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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
5
The column records visitors such as J. M. Bratten and B. F. Dixon in Lexington, local sales at The Fair with new patterns and water coolers, and residents like Dr Luella Shaw, A J Gardner, and Miss Muriel Cullumber visiting relatives. Travel mentions include Andrew Bowie to Cincinnati Iowa and J G Latta to Linton ND.
In a neighborly tale Jack and Evelyn recount two clever dogs Watch a border collie and Spot a fox terrier. Watch brings home the newspaper but Spot mimics him until their master learns and locks the gate.
Mrs Boyd Berdo entertained the Ready Maids at her South Marion avenue home with a pleasant social afternoon and luncheon. Out of town guests included Miss Ethel Moran of Chicago and Miss Mabel Mason of Washington Pennsylvania. Mrs Lem Cherry hosted the Navajo club afternoon party on North Marion avenue honoring Misses Margaret and Gertrude Smith of Yorkville Ohio with other ladies and a guest, Mrs West of Omaha Nebraska.
Notice of a Friday 7 30 PM class reunion planning gathering at Miss Edith Rownd home East Washington street. Lynn Baker president urges all members to attend. Also Home Missionary Society to meet with Mrs Etta Brinton tomorrow at 2 30 PM for a general meeting.
About twenty members of the Douglas Automobile Club spent a Sunday east of Douglas repairing roads with shovels and crow bars. The Bisbee Automobile Club has been working on road improvements between Bisbee and Douglas, with other towns planning similar efforts on Sundays.
Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge will head the party in a temporary capacity as discussions continue on a permanent chairman appointment. The journal notes Beveridge’s experience and leadership during this interim period.
A nostalgic verse extols a drugstore soda fountain as gleaming and beloved. It lauds the marble cold counter and the skilled clerk whose dignified, reserve attitude presides over the fountain while he blends lemon and quince extracts to fizz.
Investigation at leper colonies in Guam and Hawaii over the past year identifies the lepra bacillus as the real cause of leprosy, ending a forty year dispute since Hensen first claimed a specific germ.
A heavy Mikado freight engine being moved through Washington to Horton Kansas derailed in Rock Island yards. TheIrreparable damage twisted the engine and tender, wrecked rails, and halted yard operations. Four engines of this type were moved through Washington last night, with another left behind. Rock Island had recently purchased fifty such engines.
A dialogue notes a dentist proposing to sever a tooth nerve while the patient withdraws, citing tenderness. The exchange appears in Meggendorfer Blätter, reflecting a sardonic or sensitive medical moment.
Francis Bacon argues that unlike other pleasures knowledge has no satiety and that satisfaction and appetite continually interchange. He claims knowledge is good in itself, existing without fallacy or accident due to its perpetual hunger.
The Snouffer Hughes & company store is under renovations to improve light and ventilation after moving the stairway and office, redecorating, and installing new railings. Manager Harry Ward oversees the project to ease work for employees and enhance customer service once complete.
Labor notes report Scranton PA workers striking again after concessions, San Francisco trades demanding an eight hour day on August 26, and Congress backing a proposed Department of Labor. Debate over industrial commissions and pauper labor continues, while textile mills in New Bedford detail multi‑mill operations and strike impacts on spindles and looms.
China imports about 250000 worth of toothbrushes from Osaka yearly with US purchases around 1000000. Canada, Australia, India and several European nations also supply. Toothpowder making flourishes in Hong Kong and other open ports as foreign goods rise in urban demand.
A playful fashion snippet extols Turkish toweling as the season’s latest item. It imagines opera cloaks made from bath rugs and lists creative uses for everyday cloths from sponge to dishcloth as chic accessories.
Fragmentary lines describe a scene with a laundry bag an auto hood and cakes of soap. The text references Minna Irving and a judge but provides no clear event or outcome. The fragment hints at dialogue or stage directions without full context or specifics.
The Ohio State Journal reflects on periods of extreme gloom in society describing churchgoers sharing a pew and the sense of collective melancholy as a man in the same pew blows his nose.
A casual exchange about handling coffee spills on a table cloth leads to a reminder that the cleaner will notice stains during cleanup. The dialogue mentions being in the office at the time, implying routine spill management.
Little Marjorie Louise sits on her grandmother's knee and declares she longs to grow up and become a big lady with corns, in a playful Harper's Bazar sentiment.
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