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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1905
Page
3
A Special to The Evening Journal reports Iowa’s weather for today and tomorrow. Generally fair tonight and Thursday with likely local thunder storms and continued warmth.
Miss Florence Johnson travels to Havre while Keck Floral Co offers Yellow Jersey sweet potato plants. Several locals visit Crawfordsville and Keota as families return from trips. Exposition news covers thousands visiting the Lewis and Clarke show with daily concerts by 221 Innes and band. Strawberry festivals and lawn socials planned by churches. A busy note of residents and events in June and July.
A lighthearted poem praises Lombardo’s sterilized ice cream as pure and delicious. The speaker, сиде at a window with a paper, contrasts news headlines with a desire for poetry and ends by urging friends to buy Lombardo’s treat.
A mosaic of brief, punchy exchanges from various papers. Spartacus and Smarticus debate color and mood, while Leonidas guards a pass at Thermopylae. Other lines reference Mrs. New Rich and student Bibles amid scattered captions from the Baltimore Eagle and Kansas City Drovers Telegram.
A brief, humorous cartoon style exchange from Washington Mirror and Cleveland Leader shows a bride and groom joking about married life and mid week prayer meetings with a punchline about house cleaning.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows Police Magistrate banter as Tufford Knutt, in for vag rancy, jokes about his mug being in the hall of fame at the police station. The exchange frames a light moment in a formal setting.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt shows a suitor winning consent as a father walks in on the couple. The scene ends with the wedding implied as the man claims to be “holding my own” while the father blesses their union.
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