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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1925
Page
8
Local briefs note Miss Washington sightings and travel of residents Dr H Masson to Rochester on professional business. Mr and Mrs N B Sallman depart for Allerton after a short visit. Mrs Seymour Martin of Keota shops in Washington. Mrs Lakie Anderson travels to Ainsworth for a visit. Equit Textile Mills Hosiery and silk lingerie demo at 7 30 tonight at Mrs McAvoy's home west of the Christian Science church.
Pollyanna program at the M E Church with admission 25 cents for adults 15 cents for children. Miss Mayo will read the tale tonight as part of a community event. Also notes of local visits, business trips, and shop advertisements fill the page.
The note promotes a four foot porch swing complete for four dollars and fifty cents. It adds today is porch swing weather and promises more deals before fall.
Philadelphia April 22 A silver haired grandmother who qualified for the first women’s national golf championship in the United States in 1895 remains among the top women golfers. Mrs Cole J Fox of Huntingdon Valley CC has won national and local titles, reached finals and semis, and defeated Glenna Collett in a Florida tourney two years ago, proving her enduring skill at 66.
The passage explains the evolution of the term cogge to cock for a ship's small boat and contrasts it with bees and honey. It notes a coxswain overseeing a cogge and traces linguistic change to cock boat. It also remarks science knowing honey's main substances yet not matching bees in honey production.
The Pan American nations plan a lighthouse in Santo Domingo harbor to honor Columbus. It would stand 1 009 feet high and serve as a sea guide and tomb for the great explorer.
Canada exercised its treaty making rights for the first time recently by signing a commercial compact with Belanim at Laurier House in Ottawa.
Mr and Mrs Robert Patterson prepare to leave Saturday for Florida and intend to spend several months there by automobile. Mrs C M Elwell announces the arrival of a baby girl to Mr and Mrs Richard Elwell of Waterloo born April 17 named Charis Patricia. A M Walty of Colchester Jr visits his sister Mrs W F Curtis as Mrs Ell Farmer of Galesburg Ill stays with the Curtis family. Farmer was summoned by the death of W F Curtis.
Governor John Hammill arrived with a party from Des Moines for a noon visit with the local Canopian club where he presented its charter. He spoke to reporters about taxation noting tax equalization could trigger another tax cut and that income tax should not return to the next legislature.
The 1925 budget for Curacao includes a memorial of projects to transform Willemstad into a major world port. Plans call for a mammoth oil refinery on the island and making the port one of the largest fuel oil bases globally.
The article recalls Florence Nightingale's lover John Smithhurst buried at Blora Ontario. Smithhurst, a cousin and clergyman, was sent abroad with Nightingale, who later pursued nursing. He emigrated to Canada and died at Elorea in 1867.
Creston city council considers aid to the Consolidated F. J. Taylor circus of Omaha by adopting a resolution inviting the show to perform here on a complimentary license. The original circus was once owned by a former Creston mayor and is to be reorganized by his son J. F. Taylor of Omaha.
The passage notes several well known figures as seventh or youngest children. It mentions Napoleon an eighth child, Benjamin Franklin the youngest of seventeen, and Wagner Mozart Balzac as youngest of their siblings highlighting large families.
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