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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1912
Page
4
Des Moines report by Governor Carroll’s special commission recommends laws to let counties create county workhouses. Each county would establish a regular workhouse for city and county court prisoners to ease congestion at the state penitentiary and reformatories and aid first offenders without penitentiary stigma.
Des Moines Iowa January 16 J W Walsh of Carroll plans to seek the Republican nomination for state railroad commissioner J B Hungerford writes in the Carroll Herald that Walsh is an intelligent man in the prime of life Most of his active years have been spent in service of the Northwestern Railway</s>
The button cutting plant of J. E. McClung and J. E. McElroy in Muscatine Iowa burned Sunday morning and is suspected incendiary. The small plant along the river housed about twenty machines and suffered about 1500 dollars in loss. The firm had employed only non union workers.
Advertises Parisian Sage as a pure refreshing hair dressing that ends itchiness dandruff and hair loss. Claims it nourishes roots adds radiance and prevents baldness for the whole family. Available in a large bottle for 50 cents at Lemmon's Pharmacy and druggists.
Farmer H. B. McKoon announces a public sale at his residence 9 miles NW of Washington and 3 miles E of Lexington, starting 11 a.m. on Thursday June 1 1912. Auction includes five horses, cattle, hogs, farm machinery, a cane mill and incubator, 1000 bushels of corn, 24 acres of stalks, and more with 10 cash and the balance on note at 6 percent. Lunch provided on grounds. Auctioneers: Macon Aud and Dougherty. clerk BM.
A political figure is praised for service as conductor, with a strong following among trainmen and industrial workers. The endorsement suggests his candidacy will gain momentum as the campaign unfolds.
At Iowa State College final judging and cooking contests eight scholarships worth 250 to 300 dollars were awarded along with a Washington trip for mother and daughter and numerous trophies. The seven Armour scholarships at 250 each went to Arthur Strohbehn Treynor Arnold Scheken Keystone Glenn Phillips New Sharon Fred Bliss Corning J L Hawkins Farley Martin Snyder Ames Harold Williams Sibley Den Brasted Grundy Center. The International Harvester award went to Oren Timberman Oakland.
A father reads a tale of a pig who goes to market and makes a muddy mess. The pig trips through a field, is pelted with produce and eggs, encounters wasps, and returns home scolded by his mother after a long, tiring day.
A humorous, wildly altered tale recounts Cleopatra’s alliances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. It parodies romance and power through farcical details, implying lavish salaries, impulsive marriages, and dramatic ends with satirical punchlines.
A Rock Island snow plow hit two section men walking on the track a mile and a half north of Hampton. One man was killed instantly. the other, badly injured with a broken arm and a crippled leg, crawled in snow for a mile to a mill before being taken to a local hospital. Both men, strangers to Hampton, are believed from Indiana.
Theodore Kharas sold his revolving advertising device for street car signs to an eastern manufacturing concern for 200000 dollars. His checkered career includes past work as a magnetic dealer and newspaper publisher in Hamburg Iowa and a four month prison sentence in Omaha for alleged mail fraud related to his business.
A trained ferret hunting cat owned by Frank Keough near Ackley Iowa is said to locate and drive rabbits from burrows more efficiently than a dog or ferret. The cat's keen burrow search speeds up if the hole is empty, making it a valued property.
A humorous exclamation portrays a frustrated speaker seeking attention from a lover who ignores even his seven cents, highlighting a comic moment of missed affection. The dialogue captures a street corner mood with a playful tone.
In Austria a woman was jailed after opening her husband’s mail amid a divorce suit based on the letter’s contents. the husband retaliated by sending her to jail for the same act.
The Verdi literary society at Walnut school house announces weekly meetings for the remainder of winter. Next Friday includes recitations by Davison White and others, music by the Libes, a reading by Palmer, and a debate on whether riches shape character more than poverty with Will Longer and Ethel Erwin affirming.
For the first time in history automobiles crossed the Mississippi River on the ice at Davenport Iowa connecting to Rock Island. The feat occurred during a heavy ice season caused by a long cold wave. Two auto agents drove their cars across and back on the ice bridge with the river closed by thick ice. The event marks a historic crossing despite dangerous conditions.
A Hollard demonstration claims milk can be sterilized without heat or preservatives using a thin stream exposed to ultraviolet light. The method relies on ozone produced by the light to kill bacteria. The Argo haul.
More than 50,000 Catholics from 500 groups welcomed Cardinal Farley upon his Rome return. He arrived aboard the Berlin at Hoboken, proceeded to the Battery, and rode through cheering crowds to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Ten days of festivities begin with a Hippodrome meeting and conclude with a Jan. 25 installation.
A pie social will be held at the Sommers school house in Marion Township on Saturday night January 20 1912. A program will be given and ladies are asked to bring pies. Teacher is listed as KDNA MERCHANT.
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