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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
8
Community updates from Mrs Morgan and Vera Haney returning from holidays. Mentions of customers and mentions of Bevins tires, bluing offer,Spirella corset demonstration, long distance trucking, and travels of Mrs Hitchcock and Mrs Swift. Local services include photography and measurements at Hotel Colenso and transfers by Svebracaw line.
A sales pitch promises any man a thirty day free trial of the Auto-strop Safety Razor to prove it can remove whiskers. The offer emphasizes trying the razor at no cost before purchasing.
Rural notices mention visits by Mrs. Earl Fulton and Mrs. George Dempsey to relatives in Davenport and Keota. The piece notes cane sugar for sale, a tire price deal, a critical pneumonia telegram about Joe Rothschild, a new birth, a milk cow sale, a marriage license, and poultry tonic offers.
A note from the Christian Science Monitor describes robins that normally run with heads held high as they move along. Occasionally they perform strong, ground covering hops that speed their motion.
At the Boileau home in Washington a formal wedding united Miss Eller Boileau and Howard E B Hoyle with Rev Regan officiating. The bride wore taupe charmeuse with blue accents, bridesmaid wore blue tricotine, and a breakfast reception followed with guests including Mrs James Reed and Howard Boileau. The couple, after a reception from thirty relatives, will reside on the home farm.
Three Iowa counties plan to spend over 1.5 million dollars on road work bidding in January. Allamakee will open bidding January 6 for 6.891 miles from Waukon to Postville and Lansing. Floyd bids January 19 for 6.56 miles on the North Iowa Pike between Rudd and Nora Springs. Hancock opens for 24.35 miles on the same Pike.
A hold up on W. J. Brown a New York capitalist yielded merely five dollars in cash. Brown reportedly carried five thousand in cash and fifty thousand as a checkbook balance. The robbers left with little compared to his large funds.
The 1926 contract work totaled 116 miles of pavement and unfinished sections. Current plans add 138 miles for the coming season, with an early-month addtional mileag e to push the total to about 175 miles.
John Burke resigns as treasurer of the United States effective upon successor’s appointment. Appointed in March 1913, Burke had earlier been North Dakota governor for three terms and a member of the state senate and house. He will join Kardos and Company of New York, which will become Kardos and Burke.
A cat pulled a rubber gas line from a floor feed, releasing gas that killed Brooklyn residents Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Weber. The cat lay nearby with paws on the tube beneath the gas stove.
The deepest cave known lies near Fredericks hall Norway, at 11 000 feet over two miles deep. Yet for real beauty and interest there are no caves that excel our own.
Waterloo Iowa January 6 After a twenty four hour search Waterloo police cannot confirm if Simon Burley 20 year old World War veteran jumped from Fifth Street Bridge into the Cedar River A suitcase with a note stating When I get to the bottom it will be my end was found Police and fire crews dragged the river Burley’s uncle says he had money troubles with a Montana note holder seeking 400 and a draft threat Officers think he may have staged the jump to mislead investigators or avoid pursuit.
In the continued report officers are making efforts to determine whether the man is still alive as the case proceeds.
Payallup Washington reports HM W Wiadre leaves for Palestine with five Jewish students to introduce modern American dairying. He sails from New York carrying $50 000 in implements and a herd of forty Jersey cattle for Zionist settlements in Palestine.
Famous residents included authors inventors and composers who called Burdstown Kentucky home. Noted names mentioned are Collins Poster whose work My Old Kentucky Home is linked to the area John Fitch who built the first steamboat and J James author of the phrase Tiands Opt.
A brief guide explains a practical method to measure day and night. Double the sun's rising time to obtain night length and double the setting time to obtain day length, applicable any day of the year. The explanation is concise and aimed at quick astronomical calculation.
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