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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
8
In Hesse Nassau the Schwalm valley hosts an annual Christmas custom. Boys wear brimless cheese-box hats and kiltlike coats with white socks tied by black bows. Girls wear puffed skirts and pillbox hats with chin straps. They pair off in a formal choosing ritual before a vigorous outdoor dance, ending with a festive fruit line.
Uncle Henry praises Susie for improving in piano playing and promises a Christmas present for her hard work. The dialogue hints at family support and celebration of progress.
A Christmas era adaptation has Mother Hubbard welcoming a parade of famous characters who fill her cottage with food. The feast ends grimly as the hungry dog devours until death from abundance, delivering a moral to eat to live rather than live to eat.
A public sale listing calls for farm equipment livestock and crops at a Washington area farm on December 20 with detailed catalog and terms. A later court notice seeks to quiet title in a real estate dispute in Johnson County Iowa with deadlines for response and a judgment date in January 1999.
A New England town received a Christmas box addressed to Roy the collie. Inside was a large bone with red meat, sent by a girl who had briefly visited the town and grown fond of the dog. Roy’s friend sent a telegram thanking the girl for remembering Roy with holiday cheer.
A new three legged style of race is described where partners hop in place by grasping the raised left foot of the teammate. Girls and boys can compete with no tying involved, and the fastest hopper wins a Christmas gift as the prize.
Hannah H. Story files a petition in District Court Washington County Iowa seeking title to Lot 3 and a 26 foot strip off Lot 2 in Block 4 Southeast Washington. The case lists numerous defendants and unknown claimants claiming adverse interests to Story. The filing asserts Story holds fee simple title and possession for over twenty years and that clouds exist from other claims and potential transfers.
In the District Court of Washington County Iowa Ida M Edelstein petitions to quiet title on described real estate with unknown claimants, asserting long adverse possession by herself and five Edelstein defendants. Cross petitions by Frank W Edelstein and Louisa C Edelstein seek foreclosure of notes and mortgage against the land with Eaton Kerr deeds, warning all others to appear by January 1909.
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