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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1912
Page
7
A brief listing shows subscription terms for Washington Mutual, including weekly monthly and quarterly rates and advance yearly option. The notice specifies per week and per month pricing, with three months and yearly plans in advance.
Los Angeles June 7. The Darrow trial touches on whether Samuel Gompers faced federal prosecution in the dynamite investigation. Burns denies charges and says the Burns agency is not involved. District Attorney Fredericks says no charges against Gompers and notes Darrow's case aims to prove his crime. In San Quentin James and John McNamara lose jail credits for failing to perform assigned tasks.
New York reports a June feature at the McAlpin hotel offering an exclusive women’s floor. The idea came from Anne Morgan daughter of J P Morgan. Great Falls Montana notes the town’s first baby twins and a 13 child family.
A grain show exchange probes why seed barley costs nine dollars a bushel while other barley trades at sixty five cents. The young speaker questions seed selection and market factors affecting crop value and profitability in a brief exchange.
Farmers are urged to separate weather damaged barley and either feed it on the farm or ship it separately as the best barley commands a higher price than ordinary grades.
Frank E. Wright, publisher of Bibles and educational works, debuts a new Websterian 1912 Dictionary Illustrated with a coined word spizzerinktum praised by Dr. Peck. The term means intense energy and the drive to succeed, added after Wright reluctantly allowed its inclusion. Journal readers receive six coupons and a bonus to obtain the book.
A reflective maxim attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson emphasizes humans strive despite failure. It frames perseverance as noble and gratitude as natural after small rewards like cake or a buffet. The tone is aphoristic and conveys encouragement.
Advice warns that losing temper leads to bitterness and lasting anguish if one speaks in anger. urges restraint until emotions cool to prevent harm and regret.
City bus line instruction requests callers to dial phone number 589 to place orders and have them promptly attended to by Frank Rogers. Include street name and number when leaving orders.
Cape Charles Virginia June 8. Andrew Crothers and Lilliston Crothers a bridal couple both aged 67 and 65 left for New York to spend their honeymoon. They were youth sweethearts at Adamston Virginia parted forty years ago with Crothers becoming a Nevada mine prospector and amassing a fortune. They reunited after decades of separation and were married at Adamston by Rev. Joseph Harris. They will reside in Nevada.
The passage describes the Chinese salutation as clasping the left and right hands, waving them up and down, and bowing deeply. It notes that extra respect may be shown by bowing very low while swinging the clasped hands back and forth.
Buffalo hosts the opening of the New York State Spiritualists Association annual meeting. Mediums and clairvoyants convene for a three day session promising spirit phenomena, continuing a movement that began in Rochester with the Fox sisters despite fraud exposures.
Twelve Alabama delegates with half votes favoring Roosevelt were rejected by the Republican committee. Six Taft at large delegates were seated. Borah charged a gag rule as Roosevelt allies accused a Taft pact with Alabama officials. Roosevelt's camp mobilized with Senator Flinn as representative to Chicago.
A boy rushes up with a quirky line about a wife’s instruction to fetch a ham if selling that love gang. If the ham won’t buy one, perhaps a can of salmon would suffice. The speaker, a poet, pauses as the boy speaks in haste.
A short comic exchange has one comedian joke that clocks run when wound but a business firm stalls, prompting the other to urge giving it up. The brief bit plays on timing and business lingo with quick punchlines.
June 8 marked the opening of a three day Festival of Flowers at Coney Island New York. Organizers replaced confetti with buds and blossoms for the celebrations promising a more poetical spring carnival on the sea shore. Those unable to afford flowers are excluded from the festival.
German battleship crews were ordered aboard the fleet today in Norfolk Virginia and the fleet sails for New York where it is due Sunday.
S. B. Dewey in Oklahoma possesses a ticket with Indian names such as Principal Chifer and Henry Red Eagle. The ticket, sent to Mr. Dewey Chas Stephens, was used at the Osage election and, according to Stephens, the Prague ticket, with nominees like Phe-tsa-more and E-stah-o-gre-ehe, was voted in and elected.
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