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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1902
Page
4
A city benefit night by W F Brinton at the opera house March 21 offers a program of moving pictures, songs, and specialties. Proceeds will go to Washington public improvements. admission ten cents. Seats on sale now.
Friends report the death of Shepherd Farnsworth formerly of the city. He died at Hot Springs and was buried at OConnell Molson on the sth inst. He worked at First National Bank and briefly served as pastor there. He was linked to a sensational Council Bluffs bank robbery tied to the back, a loss of 15000. He married Emma Crabb daughter of Col Crabb who ran a hotel here.
Printer surprised by Chamberlain's Pain Balm claim and rheumatism cure. Advertisements tout Holngs Arkansas Springs and travel deals. Druggist A F Clark reports selling twelve bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with strong local testimonials. Sold by Stewarts Pharmacy and Cook and Sherman.
The Rock Island offers reduced fares to Minnesota North Dakota and Pacific Coast points. See Agent Rowland for details.
The four city wards will hold registration sessions on Thursday and Friday. residents who moved between wards or newly arrived should ensure their names are correctly entered on the poll books.
Special from Ainsworth reports a house eight miles north of town in Highland Township burned Sunday morning. The cause is thought defective chimney. homeowners insured. Nearby, BR. Rabenald’s residence caught fire from a flue yesterday but was extinguished with little damage. In church news, M E Sunday school saw 23 want to lead Christian lives and 11 on probation. Schreckengast notes 66 accessions since last September. Rev Thorn delivered a strong sermon. W Campbell returned from Fairfield after attending his grandmother’s funeral.
Open session held Thursday evening March 2 with admission ten cents. Glee club performances by Iowa Wesleyan at the Academy and High School auditorium pleased students. Local notes mention travel and visits including Miss Sylvia Baker and Nate Babcock. Various local residents were reported in and out of town.
A jumble of small notices lists lost spectacles in a black case at Reynolds Furniture Store and a lost ten dollar bill between Columbia pharmacy and New York store, plus hay of posts for sale and various personal notices. Separate items include a house and lot for sale, a stray pig, requests for wood sawed, and local arrivals and departures.
A blaze in Shortsville New York wiped out twelve business places and two residences. Loss listed as 00,000 dollars. Other notes include a two week U S Supreme Court recess and a trotting race for 20000 dollars at Charter Oak park.
A newly enlisted soldier abandoned his guard duty over a cannon and went to a nearby tavern. The captain confronted him and the recruit admitted he could not lift the cannon and warned that if more than one enemy approached, the weapon could not be defended. Escanaba factory news notes large butter dish production. A corporal frozen to death walking six miles from Havre post. Saginaw city officials’ quarrel drives outcast women to Bay City seeking refuge.
The Chicago Herald notes visitors to Rome will face swindles and disappointment from shopkeepers hackmen peddlers and persistent beggars. Begging is a common profession in Italian cities with beggars targeting strangers especially Americans and English.
The piece explains white as all colors in light via spectrum analysis and as a color in paint, while noting it is not a color in the sense of a person being perfectly colorless. It contrasts scientific and popular usage.
Dialogue shows a man asking about joining a church choir and a woman confirming she did not know. He mentions his brother Jack told her he joined, prompting acknowledgment of the choir connection. The exchange reads as a social snippet rather than a reportable event.
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