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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
8
Mexico City endured two severe earthquakes, the first lasting four minutes and twenty eight seconds causing cracks in walls but no deaths. Five hours later a stronger shock halted clocks and sent theatergoers into the streets, leaving residents alarmed by aftershocks and continued tremors.
Mayor Ortin EK Price orders sweeping condemnation of public buildings as firetraps in Elgin Illinois. The Young Men’s Christian Association reading hall and its $150,000 gifted structure face closure if repairs are not funded. Elgin Academy, Northwestern affiliated, and the Chicago Telephone building join seven teen schools, nineteen churches, theaters, and public halls on the unsafe list, risking costly upgrades.
Eight year old Dewey Nelson of Bangor township Bay City Michigan received a bust of Theodore Roosevelt inscribed To Dewey Nelson with all good wishes after he risked his life to carry his younger brother and sister from a burning home The Nelson family is poor and the father a miner a Carnegie hero fund commission may consider the matter Admiral Dewey sent a letter and photo commending the boy with the inscription I am glad to have so brave a namesake Values and support actions taken by Postmaster Lusk and Washington authorities.
In Muncie Indiana Gerald White of Bluffton and Robert Barnhart a Walker City liveryman clash over ownership of Prince a trick horse. Police say White owns the horse after it impressed him with feats. Barnhart claims to have taught and purchased the animal over a year ago. The court may order Prince to repeat an educational test to settle ownership.
Lewis T. Archer, recently released from prison for assault with a deadly weapon, says two black men offered to kill John Collins Sr. His statement implicates John Collins, serving life for his father’s murder, and suggests efforts to pardon young Collins. The 1898 Kansas case shocked the state and centered on Topeka real estate man J. S. Collins.
Washington on March 27 reports senators entered the Capitol ready to study the currency bill but spent substantial time discussing other matters and issues during the session.
The report notes bating the credentials of Senator Micc Smith of Maryland that finally seated him. The currency bill was amended to charge banks interest on deposits of government funds at not less than 1 percent a month. More sarcasm and invective were aimed at President Roosevelt in the House by Beal of Texas, accusing him of usurpation. Some work was done on the agricultural appropriation bill.
Waukesha Wisconsin March 27 mystery of the upper half of an infant's body found in a pig pen on the Hilger farm in Menomonte town was partially cleared when Amanda Last aged nineteen daughter of William Last tenant on the farm said she was the mother of the child. She refused to make further admissions.
John Endlich acting for wholesale bakers consents to arrest pending test of the bread ordinance. Ten loaves weighed four to sixteen ounces are turned over to Sealer of Weights and Measures Brisley who issues a warrant for Fadlich for baking undersized bread.
Petoskey Michigan March 27 Derk Deruiter a prominent alderman who has led a campaign against the municipal light plant and a drive to abolish the board of public works has been named for mayor in the Republican primaries Ira McIntyre for clerk and A B Krieger for justice complete the ticket.
John Lee of Meridean, several miles south of Eau Claire, committed suicide after setting his residence on fire. Despondent for some time, he had threatened self harm before the fatal act, and he perished when flames consumed the dwelling and he shot himself.
In Milwaukee on March 27 physicians report slight improvement in George Willoughby, who killed his wife and attempted suicide. He has a chance to recover as septic pneumonia subsides.
National Bank of Commerce reopens after receiving 2,870,000 dollars in cash from a syndicate that assumed all slow paper and all assets deemed bad by officials. The bank will reopen Monday with Comptroller Ridgely as president.
Cincinnati March 27. B J Sinat general agent of the Equitable Assurance society Chicago and Rosa Olitzka contralto of the San Carlo Opera company were married by Rabbi Grossmann after a five week courtship that began with a meeting during the Chicago tour of the opera company.
In Washington on March 27 an assemblage of society people attended the marriage of Miss Helen Seagrave Ffoulke, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles M Ffoulke, to Emmanuel Havenith, Belgian minister to Persia, at the bride’s home.
Eleven states join the effort to promote the National Corn Exposition to be held in Omaha next December. Exposition officers report assurances from the agricultural department that these states will send exhibits. Nebraska plans a feature showing corn grown by children competing for a prize offered by the state university.
The article notes old beliefs about gems including precious stones purified by a bath in honey and other notions such as agate quenching thirst and curing fever when placed in the mouth.
In Racine Wisconsin on March 27 Susan Stanley eighteen years old described as pretty and stylishly dressed drowned herself in three feet of water above the Rapids dam. No cause is given for the act.
A Bokharan pastime described as resembling football on horseback with no sides. A decapitated goal substitutes for the ball as about 200 horsemen scramble for it.
The supreme court enjoined the Des Moines council from letting contracts for a new 500000 dollar city hall. Letting now falls to the commissioners to be elected under the new plan.
A sequence of jokes matching scenarios to trees. Klondike prompts fir, seasick beech, a dude spruee, love pear, hand palm, cat dog wood, attention cedar. Each pun hinges on tree names sounding like phrases.
In the Himalaya mountains native women soothe infants at midday by trickling water over the back of the head from a palm leaf or tin swoop. The stream is deflected to run over the sleeping child while the mother tends to field work, with no fear of drowning.
In a playful exchange, Johnnie Brice muses on plural forms with a riddle about mouse and mice, highlighting a child’s curious reasoning in a lighthearted column for readers of Little Folks.
An enormous oak in Cowthorpe Yorkshire is described as the biggest in the United Kingdom with age guesses ranging from 400 to 2000 years. Once eighty feet high and seventy eight feet in girth, it declined after a 1718 storm that shed a branch weighing five tons. It now stands as a sheltered shell surrounded by a paling, with props supporting its remaining limbs. A descendant oak from an acorn from 1893 grows nearby.
A child named Margie visits a grocery and asks the busy grocer for a pound of butter. She stammers due to nerves, offering a compromise of a half pound if the clerk is too occupied, reflecting a light domestic moment.
G W Shaw from California Experiment Station explains why large, plump wheat seed yields stronger plants and higher yields. Pinched seed under 60 pounds per bushel signals inferior heredity and reduced vitality, despite fair germination. Larger seed provides more phosphoric acid, nitrogen, and potash for early vigor and resilience.
Miss Abigail Bishop of Wellman is spending a few days with Miss Esther Brindley. Mr and Mrs Walter Ayres passed through last night on No 2 from the southwest en route to Chicago.
Instructions advise pruning damaged roots, packing immediately after digging, and placing in a permanent spot when possible. Keep roots shaded, moist, and protected from wind and freezing temperatures with a wet cloth, straw, or moss. Signed by I, Lewis.
A Farm and Fireside writer argues that market hogs profit from intensive early feeding from birth to sale, while breeding hogs require markedly different management and care throughout their growth.
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