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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
7
A fire gutted the Mickler clothing store in Burlington early yesterday, causing about 10,000 dollars in damage. The Mickler family, sleeping above the shop, nearly suffocated but escaped with a narrow chance.
The Mississippi State building at the St Louis World’s Fair will imitate Beauvoir the Jefferson Davis home on the Gulf coast bequeathed by Mrs A Dorsey and where Davis wrote The Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederacy. The replica will sit near the southeastern entrance of the exposition grounds with K A Henry editor Jackson Clarion Ledger as Executive Commissioner Governor Longino as ex officio chairman and O B Quinn of McComb City as vice chairman joined by Frank Burkitt and W P Still of Senatobia as members.
The piece lists Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday February 17 and Easter April 3 with Good Friday on April 1. It provides a 1904 holiday table including Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays, Valentine’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus notes on public observances and various state matters. It includes a Tribune-like anecdote about Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and a fragmented story of an undertaker and his former sweetheart.
An old newspaper ad offers a reward for catarrh cures via Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists Fr. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo as proprietors and claims honesty of F J Cheney. Endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin are included. The cure is said to work internally on blood and mucous surfaces, price 75 cents per bottle, with testimonials and Hall's Family Pills mentioned.
The outline lists appropriations to be held to 1.4 million dollars with daily interest for state depositories, expanded insurance department staff, a statutory life insurance contract definition, investigations into ex-auditor fee practices, reimbursement to insurers for fraudulent exams, all fees directed to the state treasury, new buildings for state educational institutions, a special college support tax levy, an indeterminate sentence system for convicts, and a special parole agent in the pardon department.
A city lad visiting the country writes home with a comical list of gifts for his family. He mentions a pet rat that will tickle but not bite, a dead horse tail for his mother, a petrified toad for the baby to chew on, and a snake for the father, though uncle Ike warns there are enough snakes at the place.
A sharp quip contrasts editors and doctors about mistakes. It notes apologies and lawsuits for editors, while doctors face funerals and varnish. It mocks linguistic bravado and moral double standards in professional conduct.
A snake begs a passing frog to shed its skin and then eats the frog after declaring a better option than waste. The tale warns that some skin games are meaner than others. An exchange questions why a seven year old can drop a half burned match in an alley.
A dialogue-heavy fragment shows a woman dismissing a man’s cake ignorance while a young Spoonamore quietly offers a box of fudges, hinting at a humorous or intimate social moment. The scene centers on playful banter and a sweet gift within a domestic setting.
A diner scene shows a waiter asking children to feel for those less fortunate while a boy mocks an unnamed man who failed to find an open bank, ending with frustrations over money and a harsh remark about the man.
A dialogue between Junior Partner and Senior Partner after Christmas notes concerns about discounting goods. Junior questions marking items down below half cost while Senior Partner says it is safe since customers have no money and replacements aren’t necessary.
The passage details a Javanese outdoor band built from bamboo, pipes and whistles about three feet long, a long tube bundle carried like a saddle, a log drum with two strings, a sixteen string gither and a two string mandolin, plus indoor sounds from pure sounding gongs.
A traveler recalls a Wanderobo hunter who used a donkey with antelope horns strapped to its head and a painted skin to resemble an animal. The ruse lured prey toward the hunter hidden behind the animal, enabling poisoned arrows to strike.
Dialogue notes a couple debating an upcoming wedding date on a Friday considered unlucky. Mrs Lakeside remarks other days may be luckier, while Mr Hopeford asserts Friday cannot be more unlucky than any other day. The item appears in a New York Weekly humorous exchange.
Attention farmers urged to relocate south to work outdoors year round. Alabama and Florida velvet bean and cassava cited as cheap fattening materials. More profits and less labor expected in southern farming, fruit, berry growing, and truck gardening. Contact G A Park at Louisville Nashville Railroad in Louisville Kentucky.
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