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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1911
Page
4
A bedtime tale recounts a dove saving a drowning ant by a leaf. Later a hunter aims at the dove, but the ant bites the hunter’s foot, causing a miss and saving the bird. The pair reunites, and the ant thanks the dove, proving small helpers can endanger or save lives.
Local notes cover visits by Edds Holmes Parrott and many Keota and West Chester residents. The Fair announces 1-3 off on burnt wood goods and prepares for February closing sales with featured products from Bowman's and Ross' Drug store.
The Thirty fourth Iowa General Assembly convened at ten this morning with the Senate adjourned to tomorrow. The House sits this afternoon as Gov. Carroll plans to present his message at two oclock tomorrow. Several residents, including W P Wells and G W Wallace, left for Lisle Missouri and Kansas City on business, while Corinne Rothschild and Mrs Rothschild visited relatives in Kansas City. A series of local notices promotes Bowmans Winter sales and embroideries, with several residents traveling home from visits. Edwin Griffith sustained a possible eye injury from a nail during carpentry at his home. The article ends with a note on birds surviving long periods without food based on naturalist observations.
County assessors from Washington gathered in the auditor’s office at the courthouse for their annual January meeting. Nearly all townships were represented with J H Squire chairing and RE M Shaw as secretary, discussing methods, instructions, and workload for the year.
G F Wieland longtime Riverside resident died at home last evening at six. Born September 13 1840 in Dungannon Ohio he moved to Iowa in 1859 and married Catherine Critz July 19 1860 in Richmond Iowa. Survived by wife nine brothers two sisters and five children. Funeral Wednesday morning at St Marys Catholic Church.
Notice calls all members to a basket supper at the A O U W hall on January 11. Members should bring full baskets and invite a friend for a social evening hosted by the committee.
An advice piece urges girls to act decisively and boldly at once. It emphasizes that hesitation harms outcomes and that daily actions compose one’s life, urging decisive conduct and avoidance of half measures.
Dougherty Bros announces one-fourth off on all men’s and children’s suits and overcoats pants dress shirts flannel shirts underwear hats and caps highlighting a broad sale across their stock in this period edition.
The Greeks liken a dishonest man to a sheep with a fox's tail and Britain echoes Wolf in sheep's clothing. German and Oriental proverbs resemble our endings phrase and silk purse idiom respectively, illustrating cross cultural parallels in common wisdom.
The article describes Argentina as vast flat prairie land with constant year round wind. Water lies 15 to 3800 feet underground. Grazing lands feature many windmills and Argentina imports over a thousand from Yankee land monthly.
Oscar Browning recalls editor Louis Arnot of the Monthly Repository branding Pauline by the single word balderdash. He notes the cut review left Browning’s public recognition delayed for twenty years, until after the editor’s deemed insult.
The text advises using bags of dried tansy instead of moth balls to repel moths. Fill thin white muslin bags with dried crushed tansy leaves, sew shut, and place six in the packing box to prevent moth infestation and odors.
The loud bully threatens a quiet man but fails to prove fear. In a real confrontation he proves more cowardly than brave, revealing the bully as loud but weak when challenged.
A Harper's Weekly account describes a starfish clashing with a sea urchin. The urchin uses spines as a weapon while the starfish counterattacks with a self preserve stomach maneuver to ingest the urchin. After digestion the starfish regains form and resumes feeding.
A fragment features a dialogue where a woman urges a man to join his father’s business and propose marriage, while the man answers as a poet. The exchange hints at family pressure, romantic ambition, and creative identity within a historical or literary context.
A sale advertises twenty five percent off on all suits, over coats, pants, shirts, underwear, hats and caps. Prices cut across clothing categories with emphasis on suits and outerwear. The notice lists the items included and invites shoppers to visit the store for the discount.
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