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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1912
Page
8
An essay on manners argues social training shapes ease and status. It contrasts past courteous acts with modern shifts, noting pressure to perform in public while private behavior drifts. It critiques superficial polish and class signaling in everyday rituals.
The seventeenth annual Iowa county supervisors session in Burlington urged legislature to require annual bids for bridges and culverts and to place road projects under supervisor oversight. Officers were elected and plans for next meeting in Council Bluffs adopted.
Fifty years ago today the United States had thirteen warships armed with 166 guns in service and thirty six under construction. Colonel Michael Corcoran, once prisoner in Confederate prisons, reached Washington and received a muted public welcome while President Lincoln favored him for brigadier general.
Keokuk Iowa August 17 Veterans observed the 5071 anniversary of the Thirtieth Iowa Regiment with a camp fire address by Gov Carroll and a ceremony dedicating a Civil War unknown dead monument. The unit served from Sept 14 1862 to June 5 1866 sustaining 260 men from 978 at enlistment. The parade included drives around Keokuk and a National Cemetery dedication after route marches and battles such as Coldwater Yazoo Vicksburg Lookout Mountain Ringgold and Bentonville.
Mrs Hulda Keller Smith formerly of Davenport now teaches in Mandalay Burma and will study English and German at Iowa University via long distance instruction for a year under Professors Hunt and Wilson. The couple plans five years away before she receives her degree. She currently teaches at the A B M high school in Mandalay.
Charlotte Hunt, a Clinton native and teacher, died after slipping from Pinnacle peak at Mt. Rainier while on a Tacoma YMCA expedition to Paradise Valley. Daughter of Mrs. John Atkinson, she had connections to Clinton Tama Cedar Rapids and Camanche.
Cedar Rapids leaders plan to lure Ringling Brothers circus to the city as winter quarters. A Commercial club committee will present Cedar Rapids as a superior base with rail facilities and favorable conditions, citing Baraboo Wisconsin taxes and facilities as the current drawback.
The Iowa Gas & Electric Co states gas service will remain on Sunday while electric current will be shut off for a few hours for repairs. Local residents had feared a gas outage, but officials confirm gas supply stays uninterrupted.
Mr W Gunsalus a farmer near Fleming Pa says his family used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for fourteen years and finds it excellent. He recommends it. For sale by Lemmons Pharmacy.
Lindsay Scott of Temple Indiana lauds Lemmon's Pharmacy paste for its benefits claiming it reduces suffering. He cites Chamberlain Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a patient friendly medicine. The note reflects local endorsement of the remedy.
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