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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1905
Page
5
Friends may view the body tomorrow afternoon at the Presbyterian church between 2 15 and 2 30 o clock. The funeral service is scheduled for 2 30 o clock.
Washington residents have not received Chicago mail due to a wreck beyond Roeck Island. Details of the wreck are unavailable. A stub No 3 departed Rock Island today and arrived four hours after the regular No 3. The Branch left for Knoxville as scheduled, not waiting for the late No 3.
Evening services at the Plains M E church run daily at 7 15 except Saturday with topics Responding to the Voice of God Harvest What about the Reapers The Graham hosts a new comedy Opera Tuesday evening praised for its music wit and humor and its appeal to lovers of amusement.
At a ranch near Bliss Oklahoma Joe Miller aims to train two young buffalo bulls to pull a wagon for visiting National Editorial Association delegates. After a perilous session with ropers and harnessing the animals, one buffalo chest collapsed and died within a corral, leaving Miller hopeful yet wary about taming buffaloes for driving.
A tale for little folks features Bruin the bear and Grandpa learning the moral "can't have your cake and eat it too" as Bruin eats honey from a jar despite promises. The story closes with a question about the lesson and references a Pittsburg Dispatch anonymous note on labor, crops, and regional development.
The article argues the Russian emperor is a puppet controlled by Grand Dukes Vladimir and Sergius with Vladimir the effective ruler. It notes his commanding role in St Petersburg suppressing a revolt and calls him the real czar while the South's Great Year discusses a record cotton harvest surpassing global output.
A London firm built a miniature electric train for a dinner guest, a silver copper replica of a Great Western locomotive with a coal tender from the owner’s mine. Two dolls in blue oversee it as guests lift decanters, stopping the train when movement breaks the circuit on a five foot track for a twenty foot table.
In Washington county Iowa a petition by Elizabeth A White Clara M Guthrie and Maggie Van Atta seeks quiet title to a described real estate in section fourteen township seventy five north range seven west including parts of the northwest and southwest quarters and the east half of the northwest quarter and other parcels. Unknown claimants and all defendants are notified that unless they appear by March 1 1905 default will be entered and judgment rendered. The case is assigned to Judge Boott with publication in the Evening Journal Washington Iowa for six weeks.
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