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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
5
Ft. Dodge Iowa January 31 Superintendent Mullin was arrested on a warrant sworn by Mrs James Lowry mother of a nine year old boy alleging Mullin struck the boy earlier that day. She says two physicians were needed after the punishment. Hearing date not yet set.
The Washington Poultry association will convene Monday at 8 PM at the express office. Important primaries to be transacted.
W A Downing left for Wellman to spend a few days visiting. Mrs John W Lewis returned from Galesburg and other Illinois points and Ottumwa and Eldon where she has been visiting. She will stay a few days before leaving for Carlsbad New Mexico.
Bedford Indiana January 31 reports warning cards urging merchants not to sell to Italians and to withhold firearms or ammunition. Notices appear from different writers as unemployed men try to starve out foreigners. Quarry owners told to discharge Italians. authorities push investigation.
Fire in Girard near Waynesboro Ga. caused the death of Dr. J. C. Brigham a prominent local figure and destroyed eight stores and residences. Loss estimated at about $25 000 as Brigham died trying to save his medicine case and papers.
Jury returns verdict in favor of contestants seeking to break the will of the late Mary Downs after an eight day trial with forty witnesses examined.
After an eight day siege of the Mary Downs will case in Brighton the matter goes to the jury at 11 o'clock. Contestants claim unduly influenced mind and lack of testamentary capacity. The $9 000 estate allocated $500 to six grandchildren and to Kate Burgess with the remainder to J L Downs. Trial began January 23 1904 and ended today with forty witnesses heard over six days.
The Juniors of the Presbyterian church plan a social this evening at Bee Shenefelt’s home on West Madison Street.
Mr and Mrs James Shalla hosted a card party eight miles north of the city with about forty guests. Ten progress cinch games featured Mrs Chittum and Ed Kallous as top contestants, while Miss Mamie Kallous and Wes Riener won consolation prizes. A luncheon was served by the hostess with Miss Kate Shalla assisting, and all left pleased with the evening.
William Corpman of Grace Hill died this morning about 10 o clock after several weeks illness. He was about eighty five years of age. Fuller particulars will be given later.
Night riders surrounded John Collins’s grocery in Golden Pond Kentucky during the night and held him prisoner. Twenty masked men smashed whisky, beer and wine bottles and charged Collins with running a blind tiger.
Gallipolis Ohio January 31 navigation on the upper Ohio River is suspended for the first time in three years due to heavy ice floes. The Sittasburg coal fleet with three million bushels drifts with the ice to Cincinnati and southern markets. If weather does not moderate, the river may close there.
Alfred Moeller a Brooklyn drug clerk believed he saw his daughter in an apparition that foretold the nine year old’s death from scarlet fever. He took morphine and died in a hotel after leaving home Sunday.
Battle Creek Michigan January 31. Vance Spanellia of Charlotte Michigan mistook Grace Demuth for his wife and kissed her three times. The woman resisted and Spanellia was arrested and fined one hundred dollars despite his explanation.
About 300 students at Bethany College including more than 100 from Ohio threaten to quit unless faculty reverses its expulsion of fifteen students for participating in the burning of President C. Ramblett's effigy ten days earlier.
Washington January 31 The house has passed the urgent deficiency bill with out material amendment.
At Veorla Johnny Dawn of Chicago won the decision in a ten round fight over Kid Murphy of New York.
A blaze in Oshkosh Wisconsin caused about 53 dollars in loss to R Smet and Sons company manufacturers of fixtures and interior woodwork.
Advice on hanging hats with tape to prevent brushes dislodging them. Describes underwear designs showing embroidery, lace frills under scallops, and using bias-cut crinoline to fit skirt hems. Recommends a pattern bag made from green denim with multiple pockets, red tape edging, brass ring hangers, and labeled pockets for skirts and shirt waists.
Bridesmaids hold small narrow baskets with two foot handles. Flowers sit low, with greenery and blossoms hanging over the edges. The effect is described as picturesque as they carry posies near knee height.
The Moscow cathedral near St Peter's in Rome is described as the world's costliest church. Exterior gold totals 900 pounds, the largest bell weighs more than London’s Great Paul, and the doors alone, weighing thirteen tons, cost 310000 dollars.
The article notes in parts of Persia the thermometer sits at 100 degrees both day and night for much of summer, with 130 degrees not unknown in that region.
The deserts of Arabia offer striking pillars of sand created by whirlwinds. These structures resemble water spouts in form and stand as notable natural curiosities in the region.
Seneca asserts Romans maintained cooking schools and a mastication teacher, reflecting organized culinary education in ancient Rome.
Dr Sheldon Leavitt of Chicago endorses laughter as the grip cure and credits optimism with boosting the nervous system to resist illness. He treats patients with daily cheerful habits and believes mind tone, not air borne germs, drives recovery.
A Chicago dispatch reports a new solution to teacher shortages in the city. Privileged pupils around fourteen are being placed in charge of classes to keep lessons going, with standard study routines maintained in many rooms.
The Shanghai Mercury says the Peking correpondent reports China may sell honorary titles. It is suggested the title of marquis could fetch about a million taels.
John W Gates declares that when Americans start wearing their old clothes it quickly restores business to normal. The remark links consumer readiness to a swift economic rebound.
Local ads list Johnsons offering coffee cakes devils food and other cakes while Freys photos are for sale. Several residents arrive or depart for visits and business in town with notes on travels to Chicago Winfield Keota Crawfordsville Ainsworth and Keota.
Edgar Brown sails to Petoskey Michigan to take editorship of the Evening News Daily Reporter and Weekly Independent. Local society notes report travel to Crawfordsville for a reception and updates on several residents including a false alarm of accident involving Miss Jennie Williams and her mother.
To check a cold quickly get from your druggist little Preventics tablets. They are safe and effective taken at the sneeze stage to help prevent pneumonia bronchitis and grip. Suitable for feverish children with trial boxes available sold by J. H. Stewart.
O H S basketball opens with a planned schedule after three months of practice. Games listed include January 31 at High School, February 3 Penalege, February 6 Grinnell, March 13 Washington, with Pella opening the season tomorrow in the Y M C A gym. The local lineup features O Bri, Bonebrake, forwards. Farrell, E Dodds and H Dodds, guards. A nurse attended a patient, and an ad promotes Dr Cough Cure with herbal ingredients and no opium.
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