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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
4
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Storewide sale advertises twenty five percent discount on holiday items. Limited time promotion urges shoppers to visit the shop for reduced prices and seasonal stock.
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with possible showers or snow flurries in the east. Warmer tonight in the east and central portions, cooler Thursday.
Local news items list open session programs at Academy Chapel and Magnet and Aurora Literary societies for December 3. Community members Bonnie, Hays, and Dougherty are noted with travel and health updates. Gym classes begin at the Commercial Club house with no charge this week and instructions for attire, while several residents visit or return home from nearby towns.
Rev W S Gardner of Moulton Iowa visited his parents in town this week and Mrs J W Eye stone of Mt Vernon is expected. The Ladies Aid meets at Mrs John Romine's home. County Fair attendance reached 38. Miss Elsie Snider and Ert Filmer of Kalona visited the Durst home. Florence Gardner Mary Trieschmann and Grettna Crane attended the fair and stayed with Mrs D H Tipton. Lois Likens and son and Mrs Eliza McDonald of Washington visited B A McDonald’s.
Mrs J W Maxwell and Mrs Watt visit from Washington at Elia Proudiit's home. Ed Davidson leaves for Davenport for an Implement Dealers convention. Elizabeth Vesey and Will Arthaud family visit Washington. Joe Nebel travels to Washington. John Wooley and Etta return to Cedar Falls from Thanksgiving. W H Rippley of Burlington in town. Nina Clark returns from Washington. R O Ruggles travels from Winfield to Cedar Falls for school with Prof Albert W Graham. Mrs R O Cunningham is reported unwell. J J Grimm visits Rev Crozier at Presbyterian meetings.
The Iowa Society of Yale College is started with 35 undergraduates. Robert Walker elected president. Notables include Senator Allison Secretary Shaw and Senator Dolliver. Members plan to visit their Iowa homes at Christmas.
The World’s Work notes a progression of odds for achievement: an uneducated child has 1 in 150 000 to distinguish. a common school education raises it nearly fourfold. high school boosts the common school child’s odds 23 times. college elevates the high school student’s chances ninefold, yielding 219 times the common school child and over 800 times the untrained.
A stern dominie asks Johnnie if he knows the wages of sin in a moral vignette. The fragment emphasizes consequence and discipline within a religious classroom scene. The text presents dialogue highlighting conscience and duty.
A brief quoted exchange shows John asking if tying a can to a dog's tail is a sin. He replies it is and adds he does not want wages for it, claiming he is doing it for fun.
A dialogue from the Philadelphia Press shows Tess delaying a marriage proposal, insisting the suitor wait until tomorrow while chatting about impatience. A Petoskey Lyre quip notes the fountain works only because the water is supplied.
Special land buyers excursions to Greer County Oklahoma and other Southwest lands run in November and December via the Frisco System. Prospective purchasers can acquire fertile farming lands at one fourth to one tenth the cost of eastern or northern lands with favorable acre for acre reductions. For details and railroad rates contact R S Lemon Secretary Frisco System Immigration Bureau St Louis Mo.
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