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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1911
Page
7
The post announces regular meetings on the first and third Tuesday each month in their Temple rooms. Commander J W Scott and Adjutant J J Kellogg sign the notice.
Valley Forge Camp No. 868 invites neighbors to attend meetings in the hall on North Side Square each third Thursday evening. J. G. Moriarty serves as clerk.
Regular meetings announced for Masonic bodies in Washington: Lodge No 26 A F and A M meets first Friday. Cyrus Chapter No 18 R A M meets second Friday. Bethlehem Commandery No 45 K T meets on first Friday. Washington Chapter No 98 C F meets on second Thursday. Officers listed include J W Morton and Mrs J K Kunath with visiting fraters welcome.
Western Wyoming officials plan a vast elk relocation driven like cattle from Jackson Hole toward the Big Horn mountains to avoid forage loss. A 2000-strong force including U S cavalry and ranch hands will herd elk by railless drive in late fall or winter, with federal and state funding. A four-toed horse skeleton from the Big Horn basin is exhibited in New York.
The record notes that in the decade 1900 10 there were 10 309 persons in England with in coles over S25 each totaling 650 000 000 and averaging 863 000.
James R. Hammond, famed inventor and industrialist, launches the Lounger 12 a 16 foot by three foot draft craft with refrigeration and thermostat systems. He plans to cruise the world and live out his days aboard, seeking a model of marine architecture for possible US government display.
Mary Trawick Proctor aged 111 a daughter of the American Revolution found in a Bartow County Georgia cabin with her daughter and two great great grandchildren. Born in Wake County North Carolina in 1800 she married Revolutionary War veteran Hiram Proctor at nineteen. She has lived through twenty five presidencies and a fundraising effort is under way to support the two elderly women for life.
Eruptions of water steam sand and rocks surge hundreds of feet from Norris basin hot springs in Yellowstone. Park observers cannot explain the phenomenon noting geysers remain highly active and suggesting possible rising subterranean forces.
Convicted banker Charles W. Morse petitions the United States circuit court after Judge William T Newman denied freedom from the Atlanta prison. He serves a fifteen year sentence for violation of national banking laws and argues for status under a ten or fifteen year term with good behavior credits and parole possibilities. He claims the Atlanta facility is for hard labor, which he says he cannot be sentenced to perform.
The 1910 census center lies four and a half miles south of Unionville Indiana and thirty one miles west of that point, but the article argues the true center of weight, the center of gravity, is found in Washington as the White House remains the focal point for a period.
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