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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1926
Page
8
Mr and Mrs C C Owen went to West Chester to attend the Methodist church New Years dinner. Arlene Herr traveled to Keota to visit her grandmother this morning.
John and Henry Steck return to Owasso Michigan to spend New Year with their mother Mrs H F Steck. Numerous locals travel for New Year visits including Jesse Miller acting as adjudicator at the Eisteddfod in Williamsburg and Fred West attending a T P A banquet in Burlington. Local residents make brief trips to Davenport Sigourney Crawfordsville Havre Wellman and Keota for family, hospital, or shopping visits.
The notice salutes James Lemley Dr. Tom Downing Asa Reid and Mrs. Wm A Cook on their birthdays and extends best wishes for a Happy New Year. It also sends cheerful wishes to all others celebrating ordinary day birthdays for a prosperous year ahead.
A stark survey traces Haiti and Santo Domingo from wealth and fertile lands to colonial conquest and repeated revolutions. It covers natural resources, early exploration, pirate era, slave uprisings, cannibalism and voodoo, and the pattern of coups that culminated in 1915 with American intervention.
The Manchester Guardian notes a divorce court witness who admitted his name was Jolly Death. Registries at Somerset House list many odd names such as Bodia Basher Happy Jiggins Hay stack Brown Anna Domini Davis Judas Iscariot Burton Ananias Cutting Odious Seaton Bovril Simpson Sardine Box Joscoe Ann Reynolds River Jordan Not Wanted Smith One-too-many Simpson.
Horses fitted with wooden snowshoe boards about a foot square strapped to their hooves. Used to haul materials over the Idaho to Montana mountain route for highway construction. Shoes kept them from sinking, reduced fatigue, and they learned to adapt quickly.
The piece previews a busy political year in Iowa with Republicans reorganizing for the 1926 primaries and elections while Democrats plan broader campaigns aimed at gaining legislative seats. It notes possible alliances between Progressive and Economy groups, highway funding fights, and potential candidacies for statewide offices including governor cabinet posts.
Local and long distance driving offered by Ross Taxi with night and day service. Phone number listed for contacts.
Ross Galloway of Waterloo and Millard Hornton of Lime Springs Iowa arrived last evening to visit friends Martha McCreedy and Grace Kane of Lake Andes South Dakota. Mr and Mrs G A Greiner and children went to Sigourney last night to visit relatives.
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