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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1912
Page
5
Local residents head to Des Moines and Muscatine for visits and business. Families and friends, including J. A. Y. Ashby Gerald and Miss Bessie Hanft, arrive in town or depart for brief trips. Advertisements feature Rice Flakes and a drawing service by W. W. F. Haight.
Special tomorrow at Schmidt's 60th Anniversary Sale a 200 piano for 158 including bench and scarf. Local notices mention visits, ball games, and community events with multiple names and towns noted in Keokuk Gate City dated July 22.
Schmidt's marks a 50th Anniversary Sale with $50 to $75 off every piano on the floor. Each instrument is fully guaranteed and sold on easy terms. Also notes new Cedar Rapids bungalow purchase by Mr. and Mrs. W H Asher and a Washington city block census record of 52 children in East Washington.
Local ad notes 200 sacks of Old Wheat Flour priced at $1.50 per sack with a satisfaction guaranteed refund policy. The item appears alongside notices of guests, travel, theater staff changes, and church conference plans across Iowa and nearby towns.
Dr. G M Gould of Ithaca reports a friend with an eye condition who can read a page of any book in a glance and absorb six best sellers in about an hour. He also notes his habit on newspapers and magazines and cites Dr A Magnet of Paris on cornea preservation for transplants.
The Engineering and Mining Journal notes a rising pig iron output with May production exceeding 30 million tons annually. If trends hold, 1912 may be the highest year on record for iron and steel. prices rose yet demand remains strong as stocks are drawn down across regions from Pennsylvania and the Mahoning and Chenango valleys to the lake district.
The Costa Rican government asks the United States to provide army engineers for preliminary surveys and cost estimates to develop Punta Arenas on the Pacific coast. Costa Rica hopes Congress will authorize temporary service for American officers, aiming to foster west coast trade after the Panama Canal opens. Punta Arenas is a key terminus on the Nicoya gulf and one of the few seasonable harbors on the coast.
German authorities use singing to reform long term inmates at Moabit prison in Berlin. Talented prisoners form a nightly class in the center corridor and sing sacred songs that echo through galleries and cells. Sundays bring a prison chapel chorus gathering.
Richard Croker sent a new hybrid tea rose named Mrs Andrew Carnegie to the national rose show in Aberdeen. The flower, a cross of F. K. Druschki and Nephetos, is very fragrant and tall with a delicate lemon white shade and sizable blooms.
Elinor Fenwick, haunted by a tale of tradition, awaits Donald Ware’s return and a possible reunion. A roadside rescue by Elinor saves a child as Ware arrives back in town, revealing a shared past, a future, and a child they both own.
A famed critic with a sharp tongue tells an artist his latest work is worthless. The artist replies that he already knows, but wants the critic’s opinion anyway, during a reception at the Berliner Zeitung exhibition space.
A historical note recalls Bavaria's 1769 landowner order to plant fruit trees along roadsides. The piece envisions a similar public-spirited movement in America, imagining springtime walks beneath blossoming orchards and a national pride in tree-lined landscapes.
Cannas thrive in hot sun and even shade with fewer blooms in shade. Plant 18 inches apart in rich soil mixed with well rotted manure and water freely as they grow. Space by height with tall varieties center and dwarfs at edges. Choose single color beds with borders like salvia. Transplants from greenhouse should wait until frost danger passes.
The piece argues that small towns often have only one park and that scientific planning can multiply its perceived size and value. It emphasizes natural landscape beauty and varied terrain as core elements, with roads, paths, and vegetation serving to enhance but not define the park. Man-made features come after the natural landscape and plant life.
The Los Angeles Herald notes a garden or park cannot be completed quickly and must be planted properly with knowledge, experience, ingenuity, and art. It warns against amateur layouts and emphasizes correct placement and spacing by an expert.
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