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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1922
Page
8
Mrs. C. F. Beik of Wapello and Mrs. J. M. Green of Columbus Junction spent Saturday visiting their brother D. E. Zimmerman and returned home Saturday evening.
Mrs E and Ferensen came from Crawfordsville and will spend the day in town shopping. Tooman’s advertises a large cordovan travel bag for men at 27 50. Mr and Mrs Alvin Morrow and baby Jean left for Chicago after visiting J D Hays. Libe’s whipping cream is featured at Farmers Store. Miss Fila Waters visits Kinross for the weekend. Rose Goldner of Keota spends Saturday in Washington shop. Owen Grevan and baby Betty Francine go to Keota for weekend with Andersons.
Keota and Crawfordsville residents made regional trips to Washington for business and shopping while locals like Miss Cunningham and Mrs Bartholomew received visits and birthday acknowledgments. Nightly travel included Oates to Williamsburg and Iowa City meetings, with numerous short visits to relatives and shops noted around Washington.
Rural Route No. 3 reports a quiet planned surprise for Mr. and Mrs. Lew Kerr and family by the Jno Rittenhouse and neighbors. Local folk have inspected the spring wallpaper stock, praising new patterns and lower prices than last year.
Washington and Iowa react to Senator Kenyon's nomination to the federal bench with claims of political motive. Senator Kenyon cites ambition and friend support, while colleagues and state residents insist the move reflects service, not manipulation, and dismiss southern critics as partisan.
Fairfield February report on the State versus Wa J Steckel Bloomfield banker for false pretenses drawing large crowds. Venue moved from Davis county amid alleged prejudice. Jurors guarded at night after a remark by a lawyer. witness signaling noted and cautioned by Judge Cornell. Steckel, a cornertist donor of a Bloomfield church organ. Iowa case Hanshaw v Batavia upholds town defense under state compensation law.
Wilbur Voliva, leader of the Zion Christian Apostolic church, says the world is flat with a solid sky dome. He claims the sun is a small body about 40 miles in diameter located 3,000 miles away and derides science as foolish.
The text credits Thomas Wedgewood with early photography in 1802 and mentions a perfected process by 1841. It also references Daguerre and Nieper in 1830, describing the daguerreotype development and a dark room process.
The American Forestry Magazine states that the Attelope is an animal of open rolling country in Pisins and is never found in timber or mountains. There is no history of east of the Mississippi river and no fossil or subfossil evidence in the region.
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