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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1905
Page
12
Journal correspondents recount daily local events across towns with brief notes on meetings weather and notable incidents. The page highlights community life and sketches of civic activities through concise agency reports and resident perspectives.
A concise roundup from our news team detailing local accidents deaths and births as reported. Notable incidents include community events and immediate family milestones with dates and locations as available.
Mrs. C. O. Keiser entertained about fifty ladies with a penny guess contest won by Mrs. Dr. Droz and a four course luncheon. Visitors include Miss Lottie Dupuis Sigourney Miss Kathleen Clarahan Wapelco Muscatine and Crawfordsville. The Literary society in Columbus Junction featured a strong program and Epworth Leagues plan a rally January 27 in Ainsworth led by Stanley Logan.
For this brief cold spell the piece mentions men buying coal and facing some annoyance. The speaker offers coal ready for those in need.
John visits, Mrs J D Dayton calls on friends, Will Carson returns from Kansas trip, Lloyd White visits J N White home, Mrs Lee Stewart hosts the Ladies Birthday club gathering Tuesday evening.
Our obliging C. M. and St. P. agent Miss Ada Carnes resigns after nearly a year, planning to return home to Galt Missouri early next week. O W Schmedel of Cone will assume charge at the Titus station then. John Griffith and A W Strain completed filling their ice house with fourteen inch ice. Jimmie Strum visited West Chester yesterday. Mrs Clifton visits friends in Washington for a few days. Carrier of route 5 endures a rough week due to drifted new route.
Jan 21 notes show Mrs Ella Thompson visiting in Washington while Chester Lerch hosted friends at his country home. J R Hardin stayed with his brother M A Hardin in Washington. Mrs J W Kirkpatrick and two children Leo and Eileen left for a visit with her parents. Epworth League rally planned at the Methodist church next Friday with many youths expected from Crawfordsville Columbus Junction and Washington.
John Woods and his bride arrived in the city from St. Louis and will move to the groom’s farm three miles southwest, where a new house has been built. Miss Esta Smith hosted a small tea party. Elmer Thomas is visiting from Washington. The Methodist revival meetings begin Thursday evening, Jan. 26. L. P. Jackson was a business visitor to Keota last evening.
Mrs. Rachel Atkins spends the week with her daughter Mrs Parcell near Clay. Miss Edith Miller visits in Washington this week. Mrs. J B Heaps returns from Media parents. Mrs Sawhill visits G F Fetters Thursday. Chas McClintock travels to Wayland for Sunday stay.
Mrs J R Isenhart came over on No 3 today for a visit at the D C Harrison home. Samuel Richardson and wife are spending the day in Brighton. Clifford Richardson was a passenger for Perlee this morning.
Veteran Herman Stein recalls contracting chronic diarrhoea in the Philippines while with the U S Army. After three years of illness and failed treatments, two small bottles of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured him with no relapse. Sold at Stewart's Pharmacy Cook & Sherman.
Pittsburg Jan 21 Announcement from the Schoenville plant of the Pressed Steel Car company says wages in all departments have been increased by 10 percent, effective from the first of the year. About five hundred men are affected.
In Memphis Tennessee on January 21 Charles Jacobs a Black man was shot and likely fatally wounded on a Vance and Poplar streetcar. Police say EB Broadfoot the car conductor fired after Jacobs pulled the register cord to stop the car.
In San Juan on July 21 Virella Uribe shot and killed Eugenio Deval amid fallout from a defamatory Porto Rico Sun publication targeting Valeriano Uribe father of Virella Uribe and a member of the house of delegates.
Fifteen Charleston HI high school pupils walk out protesting a seating change requested by the principal. No injuries reported.
Lambert Tree paid 19076 for a burial lot at Graceland cemetery. Dora Williams died in St Louis after receiving pills mailed by a New York woman. Martin V Seeley of San Jose experiments with monkeys to aid prune picking. Richard Canfield of New York reputedly gains 2,000,000 from Reading stock rise. South Dakota considers a bill to destroy the divorce industry. Greater New York plans more than twenty parks costing 18,000,000 for land.
Modern Jerusalem is depicted as a mix of languages and religions with filthy streets and cheap living. Water comes from cisterns and Ain Karim, winds are harsh, and sand flies plague residents. The city’s 60,000 population includes 40,000 Jews while English residents are few.
The couple muses on how life would be different if their families had never met or if they had never been born or loved. The exchange frames a reverent, intimate moment about destiny and connection.
League president Stanley Logan announces an Epworth League rally for the Burlington district to be held in Ainsworth Friday night. Three leagues Crawfordville Columbus Junction and Ainsworth participate with a supper at six and an evening program. Washington chapter invited many already plan to attend. Mrs Ellan Thompson of Ainsworth shopped in city. Fred Bragg returned from Columbus Junction.
W H Howard of Husband Pennsylvania says his mother suffered rheumatism for years and could hardly move. After using Chamberlains Pain Balm a few times she regained mobility and now keeps it on hand. Sold by Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
A patent medicine advertisement promotes Electric Bitters as a remedy for ague and malaria. It claims a true curative effect, better than quinine, with a testimonial from E. S. Munday of Henrietta Texas. Available at J. H. Stewart's drug store for fifty cents.
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