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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1910
Page
6
Gifford Pinchot, speaking to the Roosevelt club in St Paul, blasts both parties and argues conservation is a moral issue. He calls for stripping special interests from Congress, endorsing honest public service and full disclosure to restore government by people for human welfare.
The new United States court of customs appeals opens with five judges led by Presiding Judge Montgomery. About 225 cases are on docket, 108 set for argument as imports and tariff law interpretations vie with Aldrich-Payne and Dingley provisions. Also noted are per capita money figures, Ballinger-Glaight witness matters, Tillman’s health, army canteen debate, and a new Bureau of Mines bill awaiting Senate action.
Two old rivals agreed to shoot at thirty paces until one or both were killed. One fighter returns furious, claiming the other hid behind a tree to gain an unfair advantage. The responder recalls both men used a tree for cover.
A guest at Cyprus Hall McCormick shares a supper with a proud military officer. Cornmeal mush and milk are served in parallel to finish together. The officer stalls then runs out of milk, prompting a witty exchange. The comic episode foils the colonel for the remaining courses.
A fragmentary quotation from Frances Anne Kemble argues it is better to trust and be deceived than to doubt a heart that once blessed life with belief. The poem warns youth against cynicism and extols steadfast, hopeful faith in human fidelity.
An anecdote traces the father of Senator Dolliver of Iowa, a Methodist circuit rider in northern West Virginia, meeting a mattock bearing youth while preaching. The youth seeks groundhogs. the minister speaks of seeking lost sheep, prompting the boy to suspect a notable local.
A New England grammar school teacher found a composition by a fifteen-year-old girl about Henry W. Longfellow. It states he was born in Portland Maine while his parents traveled in Europe and names Phoebe and Alice Carey as his fastest friends.
A lawyer's clerk skips his routine whisky and clove after a saloon visit when cloves are absent. He eats a raw onion to mask the odor, but his employer detects the scent, exclaiming he endures whisky and clove but will not tolerate whisky and onions.
A husband detained at home gives his wife a quarter to buy three cigars. She returns with eight for a quarter, boasting that women can outbid men in purchases. The husband comments only that it is remarkable while taking his medicine. Oil City Blizzard reports.
A business man dined with a young acquaintance in a department store lunch room and left ten dollars for her dessert. He rushed to a train and asked for the change later. At home he found an envelope with cents spilled from the note, pondering what she ate for dessert.
Verlaine’s former friend Bibilapuree, an easygoing yet umbrella stealing poet’s companion, lived off care from painters, sculptors, and journalists. A fundraiser supported him after neglect set in, and at a banquet with twenty seven subscribers he wept and departed with all the umbrellas.
An old Idaho trapper in buckskin stands on a station platform as a railroad passes. A tenderfoot nearby notes the trousers bagging at the knees after rain snow and sun and asks why he does not jump.
A reflective excerpt argues that people vent complaints more than praise. It asserts human nature favors endurance over pleasure and that enduring hardship is often more thoughtful than enjoying contentment.
Higgins Wentworth meets three shipwrecked sailors who claim to be from the brig Maria. He tests their stories by assigning each to stand apart and reveals the captains named Williams Everett and Jones. He comments the sailors deserve their fate for sailing with three captains.
A bride and groom travel from the railway station toward their village for a honeymoon. The bride fears being mistaken for merely a seasoned couple as a horse throws a shoe causing a delay. The coachman explains the mishap, and the bride softly laments if even the hen knows they are married.
Park Rapids and Brookville women report long years of illness improved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials claim weight gain, regularity, steadier nerves, and general well being after use. The ad cites a large number of cures and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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