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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1905
Page
5
The fragment shows an address East Main Street with a telephone number 61. It appears as a small notice item likely indicating contact details for a local office or business at that street. No additional context or names are present in the readable text.
Johnson reports bakery customers and seeks more. Howard Swick visited Verdi today while Cora Irwin was a Verdi passenger this morning. The Coulters’ son improves and Mrs. Coulter visits from Mt. Morenci. Mrs. Mohr leaves for Fairfield after a Dewey visit. Milan Shields welcomes a son born on the Sabbath with congratulations.
Harriet Howard of 29 W. 34th St New York says Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured years of salt rheum eczema. The salve is a quick healer for cuts burns and bruises and costs 25 cents at J Hi Stewart's drug store.
Journal correspondents report daily events across communities including accidents deaths births and marriages with prompt local coverage. Names places and dates appear as gathered by our news team.
Jan 16 notes recount Miss Bessie White returning from Monmouth. R W Thompson spent Sunday with friends in Washington. Mr and Mrs Lewis Mason of Radcliffe Iowa arrived to visit sister Mrs Helen Fread. Ella Laird and brother David shopped in Washington. Mrs Frei Simmons and children from Columbus Junction visited her parents. Mrs D L Baird of Washington visiting her parents. Martha Walker was a passenger for Washington yesterday.
Ames Iowa reports record crowds as livestock and grain judging short course closes. About 600 attendees, top quality stock and corn, expert instructors, plus domestic science work, led college authorities to be highly satisfied with the program's success.
Miss Lydia M Schachner wed Ira Wells yesterday at the home of her parents in Lime Creek township. Wells, formerly a student here and now a teacher in the northern part of the county, will reside near Kalona. Relatives and friends extend their best wishes. Mr Will Gibson of Chicago visited the Kendal home and looked in on shoe dealers during his stay. Miss Bessie Hexworth plans an extended visit to Kansas tomorrow.
The French Colonial association campaigns to stop cotton import from the United States by developing production in Madagascar Soudan and Dahomey. It is estimated to yield 800000 bales to supply French manufacturers.
John H. Eno, a village butcher from Athens, notified police he was touched for 40 to 50 dollars in a room at the Commercial hotel after a lively gathering with young people. Miss Lora Fuller of Jackson was arrested on a touching charge.
John Maynard Harlan announces backing of 1,000 of 1,041 Republican delegates at the city convention, pledging support for mayoral nomination by acclimation. Early convention and lengthy campaign are anticipated.
A London News piece explores bell making from copper and tin origins to the Nine Tailors proverb. It covers clapper mechanics, silver trials, baptism ceremonies, famous bells like Moscow, London’s St Paul’s and Big Ben, and beliefs about bells warding storms and guiding the dying.
Charles A. Folsom, an original organizer and officer of the Twenty Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers recruited during Lincoln's first call in 1861, died at his Chicago home in his 84th year. Pneumonia was the cited cause of death.
A group of eight youths, sons and daughter of prominent residents, collided their bobsled with a wagon near Adams Express company. Six sustained severe but non fatal injuries.
Chicago banks show deposits totaling over 602 million dollars, an increase of 10 million from previous records. The gain spans fourteen national and twenty eight state institutions, underscoring a strong liquidity position in the city’s financial sector.
Adam A. Johnson, a former U S sailor and government official, claims a new wreck recovery device using gas filled buoy lines and a grappling frame to lift sunken vessels. The system would reduce insurance costs and water depth barriers, with support noted from shipbuilders and stockbrokers.
Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake dismisses Eve eating the apple claiming no biblical evidence supports the act. The New York World notes she argues Eve may have eaten a quince instead. The debate occurs during a New York Legislative ses sion where Mrs Johnson asserts Eve ate the apple, prompting Blake to fling a quince.
Major George O. Squier of the US signal corps reports experiments showing living trees can form part of an electrical circuit for Hertzian waves. Two iron nails driven into a tree serve as connection points for the receiving apparatus, enabling distant wireless messages to be read by a telephone.
The fashion era calls for sparkling ornaments and firefly hair, shimmering bags, fans, and beaded shoes. The Lady's Pictorial notes social life will gain glitter and a brighter outlook for a season.
Beginning on New Year’s day desk sergeants at Chicago police stations became bookkeepers under Chief O’Neill’s new records system. They will leave to enter arrests, complaints and related items in eight distinct record books.
A discussion notes that much modern flour yields fine grain bread when kneaded softly, shaping a satiny crust.
A milk loving cat in a farm dairy deceives a cow by posing as a calf to steal milk. The cow, aging with poor sight, doubts the calf’s identity until the calf returns. The cow, realizing the ruse, flips the cat onto its horns, ejecting it into a hornets nest and teaching a hard lesson about deception.
George F Getz vice president of the Miami Coal company Chicago, controlled by ex State Treasurer Frederick Busse and John B Connery, has purchased the Federal Coal and Coke Mining company property in Marion, Illinois, reported January 16.
Mrs. Ida Morse widow of Judge George Morse married Harry Rowell Cooper of San Francisco at the Church of the Transfiguration. The groom is a nephew of the late President McKinley, and the ceremony was conducted by Rev Dr George C Hovehton in New York on January 16.
Myron Snyder a well known stock buyer in Lapeer Michigan was found dead in the barn at his home west of town. The death is attributed to heart failure. He was 75 years old.
In Little Rock on January 16 the Arkansas General Assembly, Simp son of Hempstead county introduced a bill to exempt from taxation cotton held by farmers until June 1 1905 to secure better prices.
The Interna ed Carriers' convention resolves to settle all disputes between employers and the union through a board of arbitration.
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