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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1912
Page
5
A Brooklyn boy Tommie and friends practice ball in the street. When a ball sails into a private yard, Tommie climbs a tall paled gate and becomes stuck. He is lifted to safety by his father. The group agrees to use vacant lots for future practice.
Local residents and visitors are listed arriving and departing for visits with relatives, travels to Omaha Colorado Tarkio and Muscatine, with several trips for medical, shopping and family reasons. Listings include Mrs W R Sawhill Mary Louise J A Jones Ella Conner and many others visiting or returning home.
The Younger Set hosts a dancing party at Eagle hall with music by Michels Berdo and Pattison. Various visitors arrive and depart from nearby towns, with engagements, weddings, slumber parties, and upcoming nuptials noted among local families and professionals.
Robert J Fleming former Washington resident dies of face cancer in Colorado Springs. funeral planned in Washington after a Colorado service. He was born March 17 1852 in Palmerstown Pa and lived with relatives in Living Lake area before moving to Colorado. He owned a furniture store with Howard Fulton and later ran an undertaking business in Colorado Springs. Survived by half siblings Mrs J W McClelland George Fleming and W F Fleming.
Yoshihito Harunomiya the 123rd male imperial successor was born August 31 1879. He was named heir at eight, educated in Tokyo, speaks English French and German, and married his cousin Princess Sada in 1900 producing three sons Michi Atsu and Teru. He rose to lieutenant general and vice admiral, aims to blend tradition with Western progress.
The death of Mikado Mutsuhito marks a turning point as Japan’s modernization, shaped by leaders and reformers who fostered railways, telegraph, education, a deliberative assembly, and national defense. Builders cited include Tokugawa, Sakuma Shozan, Fujita Teko, and Yoshida Torajiro, whose efforts inspired Stevenson.
The deepest ocean point now stands at 9,780 meters, found by the German imperial ship Planet forty miles north of Min danse while the prior record of 9,635 meters was recorded south of Guam.
Iowa City August 10. A University of Iowa engineering college laboratory has proven its value by testing paving materials to prevent improper paving. Cities such as La Porte City Muscatine Mt Pleasant Cedar Rapids Iowa City Des Moines Corning Perry Grinnell Red Oak benefited. the lab handled many tests for individuals and firms, including brick asphalt and bitulithic paving, at cost.
A New York burglar fled a house in such haste that he left a book listing his targets in alphabetical order. Arrested, he told police he was a systematic burglar.
J G Moriarty clerk at M W of A posts notice that receipt books for the August assessment are placed in the Commercial Savings Bank for collection and urges all neighbors to call there on or before September.
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