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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 07, 1906

Page

4

Making a Chef Reveals Craft Behind Culinary Education

The article traces the chef’s training from apprenticeship to mastery, detailing years of learning from vegetable prep to meat, fish, and pastry. It notes strict unpaid periods, rising wages, and the high price of skilled culinary work, with criticism and admiration from New York Press and Woran's Home Companion.

Buch New York Press

A Dramatic Artist in a Paris Dressmaker’s Shop

A slim dressmaker, slim nose and winning eyes, dons gray frock coat and perfume. He blends humility and dandyism as salesman and artist, talking endlessly while handling silks and velvets in a Paris shop.

Paris

Landor: Poetic Roots Enhance His Prose Mastery

Arthur Symons notes Landor excels in prose beyond poetry. He quotes Landor claiming poetry was amusement and business, with Imaginary Conversations as major work, while preferring a selective, well lit dining room of few guests.

Landor Arthur Symons Atlantic

There Are No Certain Ones

A witty Chicago News quip mocks a story using the phrase a certain girl as an inaccurate cliché. The speaker derides certainty in labeling individuals as definite while noting girls are described as uncertain.

Chicago News

Runaways on South Second Avenue Injure Mrs Finnie and Damages

Two runaway wagons struck buggies on South Second Avenue. Mrs M Finnie, badly injured, saved her child by tossing it from the rear of the buggy before being dragged. The baby suffered scalp wounds but seems less harmed. Mr Finnie escaped serious injury. A second wreck involved Lon Hyde's buggy and a Floyd Fionte rig, injuring Hyde slightly and wrecking Hyde's new buggy. Mrs Finnie later found to have a broken rib and fractured nose. baby bruised but not severely hurt.

South Second Avenue Marshal Finnie Keota East Madison Street Finnie Lon Hyde Merrimac Mr. Hyde Mr. Finnie A. H. Wallace Hyde R. T. MecCall

Milk in the Sickroom Nourishment Source and Purity

Health guidance stresses pure milk as essential for hospitals and invalids. It warns that country milk lacks guaranteed integrity and urges physicians and nurses to verify purity from pasture to consumer.</s>

Charles Elley Hall Leslie’s Weekly

Love and fidelity as moral cornerstone in Ruskin view

Quote reflects Ruskin crediting true faithful love as essential sanctifying element of life. It asserts without such love the soul cannot attain highest virtue or holiness. The remark foregrounds love as moral anchor shaping character and spiritual growth.

Ruskin

Comfort and Independence Await Those Who Postpone Desires

A Success Magazine line extols enduring comforts and independence gained by delaying immediate wants. It frames self restraint as a path to lasting prosperity and personal freedom.

Success Magazine

Union church services announced for next Wednesday

The regular onion prayer service will be held at the Presbyterian church next Wednesday evening July 11 conducted by Rev. W. Co. Allen. Morning service at 11 and evening service at 7:30. Sabbath school at 9:30 Teachers' meeting at 5:30 Christian Endeavor at 6:15. All are invited.

The Presbyterian Church Rev W. Co. Allen Covenanter Church Christian Endeavor

Sunday church schedule with evening convention appeal

The notice lists Sunday activities: Sunday school at 9 50. Morning service at 11 with pastor preaching on Thanksgiving. Epworth League at 6 15 followed by a 15 minute song service and an 7 30 evening service. A church convention is urged for Thursday and Friday next week with a strong invitation to attend.

Epworth League

Sunday church services and sermon topics listed

Sunday school at 9 50 morning worship with sermon The Greatest Question Junior Y P U at 6 30 evening service at 7 30 sermon Lessons from Stanford White's Murder

Stanford White

Divine worship and activities at Covenanters church

Tomorrow schedule lists worship at 11 AM and 7 50 PM. Christian Endeavor meets at 6 30 PM. Sabbath school at 9 50 AM.

Church of the Covenanters Christian Endeavor

Living Lake Church Services Tomorrow at 3 P.M.

Services in Living Lake church tomorrow at 3 p.m. Sermon by Rev. W. Co. Allen. Sabbath school at 1:45.

Living Lake Church Rev. W. Co. Allen

Community church schedule for Sunday services

Sabbath school begins at 9 40. Morning service at 11. Junior Endeavor meets at 4 00. Senior Endeavor at 6 30. Evening service at 7 50.

Sabbath services announced for Corner Town and Jefferson

Sabbath school at 9 45 morning service at 11 with subject Sacrament and golden text Matthew 6 34. Wednesday evening meeting at 7 30. All are cordially invited to all of these services.

Corner Town Jefferson Streets

Sunday church schedule notes Fourth Sunday after Trinity

The notice lists Sunday school at 10 and evening prayer with a sermon at 7 30 in the church calendar.

Des Moines Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Meet

A two day convention will serve as the quarterly gathering for the Des Moines branch of the Methodist Church Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The program is strong and open to all mission interest groups across denominations. Sessions start Thursday at 1 30 pm and run through Friday evening.

Des Moines Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society The Methodist Church

Tale of Nellie and the Gold Mine Rumor

A Chicago Tribune excerpt recalls a man named Smoothley visiting Nellie after a rumor that the Gotsum family sold a gold mine for half a million. The dialogue hints at ongoing visits linked to that scandalous story and its publicity.

Gotsum—Maria Smoothley Nellie

Living Skeleton Claims Circus Life From Fat Man to Skeleton

Detroit Free Press quotes a circus freak who describes a life in the ring from fat man to husband to today’s living skeleton. The interview highlights a stark career arc and personal transformation within the circus world.

Detroit Free Press

The Retort Courteous Miss Oldwun-l Refuses Marital Offers

Miss Oldwun-l declares she has refused many offers of marriage. Gayboy comments on her thoughtfulness and consideration. Meggen dorfer Blatter adds a remark in the exchange.

Quote by Heine on solving age old problems

A compact aphorism states that every era faces problems, and solving these problems pushes humanity forward. The line reflects a hopeful, historical perspective on progress and human effort.

Heine

When a Doctor Lacks Faith in Medicine Motto

An Atchison Globe quote extols good doctors who give sound practical advice over lavish medicine. It argues many seek costly cures while true wisdom lies in simple, common sense guidance rather than therapy.

Atchison Globe

Farm reply to missing mare sparks old tale

In a London Globe transcription a farmer pleads with a master about a chestnut mare believed cursed by time and misfortune while a legend of vengeful burial emerges in a rustic exchange.

London Globe

Greenburg’s Chance Is Small After Fatal Fight Relapse

LaSalle July 7 Young Greenburg the fighter who was near death after his July 4 bout with Eddie Tancel again suffered a severe relapse. Physicians say he has a bare chance and he briefly recovered consciousness before slipping back into a stupor.

Greenburg LaSalle Eddie Tancel

This Man Would Never Be Missed

Charles T. Davenport was found guilty in Mercer county court of attempting to poison his 12 year old daughter Josephine. The jury deliberated about an hour before convicting him for sending a poisoned emn dy in a box to kill her to obtain life insurance.

Trenton N. J Charles T. Davenport Mercreer Josephine Davenport

Husband Blamed in Kalamazoo Fury Case Autopsy Finds Blood Clot

In Kalamazoo Michigan on July 7 doctors report Mrs Albert Carpenter died from a brain blood clot likely caused by a shock when her husband returned home intoxicated and wrecked the house. Carpenter is jailed awaiting action.

Kalamazoo Mich Albert Carpenter Carpenter

Leather Plant at American Harness and Leather Company Burns

Fire destroyed the American Harness and Leather Company plant in Columbus Indiana with losses estimated around 60 000 dollars. Fire crews fought the blaze but the building was totally gutted. Local authorities investigated the cause of the July 7 blaze.

Leather Company Columbus Ind American Harness and Leather Company Loos

Phillips on fanaticism turning fashion and creed

The quote notes that fanaticism today becomes fashionable tomorrow and then as certain as the multiplication table a week later, attributed to Wendell Phillips.

Wendell Phillips

Happiest People In Europe Study

A paraphrase of Everybody's Magazine claims Swiss are Europe’s happiest due to harmony, liberty, security, and tolerance. It notes little emigration, about 300,000 Swiss abroad at times, who return home, and a reluctance to settle permanently outside Switzerland.

Europe Switzerland Everybody's Magazine

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