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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1920
Page
8
We thank neighbors and friends for helpful assistance at the death of Joseph M. Snider. Tributes of flowers were especially appreciated. Mrs. Joseph M. Snider and family.
A copper alloy brick tipped with a thin gold veneer fools buyers. Cad sellers mix zinc and gold paint with mercury to create a convincing shine. heated mercury evaporates leaving a varnish layer called gilding wax for a convincing luster.
Insects and plants yield shellac, a resin exuded by tiny red insects about one twenty fifth of an inch long. The insects suck plant juices, swell with resin, which encases them. After swarming, resin is scraped, ground, washed, mixed with colophony and ornament, cooked slowly and drawn into thin sheets of shellac.
A reader quote from the Indianapolis Star argues newspapers are not guilty of prevarication as long as they verify every statement with proof. The remark reflects concerns over journalistic standards and accuracy.
Local column lists taxi service, shoe shop, sugar buy, butter fat test, and fresh eggs with prices. Mentions baggage service, phone contact, and several residents visiting relatives or traveling to Washington, Muscatine, Keota, Columbus Junction, and Moline. Notices include public dumping guidance, water bill delay, and K P meeting reminder.
Homer R Murray advertises two years experience in income tax work as a government employee He explains how to show actions on returns to avoid taxes Get figures ready for him to complete your return Office is over Lytles Grocery East Side Square Washington Iowa 1014
Classified notice lists Arthur Goodin funeral director and Lydia Hellam chiropractor with hidden business location details and phone numbers 64tt and 559 Black respectively. Indicates local professional services possibly from a community directory or ad.
Daily brief items list residents and visitors in Washington Iowa and vicinity. Names include Clarence Dodds, James Morrison, Walter Jennings, Lola and Gladys Crone, Lola Crone, M. T. Karns, Coye Karns, and C. E. Rarick. Mentions auctions, sales, travel, and a funeral in Little York Illinois.
Par m for sale. One of the best 160 acre farms in Howard County. Land praised as very good with fair improvements. Price implied as a bargain for buyers seeking an Iowa farm. Contact J. W. Warner at Room 307 Farmers and Merchants Bank Building, Washington Iowa.
Washington county farms witness a busy day as hundreds of farm deals from last fall and winter are closed. Mortgages renewals deeds and related papers rush through banks attorneys offices and the county recorder’s office as transfers are finalized.
March 1 Crawfordsville reports the death of Miss Sarah Crawford with funeral services held at 2:30 p.m. at United Presbyterian Church. Attendants included Rev. G. W. Hanna and Rev. W. G. Robertson. local and visiting relatives listed among attendees. Also noted is Mrs. Samuel Turkington Sr injured in a windstorm accident, breaking her collar bone, while Miss Nel lie Davis and Mildred Munson visited in Washington.
G B Martin buys 240 acres from uncle Wesley Smith, creating 480 acres along both sides of a road near the shipping station and county seat. Garden City Kansas reports land boom at $200 per acre. Brumbach & Dayton acquire Imple ment store and lots. Stouffer of 76 buys Charlie Seaberry property and will relocate next spring. W H Conger buys 2.5 acres from James Hennon. Richard Disney and family move to 80 acres near Lee Craig. Philip Ulrich of Ottumwa visits on Saturday. School is back in session and residents are able to be out.
The United Presbyterian church will spend almost five million dollars on foreign missions in the New World Movement. Funds cover Egypt India and the Sudan with allocations of 3.095 million for Egypt, 1.359 million for India, 347 thousand for the Sudan, and 104 thousand for cooperative work. The campaign to raise the total over 16 million will run from April 25 to May 2.
Two Western Australia prospectors camping near Coolgardie far a quarter century ago awoke to a restless horse. One man tripped over a boulder in the dark and uncovered almost pure gold, starting the Coolgardie gold rush.
The earliest Egyptian kings built underground tombs rather than pyramids. The tomb of Aha or Mena at Naqada measures 175 feet by 175 feet with 21 brick chambers, wood tinting, and occasional stone flooring like King Den at Rhizos which features a granite floor, the earliest use of stone.
A grizzly bear eats, grows, and receives new teeth similar to humans. Dentistry is said to be more common in America than elsewhere. In a notable case a bear from a well known menagerie wore a full set of false teeth, requiring the plates to be fitted into the animal’s mouth by its owner.
Boyd B. Berdo announces sale of 60 head of cows and heifers at his location on Sola Avenue by March 4. All stock for sale. Potential buyers invited to view. Phone 534 Red 1116.
For sale items include straw by Clay Walton contact West Chester mutual with code 1deodt6 and good horses listed under A Potratz with code 10tdeod. No additional details provided.
An English woman physician in a lunatic asylum admitted last year to a nurse that she had inserted a needle into her heart. An autopsy after her August death revealed two needles embedded in the heart.
The piece notes 240,162,043 needles were produced in the United States last year. It suggests calculating labor hours saved if those needles had been used at the right moment, invoking the proverb that time saves nine to imply efficiency for women nationally.
The 1551 publication The Bug Bible includes the line Afraid of bugs by night, paralleling the King James Bible phrase Terror by night. The note highlights linguistic parallels between early insect texts and biblical phrasing for nighttime fear imagery.
In Bano Africa the editor disregards circulation costs and prints news by smoothing stilks of wood into slabs. He writes in editor style and the office boy posts the slabs publicly where readers can see them.
A kernel of popcorn contains densely packed starch grains inside many tiny cells. When heated, moisture turns to steam, building pressure until the grain explodes, turning inside out into a snow white mass of starch.
Yale physician Doctor Ellsworth Huntington concludes the general death rate rises with higher temperatures and falls with cooler days. An analysis of about 100,000 New York City deaths links weather on the day of death to mortality, noting variation across seasons and suggesting weather variability may be healthful and essential.
A simple home recipe blends milk Vinesar and egg whites to make a quick drying paste. The mixture acts as a cement for broken china and glass, resisting water and heat after curing.
The text notes English thrushes crack snails by beating them on a stone. Some sea birds drop shellfish from a height to crack them, using the rock as an anvil but not using the shell as a tool. It claims wasps are the only example of seemingly intelligent tool use to achieve a purpose.
At the British Dairy association show a four-room cottage with a large hall and carriage paid to the nearest freight station is priced at 875 dollars. Described as weatherproof, ratproof and damp-proof, the exhibit also features a two-room week end cottage offered at 375 dollars.
In a brief note from Indianapolis News readers learn that even with a punctured tire a speedway racer cannot be convinced the crew can change it in 27 seconds. The novelty underscores the quick pit routines in racing lore.
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