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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1901
Page
4
A Brooklyn finance department member recalls a late night Fifth Avenue elevated ride where a demure commuter carried two bundles under arms. Roosters head and beak burst through the wrappings, crowing defiantly as the owner battled to hide them while others urged them released to the car floor.
The passage notes Macaulay as an almost nonstop talker who pours out vast knowledge with absorbing fervor. A dinner anecdote at Stafford House prompts a Duchess of Sutherland remark about his view of women, saying he regards them as interruptions.
Frank Leslie’s Magazine recounts how Edison organized a vast correspondence bureau sending thousands of letters to American and British consuls and scientists, enclosing platinum samples to map its locations and identify methods. The effort cost far from trivial, with 10 cent postage and valuable samples, yet it eased fears of depletion and earned scientific gratitude.
Indications favor building the Milwaukee cut-off from Muscatine to Ottumwa via Cone and Washington though no official statement has been made. Land around Muscatine has been bought, grade stakes unloaded at City Water Works, and cross sectioning begun with grade contracts to be let soon.
An eighty acre farm fourteen miles north of Washington offers sixty acres cultivated and the rest blue grass with eight acres of timber, a new house and barn, a never failing spring, new fences, and price eight thousand six hundred dollars. Terms seven years on fifteen hundred dollars with six percent interest. Inquire at Journal office or see N H Parker. Also, Knights of Pythias honored the deceased with limited grave decoration due to wet weather.
Funeral services for Juliett McConnell were held Saturday afternoon at three from her South Washington home with Rev. I. B Schreckengast officiating and the ME choir singing A burial followed in Elm Grove cemetery with pallbearers R T McCall D H Ballard A Hise J Park A Beanblossom N Beanblossom. The same day celebrated birthdays for Jas H Young John Wesley Morton Charles Hise Dr Dewey and Mrs Goley Hise. Miss Bessie Scofield hosted the Nineteenth Century club with an English study and papers read by members. next meeting set with Mrs H R Stark on June 29.
Gerald Bastia, at age 14, launches the Elmhurst Monthly Journal with help from his father and partial funds from the same source. He proclaims himself editor and proprietor, charging 25 cents a year in advance while boasting that his father’s subscription is marked paid a century ahead.
The laying of the corner stone of the new St James school will occur Wednesday at 10 o'clock with the Right Bishop Cosgrove of Davenport officiating. Services in the church start at 10, then at the school at 11 bishops and priests will give addresses. A dinner will be served by church ladies after the exercises.
Mrs Ellen Devine died Saturday night at 4 10 at her brother Michael Gillegan's East North street home from pneumonia. She was born in Meyo County Ireland about 60 years ago and lived in New York City before moving here more than 50 years ago. Her husband died a year after their marriage about 48 years ago. Funeral at St James church this morning at 9 conducted by Rev Jacobsmeier, burial at Kim Grove cemetery. Pallbearers listed. a small gathering followed at home for Prof Fred Whitney who departs to Osage this evening.
A compact listing shows household work wanted, a lost gold brooch, room rentals, property sales, and a Burlington Iowa real estate inquiry. Also offers travel excursions and promotional ads with dates, routes, fares, and sale notices.
Low excursion rates are available on the first and third Tuesday each month for trips to all points on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway north of Abbott Shell Rock and Waverly. Tickets are ONE FARE plus 82 with a 21 day limit. Information from Messrs lken Brooks Industrial and Immigration Agents Cedar Rapids Iowa. Joan G Fanmer A.G.P.&T.A. B.R.N. Ry Cedar Rapids Ia.
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