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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1903
Page
10
Estray a black male pig weight 150 from southeast part of town. Leave word at Journal office 67-21 For Sale six Aberdeen Angus bull calves R P Bradford 62 tt For Sale one Percheron stallion and two three year old colts See H F mene tf For Rent five living rooms Inquire at the Journal office 64 tf
A study notes women show preferred ages from eighteen to twenty four with counts favoring twenty and eighteen, while younger and older ages skew male or female differently. The piece cites census patterns and claims peculiarities in age distribution and health perceptions.
A Collier's Weekly writer notes Yankee Doodle dates to Oliver Cromwell's time, crossed oceans with the Puritans, and evolved from Nankee Doodle to Yankee Doodle as a taunt of Cavaliers toward New Englanders. The tune accompanied colonial scenes from muskets hidden in manure to marches at Concord and Lexington.
A biographer notes Galileo angered Urban VIII by placing in Simplicio's mouth an argument Urban himself devised. Galileo was charged not for supporting heliocentrism but for making Urban feel mocked, with Urban already a Copernican ally as cardinal and pope.
Record shows 414000 British miners with 1100 deaths annually from work hazards and 5500 injured. The data underline peril in the mining industry and demand safety improvements.
Jenetta Macomber, 19, and her lover Leon Wynne scheme to claim a California fortune via lawyer Cahoon. After a staged inheritance ruse, they marry aboard a ship to Rio, elude Cahoon, and secure the estate. Cahoon vanishes, leaving his offices behind.
The Kansas City Star notes West African peasant women and girls walking forty miles to market with heavy loads of bananas yams sugar and tobacco. They outwork men who sleep at home while women receive 18 cents a day vs 24 cents for men. The scene highlights gendered labor and wage practices on a coffee estate.
A West Indian housewife living in the jungle easily maintains daily chores. Fruit and vegetables grow around her hut while fish swim the river. She uses soap berries for washing, calabashes for bowls and jugs, lime leaves for tea, sugar cane juice to sweeten, coconut milk, and banana leaves for mats.
Colchester’s famed Oyster Feast is a prestigious town event with unlimited supply of top quality natives. Historic notes cite Roman fame and a charter under Richard I granting exclusive rights to the fisheries, and Elizabeth era courts receiving oysters as gifts.
A Victorian-era anecdote notes a wealthy Melbourne butcher challenging a chief secretary who compared the opposition leader to Nero. The exchange centers on the question who Nero was and ends with the secretary defining Nero as a celebrated Roman butcher.
A man carried a friend labeled Gun into a Ottawa police court. He explained Gun was loaded and the judge discharged Gun. The humorous incident appeared in the next day's papers Haworth Natural Gas.
A Chicago Tribune quip reports a man failing to balance dignity with a comic mishap from orange peel. He accepts the moment with growing philosophy, noting a dignity clash and a humorous self awareness.
A humorous line from Harper’s Bazar shows a clerk asking if a charge is to be made and a lady replying yes, noting her husband has just lost his position. The exchange satirizes social expectations surrounding finances and status.
A Milwaukee Sentinel quotation notes that men who take things without gratitude and move on without regret tend to be the most successful in life. The aphorism frames success as a result of indifferent possession and detachment.
The Misses Millie and Mary Mc Atlin visited Havre then returned home. Mr and Mrs E G Fox and family spent Christmas at Mrs John Davis in Brighton. Fred Gaston went back to Des Moines after a few days with the Dewey family. Louis Wolfe, Rock Island lunch counter manager at Columbus Junction, visits his West Washington home. Fred Reid's driving horse slipped near Wm Peamer’s residence Friday injuring its left hind hoof. bleeding occurred but the horse is not harmed.
In the District Court of Washington County Iowa a 1904 petition by Ht F Stewart Mery and others seeks to quiet title to Lot one in Assessor Sub-Division out lot eight and out lots nine and ten in Southwest Washington. Plaintiffs claim fee simple ownership by record title and twenty years open continuous possession. Defendants and unknown claimants warned to answer by January 5 1904 or face default and decree. The petition asks for reform of deeds mortgages releases and other instruments and for full equitable relief. Attorneys S W J L Brook Harrer represent plaintiffs. The judge ordered publication in the Evening Journal for six weeks.
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