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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1902
Page
4
Special war bulletin dated January 3 reports Bruce Hamilton forces east of Armelo since December 20 captured 100 prisoners including General Erasmus Plasmus and suffered deaths aboard the wrecked steamer Walla Walla with reduced casualties.
Announcement cards invite friends to the approaching marriage of Violet Marie Black daughter of Rev Dr and Mrs J A Black of Wyman to Mr L Miller on Wednesday evening January 15 at 7 30 in the Reformed Presbyterian church.
San Francisco reports uncertainty over casualties from the Walla Walla wreck off the Cape Mendocino coast. Early tallies place dead at ten with twenty nine missing, while another estimate suggests at least twenty three unaccounted for.
Rev. Joseph DeForest presides as rector with Sunday school at 1040 hours, morning prayer and sermon at 1100 hours, and evening prayer and lecture at 1900 hours. Church named Trinity Episcopal. Local parish notices NSD SR Ce CH B THE CHURCHES. IDPH SAVPSA BASIL HA.
A church bulletin notes there is no evening service. The text urges young men to seek guidance and participate in daytime activities and community programs.
Morning and evening services led by the pastor at Second United Presbyterian feature a morning message titled Look ing Forward and Bickward and a contemporary theme The First Day.
The 1st Church of Christ Scientist offers a 10 30 service with subject God ex Galatians 4 6. The Church of the Covenanters holds services tomorrow morning at 1 o clock led by Rev W Allen with subject Godliness.
Preaching morning and evening at 11 and 7. Sunday school at 3 p m. and Endeavor at 6 p m.
Morning and evening services will be led by the pastor with Rev. F. W. Hisitt PhD president of Parsons College delivering the sermon. The High School band rents the opera house for a public concert on the 21st offering a special musical treat for families. Rumor of changes in the Fiftieth Iowa National Guard hints Col Coughlin may resign and other officer changes may follow.
Mr and Mrs John Babcock host a dinner with twelve cover charges at ax o clock tonight decorations include ferns invitations did not mention an eighth anniversary but guests expect a surprise upon the Journal delivery reception held at the Birney home yesterday for Karl J and his bride with about thirty five relatives and neighbors present dinner by Charles Ford and musical interlude by Uncle Billy Moore followed by Earl J Birney and wife leading a hymn Blest be the tie that binds
Notes include My lonesome George Greenwood's stay at West Chester and Cornelia Kiass returning to Chicago after a holiday at home Safe Coop was a passenger for Fatfield. Amelia Brown returns to Omaha to resume city school work. Charles A Maiden and Myrtie Boileau wed at Presbyterian parsonage with reception in Winfield. New England club meets with Mrs. J Roberts. Fish digestibility and preparation discussed by Youth's Companion highlighting blue fish to eels and poisonous varieties.
A historical digest explains why fish is a valuable dietary resource and how it benefits brain function indirectly. It notes fish often contains less phosphorus than other meats, digests easily, and reduces waste products that strain the nervous system. The piece highlights benefits for Bright's disease, kidney ailments, rheumatism, gout, and uric acid issues, and mentions convalescents.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Willis and family of Washington spent several days here with relatives. Will has a good lay out in an elevator there and likes it first rate. Mr. J. B. Ford of Dublin, who has been here for some time, is Maeh Ketter.
The piece traces absinthe from its eighteenth century medical use by Ordinaire in Switzerland to the secret formula passed to a housekeeper and sold by daughters of Lieutenant Henried, then bought by a distiller who launched modern absinthe with added alcohol. It also notes a 75 000 dollar New York Stock Exchange sale and a Cleveland fire rescue at 104 Brownell Street.
A Detroit Star Press item describes Nogales on the Arizona and Mexican sides where a shared street marks the border. A saloon serves drinks from America and cigars from Mexico to dodge duties and attract patrons. An American man drunkenly insulted Mexicans then crossed into Mexico and was detained by Mexican officers for a longer visit.
Harvard’s Jefferson Physical Laboratory houses an antique friction machine once bought for the college by Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The behemoth uses a one foot glass globe and produced at most a two inch spark, contrasted with a modern handheld unit sparking nearly seven inches.
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