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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1906
Page
3
Special to The Evening Journal notes snow tonight and Tuesday with rising temperatures across Iowa. Forecast covers today and tomorrow with colder conditions possible.
Local notices advertise Ermine tonight with shows at the Graham and Said Pasha on Monday and Tuesday nights at popular prices. Shops promote window shades at Duncan's and new shirtwaist lines at I Rothschild & Co. Residents visiting or returning from nearby towns add to the city scene, with many reminders of shopping, voyages, and social visits.
In Philadelphia on March 12 Senator Fred T. Dubois faced an interruption by Tom W. Peet of Utah who offered $1,000 for each proven Mormon interference or plural marriage since 1890. The exchange ended without the bet being accepted as the senator continued his speech.
Major W. McClaughrey, warden of Leavenworth, spoke on criminology in Kansas City. He argued banking officials are often jailed for legally offense actions they believed were not wrong and urged examinations to prove bankers’ fitness, comparing to civil service tests in government.
In Caney Kansas a week of prep yielded a failed attempt to cap a giant burning gas well six miles away. The hood and pipes weighing over thirty five tons were bent by gas force while workers endured extreme heat. Gas continued to spout and burn for fifteen days expelling rocks and flames into the air.
A well dressed young man found dead beside the Chicago and Northwestern railway tracks near Marengo on March 12 is believed to have fallen from a passing train. A pretty girl’s photograph on the back shows the inscription Wealth of love and the name Vannie Miller Grand Encampment Wyoming, which authorities use as the only clue to identification.
Overjoyed at his newborn grandson, 87 year old Jacob Rompel a Belleville foundry owner dies suddenly. His wife Mrs Rompel remains in serious condition from shock after learning the reason for his absence during the birth.
Standish Michigan March 12 A fine coal vein seven feet thick was struck at 176 feet depth on the George Hallister farm near Twining in this county.
Kenneth McIver of Vanceboro Maine credits a near death experience with severe throat and lung inflammation, three doctors giving up, and Dr King s New Discovery saving his life. The remedy cures coughs colds bronchitis tonsillitis weak lungs hoarseness and la grippe. Available at J H Stewarts drug store with 60 cent and 1 00 prices and free trial bottles.
My sons Harve and Frank have moved to Canada and any small accounts will be presented to me for settlement. 22-21 W. A. Wilson. Miss Stella Palmer of Pleasant Plains spent Saturday in this city.
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