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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
6
Aunt Sue's brocade dress triggers a family storm over money and status. Lamdin children reveal how the gown sparks vanity, retail pressure, and foreclosures, ending with Mrs. Lamdin renouncing luxury. She warns her children to avoid sailing under false colors and vows frugal resolve.
Horticulturists visiting Holland report soil in the land reclaimed from the Zuyder Zee yields remarkable tulips. The writer credits deep planting and abundant water as the two main factors, describing a rich soil mix of loam sand and manure, a six inch root depth, and a two inch standing water period before drainage, with bulbs producing robust single Gesneriana blooms.
The School Garden movement expands beyond rural areas into Manhattan schools. Pupils plant flowers and vegetables in yard plots or portable boxes when space is limited. The School Garden Association led by Van Evrie Kilpatrick reports growing engagement, with a class at P. S. 54 on Amsterdam Avenue near 104th Street shown tending a patch.
Excerpt describes universal love of gardens in Japan from children making toy gardens to soldiers shaping landscapes near tents and emperors joining monasteries in Kioto. It notes priests nobles court youths practicing landscape art rules, with scarce garden book production before the restoration, cited from Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore's The Famous Gardens of Kioto.
Over 50,000 Oregon children are busy making gardens in a state program aimed at teaching the dignity of labor. The superintendent leads the effort with plans provided to parents and teachers statewide for implementation.
Boston’s Mrs. Margaret Kelly is cited as the city’s only woman contractor while Mrs. Jane Appleby of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at eighty, has amassed over a quarter million dollars from cattle ventures, becoming the Cattle Queen of Oklahoma. Plans unfold for a women’s trade school in El Paso funded by Frank B. Cotton’s will to aid needy southern women. In Berlin’s recent report there are over 172 certified women doctors in Germany, with growing female participation in medicine and dentistry. law remains scarce. The Egyptian Woman's League forms in Alexandria to defend women’s interests and push for schools. Oliver Smith’s 1845 will has distributed $282,000 to brides in western Massachusetts and supported widows. Dr Ethel Fraser becomes Denver’s first woman county physician. Pauline Orr of Columbus, Mississippi, is named trustee of Sewanee’s new college for women, joining a male-dominated instruction committee.
Science seeks a noiseless world as Prof Blake of Harvard Medical School warns that urban noise causes nervous prostration brain exhaustion and deafness. Mothers should watch for loose bowels in children this summer. timely care can prevent trouble with Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
C. B. and Q Arrive No 8 Passenger 9 27 am No 91 Accommodation 10 15 am No 0 Passenger 6 05 pm Depart No 10 Passenger 9 37 am No 92 Accommodation 10 30 am No 4 Passenger 6 40 pm All trains daily except Sunday J EL KUNATH Agent
Women who bear children and remain healthy prepare their systems in advance of birth. The ad claims pre-natal support by Mother's Friend reduces pain and muscle strain, prevents numbness, and aids recovery, urging expectant mothers to use it and request a free booklet from Bradfield Regulator Co. ATLANTA GA.
fragmented OCR shows train numbers and times for No 12 and No 8 passenger services on the southwest line with a Broadgate agency reference. details unclear due to errors but indicates schedule entries and agent F. L. Broadgate.
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