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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
8
The article describes Japanese grain farming on flat and terraced lands with broad, mosaic-like fields. It explains precise row planting for barley, wind and weather challenges, autumn sowing, and the hand-cut method using a bent knife and wooden mallet for threshing.
Captain Hugo Hermann, chief engineer of the Austrian navy, reports four 300 horsepower gasoline engines built in Jersey City have passed exhaustive tests. The engines, intended for two Danube patrol torpedo boats about 100 feet long, were kept secret during development and subjected to rigorous strain tests over six weeks.
Maria Fenelli cried that her dream warned the Touraine would sink and refused to board as the vessel sailed for Havre. With her husband and seven children she stood on the pier while friends and the husband tried to pull her aboard.
On August 28 in New York a man broke through a crowd as President Roosevelt and his party reached Hoboken and moved toward the yacht Sylph. A railroad police officer stopped the Italian worker who said he wished to speak to the president. The officer told him he would not see the president, and the man disappeared.
Baseball standings and daily scores from August 28 across major leagues. New York and Chicago both at .900, multiple games from St Louis Brooklyn Pittsburg Cincinnati Boston and others detailed with hits errors and batteries. Association games in Indianapolis Louisville Milwaukee Minneapolis and Western cities listed with scores and outcomes.
The isthmus of Panama offers a curious view where the sun rises over the Pacific and sets in the Atlantic when the sun is at its southernmost point. The isthmus curves so that Panama Bay lies east and the Caribbean west, a reversal to our usual sense of west and east. This celestial quirk is true only at southern declination and is worth remembering.
A guest asks the elevator boy to relay a message to Percy. The maid complains she did not hear the doorbell until after three rings. The elevator boy retorts that he never answers unless he hears, then says What. The combative exchange showcases sly humor in a New York Evening Star vignette.
A New York American excerpt captures a tense moment where Jack Hansum paces in a parlor, signaling a near proposal. The speaker contemplates turning him down or the light, revealing a stubborn choice between romance and prudence.
Senator Foraker has accepted an invitation to address the Emancipation day celebration in Columbus on September 22. The event spotlights the anniversary with the prominent speaker confirming participation.
Tokio August 28 The government plans to postpone the international exposition at Tokio to 1017 citing the fiftieth anniversary year of the Meiji period and the emperor's accession. The decision is framed as aligning with a major national milestone and commemorative status for the Meiji era. The report notes the delay is official, with no alternative dates mentioned.
The fragment notes ongoing items including a 206.5 acre domain with Alaska portion, a secretarial announcement by Irvin Shepard of the National Felocational association, and a department of superintendence meeting in Chicago on May 25 1900. It also reports heavy rains in Georgia and South Carolina causing floods, five deaths, and up to 1.1 million dollars in property loss. Receivership of Southern Infita Railway extended to Chicago Southern Walsh property. New York Electrical Workers union seeks injunction against hiring non card holders.
Irish-American residents led by the United Irish League of America prepare to greet John Redmond and Joseph Devlin as they arrive aboard the Oceanic in New York on September 17. They aim to honor the MPs noted for leadership in the Trehind struggle for liberty.
Call up phone number 1 to place bus line orders and have them promptly attended to by Frank Rogers. Provide your street and number for delivery or pickup service.
The document details stock dividend changes effective August 10, 1908. It outlines extended redemption time for preferred stock, increased and new preferred stock issues, and revised voting rights: common stock one vote, preferred stock three votes. It also notes conversion to be proportionate for new common shares and preserves existing article three provisions where not inconsistent.
The Geo H Paul Company of Washington Iowa held a special meeting on August 1 1908 and amended its articles of incorporation under Iowa law. Article three now states capital stock totals three hundred thousand dollars with seventy five thousand preferred and two hundred twenty five thousand common, each share worth one hundred dollars. twenty five thousand dollars of preferred stock already issued is noted.
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