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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1910
Page
7
A speaker notes that caring for babies is among the toughest labor. She recalls neighbors in a flat building scrubbing floors, peeling potatoes, washing, and ironing while maids attend babies in front parlors seeking sleep.
The article explains how coin sweating and electroplating fraud evolved from crude plug methods to sophisticated techniques. It details how gold coins are shaved, split, or altered via chemical baths, with precise detection measures at treasuries and by experienced handlers who examine minting details, weights, and surface flaws.
Dusty Rhodes jokes about being misread in a Pittsburg Post cartoon caption. He says he is studying social conditions, not geography, after thanking for a biscuit. The remark highlights local curiosity about interpretation and civic discourse.
The excerpt notes a dull social affair with Mr Flubb and Miss Clip remarking on ending it, reflecting a printed exchange in the Boston Transcript.
The axiom urges that faithfulness and sincerity be primary while friendships should align with one's own values. It emphasizes self-respect and principled stance over social ties without equality.
A guide to festive tree decoration using cheap items like crystal drops from old lamps, popcorn strings, metallic gilded nuts, colored ribbons, and simple fabric bags. It emphasizes imagination over expense and suggests safe, arctic themed touches with minimal cost.
A newspaper piece advocates early shopping for better temper and service. It cites a New York woman who proposes seven rules to complete gifts before Dec 1, finish a week before Christmas, shop mornings, carry parcels home, avoid delivery on purchase day, skip home approval, and not shop during lunch hours.
Morning at the Baptist church featured Miss Cooper of the Woman's American Baptist Home Missionary Society. Three Presbyterian meetings drew large crowds with music by Mr and Mrs Saxton. Rev Comin preached two sermons outlining steps to Christian experience and a program for mission support in Japan.
Instructions for creating a wall frieze stencil. Draw the diapered pattern on heavy paper, cut pieces with care, prepare with sizing or shellac in methylated spirit, mix color with varnish and turpentine, and apply with a stencil brush before mounting on walls.
Make a hollow ball from two wooden hoops placed at right angles and wired together. Fill with holly and frost berries. Add ribbons to suspend presents and hang from the ceiling so the ball can be raised when distributing gifts. A festive, inexpensive substitute for a Christmas tree.
Men with lacing that slips over the instep can ease discomfort by a simple method. Lace tightly to halfway, loop the laces again over the hooks, then finish lacing loosely. The double turn keeps the lower lacing tight while the upper portion stays loose.
Miss Cooper of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission society spoke at the Baptist Church about home missions among Negroes Indians and foreigners. She urged Gospel reach to lift people from ignorance and crime, and noted Indians in the youth group. The pastor cited Matt 11 2 and urged faith in Christ with emphasis on worship and service in a Japan relief Christmas drive.
Auction sale of Ab Anderson farm near Washington Iowa on December 15 at 11 am includes horses cattle hogs grains hay and implements with 12 month terms on notes over $10 cash under ten dollars. Plaintiffs Grecian Wilkin and Mary Blickensderfer seek to quiet title and remove unknown claimants by court order in Washington County Iowa with the next term starting January 3 1911.
On Friday December 9 sale of the Richardson estate items including livestock from a 3-year gray colt to 9 broad sows and 400 bushels corn. Tools and equipment listed with terms to be announced sale day. Administrators D. M. Denison and Auctioneer Austin Sutherland.
In the District Court of Washington County Iowa Grecia Wilkin and Mary Blickensderfer sue Abraham Miller Nellie Anderson A N Miller Sarah D Miller Jonathan H Wilson Thomas Miller and other listed defendants in a civil action seeking relief as individuals and in partnership. The notice outlines defendants names and involvement while signaling formal legal action and ensuing procedures.
The notice lists a set of symptoms including despondency fatigue weakness insomnia and irritability. It describes anxious mood restless nights and physical signs such as eye fatigue and facial blemishes indicating a general state of frailty and low energy.
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