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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1911
Page
4
Numerous residents are listed leaving for visits or returning home. Mrs. Tirapp travels to Wayland, Mrs. Hancock to Muscatine, Mr. and Mrs. Wilde head to Peoria, and several others visit relatives or relocate to Walnut, Washington, Davenport, or Colfax. The column notes sales, shop events, and local business ads amid a flurry of personal travel.
A series of brief items list residents and visitors. I C Schulty of Rubio visits the city. Jobin Batley and George Dempsey camp and fish at Rubio. Mrs Martha Swift travels to Trenton Missouri. Misses Inez and Wala Stuff arrive from Ainsworth. Misses Ella Conner and Aliee Starvey attend a missionary session in Fairfield. Mr and Mrs Ralph Lavington and children depart for Waterloo to visit Mr and Mrs Ira Sproull. Mrs Wo Kendall heads to Iowa City with granddaughter Dorothy Sutton. Also noted is the Civil War anniversary and a report of Dick Allen returning from the Iowa river camp with a fish haul for neighbors.
Austine reports a statewide vote on prohibition with campaigns led by both sides. Anti-prohibitionists expect a strong showing in urban centers like Dallas and Houston, while rural counties and the local option system shape the outcome. Public sentiment appears divided amid activist women and religious groups.
A July 22 hearing in Augusta, Maine considered the dissolution petition for Wellman-Chicago Records Potnt Expedition Company, formed years earlier to finance Walter Wellman’s proposed North Pole balloon dash. The party repeatedly visited Spitzbergen to start the dash, but start attempts were thwarted. Wellman later failed in an Atlantic crossing attempt with the balloon America.
London reports a summer festival in Stratford to entertain about 80 large as many American schoolmasters and teachers visiting Britain. The event runs from July 22 to August 12 or 15 with pageantry Morris dancing folk songs games and a children’s choir in a cultural program for Yankee educators.
Berlin July 22 Several hundred Americans will attend the inaugural Wagner festival in Bayreuth. The event runs daily through August 1 featuring Meistersingers Parsifal and the Nibelungen Ring performed by renowned artists and attracting admirers from around the world.
Baltimore July 22. The Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad will cut passenger rates from three cents to one cent per mile to compete with electric lines in its territory.
Messages of congratulations flood Cardinal Gibbons from around the world as he marks his seventy seventh birthday in Baltimore. The venerable prelate was also noting the semi centennial anniversary of his ordination as a priest.
A marriage license was issued on Thursday to John BE. Kupka and Miss Lortha Hesseltine in the local clerk of court records.
Announcement notes wall samples and styles will be ready in August for The Feast. It invites ladies to bring suits or garments for alterations or repairs, stating attention to busy season limits. Jean Huysmans referenced.
Mary Stewart returns to Denver after visiting at Miss Marion Stewart’s home. Rev L Coon will preach on New Wine and Old Wineskins at the Baptist church with choir special music. KF 1. Stewart spent today in Tarper on business and Mrs S K Statler and relatives visited at J Rothschilds. George Peck came home from Pierre SD after land viewing. D J Ross joined him and visited relatives in Traer IA.
A brief comic exchange shows a kindly old gentleman and a boy discussing a worm. The boy denies catching anything and quips about the worm not being a serious catch.
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