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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1905
Page
5
This afternoon at two o'clock Wm J Brown colored pled guilty in Squire Folger's court to drunkenness and received fifteen days in the county jail.
B. F. Dixon thanks supporters of the Peoples' party for nominating him but says he cannot accept the candidacy for city mayor for several reasons.
Mrs. Cora Cubbies visiting at the Brindley home received a telephone message yesterday stating the doctor was quarantined with diphtheria.
Notice states Cohn of Washington Iowa offers top market prices for iron rags old rubbers and various metals. Leave orders at Washington House or call 387 for arrangements.
J P Thomas returned this morning from Wellman. Father Sueppel held services at Pleasant Plain today. L D Work of West Chester visited the city. Harold Downing left for Fairfield on business. J P Goldthwaite spent the day with relatives in Sigourney. Flora Hopengardner arrived from Ainsworth to spend Sunday. Keck Floral Co offers seeds with a free cabbage or tomato plant in March. William Bear came from Ohio to surprise sisters Mrs Jones and Mrs Alexander after 25 years.
Count Leo Tolstoi argues in a London Times letter that governments are entrenched, violent systems sanctified by tradition. He urges moral and religious self perfection for individuals as the sole path to liberation, warning that political action deepens people’s subservience and fails to free them from coercive rule.
A fragment notes a radical assertion about rejecting government and seeking liberation from every form of governance. The brief presents a political stance without context or specific actors.
A Muskogee correspondent reports a Kansas City Star story about a railroad worker using two large horn collars to smuggle liquor from Texas. He would travel regularly, drink laborers upon return, and carry back two gallons per collar, hidden in the collars.
A reader explains why curves form in pitched balls. The article cites Scientific American noting air resistance and spin create a curved path, with a right handed pitcher imparting leftward spin that drives the ball left via a compressed air cushion in front of the ball.
A Boston Herald note recalls Medford Massachusetts 1701 meeting on women’s seating rights in church galleries. Men controlled front space, women only half gallery, sparking protests that spread to Newbury where a women’s section prompted vandalism and fines for bachelors later pardoned.
The shillalah, once Ireland’s national defense weapon, evolved from a blackthorn stick to a weapon made from a young sloe shrub shoot. It is softened by turf peat smoke, flexed to rubbery pliability, cooled to iron strength, then trimmed. For display it may be adorned with small brass nails.
An impatient passenger asks why the car won’t start while another onboard explains that there aren’t enough people to move the cargo, reflecting a light exchange over loading and propulsion.
The weather forecast for Iowa predicts rain and severe squalls tonight followed by fair, much colder conditions on Sunday. The report is filed from Washington D. C. and is a special weather note for The Evening Journal.
Statistics show startling mortality from appendicitis and peritonitis. There is one reliable remedy, Dr. King's New Life Pills. M Flannery of 14 Custom House Place Chicago says they have no equal for Constipation and B r iousness. 25c at J H Stewart's druggist.
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