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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1910
Page
5
Dr Henry Prentice Armsby proposes a shift to human consumption of grain and feeding cattle on coarse fodder or byproducts. Using a calorimeter on a State College steer, he claims this could cut 45 percent of daily food use and lower meat and dairy costs.
Herbert John Gladstone, former secretary of state for home affairs and governor general of United South Africa, accepts a peerage his father William Ewart Gladstone twice declined. Born 184 at 12 Downing Street, educated at Eton and Oxford, he held key posts and led the Liberal party as chief whip and home affairs secretary. He married Dorothy Paget in 1901 and enjoys golf and yachting at his London home 9 Buckingham Gate and country estate Sandycroft.
A Brooklyn widow asked a magistrate to tell her civil war veteran husband the war is over. The man confessed his nightly drum parades and rebel yell while wearing a Grand Army hat, saying he only does it when drunk. The court discharged him on his promise to forget the war.
Willie Laffen a fourteen year old errand boy from 98 Ryerson Street Brooklyn wowed a Broad Street crowd in New York City with a cornet voice that sounded like a B flat horn. He drew about a thousand observers and was escorted away by a policeman.
Charles J. Glidden famed globe trotter and balloonist plans a May photo mission to Halley’s comet from the Massachusetts and Springfield balloons. He will fly with Harvard’s Professor E B Pickering and other astronomical authorities to attempt three mile altitude observations and capture possibly valuable photographs if weather cooperates.
Earl Grey appoints Howard Brockway, a Brooklyn native and composer, as judge for Canada’s Earl Grey musical and dramatic competitions open to all, with events lasting one week across the country.
Jacob Slupsky the capitalist philanthropist plans a $200000 bakery in North St Louis. Bread will cost 8 cents per loaf with a claimed profit of 1.44 dollars per loaf.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Republican national convention in Chicago that nominated Abraham Lincoln will be celebrated by the Lincoln League of Illinois in Chicago on May 16 17 and 18.
The principals in the Nelson Wolgast bout in Richmond are reported to be below weight after training. Weather menace looms for the outdoor arena as betting runs brisk with Nelson favored though Wolgast has strong support.
Frank I. Craig was shot and killed by his 11 year old son Al in Childress Texas. The father angrily chased Ruth Hamlin, 18, seized her by the hair, dragged her and threatened to slit her throat before the boy fired the shotgun into his father’s face.
Venice February 22 two boys Robert Hagnaur and Charles Rheyerson took off their coats and waved down a cattle train traveling fifty miles an hour to avert a collision with wrecked Wabash freight. The train halted within fifty feet of the damaged cars. The youths were en route to Sunday school when they spotted the danger.
McElhinney Drug Co advertises ZEMO as a clean external remedy for eczema and skin diseases. The ad claims rapid relief, home use, and safety for infants, promising to draw out germs and poisons for healed skin.
An old time prescription for darkening hair and promoting growth is offered as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur. The ready to use product is sold by druggists for 50c or 1.00 a bottle or via Wyeth Chemical Company, 74 Cortlandt St., New York City. Mc Elhinney Drug Co. recommends and sells it.
A public sale to quit farming. On Monday Feb 28 1910 at 10 am the Jane McCreedy farm sale lists 20 horses and 1 mule including several mares and foals with weights from 1200 to 1500 pounds. The farm is located 4 miles NW of Haskins 6 miles N of Ainsworth 8 miles S of Riverside and 11 miles NE of Washington.
A Cras Brown sale listing 10 head of cattle including 3 fresh cows and calves, 61 hogs with 21 brood sows, 8 Toulouse geese, and hundreds of farm implements. Draft bred horses and riding stock described, plus 700 bushels corn, 200 oats and wheat, 4–5 tons hay. Terms: ten months on sums over 10, cash under 10 with 6 percent discount. Auctioneers J R McCreedy and Crais Brown. Lunch on grounds.
I quit farming and will sell by public auction Friday Feb 25 1910 starting 11 a m on the A B Rogers farm north of Washington along the east Washington Richmond road. Lot includes horses cattle brood sows chickens wagons farm implements household goods and two Reo automobiles. Terms cash for small sums and credit 12 months with interest on larger totals. Auctioneers A B Rogers Obas Brown Clerk T Reynolds. Lunch on ground.
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