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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
8
Earl McCoy of Marion Indiana reports recovery after using Cooper's New Discovery to treat stomach weakness. He credits the medicine with enabling him to retain food regain strength sleep and perform hard work. The McElhinney Drug Co. advertises the remedy.
District Court notices a case by O. L. Samson and Z A Heaton against multiple defendants and unknown claimants over real estate in Washington County Iowa. Plaintiffs seek title by adverse possession for twenty years claiming fee simple ownership and ask the court to quiet title and bar all claims. The case sets a July 17 1908 term in Washington Court House with default implications for nonappearance.
In Evansville Indiana on January 31 Mrs. E H Wilson using a patent washboard suffered severe burns when friction with the device caused a flame to ignite her clothing. She was burned on the head arms and face with injuries described as frightful and life threatening.
Buenos Aires January 31 United States torpedo boats under Lieutenant Hutch N Cone departed for Punta Arenas from here after a four day stay in port sailing from this port for Magdalena bay on the way from Hampton Roads.
The article explains life through Christ as the decisive meaning of belief and birth in John’s gospel. Nicodemus is used as a model of religious merit versus true rebirth, stressing that only a spiritual new birth brings life. knowledge alone cannot save. It cites John 3 and related scriptures to define belief as receiving Christ and being born of water and the Spirit.
Sheriff officers search for Rose Marin and Nomat Shook who eloped from Sterling near Standish, taking clothing and $125 from Dr. Abbott. They boarded a train to Bay City and likely headed toward Missouri after Murray led investigators to the escape.
Pete Clark of Girard Illinois pleaded guilty to murdering Mrs Gibson on a trolley car near Verden on March 25 1907 and was sentenced to forty years in Chester penitentiary. He once led Girard Christian Science church choir and was a deputy grand master in Masonry before expulsion after immorality charges. Mrs Gibson was in the choir and her husband and Clark obtained divorces at the same court term. Clark also had been a prominent politician.
The Security Trust Company of Detroit has been appointed trustee for Frank Perry a wealthy lumberman of Sault Ste Marie Michigan and the Perry Lamb Company controlled by Perry assets estimated between 1 000 000 and 1 250 000 with liabilities 700 000 to 890 000 ill health and non profitable contracts cited as the reasons for the trusteeship
San Antonio January 31. Lieutenant Stephens buys the first dogs for tracking criminals in the Panama canal zone at 300 dollars each. Exhaustive tests with the dogs show they can follow trails despite soldiers crossing streams or wading through cattle herds.
In Danville Illinois Albert Green of Sharon Coal and Iron Company mine near Georgetown dies after lighting a fuse and waiting. explosion follows. Justin James of Kelly mine No 4 dies from falling slate in the same incident.
In New York the Chinese Reform News experiences a labor dispute as former compositors walk out and immigration authorities bar new Chinese compositors from entering. Authorities say their arrival would breach exclusion and contract labor laws.
Detroit government plans to employ 2,000 unemployed workers with coordinated city departments. Park Commissioner Hreltmeyer will advance 10,000 of his own funds to start canal digging on Belle Isle immediately.
Several guests from the Szechenyl Van derbilt wedding sailed for Europe on the Hamburg American liner Amerika. The travelers included Count Stephen Szechenyl Count Anton Sigray and Count Pregegdsiecke, with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Van derbilt and Alfred G. Vanderbilt aboard.
In Kansas City on January 31 Overton Price assistant United States forester told the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association that a timber famine has begun and that continued methods will drive the industry out of business within a few years.
Alanthus Grove Missouri January 31 fire destroyed the village business portion. Three general stores the Christian church a blacksmith shop and their contents were burned with unknown origin.
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