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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1912
Page
4
A flurry of shopping and social notes spans the city with visits from Mrs George Allbaugh and Miss Marie Schmidt, trips to Keota and Burlington, and numerous local purchases from The Royal and The Vienna. Birthday celebrations for Captain J B Teller mark the week as merchants tout bakery goods, croquet sets, fruit, and pies while ads promote insurance and draying services.
Chinese children brought to France by showmen to perform as acrobats were abandoned when performances ceased. Magistrates questioned them in Paris as vagabonds. The Chinese legation prepared to send them home, but the children, finding Paris beautiful, prefer to stay despite prospects of return.
A nostalgic tale recalls a stagecoach journey with Jack and Evelyn aboard a red coated coachman. A bewitching loud package, mistaken for a violin and parasol, triggers a comic confrontation as the driver bangs the package and the violinist vows revenge. The party ends with a loud horn and lively chatter.
The Stanley steel committee report to the House condemns U.S. Steel as a gigantic monopoly and criticizes its methods. Morgan and associates are described as benefiting from profits totaling sixty two million dollars after a year of investigation. The report asserts the stock was not watered but flooded with profits.
A fire at the D. J. Patterson farm four miles northeast of the city destroyed the barn two granaries and a chicken house after 2:30 pm. About 1500 bushels of oats were affected with only a portion saved. four tons of hay burned. no insurance on buildings. occupants were Mr and Mrs Wilson D Martin.
Congress man Caleb Powers of Kentucky will address the Washington county chautauqua at 2 p.m. on Saturday August 17. Powers, who spent seven years in prison and was sentenced to death for murder, was later vindicated by his district voters and elected to Congress. The event drew a huge crowd with loud applause and handkerchiefs filling the air as the audience surged around him.
The article argues for preventing flies by sanitation, not cruelty. It cites vast potential fly numbers, urges removal of breeding sites, strict screening of food and rooms, and proper waste and manure handling including lime and kerosene use. It links flies to disease and urges sanitary reforms.
A concise note extols the value of time urging action now and condemning idleness and procrastination. It attributes the maxim to the Earl of Chesterfield and emphasizes seizing every moment without delay.
July brought 6.60 inches of rain across seven days, a record for the month. Temperatures ranged from 52.5 degrees on the nineteenth to a high of 95 on the ninth and twenty third, with ten clear days and twenty partly cloudy. The month was cooler than last year and favorable for crops due to abundant showers and warm but not extreme heat.
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