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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1910
Page
4
Frederic Campbell explains the 1873 to 1882 path of Halley’s Comet and predicts the 1882 transit of the Sun, detailing approach distances, tail behavior, potential sun obscuration, and possible sky phenomena during the May 18 event without sensationalism.
Astronomers describe Halley’s Comet approaching the sun on May 18 with the head of the comet crossing the solar disk. The event will be visible mainly from the western United States, Hawaii, and parts of the Pacific as the sun is below the horizon elsewhere.
A week long event under the Motorboat and Water Carnival association will run from May 21 on the West Ninety-eighth Street pier and plaza New York. Exhibits fill canvas sites and three 100 by 30 foot platforms will host boat demonstrations while Hudson River racing features clubs competing for prizes.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on April 30 Elizabeth Dugan refused to answer a census enumerator’s questions. She drove him from the house and armed herself with a revolver when officers arrived threatening to shoot if they entered. Her daughter, who threatened officers with hot water, escaped and will be arrested. Dugan will be tried at the next U S court session.
A list of upcoming activities includes the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union and American Society of Equity convention in St. Louis, royalty visits, naval ship commissions in New York and Norfolk, and multiple cultural and civic gatherings in cities from Chicago to London.
George S. Me. Parlane and Harry Prinkerhoff were convicted before Judge Mulqueen in general sessions of extortion. C. J. Welle, a Battle Creek Michigan jewelry dealer, testified that Brinkerhoff pressured Wells in a hotel room after an evening in the tenderloin, leading to the surrender of a diamond ring worth $200, two drafts for $100 each, and notes for $500 and $400.
J. W. Patton offers himself as a candidate for the sheriff nomination under the Republican party. He states the nomination will be decided by the June primaries and seeks the voters support to carry the county race.
Fairfield Iowa April 20 Due to few entries the Southeastern Iowa High School Field and Track Meet scheduled for Friday at Fairfield is indefinitely postponed. The notice cites a general lack of interest among local high schools in the region.
The East and West room teams met yesterday afternoon in a fast, close baseball contest won by the East 3 to 2. Both sides played solid ball with standout performances from Burham Barrett Fret chin Proudfit Fulton Fox Free A free Ladders and Limerman Hidwell Keyes Stiles Brinton Rickford Ross Burris in the field and at bat.
The ad invites readers to compare Frey’s photographs with those of leading photographers. It claims superior quality as the sole reason for high appraisal and invites an in person viewing to prove it.
Samoan islanders tell of Sina the moon woman who came down one night and stole her, never able to return to earth. She now appears in the moon with the mallet and board used to beat bark to wake cloth.
The Washington high school baseball team left this morning for Winfield to face Winfield High School this afternoon. The lineup includes Limerman, Proudfit, Shhenefelt, McElhinney, Brown, Meek, Clapper, Anderson, Freding with Sherrer as catcher and Meek in right field. Accompanying the team were Frank Shearer who will umpire Henry Russell and Robert Cherry.
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