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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
5
Unsettled weather predictions for Iowa include rain this evening and Sunday with warmer near term and cooler conditions in the west Sunday. Local society items report travel to Chicago for stock shows visits to Ainsworth and Keota, and multiple stops at the Vienna bakery.
Alfalfa cow feed promoted by McCall Bros. studio ads and travels in town. Various residents from Ainsworth, West Chester, Morning Sun visit, and a public sale for a 200 acre farm 114 miles southwest of Titus with stock and implements listed. A typhoid update and a family visit near North Platte noted.
Two hundred miners are said to be entombed after a blast two miles inside the Braceville coal mine. The death toll is unknown and heavy losses are feared. A Federal Rescue Crew has been dispatched.
Explanatory verse notes money is hard to get and that nearly everyone is in debt with a humorous, reflective tone about finance and hustle.
First Baptist invites all to Bible school at 9 30 with announcements on Christmas. Morning service at 11 o clock and evening service at 7 o clock with the pastor preaching both. Morning theme King of Kings and evening theme A Tried Faith Versus Tried Gold. Young People’s hour at 6 and midweek meeting Wednesday at 7 30. Homey church extends cordial welcome.
A plainsman tale describes buffalo chips used as fuel by a prospector. He traveled with a wagon and mules carrying pine planks to chop into edible fire blocks for cooking bacon tea or coffee through careful management.
In a quiet September at a Westport village inn, reclusive Mr. Guy Ascott and aloof Miss Helen Asher heat up with mutual suspicion. Aiding gossip, the landlord and wife stage a whistling ruse as the pair, kept apart by manners and mood, unexpectedly spark a moonlit bond and deflect the tale toward romance.
Two guests at a secluded inn fear suspicion grows as Miss Asher suspects a fugitive may be hiding there while Mr Ascot accuses her of crime. A theft of fifty dollars and a missing diamond ring heighten tensions as the landlord denies responsibility and offers only casual remarks.
An exploration of why oceans display various colors from blue to green and black. Notes Mediterranean and Caribbean seas as true blue, cites evaporation and salinity, reports yellow river plumes, black seas off California, red Sea algae tint, Yellow Sea mud and organisms, and latitude related color shifts from azure to green.
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