patient exchange. Dr Phaker offers a controversial prescription with the line No cure, no pay while acknowledging the risk. The joke hinges on the deadly gamble between cure and harm.
Governor Folk has received many Kansans letters. a Roedale note asks for exchanging their brother Jim Rudolph, a condemned Union bank robber who killed a detective, with a forfeit of hanging. Rudolph had faced execution April 17 but received a respite.
Sabbath School at 0 40. Easter program at the hour. Morning service 11. Subject What if it Be in Vainy. Junior Endeavor 5. Senior Endeavor 6 30. Evening service 7 30. Sacred concert and Easter sermon. All are invited.
The body of John Paw Jones is moved from the School of Medicine to the American Church of the Holy Trinity on Avenue del Alma and placed in the receiving vault awaiting the arrival of the naval squadron to return the admiral's remains to America. Ambassador Porter and officials Wimnaud Bailly Blanchard Gowdy attended the removal.
Wilmer W. Marshall, a pioneer iron foundryman in Philadelphia, died aged 58. He was the first in the country to establish a tinplate mill after the McKinley tariff bill, and in 1902 he altered the Penn Treaty iron works to manufacture tinplate.
In Hot Springs Arkansas on April 22 J I Cavanaugh a St Louis bricklayer fired on a group of brick masons during a local union dispute. John Madigan of Clinton Massachusetts was killed others injured. Cavanaugh is jailed.
The Grant W Kenny elevator at Argentine a Kansas suburb was struck by lightning and burned. It stored 72 000 bushels of wheat and 13 000 bushels of corn.
Norfolk on April 22 reports Henry Kir a wealthy Virginia trucker estimates that the recent rate cold snap and frosts have caused crop damage totaling over 1 million dollars to farmers in Tidewater Virginia alone.
The forecast shows generally fair conditions across Illinois and Indiana with slowly rising temperatures and variable winds. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin expect fair skies with warming temperatures and diminishing to variable winds.
Chicago Live Stock Hogs receipts about 12 000 with price ranges from 5.40 to 5.65 for good to prime shipping, others 5.45 to 5.57 for various butcher weights. Cattle receipts 1 500 with values 6.25 to 6.75 for good to choice, cows and heifers 4.00 to 5.00, feeders 4.25 to 5.15, calves 5.70 to 6.00. Sheep 1 500 receipts with exports at 5.00 to 5.15, yearlings 5.25 to 5.80, native lambs 6.00 to 6.80. East Buffalo buyers Dunning Stevens report cattle steady, hogs strong at 5.70 to 5.75, lambs 7.00 to 8.00, sheep 6.00 to 6.50, calves 6.00 to 7.25.
Sabbath School at 0 30. Preaching service at 11. Junior Christian Endeavor at 4. Senior Christian Endeavor at 6 15. Sabbath School teachers' meeting at 11 30. Evening preaching service at 7 30.
Sabbath School at 0 15 morning service at the usual hour Young peoples meeting at the usual hour No evening service indicated in the notice
Pastor M Payton leads Easter program with sermon The Lord hath risen indeed and hath appeared unto Simon. Sunday School at 3 p.m. Easter Jubilee by children at 7:50 p.m.
Easter Sunday schedule at Trinity includes Sunday School at 9 30 a m and a 10 45 a m communion service in Eeat Reade Evening prayer and sermon at 7 30 p m The Right Reverend T N Morrison Bishop of Iowa will make his annual visitation next Thursday April 27 He will preach and conduct a class Service at 7 30.
Sunday School at 9 30 Easter rally and special offering for missions. Worship services at 11 with special music recitations and a brief sermon by Pastor R D Daugherty. Junior League at 3 30 Epworth League at 6 15 Leader R D Daugherty. Subject The Power of His Resurrection Preaching at 7 30 with more Easter music. Public invited.
The message lists Easter and Sunday services at Washington Circuit M. E. Eureka at 10 and 11 a.m. with an Easter sermon at 11 and a 7 15 p m session by Sunday School members. Plains church offers 10 a.m. Sunday School with invitations extended. J F Robertson is the pastor.
Bible School at 9 30 morning service at 11 subject for the sermon What the Resurrection Means to the Church Junior BYP at 4 Senior BYPU at 6 30 Evening service at 7 30 subject The World Special Easter music.
The notice lists regular services at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and 9:15 a.m. Sunday School with a Wednesday 7:30 p.m. meeting. Located half a block south of the post office, all are invited to attend.
The Ministerial association meeting is postponed for one week. The next session will be held May 1 at the home of Rev. Young.
Little Mabel Kleese aged around ten, daughter of Harry Kleese, dislocated her shoulder when a wagon tongue fell and frightened the horses near the Second United Presbyterian church. She was taken home for care and later to her grandparents in East Washington for rest. Mrs. Ed Wiley and baby Louis Edward visited West Chester for Sunday.
J W Hanlon editor of the Despatch Ocilla Georgia praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as one of the best for bowel troubles. He says his family has used it for years and never without it. The ad notes Stewart’s Pharmacy Cook and Sherman sell the remedy.
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