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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1908
Page
8
The Idle Cart presents a list of puzzle prompts numbered 1 to 7 with definitions or clues and includes No 16 Triangle and No 17 The Idle Cart as a heading. The readable text outlines wordplay items such as full of heed and wooden supports with movable pegs.
A cryptic prompt lists eight clues: To include preceding all others to make longer to relieve of a load mixing an unmarried man the world uncertainty. Initials point to a famous explorer.
Clues present three word pairs. 1. Indicates a word meaning above paired with a child's toy. 2. A body part combined with a verb meaning to eat. 3. A negative term paired with a portion of furniture.
A fill-in puzzle lists presidents in sequence with gaps to be completed. Clues hint at the lofty first, elder-next, and numbered positions through the eighteenth to the twenty-fifth president, referencing a Buckeye linkage and martyrdom, inviting readers to supply missing names in order.
A small cavity appears as a color rich in sound as the text adds syllables and plentiful murmurs, turning a quiet note into a vivid rhythmic element.
A short note lists four lines about a table described as enjoyable movable obedient and ever changing prompting readers to ponder the meaning behind this playful item from No 22 Odd Tables, a column that mixes wit with daily curiosities.
I am found in the army and in the forest, on arches of triumph, and I never move yet I am always on the go. I help merchants who sell ribbon and lace, I am a part of you and appear in this line. Some must sit beside me when all dine together.
A numbered riddle lists ten clues to city names formed from simple word parts. Each clue combines common words such as prepositions, relatives, animals, and objects like sacks, stones, body parts, instruments, and cooking utensils to yield European and Asian city names. Answers appear as composite terms linked to familiar nouns.
A catalog of puzzle items numbered from 7 to 18, listing diverse word games and clues. Entries include Around the World, Charade, Subtractions, Riddle, Geographical Cube, Name Puzzle, Diamond, Word Square and Points in History with names such as Janet Pauline Virginia Ellen Rome Robert Bruce Richard Whitting Charles II Napoleon and Alexander the Great.
Iktomi seeks transformation into a rainbow plumaged peacock. The rainbow bird offers one hard condition a straight flight. While the magician is away Iktomi the arrow pretends to join the fawns in playful leaps and frolics.
Iktomi bargains with a feathered elder who transforms him into a vain peacock. After failing to fly and chasing flight again, he becomes an arrow and then a fawn. He asks a fawn to mark his face with brown spots, digs his own grave, and dies as red embers rise into the sky, leaving questions about his spirit.
Bloodhounds found Max Hockwort’s body in woods near Pike Lake after he shot Ada Loos while she rode in a carriage. He fled into the woods and allegedly killed himself, ending the trail with a self inflicted death.
Eighteen passengers were injured in a collision on the Texas and Pacific road at Queen City near Texarkana Arkansas. The crash is said to have been caused by a train order being overlooked by one of the crews.
Saginaw Michigan July 14 a milk wagon driver Fred TBen der was thrashed by Joseph Dinnenger a workman who intervened after the driver allegedly beat his horses with a milk bottle.
Official forecast through 8 PM calls for partly cloudy skies with probable showers and thunderstorms. Cooler in the north and central portions with the likelihood of showers prevailing across Illinois Indiana lower Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa.
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show wheat, corn, oats, lard and rye futures with July to December maturities. Live stock at Chicago includes hogs, cattle, and sheep with varied price ranges and daily receipts. East Buffalo reports strong cattle and hog markets, with specific bids for exporters, cows, heifers, and lambs.
Baseball standings and scores across major leagues with games in Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Highlights include varied run totals, hits, and errors, with details on batteries and pitchers for each contest and list of association results in Toledo Columbus Kansas City Milwaukee Omaha and Denver.
Six people were hurt in an auto crash near Smithville, twenty three miles from Louisville, when the vehicle fell twenty five feet into Salt River after a bridge section had been blown away in a storm. Injured included Shelby Bonnie a prominent distiller with a broken leg and Mrs Bonnie with cuts. Elizabeth Sherley and Richard Menefee also sustained injuries, Dr Carl Wiseman had a broken leg, and Frank Ball the chauffeur suffered bruises. The party was returning from Bowling Green.
Poem fragment explores love as motive power turning life and universe. If love spins world faster than gravity, the speaker proclaims Mirabel as central force, imagining humans propelled outward by affection.
Dexter Maine July 13. After lying unconscious since last Wednesday he fired two bullets into his head over his wife’s death two years ago and died at his brother in law’s residence in Dover.
In a terse exchange, Tom tells Jack he may not marry Miss Golding after all, confessing he tires of hearing her repeatedly say no as he contemplates proposals. Jack probes the change in sentiment and recalls his former fondness for her.
A pleasant surprise awaits all at seven thirty this evening on the M. Be. church lawn. Old and young are urged to attend to witness one of the greatest sights ever seen in our city.
A wartime era plea to support American women at home who endure pain and fatigue while keeping households orderly and children dressed. It highlights neglect of women’s health and urges aid to relieve their burdens.
Mrs F Ellsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs P Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report relief from chronic female trouble after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They say the remedy let them return to full daily work and urge other sick women to try it.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for females and has cured thousands of women troubled by displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing down feeling flatulence indigestion dizziness or nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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