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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1903
Page
3
The forecast calls for fair conditions Thursday with local thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight and a slight cooling trend in the northwest portion tonight.
A collection of brief society items notes arrivals departures and visits from Means and Stichter and many residents including M Eicher in Brighton K A Burnell Newton visiting Fairfield Frank Wells G W Dye in Chicago and Miss Edith Baughman visiting Oskaloosa Miss Martha Walker en route Colfax and others heading to Winona Lake Ind Edna Houston Ella Kyle and other local residents are mentioned in various trips to Des Moines Oskaloosa Colfax Davenport and Rock River with family visits and church assignments.
Otto Dede leaves for Chicago to study fall tailoring styles and visit friends for ten days. Mrs Harriet Boultton and Mrs John Beamer with daughter Jeanette return from Sigourney. Elizabeth Mark of Le Claire travels via Wapello and Grandview en route home. The Rich sisters visit Sigourney. Heatrice Smith joins. Dudley Crone returns from the Davenport bankers convention. Washington crowd to return tonight. Glenn Shinnebarger returns to Muscatine from visiting J T Matthews. Harvey Matthews accompanies him. Elsie Walker departs for Rockford Illinois on the Firefly. Mr Walker accompanies to Davenport. Winfield girls host a swimming parlor match. boys complain. D Burts heads to Seattle for next spring. Mary Cummins also travels. Joseph and Mrs Dawson depart for Colorado Springs and Hustle to visit son Oscar.
A fine residence property offered for quick sale at a big bargain. Inquiries encouraged at this location.
Mrs S A White and Mrs H O Evans invite guests to an afternoon at the White residence 415 West Washington Thursday. Mrs Edward Bovee entertained Miss Bess Quacken bush of LeSeuer Minn with eight covers. Miss Elsie Walker of Rockford was honored by Mrs S M McCleery on North Marion avenue with a three course luncheon for a group of young ladies including Lola Wells Lucy Wilson Rose MacGugin Winifred Hood Nellie Wilson Lulu Laughead Edith Baughman Hope Ott Stella Cunningham. Miss Eva Penny to host P EB 0 society tomorrow night. Mr and Mrs John Babcock hosted a dinner in honor of Mrs B E S Ely of Rockford Ill who has visited locally. a sumptuous course was served and all enjoyed the evening.
The Franklin Center Sunday School will host an ice cream supper Thursday evening to raise funds for an organ. Everyone is welcome to attend.
From August 1 to 14 the Iowa Central Railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Portland Seattle Tacoma Victoria and Vancouver for 45 dollars. Tickets may be used for return by October 15 1903 with stopovers in both directions and the option to take a different return route. For details contact A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn. August 15.
Regular meeting of Chapter 1 P E O Society will be held Thursday evening July 30 at 7 30 o clock at the home of Miss Eva Denny on West Second Street.
Mrs Edward Goble of Eldon visits Ralph Kellar on East Main Street with other relatives in the city. Mr Rolley of Newton is noted as a business visitor in town.
Von Sieben applied for a patent from Magdeburg fortress after being imprisoned for a duel. While serving five years, the 21 year old lieutenant kept a prison laboratory and, ten months later, perfected galvanic gilding and secured a patent with a pardon.
A Philadelphia schoolteacher discusses harmful occupations and health effects in physiology papers. He cites carpentry gas exposure, lungs from stone chipping, and mechanical work harming health, noting the term function misused by students and defining skin perspiration and heart functions in simple terms.
Four medical students recount a strange tale in which Waterhouse narrates a near escape during an attempted forcible removal of a supposed insane aunt. The narrator debates the plausibility as Waterhouse produces a revolver linked to an asylum, sparking a twist that the event occurred as a dream during a clock's toll. The wedding reveals the garden gate meeting led to a match and justified interference.
An observer recalls General Grant returning after Lee's surrender with little crowd present. He seated himself to write and quipped, More of Grant's luck, a rare restrained expression of triumph from a victorious soldier on a momentous feat.
A compact survey traces how kings and queens from William the Conqueror to Victoria and Napoleon used chess as a favored pastime. It notes Napoleon’s temper in defeat and Elizabeth I’s era’s royal leisure, illustrating chess as a timeless royal amusement.
Moderation in exercise is urged as healthy and prudent, while overexertion drains powers and can lead to serious illness or mental and bodily failure. The question of why the weak show inferiority to the strong remains relevant today, noted from the London Hospital perspective.
A man tells his wife that fortune will come in time while she jokes that fortune must visit the club and send a card. The exchange underscores hopeful resolve and light domestic humor in a Chicago setting.
The clipping presents a terse dialogue about a problematic cook with a husband and wife exchange from the Detroit Free Press, noting the wife will stay until a replacement is found. A caution about threats to self when facing enmity appears from the Atchison Globe.
The text states maggots do not cause wood rot but indicate destruction by decay. It describes maggots as scavengers feeding on rotten wood and notes germs feed on tissue as scavengers.
A New Zealand ivy tree is described with a thick short trunk and heavy branches. It is not a climbing plant.
In Na tal pineapples flood the season to the point of excess. Farmers forgo marketing and often feed the fruit to pigs rather than haul it to market.
The advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as transforming weakness into strength and listlessness into energy. It claims mental power and overall health benefits with a price of 25 cents per box sold by Stewart's Pharmacy.
Farmers are urged to arrange tile work now for fall or early spring. John Shields & Son invites inquiries by writing, phone, or visit at 31126.
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