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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1911
Page
5
Miss Amy Ri hards of Cotter arrives to spend the day, Ada on a sales page teases, Lillian Harris of Rockwood visits relatives, and many others from Keota West Chester Fairfield and Muscatine are seen in town. Local clergy, merchants, and families host and travel, with piano tuner Tottens and remodels discussed.
The Park Service will be held tomorrow evening at 7 30 in the park if weather permits. Rev S K Greer will preach on A Plea for Christian Character. If weather fails, the service moves to the First United Presbyterian Church.
Miss Mabel Pilling of Denver Colorado arrives as physical director and children's story teller at the Chautauqua session. Her background includes Yale study and head of physical culture in Des Moines with years of successful Chautauqua work.
A satirical note asserts no man should be accepted as a husband who cannot bring home bacon even if it costs thirty cents a pound. The remark underscores traditional domestic expectations and gender roles in a humorous tone.
Jack McKeone opened a new road across from South Iowa Avenue to the Elm Grove Cemetery main entrance. The road is praised as a beauty though a 90 mile per hour limit is announced for drivers. Pleasant Plains Missionary Society to meet at Mrs. Thomas Perdo’s home Wednesday afternoon August 2 at 2 o clock. Queen Esther Circle of the M BE church to meet Monday evening with Miss Acny Foules.
A volunteer group of Princeton alumni and educators fund a Wilson campaign headquarters in New Jersey. The effort aims to mobilize university alumni coast to coast to back Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic nomination.
A young woman who enlisted for the war was found with soldiers at Lafayette as General Beauregard’s aides, one reading a communication in the Confederate congress about capturing Washington. A massacre at sea was reported near Port Glasgow, Scotland as two hundred armed Chinese boarded the Dutch steamship Hok of Can.
A rainy day did not dampen sociable events in town. Congregants and guests gathered at the church for a Christmas event then moved to the Dawson home on Jefferson Street for a reception with a formal tea, dining room color schemes, and multiple hostesses assisting guests including Mrs. Owen Wilson and Miss Billa Woodford.
The piece argues national literature is found in popular drama where picture and action convey meaning to readers. It cites Greek tragedians Euripides and Shakespeare among great dramatists like Dante, Pope de Vega, Goethe, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, and notes Shakespeare’s enduring influence.
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