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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1907
Page
8
A special Henry County Board report on 37 years of clerk Frank G. Welton’s service found no public funds shortage, though it cites disorderly management and numerous accounting errors. The recount followed rumors of a $20 000 shortage and was released after Welton’s death.
Trustees of the Teacher's College report large gifts totaling about 1 million dollars. Funds will aid equipment and build a domestic economy school while completing the 1 million endowment. John D. Rockefeller contributed 250 000 dollars to the fund.
Charlotte Mich Feb 23 M Chas Fivegett son of Attorney George Huggett of this place who was private secretary to Representative William Alden Smith for four years has been maimed for the same position with Senator Smith Huggett attended Columbian university while in Washington and was graduated about three years ago
London February 23 The house of commons approved the second reading by 268 to 34 votes for the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wifes sister. This marks the eighteenth time the measure has cleared the second reading with a prospect it may become law in the current parliament session.
Tinianapolis February 23. The conference of labor leaders led by President Giompers of the AFL decided the federation will lend moral support to the quarry workers union and that Building Trades at Pittsburg should be more closely organized.
In New York on February 28 Sutro Brothers Co. reports recovery of stock worth specified value after a messenger misplaced them. A nameless man found the package on Pine Street and returned it to the Stock Exchange house.
Dan Wel Hall was sentenced to one year in Jackson on bigamy charges filed by his wife. He had married Melissa while his first wife lived nearby and allegedly used foster parents' names and his real name to marry a second time.
An epidemic of grip has swept the Iowa soldiers home at Marshalltown with over 200 veterans admitted. About 100 are sick in quarters. The hospital lists 151 men and fifteen women. The sick include Commandant C. Holton and Chief Surgeon Duttend.
Waco telegram reports William Welch 62, Confederate veteran, arrested on custody in Atlanta as the man who fired the first shot in the major white riot there months ago. Sheriff Georges Wiley holds Welch in Atlanta custody.
The article outlines Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a glycerine extract from native medicinal roots aimed at curing weak stomach indigestion biliousness and liver torpor. It promotes endorsements from medical books and offers free mailed information while cautions that no medicine cures consumption in advanced stages.
A Chicago Inter Ocean note explains a simple illusion: breathe on a polished glass to reveal faint traces of a drawn face or name, or a coin’s imprint after breathing then vanish when wiped. Explanation cites condensation of vapor on dust particles, not magic.
In Carpenteria Valley California a Spanish woman Joquin Lugodi Ayala planted a grape twig in 1842 that grew into the world’s largest grapevine. The ground trunk is ten feet in circumference and the girth five feet above ground is seven feet eleven inches. The hidden trellis spans 100 by 110 feet covering about a quarter acre.
The collection originated partly in Persia, partly in India, and partly in Arabia. It was perfected in Persia after Caliph Haroun al Raschid's era. Europeans learned of the tales in 1704 via Galland, with an English edition by Dr Edward Lane in 1838.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune notes the approach of autumn with a playful verse urging caution around stairs heads and pails. The column by Jim Juglets retells seasonal mishaps to remind readers to watch their footing as fall arrives.
In a shady wood the forgetmenot warns the proud iris of a coming wind. The iris breaks, the fairy queen restores the iris and grants the forgetmenot love and beauty, placing a diamond drop on its heart as reward for selfless restraint.
A Colorado child blew a bubble in 14 degrees below zero and watched it freeze into a hollow ice sphere on the snow. The bubble did not freeze when temperatures rose to zero, leaving investigators unsure if humidity or warming air affected the outcome. The boy’s father seeks to know if freezing bubbles is possible in less dry eastern latitudes.
The piece describes a party game where players sit in a circle or two rows and take turns naming adjectives in alphabetical order. Start with A using original adjectives, then proceed through B C and so on, with variations like The doctor's dog.
A simple home method allows both girls and boys to transfer a rose leaf’s color to paper. Place the leaf on white paper, cover with linen dampened in spirits of water, press in a blank book for a week, and the leaf’s color transfers to the paper for a durable impression.
Iowa Central offers special second class settlers tickets every Tuesday in March and April to Minnesota North and South Dakota and Canada. Agents list rates and addresses. A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn. Also an ad for Preventics cold cure tablets at 5 and 25 cents promising to head off colds and related illnesses. Sold by J H Stewart.
Iowa Central announces sale of one way tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of January through March to points in Nebraska and surrounding states. Tickets cost only $2.00 more than half fare to aid homeseekers and settlers. agents or A B Cutts in Minneapolis will provide details.
If constipated dull or bilious or have a sallow complexion try Lax-ets once to see their effect. They are toothsome candy tablets with no griping or pain, offering a gentle laxative effect. Handy for pocket or purse, sold by J. H. Stewart in lithographed metal boxes for 5 or 25 cents.
Washington reports show Democrats nationwide oppose government ownership of railways with only a few open to the idea if regulation fails. John Sharp Williams leads opposition in the house against the policy while Republicans fear stalled business as Congress nears end. The piece notes looming billion dollar appropriations and plans to redesign U S gold coins within a year with Liberty emblems and the motto Ex Pluribus Unum.
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