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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
5
Special to The Evening Journal reports a weather forecast for Iowa. Tonight includes rain or snow flurries in the east and central portions with warmer conditions there. Saturday is expected to bring warmer temperatures in the east and central regions.
A claim praises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for piles and other injuries, selling for 25 cents at J. H. Stewart’s druggist. The notice also mentions Mrs. L. A. Woos visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Shenefelt and departing for Ainsworth.
A compact summary of local life detailing accidents deaths births and marriages reported promptly by our news gatherers with a focus on community events and daily occurrences.
A dense list of neighbors and relatives traveling and visiting in Washington appears. Mrs. M. Hartwick, Mr. L. Cocklin, Miss Ella Laird, and many others are noted visiting family homes or attending events in nearby towns. A birth is reported for H. B. Barrow, and several residents travel to Davenport, Muscatine, Iowa City, and Chicago.
Miss Mattie Menefee departs for a week with her parents near Wapelo Iowa. Frank Brinton visited in Washington on Wednesday. Union Thanksgiving services were held at the Christian church led by Rev Weigh from the M E church. Mrs Tracy has been ill but shows signs of improvement. Fr L Robinson visits friends in Richland this week.
Nov 29. Mrs. Lewis Hess and Miss Glee Andrews of Frendale spent Sunday at J W Cupp home. A M Wray remains housebound but plans to be in the drug store soon. Misses Carmen Vera Hull and Myrtle Snider spent Sunday at George Liebig home Route 2. P J Jackson and wife, Wm Jackson and family joined Mr and Mrs Homer Jackson for Sunday dinner at L E Edmondson home. Mrs E Louck and Earnest left for Hunpewell Mo to visit her father James Tansey.
Nov 27 social notices show gatherings in the area with Mr and Mrs Vitus Hisch and others visiting Wm Taylor and Pekin visitors in the neighborhood. A Springfield report notes stock broker John H Croney hanged himself after drinking poison amid debt worries and his hospitalized wife after a second appendectomy.
A massive gas explosion in the Humble oil field near Kingston, Texas, opened a 100 foot diameter crater. A derrick and machinery building fell into the gap while escaping gas created a volcanic looking disturbance.
In Havana on November 20 the rural guards hunt insurgents in the western districts with no developments yet. Restlessness is noted in other areas but no overt acts are reported.
New York on November 20 reports 23 year old George Acker man pleaded guilty to illegal voting at the city and county section. He was sentenced to not less than fourteen months at the Imira Reformatory. He admitted voting twice.
Police raid on a large pool room on East Eighth Street ends with arson fire. About forty arrestees and workers trapped in a five story building must be rescued as panic erupts and a smoke filled room reveals burned evidence.
Oconomowoc Wisconsin November 30 Edwin Hurlbut editor of the Wisconsin Free Press and one of the oldest writers in the state is dead age 83 Death attributed to old age.
Denver Colorado senator Thom as M Patterson was fined $1,000 and costs by the state supreme court for contempt of court.
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