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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
2
Chicago markets report mixed to steady demand with varied receipts. Hogs show slow trading and prices around 7.40 to 7.59 for bulk, while cattle and sheep face declines vs prior close. yearlings and lambs command higher ranges, with western stock movements sizable.
Saturday only specials feature Rome Beauty Wagner King David and Grimes Golden apples at 1.10 per box or peck, plus priced pantry items like bushel crackers 59 cents and Crisco 25 cents. Local reader urged to phone orders or shop in person for strong value.
A fragment lists prices for corn oats hay and flour with unit details such as per sack per hundred and per 10 lb. The garbled OCR mentions bran and penal items implying a market pricing note for locally traded commodities.
A fragmentary OCR item references No 1 Turkeys and No 2 Turkeys, mentioning RAD Nace and vague phrases about waves or events, but the text is garbled and lacks definite facts or context.
The Washington Bruisers fell 37 to 14 in the matinee and 36 to 9 in the evening at Lone Tree. Dokes Clapper Anderson MacKachron Garard started the first game with Dokes at center and Clapper Anderson forwards. In the second game Youngblood center Dokes Clapper guards Anderson and MacEachron. Local players Hays Palmgren Brown did not travel. The club plans games at Columbus Junction and Davenport and reports strong practice progress.
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a man asking if wealth can be piled up and whether he truly has money to pursue a poultry venture. He reveals a plan to reassess if chicken business holds real money once he is financially secure.
A cartoonish exchange shows a Young Lady Art Student asking for camels hair brushes in a ten cent store. A salesman instructs Skie to fetch brushes ordered for circus people while offering a tooth brush, and the student questions the purpose, replying for the camel.
Public auction January 5 1913 at the E N Helwick farm six miles north of Washington and four miles south of Richmond on the Washington Richmond road. Items include twenty horses twenty six cattle hay grain farm machinery and a 200 acre farm for sale with ten months credit on sums over ten dollars at seven percent interest plus cash for small amounts. Lunch by Ladies Aid auctioneers Col Chas Brown Ramx Mrs E Helmick and Sam White.
A long-ago tale reveals Munson E. Pierpont, a Yale graduate and farmer’s son, became Edwards Pierrepont by adopting a middle name and aristocratic spelling after marrying a rich widow. Biographers mistook him for the 1837 classmate of William Evarts, and the joke endured until the truth emerged.
A soft-hearted tenant buys several rugs for his poverty-stricken landlady. She bills him weekly for room rent breakfast laundry and rug beating. He asks what the charges mean and she explains that extra rugs must be paid for, ending his altruistic ideals.
A fragmentary quote shows a tense marital dispute with the line that the speaker did or showed her husband every credit for important actions. The brief exchange highlights tension over recognition and authority within the relationship.
Fifty years ago near Fayettesville the Nineteenth Iowa fought a rough crossing at White River en route from Prairie Grove. Cavalry aided by Seventh Missouri regiments helped infantrymen cross after a cold, muddy ford while soldiers joked and remembered the Confederate cause. The account is attributed to J. W. Morton with additional notes from E. A. Hornbostel Jr. and others.
Walter Allen stars as Monty Brewster in Brewster's Millions at the Graham theater Friday January 3 with Catherine Cosgriff and a strong supporting cast. Curtain at 8 15. Tickets priced 25 50 75 and 1 00. The play follows Brewster's spent riches in a year long quest to spend a million dollars with a famed yacht scene and sea storm effects.
Washington patent attorneys Davis and Davis report Iowa recipients across several fields this week. J M Beech of Marshalltown receives a furnace regulator, R E Bushnell of Hubbard a kerosene oil generator, D S Cole of Washington a photo shutter, J F Gillespie and A Colbert of Des Moines a welding device, A E Hanson of Mason City a ditching machine.
New York Jan 2 United States Senator Root returns from Washington to aid Republican dinner preparations for Taft Saturday night. He will carry plans from various state leaders to rehabilitate the party under the Republican Speakers League of the United States. Leaders will converge in New York and Washington to shape a nationwide effort aimed at electing a Republican president three years hence.
The Davis funeral occurred yesterday at ten at the Davis residence on East Main with Rev. H. V. Comin and Rev. R. D. Hughes leading a Presbyterian service and a Knights Templar escort. Interment followed at Elm Grove cemetery with Knight Templar pallbearers. The Jacoby funeral took place yesterday at 2 30 PM at the South Avenue home under Rev. A S Smith, with interment at Elm Grove and pallbearers named.
We thank friends for kindness and sympathy during our bereavement in the death of our son and brother Lewis Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Davis.
A reflective aphorism quoting Coleridge on how mood changes truth, and noting that childhood and old age are essential to humanity. The piece laments a world without children and without the aged, calling aging a great consolation.
Quote by N. 8. Shaler extols travel as a path to learn that distance deceives, and that the land and life surrounding us require no translation to be understood. The piece frames exploration as enriching and insightful.
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