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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1911
Page
5
Local notes show Fred Raymonds comedy The Missouri Girl as the Graham attraction tonight with two hours of entertainment. Various visitors and residents pass through the city, including Elam Johnston and Judge Leggett, while shops and bakeries in town advertise fresh cookies and candy.
Jack and Evelyn wake to heavy snow that drifts to the dining room. Their father tells a war tale of a poor European family trapped by cold and fear. A grandmother reads of a wall built by snow that shields them until battle forces the enemy away.
President George E. MacLean has placed his resignation with the state educational board. No formal announcement has been made. He reportedly considers a Carnegie foundation offer that would let him continue his work in education after retirement, with a formal retirement notice expected in weeks.
In England a hot water bottle kept in every bedroom is a habitual, convenient practice. It is warmed each morning and night, offers quick relief for dull throats or sneezes, and helps children learn to fetch a drink.
The chinchilla in the department of Oruro is highly prized for its fur. The Bolivian chinchilla is larger and more valuable than the Chilean variety, though crossing with the biscacha reduces fur value.
A quotation extols natural gladness as the greatest gift from the Fairy Godmother, likening it to health for the body and sanity for the mind, a supreme form of normality. The line celebrates happiness as essential human wealth.
An old salt explains to a listening young lady that he survived six weeks on a raft with only mutton, joking that the sea was choppy to justify the unlikely feast.
Des Moines dispatch reports the legislature remains far from an election on the U S Senate seat and the prop vote. The process of elimination is expected to begin soon but is unlikely to yield an easy path to selection.
Judge Wilcockson arrived and jurors report for 65 member panel. Scheduled trials include Mercer estate, Little v Tobin, Smouse v Smouse, Dayton v Guy, Jay v Gardner, Mills v Flynn, State v Gingerich et al, Clapp v Cochran, Eden v Stewart. Numerous civil cases continued and defaults entered as term proceeds.
Premier Briand was fired upon with two revolver shots in the chamber of deputies. One bullet struck M. M. Irman in the leg, Briand remained unharmed. The incident occurred in Paris on January 17.
Special to Evening Journal reports the German submarine U No 3 sank today in Heikendorf bay. The number of men aboard is not known at this writing.
The Journal force grows by one as Mr. and Mrs. Frank Flaherty welcomed a son this morning. The birth adds a new member to the family, announced to local readers.
A French naval officer stranded at Monte Carlo loses his money at roulette and plans to seize the ship’s gold to pay his debt. He signals a gun salute to threaten the casino, but a messenger returns with a bag of gold coins and the cruiser departs, leaving Monte Carlo relieved to be rid of him.
Mahogany and other hard woods stay in good condition by wiping with a wrung chamois skin from gold water and immediately polishing with a dry chamois to finish.
A local note promotes Chamberlain's Liniment stating that nine of ten rheumatism cases are muscular from cold or damp and need no internal treatment. It claims quick relief when applied and mentions Lemmon's Pharmacy as the seller.
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