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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
8
A description of a geography word game for up to twenty six players. A leader proclaims a king and players answer when a city or country starting with a chosen letter is mentioned. If a player errs or forgets, they shift in line and take the next letter, with seats reorganized accordingly.
Dream interpretations note racing as a token of good fortune and upcoming pleasant news. Swimming with head above water signals great success in love or business undertakings. Singing indicates consolation in adversity or health recovery. Sparrows at the doorstep predict good fortune for planned projects. Storms forecast happiness after difficulties.
A quotation party needs no writing or cards. Guests sit in chairs and take turns giving quotations containing a chosen word. For example boy leads to Little Boy Blue and then little to Mary had a little lamb. Any word and any quotation may be used, from Byronic passages to Mother Goose.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a curious number 142857 that cycles its digits when multiplied by 1 through 6, yielding the same sequence in different rotations and producing 999,999 at 7 times. An 8 times product yields 1,142,856, and reassembling digits returns to 142,857.
A Chicago News report notes a French hospital finding an effective hiccough cure: thrust the tongue from the mouth and hold it for a moment. The editor offers this tip as a potential aid, though it does not replace medical advice.
A playful verse from Youth's Companion describes Jelly lane a market of jellies jams and candied fruits. Pots of apricots marmalade citron quince and grape line the grass in glass jars. The singing narrator longs to return to the sweet street and dreams of a future tent to live in Jelly lane.
The body of William Boyd Allison Iowa's noted statesman rests in Linwood cemetery after a brief service at his home. Vice President Fairbanks and numerous national lawmakers attended as crowds filled Dubuque in mourning, with a mile long funeral cortege and flags at half mast.
Brigadier General Theodore A. Baldwin retired A S A was indicted in Catoosa County Georgia on criminal libel for a communication to Col Kerr in command of the Twelfth cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe. Harris sued for damages of ten thousand dollars claiming the letter charged him with hog theft from General Baldwin.
Bristol Tennessee August 10 Dave Holly nineteen years old was taken to Marion Virginia under heavy guard charged with raping the seven year old child of J W Gass a prominent Broadford Virginia citizen Holly waived preliminary hearing and is held in jail at Marion with a large guard to prevent violence
One man died and several people were injured when the Texas Express on the Southern Pacific derailed near Carrollton avenue, several miles from Union Station in New Orleans at night on August 10.
Shortly after departing New Orleans en route to Houston Oliver Petrie a fireman from Algiers Louisiana is recorded as the dead man in the incident.
Count Leo Tolstoy remains indisposed due to health rules. Emperor William donates 2500 dollars to Count Zeppelin for another airship. Russia reports 876 murderers and robbers condemned in the first half of the year. Japan probes betting at race meetings and may ban it. J C Garlington resigns from Independence League in South Carolina. H Eliott of St Louis dies at eighty two. Canadian Pacific strike shows no major change. Independence party aims to field a full Kansas state ticket via 200-name petition. Wilbur Wright flies 106 seconds at Demans France. Bisley winners return home praising Olympic committee fairness.
Sixteen battleship division ships of the US Atlantic Fleet under Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry reached Auckland New Zealand after a 33 day voyage from San Francisco with a six day Honolulu layover. They anchored abreast the city and received salutes from shore batteries and the Powerful Encounter and Pioneer. Sperry met Governor Lord Plunkett and Consul General Prickett, then visited aboard the flagship Connecticut as 50 000 people cheered from the harbor slopes.
Frank P. Sargent commissioner of the bureau of immigration and naturalization is seriously ill at his Washington residence. He suffers nervous shock from a fall at Shepherdstown West Virginia where he was spending his summer vacation recently.
Harrisburg railroad mail clerk J I Holly was arrested by United States Commissioner Wolf and bound over on $1000 bail for robbing the mails. Marked money was found on him and traced to a decoy letter sent from the office.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer line jokes about job loss and gender shifts as a man worries about being replaced by a woman. The exchange ends with a quip suggesting marriage to the new boss.
Florence and Mrs. Kimball praise Amy for her true manners and honesty, noting she lacks superficial polish due to a harsh upbringing but offers prudent judgment. A subplot reveals a girl’s charitable plan to fund a hospital bed for cats, backed by a personal bank-book provision.
A New York World reader, 17, asks if fish makes brains and seeks a remedy for low courage. The editor says no magic fix exists but brain can grow through night school, lectures, reading, and business study. Regular gymnastic exercise helps appearance and confidence, with six years of part time work and six months in a gymnasium boosting education and vigor.
In a witty exchange, little Ethel defines a herd keeper as a man who tends sheep and extends the joke to call a coward a man who tends cows. The quip showcases rural humor and childlike literalism.
In Anderson Indiana on August 10 the body of thirteen year old Ernest Crouse was found in six inches of water at the mouth of a sewer. A deep gash above his right eye and finger marks on the throat suggest murder. James Lynn, a transient, is jailed as a suspect.
In Bloomington on August 10 John Mullis and his son-in-law Isaac Fox were killed when a broncho the pair were driving balked and kicked. The animal's heels crushed Mullis' skull and Fox, unable to escape, died within the hour.
First Lieutenant Paul W. Beck of the six pal corps at the army maneuvers in Tacoma Washington broke the world record for stringing wires and maintaining communications. In forty minutes aided by seventy one men he stretched ten miles of wire and activated eight instruments.
In Superior Wisconsin on August 10 the Great Northern ore docks at Allouez are shut down by a strike of 150 laborers demanding higher pay. The entire dock operation stands idle and a successful strike could halt ore shipments for the Great Northern.
In Muskegon Michigan on August 10 Dolly Dininger six was accidentally shot in the wrist by her ten year old brother Willie. He was outside shooting at a target with a 22 caliber rifle and hid in the woods until parents found him that evening.
Syracuse August 10 strong likelihood Governor Hughes will be chosen to head the Prohibition ticket at the state convention to be held in Syracuse next month. Prohibition leaders favor his nomination, according to an excellent authority in the city.
A girl’s father questions a young man about a settled income. The reply states a weekly $5 income and the view that keeping any job is worth the price in today’s market. The exchange reflects attitudes toward employment stability.
A brief aphorism asserts true nobility lies in being free from navy, attributed to La Rochefoucauld, highlighting virtue over martial service.
A newspaper notice promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy as a boon to elderly people with kidney or bladder trouble. It claims the product stimulates urinary organs, corrects irregularities, and tones the system, urging immediate use through Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Call up phone number one and leave orders for the city bus line. Provide street and number for prompt handling by Frank Rogers.
A Philadelphia animal hospital offers a free bed for cats funded by Ruth Darling, a young domestic servant who, during her last illness, expressed a wish to do something with her savings for the animals she loved, especially cats.
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