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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1905
Page
2
A. M. Downing of Keokuk arrived on the Firefly and called on his trace in the city. Vienna Druggist Rhinert of Keota visited the city en route to Cedar Rapids for business. Geo. Barrett returned from Oskaloosa after a business trip.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska denounced graft among high public officials during a Sunday address on character building to a large Y M C A audience in Marshalltown Iowa. He urged resignations for disgraced senators and tied politics to religion, saying both should be pure. He spoke at the Methodist church earlier Sunday.
A chaotic bargain sale drew more than 500 women from town and county to a Tonia shop where ten cent goods sold out quickly. Police required aid to restore order as shoppers fought, knocked over displays, and blocked the street before doors were closed and buyers held at the exit to pay for items.
Prince Min, Korean minister to France, met with Secretary Toot in Washington for nearly an hour to relay Korea’s plight under Japanese oversight. He implied Korea seeks continued U S recognition while noting relations will be conducted through Japan, and plans to return to France soon.
In Des Moines on December 12 two petitions from physicians and pharmacists circulate for signatures and will be turned into bills for the upcoming Iowa legislative session. The pharmacists urge prohibiting doctors from compound ing prescriptions citing misadventure risk. The physicians seek to bar druggists from coup ter prescribing and limit patent medicine recommendations.
At a Des Moines presbytery meeting in Chariton plans were approved for a new Elmwood charge church and its parsonage. The parsonage will be at Thirty-fifth and Cottage Grove costing about 3500 while the church itself is about 12000. Old Second United Presbyterian will reorganize into Elmwood with Sixth and Center streets sold to fund the new buildings.
Thomas A Ballantine, a mining promoter arrested in Denver while boarding for the West, was indicted by Pekin grand jury on charges of obtaining over 600 by selling mining stock falsely represented. Pekin seeks a requisition to secure trial. Ballantine willing to return without one. New ton. Dougherty, jailed for embezzling school funds, held 30,000 stock. Snake Among the Bananas. A banana packer in Tennersville found a three foot boa constrictor in a bunch but kept it after discarding the fruit. Death by self. Ellen Nystrom, 17, committed suicide in Menominee over a love affair.
New York Geographical Union No 6 guarantees $100,000 in assessments to continue the eight hour fight. Charles L. Yerkes appeals to police to guard his $75,000 bronze fence from vandals.
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