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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1912
Page
8
New York January 13 a cooperative cab company plans to lower fares to twenty five cents a mile or a dollar an hour during shopping hours. The drive for lower rates aims to revive hansoms while Barnard College faces infant limits from Dean Virginia Gilder sleeve.
Iowa Hornet's Nest brigade marks fifty years since Shiloh with a two day reunion April 6 and 7 at Pittsburg Landing Tennessee. Gov Carroll and state officials attend an excursion from St Louis by steamboat. The program features regimental reunions lectures and a rededication of the state monument.
Vetitions for the emancipation of nexro slaves by law of congress were laid before the United States senate. Horace Greeley and other radicals urged proclamation of freedom by the president. Burnside's fleet reached patterns. Shallow river prevented it from entering Pamlico sound. Twenty five years ago today. The freedom of the city of London was presented to Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer. Stanley was a citizen of the United States.
Fifty years ago on Sunday January 14 news reached London and Paris that the Confederate European commissioners had been released and held, boosting stocks as war seemed averted. Conservative British sentiment showed little sympathy for the victims of the affair, Mason and Slidell. Twenty five years ago Sunday Piemarek’s army was defeated in the German parliament, and he dissolved the body after the US Senate passed the interstate commerce bill 37 to 17.
The piece argues there is no strict divide between mushrooms and toadstools with larger fleshy fungi called toadstools. It notes about 1,500 temperate toadstool species, around 100 edible and about 30 poisonous, with many unknowns needing trial to determine safety.
Washington heard Maj. Gen. William H. Carter state 35 000 former Japanese soldiers in Hawaii would support Japan in a war with the United States. He urged the United States to enlarge its military force or dispose of some insular possessions.
Farmer John Walsh of Kindrehook was found frogen to death while feeding cattle on his farm. Local authorities investigate the accidental incident.
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