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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1900
Page
4
Frank Rogers will promptly attend to leave orders concerning the city bus line and the Mail: Omail up phone number at Hotel Allen. The note references service and contact details for urgent handling.
Be on the BON W service with dates sale August 25 26 27 28 and 20 deposit ticket with agent to extend to September 30th. Our line is quickest cheapest and best for travel to the Chicago Grand Army Encampment. Rates and further details available from BE G Fox agent or E Stewart agent Great Rock Island Route with three first class trains daily plus special trains.
Abound in rich agricultural lands suitable for diversified farming and fruit raising without irrigation. Cheap grazing lands available and northern Idaho hosts the largest body of white pine in the United States. Eastern Washington features Palouse wheat fields and Bend country. Mining camps in Coeur d Alene and Bitter Root, plus Rossland and Republic districts, offer markets for farmers and fruit growers. For maps write W. Mott, Gen Emigration Agent, Northern Pacific Ry, St. Paul. Also ads note low fare trips and world-wide travel from Washington to Des Moines, Iowa fairs, Yellowstone visits, and Paris. Agents carry White Star, Red Star, American Line tickets. F. E Stewart, Agent.
Morning crowds gather for the Columbus Junction fair races and attractions. Washington horses Miss Pat and Marthard enter tomorrow with high hopes after Tipton results. Notables leaving for the event include J A Lord and wife, Chas Clifton, Frank Caine, and others.
West Chester residents Miss L P Jackson and daughter Miss Mable along with Mrs W M Fitzwilliam join sister Miss Valquardson in Chicago for a short visit. Others travel to Kansas City Ames Des Moines and Davenport for work visits and family.
Mrs Harland and her son from north of the city traveled to Des Moines this morning. A gathering of old settlers occurred yesterday and the meeting is tentatively set for October 3. The notice ends with a local advertising plug for Golden Rod coffee.
Wants lost and found note announces rooms for rent suitable for office space or living quarters and invites inquiries at this office.
Early morning sheriff and deputies raided Kalona depots two restaurants and a drug store seizing health drink cider beer whiskey and wine cases jugs and bottles total haul stored for trial. The so called health drink known as slush is believed to be a beer substitute.
A Globe columnist challenges eastern stereotypes of the plains as violent and lawless. He notes his decades of travel across the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia found no such desperadoes, claiming western life feels safer than urban Clark Street nights.
A Wayland youth allegedly abducted visiting town girls, bringing them into town where they were undressed and driven around the square, leaving them flustered but reportedly smiling. Local residents Mrs Shaffer and Mrs Monzingo returned home, while others departed on travels or reported illnesses. Uncle Billy Moore’s health improves and W Gunn of Fort Scott reportedly broke a leg, delaying work. The Okomo Havana cigar advertised for sale by dealers.
Trumbull White recounts a baptism at the Church of St. David in Tiflis Russia where a 4 to 5 week old infant was immersed three times in a Greek rite. An elderly priest, noting the font’s cold water, secretly warmed the bath with hot water from a samovar. The baby endured the three plunges without a murmur and was praised for his spirit.
The piece argues Sunday was not puritanically observed in the past. It recalls Queen Victoria’s era when aristocrats held regular card parties and city-wide concerts and receptions were announced in The Morning Post, contrasting then with now.
Fort Dodge Iowa August 29 A remarkable coroner jury verdict finds laborer John G Augquist died of chronic blood poisoning from a foot scratch five years earlier. The inquest notes the unusual diagnosis and draws commentary from physicians. Philadelphia August 29 E F Lummis of Chicago jailed awaiting Illinois requisition for trunk theft of jewelry worth $600, defense cites wrong trunk and misdelivered load.
Des Moines Iowa reports 40000 attendees on the second day of the state fair. The total through gates yesterday reached about 80000 as exhibitors finalize setups and judges begin awarding today.
George Greville, long serving British minister resident at Bangkok since 1896, is named British minister to Mexico succeeding Sir Henry Deering who moves to Rio de Janeiro. In Iowa Fayette Dr. K F Green of this town, offered chair of economics at Oberlin college, will resign current post. Myron B Spencer, embezzler of 6500 dollars from Barber Asphalt, paroled by Governor Shaw after five years in prison.
Chicago market reports show grain and dairy prices with G A R parade affecting closure. Butter eggs live stock cattle hogs sheep and lamb prices listed with quoted ranges from Chicago East Buffalo St Louis and Milwaukee markets.
The report denies a U S ship at Tangiers aiding a Morocco claim. An Italian anarchist is arrested in Carana suspected of plans on King Victor Emmanuel II. Four Chicago crisis reports, poisons and asphyxiation. France has many streams stocked with American bass. Paris expo prizes awarded to A A Michelson Chicago University. Public panic feared after expo closing. France and Germany accuse English atrocities in South Africa.
The Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway portrays its role as an engaged community partner. New lines extend from Worthington to Hardwick, and from Germania toward Faribault with steel laid since July, while towns like Reading Wilmot Lismore Kenneth Rake and Walters emerge as dairy districts attract pioneers and businesspeople to build estates and gain opportunities.
The Iowa Central Railway offers Home Visitors Excursions to Indiana Ohio and Louisville Kentucky with round trip fares under one fare. Tickets go on sale September 3 4 10 11 18 19 26 27 1900 and return must be used within 30 days. Contact Geo S Batty G P T A at Marshalltown Iowa for details and schedules.
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