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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1910
Page
5
Muscatine business visits and fair room displays fill daily town life. Residents and visitors travel for weatherproof tools, oats and ovens at The Fair, while lectures by Warden Saunders attract crowds.
In a spring wood Gretchen wishes to be a queen and Elsa a bird. A fairy transforms them. Gretchen wears a gold crown and tight slippers while Elsa becomes a sparrow. Years of hardship follow until a return to normal ends their longing for magical roles.
An Evening Journal want ad markets a furnished room to rent at a cost per tenant lower than ever before. The notice urges readers to answer ads in The Evening Journal first, noting furnished room hunters are reading and responding to the paper.
The academy hosts a chapel talk by Warden Saunders of the Ft. Madison penitentiary tomorrow at 2 o clock in the afternoon. In the evening the speaker will address the Methodist church. An alumnus, John M. Work of Des Moines, who is a lawyer and noted Socialist, gave a brief talk to students yesterday but did not discuss socialism.
Public auction of the late Mrs Evan Turnipseed's household items will be held at 1 30 p m Saturday May 7 in front of her former residence James F Marsh Chas Brown administrator and auctioneer 6813 ae
Halley's comet is visible from Mount Wilson. Professor Adams notes the spectrum reveals cyanogen gas surrounding the head while the tail is made of hydrocarbon gas. In different regions one gas dominates over the other.
French aviator Louis Paulhan won the London Manchester 186 mile prize of 50,000 dollars with a 4 hour 11 minute flight, defeating Grahame White. He also holds the Los Angeles altitude mark of 5,000 feet, and earlier set long distance records with Farman.
Oakland city treasurers used an automobile as a subtreasurer to pay outside city employees, including police, with salaries totaling $15,000. The method avoids the old practice of employees traveling to the treasurer’s office for envelopes and will continue in the future.
A report notes thoroughness yields long term gains as it cites the United Kingdom exported over 17,000,000 pounds of tobacco and snuff last year, underscoring a substantial trade in tobacco products.
A Keokuk Post archive shows Mark Twain as Sam Clemens in the paper's composing room. The piece describes a Cincinnati theatre outing and mirrors his later Whitmanian style. The Rees family holds the original file, contested by Harper's objections, with scholars arguing for its historic publication.
The county educational board selects a five year set of textbooks for rural schools. Miss Flo Purvis Chauncey Myers Cress Dunlap and Gibson oversee the process with several book company representatives present. Most current titles carry over with new grammars supplementary readers and agriculture texts added.
The article defends proprietary medicines noting physicians prescribe popular Latin labeled remedies found in most drug stores. It cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an aged standard that would not be prescribed if alternatives equal in efficacy existed.
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