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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1905
Page
3
Showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow with cooler conditions. Northwest portions likely to stay cool tonight as the system moves through.
In Cedar Rapids area notes, Essie MacGugion visits, Miss Elsie Stapp arrives from Cotter, and many locals shop at Johnson's with ten cent cakes and spice cake. Visits, travel, and family news span Keota, Letts, Wayland, Ottumwa, Des Moines, and Davenport with social calls and receptions.
A man narrates tracking a $50 scarfpin believed stolen. He follows pawnshop clues to a wife who pawned the item to help a relative in trouble. The pursuit reveals the wife’s fear and guilt, ending with a tense confrontation and the detective abandoning his hobby.
In a century of Dutch tulip fever sales reached vast sums and bulbs traded as shares on exchanges. Legends tell of the brewery tulip, a dower bulb, a black tulip won by a man who refused large offers, and a rival syndicate buying the same gem only to crush it.
A philologist notes palindromes as words reading the same forward and backward. He cites examples like rotator and a long list from the English language, inviting readers to send new palindromes to the Palindrome Society of New York.
In a Paris hall at the Hotel de Ville Gambetta and Jules Favre faced a crowd as they prepared to read the proclamation of the third republic. The audience tore down a Napoleon II portrait and, after Gambetta intervened, turned it to the wall and he remarked that Napoleon II’s face had earned no more than that fate.
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