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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1908
Page
8
Pat Smith left this morning. McCaleb of Cope Jol is Pat the J Mayer home blin. Mr Mayer and Mr K were city visitors today. Jas McDowell accompanies Pat on a visit with her daughter.
The fragment lists travel fares and routes including trips to Denver Colorado Pueblo Salt Lake City Helena Billings Basin Worland and related returns with prices such as 42.50 and 00 and dates March 3 and 17.
Bettie Helm sometimes called Birdie and later Mildred Allen worked for three months on the Falls City steamship between Jeffersonville and Kentucky river ports under male guise. Discovered female, she was arrested and identified as Helm. She had lived as a man for seven to eight years and worked in mines, freight cars, a Louisville saloon, and traveled with a companion. Her employers reportedly regretted losing a capable worker.
Vincennes Indiana February 4 Patrolman Henry Neiters remains at the point of death after an operation to remove a bullet lodged between his carotid artery and jugular vein. The weapon discharged when he slipped on an ice covered city hall steps causing a bullet to injure his thumb coat lapel and jawbone.
Ole Oleson of Morrisonville occupied the Concord church near Hopedale, played the organ and scattered the books and cushions. He refused to leave until subdued by officers and is believed to be insane.
Peoria reports Martin Brophy and John Bauer ages twenty two and twenty three were sentenced to fourteen years in Joliet penitentiary for the murder of Floyd Churchill last October in Princeville.
Washington February 4 Reverend Frank M Bristol pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Church attended by President McKinley is recovering after an ornament fell from above the pulpit striking him on the head. He fell unconscious during the service but officials feared more serious injury.
An advertisement claims one day cure for a cold using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. It promises a refund if it fails and features a signature on each box indicating authenticity.
Public sale at residence sixty four miles southeast of Washington and twenty four miles southwest of Havre on Thursday February six nineteen hundred eight at eleven in the morning. Seven head of horses including a bay mare in foal and two-year-olds, thirty three cattle with milch cows and calves, sixty five hogs with brood sows and shoats, thirty five sheep, about five hundred bushels of corn and straw. Terms credit over ten dollars with note, cash under ten dollars, six percent discount for cash, notes accrue seven percent if overdue. Kennedy lunch. J A McCoy clerk, Joe McGinnis.
The tale recounts Hiawatha's journey with Nokomis to a maple grove where they harvest sap and create sugar using bark dishes. Nokomis teaches, Hiawatha learns prudent labor, and the couple settles by a river and forest. The myth explains how maple sugar first came to be.
Malcolm McDowell portrays an unusual fluor spar mine with a narrow inclined shaft, spotless crystalline bore, clear water, bell-like air drill vibrations, and pure air free of carbonized gases, offering a hazardless mining environment.
The fragment presents a playful fable style exchange where an elephant chides a stork for awkward dining, inviting the stork to use a fork and cooperate at the table. It reads as a whimsical moral vignette about etiquette and manners.
A Hindoo rajah's daughter is born with a magical golden necklace that grants life to a dead princess when restored. A prince finds a jeweled slipper, seeks its owner, and marries her. A rival wife steals the necklace, the princess dies, and a serving maid reveals the truth. The necklace returns the princess to life and happiness with the prince.
A man earns 10 from the horse deal by buying back at 80 and selling at 100 while 90 sale plus 80 buyback equals a 10 profit. A neighbor passes counterfeit bill totaling 10. shoe seller loses 4 cost plus 6 cash kept by boy, total loss 10.
A simple science setup uses a horseshoe magnet mounted between two posts. A pasteboard box lid covers the box and steel shavings are scattered on top. When spun, the shavings form circulating rings drawn between magnets.
A playful verse warns children of Jack Frost's visit as he nips toes and reddens cheeks. The poem personifies frost as a baby who will grow into Mr. Snowman, implying cold weather to come.
The monthly school report notes no kindergarten conducted in January. Attendance and punctuality reach new highs due to favorable weather. The South School loses the banner to the Centennial, and Miss Stichter's room will retain it for a month.
OCR fragment lists individuals including George H. Paul Joseph Klopfenstein W Brookhart Ed Klopfenstein J L Brookhart R L Coulter D Teuscher ee J Dawson Davip Mclaughlin J Cocklin and others. no clear context or events provided.
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