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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1910
Page
3
Delegates from Iowa commercial clubs and chambers of commerce gather in Des Moines to discuss a state boosters association and a proposed annual Iowa homecoming week with simultaneous celebrations in towns and cities across the state.
Hearing in Chicago in the Illinois Central graft case against Frank Harriman Charley Ewing and John Taylor resumes. Witness Theophile Reuther testifies Osterman president Henry Osterman threatened to kill him to stop disclosure of a $1,000,000 car repair fraud. Missing papers tied to the scam surfaced with other fraud proof.
In Sullivan Indiana on August 30 Charles Burton a 27 year old mule driver shot and killed August Staples 32 during a dispute over a lost quarter in a crap game on the sidewalk in front of the company store. Witnesses include about a dozen coal miners. Burton fled and has not yet been captured.
New York police search for two young women who attacked broker Michael Plunkett on his uptown porch at midnight. Using umbrellas they beat him until unconscious. one umbrella gouged out his right eye.
Roscoe Kenny a 21 year old man was dangerously injured in Lafayette Indiana when speeding down Ninth Street hill his motorcycle collided with a street car and the handlebar pierced his body.
Boston August 30 Dr J Wilbur Chapman renowned evangelist and Miss Mabel Cornelia Moulton of Boston will marry today at the bride's mother's home in Kimwood near Providence The bride also serves as an evangelist and will continue field work with her husband after their honeymoon on Long Island followed by a world evangelistic tour.
The ad claims superior quality and lower prices for diamonds compared with city offerings. It promises savings to customers and asserts prior buyers saved money, inviting comparison with competitors. G. W. Hobson advertises from North Side Square.
A collage of humor from early 20th century papers includes retirement schemes between a father and son, rural observations on twins and a proud father, a typewriter applicant with a nontraditional path, a coal merchant weighing church membership, a London board school pun on ability, and a camping note that ends with a quip about Roosevelt and neutrality.
Glasgow reports the coroner's jury found Lady Majorie Erskine died from exposure and privation after going missing for a month. Her body was found on the Craigellachie rocks near Aviemore with money and papers, amid stormy weather and unclear movements including a railto Kinustie hotel contact.
An advertisement claims Ruckien's Arnica Salve instantly relieves burns cuts scalds wounds and more including sores ulcers boils felons eczema and chapped hands. It urges readers to try it and notes 25 cents at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Abrah am Fr. Watson a Frankfort musician wed Miss Louise Honan of Lebanon in an auto outside Central Christian church in Lebanon. Rev L K Brown officiated.
In a whimsical moment, Joe riffs on a joke while Mrs. Miller-Why weighs the risk of crossing. The punchline lands only if the aid rooster leads, ending a playful bug in a country road scene.
Indianapolis mayor states a conspiracy by council members and brewers to impeach him and appoint a successor. An ongoing probe seeks who tipped saloon men to receive Sunday openings, while the mayor denies giving any tip.
An English physician with many circulating stories may not be unsympathetic. A repentant anecdote seems to shape him as a specialist on various mental disturbances and thefts, including spasms.
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