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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1907
Page
8
An old advertisement promotes REN AW as a guaranteed effective headache remedy. It claims headaches are common and promises quick relief within minutes. It markets GAW as the best option, noting no bad effects and offering 10c and 25c sizes through local stores or direct.
In Lake Orion on Assembly Island at midnight a bell rang by unseen hands as cottagers and hotel guests awoke. Minsters called for silence but the bell kept tolling until a youth's laugh from the woods revealed mischievous youngsters tied a rope to the bell and pulled from the shelf of nearby woods.
Milwaukee reports Mayor Sherburn M. Becker may run for governor as a Republican. Tax Commissioner William F. Hooker signals Becker’s probable bid, while Becker declines to confirm mayoral plans beyond his term end in spring. Governor Davidson is expected to seek re election.
Danville Aug 17 Calvin Bal selected by Republicans as candidate for state superintendent of public instruction. Bal was prominent in education circles in Illinois and Indiana over a decade ago and is predicted to win with friends already congratulating him.
A. G. Kaufman & Co. cigar works on Second Avenue suffered a total loss estimated at 100000 dollars after a blaze. The fire displaced several hundred employees and caused extensive damage to the building and contents.
Chicago readers receive a summary of several baseball results from August 17 across leagues. Philadelphia rallies to win in the national league while Brooklyn and St Louis split, New York and Cincinnati race to darkness. American League shows Boston and St Louis wins with Detroit and Cleveland also posting victories. Association play highlights Milwaukee and Minneapolis thriller in extra innings and a close St Paul victory.
An inventor explains the split log King drag as a simple effective road tool. Instructions cover choosing logs, boring three holes, assembling slabs on stakes, hitching with a chain, and adjustments for different horse teams, noting future steel wear and continued guidance.
J Warren Hastings, longtime U S sub-treasurer at Boston, is under arrest for stealing 8000 from government funds. The report also notes Chas Emory Smith, Philadelphia editor once in Cabinet circles, is engaged to Nettie Nichols of New York. A Baltimore floor collapse during a fire killed one firefighter and injured twelve. President Roosevelt plans to depart Oyster Bay for Provincetown Massachusetts to attend the landing ceremony.
A Michigan highway commissioner lists practical swamp road methods. Techniques include using stone rows that can form walls to block muck, building up with a tree mat and earth, driving endwise logs to slow seepage, and placing swale grass or rye straw before gravel to bolster the bed.
G H Squires, returned from Europe, addressed the Los Angeles board of supervisors and the highway commission about road building and maintenance. He warned that fast autos damage good roads while slow autos suit bad roads, noting Europe is ahead of the United States but not perfect.
The Office of Public Roads at the U S Department of Agriculture reports 1.54 miles of public road per square mile in New York. It also notes one mile of road per 98 inhabitants and one mile of improved road per 1,237 inhabitants.
About eighty miles of good roads are planned to be built this year in the Havana province figures reported.
The piece surveys how marriages in Mexican society are often arranged by families for reasons of fortune, politics, or fiscal survival. It notes parental consent, public objections, and the norma l practice of chaperoned meetings, with lovers adapting public rituals to court their partners.
The London Tribune recounts Rev. Mark Guy Pearse recounting a joke about his early mining work and ignorance of dialect. He notes a misquotation by a local newspaper that claimed he explained his dialect familiarity from mining before age twenty-one.
The article explains that removing young fishes to smaller ponds requires feeding, especially in crowded nursery ponds. It lists natural foods and prepared options, including fresh fish meat or liver cut and sieved, and notes that adults in restricted tanks also need feeding. It cites New York aquarium practices and warns fish need abundant food to grow.
The Company of Pewterers, an historic masters only guild, enforced strict apprenticeship plus an approved essays test before granting a master touch. Penalties included fines of ten pounds and confiscation of wares for employing untrained helpers or foreigners, to keep trade secrets from spreading.
The Philadelphia Press recalls a remark about D Auber, an artist friend, celebrated for his ability to draw anything. The comment notes he has reportedly not drawn a sober breath for years.
The article traces the sugar plum to Julius Dragatus a Roman confectioner of the Fabius family. It notes the dragati or dragees as their early form and claims their 177 B C invention damaged teeth for centuries. It also credits Lassagne and Marshal Duplessis Pralin with origin of praline from burned almonds in France.
Manly Hardy notes the goshawk changes plumage and eye color through life from pale blue in a young bird to dark brown with pale yellow eyes and finally a deep red as an adult. He marvels at its dramatic color transformation and calls it unmatched among hawks.
A community message emphasizes that people deserve fair treatment and recognition. It asserts that goodwill will be remembered by how they are treated, urging courteous and equal consideration in dealings.
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