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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1907
Page
8
A resident died of illness and his wife, believing it wrong for a woman to live after her husband, attempted suicide to join him. She carried out the act the same night, aged twenty. Korea Daily Times reports.
In New Orleans near a swamp the headless body of Walter Lamana, a seven to eight year old Italian suze ransom victim, was found. Five Italians, including two women, are jailed as suspects with vigilantes guarding Orleans Parish Prison. A key confession described a boy’s strangling after crying to return home.
The Washington Supreme Court reversed a $400 award to Lewis A. Chase, a colored man, against Rudolph Knabel of Tacoma. Chase, who had eaten there for fourteen years, was ejected after at least one female patron felt annoyed. court finds no civil rights denial and says a restaurant may eject disruptive patrons.
A British parliamentary committee finds small graft in the navy and defective work on a battleship. Count von Posadowsky-Wehner resigns as German interior secretary and vice chancellor. A Denver grand jury returns about seventy indictments against men across Colorado Wyoming Nebraska New Mexico Utah Nevada Wisconsin and Missouri for coal and timber land frauds.
The piece explains level shooting for vertical structures and intentional tilting for subjects like clouds or water. It notes upside down framing can yield strong images and warns against hand held time exposures due to heart movement. It also suggests shooting from the side for candid group poses without subjects noticing.
The article instructs to seek fresh air immediately, break or cover windows if needed, and use a cloth to clear airways. Outside to inside cases beware inhaling fresh air first, wet a towel for nose and mouth, then enter to open vents. If breathing continues, use hot and cold baths. if stopped, perform artificial respiration.
Recipe for chicken mold using an older fowl. Simmer with onion cloves peppercorns and ham until tender, strain stock reduce, shred meat, mix with stock return bones for flavor, mold the mixture overnight then unmold and garnish with parsley.
Instructions for a home crafted furniture polish using brown and white beeswax turpentine Castile soap water and a jam jar. The mixture is melted boiled combined and cooled to form a thick air tight cream that yields a deep glow without finger marks on old furniture.
A Washington Star report lauds a locally famous girl for a labor saving eyelet technique. She runs the eyelet around trims it end to end then buttonholes, making deep stitches that edge the eyelet while reversing the stitch. The method is about one fifth as hard as the standard way.
Instructions advise applying a tight bandage above the bite and between the wound and the heart. If no physician is available, cut the wound edges or cauterize with nitrate of silver. Wash with whiskey or bichloride of mercury solution and keep the bandage in place for several hours.
Cleaning tip advises sprinkling carpets with dairy salt or coarse Indian meal to trap dust. Slightly damp meal is swept with firm broom strokes to reduce airborne dust and keep floors clearer.
A Cedar Grove man praises Electric Bitters after suffering liver and kidney troubles. He says one bottle helped and three bottles cured him, posted by Stewart's Pharmacy who guarantee the remedy for stomach liver and kidney issues at 50 cents.
Grand Haven life saving crew man Ole Metkild searched June 22 for his father Martin Metkild who left Grand Haven on a car ferry to Frankfort on June 11 and has not been seen since. Local belief holds he was drowned from the steamer. he was an old Northport resident.
Frank J F Woller longtime clerk of Milwaukee municipal court pleaded guilty to embezzling eighty thousand dollars. Judge Hrazee sentenced him to three years hard labor in Milwaukee county house of correction.
The bodies of Calvo and Vico, famed Spanish actors, were buried in the Pantheon of illustrious men. The ceremonies drew many theater celebrities and mourners.
John Garrett of North Mills North Carolina says a sore resisted treatment for forty years until Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it and made him happy. Stewart's Pharmacy guarantees the salve for pies burns and other common injuries.
The body of 5 year old Mary Newnan was found buried in the back yard of her stepfather Irwin A. Lewis's home in Westchester Pennsylvania. Lewis has been arrested pending the investigation.
The tenth annual session will be held in Joplin, Missouri from November 11 to 14. James I Callbreath Jr of Denver, secretary of the American Mining Congress, officially called the meeting noting it will be the largest gathering of mining men to date.
A Branchton Pennsylvania man, once unable to work or bend to tie his shoes, credits Foley's Kidney Cure with a complete recovery. He reports becoming a new man after using six bottles and wishes success to the remedy, with druggists selling it nationwide.
Salvatore Gouvernale an Italian was sentenced to be killed by electricity at Sing Sing prison the week of Aug 5 for the murder of Policemen Selleck and Sechler on April 15. After shooting at another Italian he was pursued by officers in plain clothes and a mob. He killed both officers in a hallway.
Advertisement from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo offering one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. Claims the ear problems stem from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous membranes, urging readers to send for circulars and buy Hall's pills for constipation.
In Wilmington Delaware 5000 people witnessed the unveiling of a memorial statue for Thomas F. Bayard. Ex-President Cleveland’s address was read by John Bassett Moore after Cleveland’s illness prevented his attendance. Secretary Straus represented Roosevelt and praised Bayard's service to the nation.
Four drivers at the state fair grounds endurance race set new world marks led by Frank Kulick of Detroit with 1135 miles. Lytle, Coey, and Gardham also surpassed previous records, while Eddie Bald and Kid McCoy exited early and Lytle narrowly escaped injury when his car hit the fence on a turn.
R 8 Shields as administrator of Abner McKinley's estate sues Anna Allen and her daughter Mabel Baer to set aside a 1904 Canton transfer to Abner's wife. He alleges Insolvency and fraud to defraud creditors totaling about $60,000. The petition claims that the estate's value cannot satisfy debts, though a one fifth share of the William McKinley estate may cover claims.
Evansville Railways formed with $1,000,000 capital merges Evansville Rockport and Eastern with Evansville and Mount Vernon Railway. Traction lines unified. extension planned to Cannelton and potential through to Louisville.
Dr Henry S Hutchinson son of a prominent citizen in Philadelphia died by self inflicted razor wound in a Lansdowne field. An affectionate letter to his father was found near the body.
Chicago June 24. Receivership proceedings against the Chicago New York Air Line company begun by stockholder Theodore Nemeyer have been dismissed by Judge Windes in the circuit court for want of jurisdiction.
Captain Richard Wainwright, currently serving on naval boards in Washington, has been selected to command the battleship Louisiana. He will succeed Captain Cowden, who is to be promoted to rear admiral.
East Liverpool Ohio population 24000 voted dry in a Beal law election the largest Ohio city to adopt local option. The June 24 vote marks a historic turn toward prohibition in this city.
Parry L. Wright, born in 1858 in Indianapolis, vice president and general manager of Luxfer Prism, died after collapsing on the golf course at Homewood Country Club in Chicago on June 24.
The bag of mail, thrown from a Chicago train, was left in the Birmingham station waiting room overnight and stolen. The bag is normally emptied at the post office, and the reason it was left there is unknown.
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