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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1906
Page
7
Georgia voters favor a combined approach for the 1908 presidential team. A rural route box may be made at home if plans and materials are submitted for approval to the local postmaster or higher offices, with a follow up committee evaluation and government approval required.
In Atlanta on July 18 the lower Georgia House adopted a resolution endorsing Jerome and Folk for the Democratic presidential team of 1908 after a talk by a New York district attorney. Folk spent only minutes with the body as sessions paused to discuss north south relations and sensational writing.
Treasury department reports a deficit of about 833000 in the accounts of the late Major George A Bartlett disbursing officer. About 14000 dollars is said to have been paid from fraudulent vouchers by James W Soya, a marine hospital service clerk now jailed awaiting trial for misappropriating government funds.
A watchman’s neglect caused a leak in the North Sea dyke that could have been halted by a child’s finger, resulting in a ruinous breach and province-wide devastation in Holland. Kenneth Melver of Vanceland Me appeals for Dr. King’s New Discovery after near fatal lung inflammation from an unnoticed cold. His letter praises the medicine and its life saving effect.
A humorous patchwork of social jabs and village humor woven from newspapers. Snippets include barbed exchanges about cars and mortgages, a tourist and a farmer joke about autos, a czar and dean pun, and a lodging exchange about noisy proximity to a station.
A woman who bought a fifty four piece dinner service for £13s learns from her housemaid the next day that the bargain has grown to 1,125 pieces. The tale, told in Punch's humorous tone, mocks inflated packaging claims.
In a mineralogy class exchange, student Johnnie refers to a diamond as the ace, with the remark invoking the term tatier. The dialogue centers on identifying the largest known diamond in a classroom context.
A dialogue from Ally Sloper shows a father objecting to his daughter’s marriage while the suitor cites being destitute as a reason. The comic frame presents witty confrontation between a resolute father and a pragmatic suitor.
Mrs Alden a clubwoman famed for uplifting the lower classes offers a tramp a wood breakfast to test his literacy and wit. She asks for a sawed wood breakfast and the visitor corrects her grammar in a sly reversal of power.
Ringling Brothers circus offers special excursion rates for Ottumwa on July 2. The show promises a new grand production with 375 artists, 650 horses, a living giraffe pair, a baby elephant, and the Field of the Cloth of Gold pantomime. The parade opens the day, three miles long, and many features follow.
Round trip fare from Chicago to Chautauqua Lake and return set at 14 dollars. Travel date July 27 with return by August 28. Tickets available at Chicago City Ticket Office 107 Adams Street and LaSalle Street Station the sole elevated loop depot.
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