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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
4
The narrative recalls a rural Fourth of July with marching cadets, a grand lodge marshal, and a town parade. Citizens gather at the schoolyard, a Declaration read at the anvil, a sunset picnic, and evening prayer by the river as the day ends with quiet rest.
A Missouri town fifty years ago celebrated Independence Day with a courthouse cornerstone laying by the Masons and a controversial immersion ceremony in the creek near the water mill, recalling a harsher era and customs.
Seattle hosts the fortieth annual National American Woman Suffrage Association convention at Plymouth church with headquarters at Hotel Lincoln. Mrs Garrie Chaptian Catt and Rev Anna Howard Shaw attend with officers and members. A state full suffrage bill has passed both houses and awaits November 1910 ratification.
New York July 1 Arthur Logan an expressman identified Chung Sing as one of the men seen on the top floor the day Elsie Sigel was murdered Logan carried the trunk with the body from Leon Ling's room and stated Chung Sing aided the loading Chung Sing denied the accusation insisting he never saw the trunk or the movers in the house.
Chicago June 30 cattle receipts about 15 000 with steers to 5 00 a head and cows to 4000 for heifers 3 60 7 00 bulls 8 40 5 25 calves 3 00 7 00 stockers 3 30 5 25 hog receipts 26 000 down 5 10e with heavy 7 90 8 05 light 7 50 7 75 packing 7 65 7 85 pigs 5 60 7 25 bulk 7 60 7 70 sheep 13000 steady for sheep lambs 2 lower 3 76 4 75 lambs 7 25 8 00.
Mrs Gilmartin frets over menu details for Mrs Pritchard’s birthday dinner while Mr Gilmartin urges simplicity and ends by suggesting they hire Robbem for the small gathering. The couple resolves to let Robbem handle the catering.
Miss Florence Holbrook leads a project at Forrestville school near Chicago to have pupils design and build a story and a half brick bungalow on school grounds. Students will draft plans, tear up existing brick for walls, and craft interior furniture while the structure takes about two years to complete with School Architect Dwight H. Perkins judging.
The Pekin government plans a reward for the arrest and conviction of Leon the Chinaman, said to be the killer of Elsie Sigel in New York. Officials in Washington report instruction to Chinese consuls and merchants to mobilize all Chinese to aid justice and refrain from shielding offenders.
Fairhaven Mass residents plan a lasting memorial for Henry H Rogers the benefactor of the town. Options include a statue or a shaft with a medallion and bust. They hope to raise about 25000 by voluntary subscription with town sanction. Radium given to Red Cross Guild hospital in San Mateo for experiments. An anecdote about a boy celebrating the Fourth of July in 1912 ends the piece.
Poem urging missionary outreach and interfaith prayer, praising God's light in temples and altars and suggesting Mongolians may enter to learn wisdom. Calls on a girl to join bedside prayers that may reach distant heathen hearts.
Keota prepares a large Fourth of July celebration with concerts by the Keota Koncert band Keota Ladies' band and the Keota Male quartet vaudeville acts an address by Arthur McMurray a Wellman vs Keota ball game and an automobile and horse parade stores close 1 to 6 and all amusements free except snacks picnic supplies urged from Vienna bakery
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