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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1910
Page
3
In Griswold Iowa, on Chris Ritz’s farm, a litter born last week includes a pig with two bodies sharing one head and four eyes. The unusual anomaly accompanied six normal piglets in the same litter.
Des Moines May 11 The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a Cedar Rapids ordinance licensing milk dealers and requiring a tuberculin test overstepped municipal authority. Licensing milk dealers is a state duty under the dairy commission and the state veterinary surgeon must order tuberculin tests. The court suggested the ordinance was drastic and likely unconstitutional, affecting similar city efforts to regulate milk traffic.
May 11 Iowa City struck by automobile injures Helen Hayes daughter of Pref Sam Hayes and Marjorie Drake as they darted across a street corner to avoid a horse and buggy. Both girls cut and bruised but no bones broken. Escaped instant death noted by onlookers.
A meteor described as a one foot diameter red hot ball struck the stable behind Fearing's hotel in Dover causing a rapid fire that consumed $1,000 in furniture stored for the Dover Lodges of Elks. Eyewitness Frank Hazleton reported the fiery descent and a hiss like thunder, with no audible crash. Meteor not found. ruin stacked with charred furniture awaiting diggers and possible museum display.
Mayor Scott of Eddyville Iowa reports a Des Moines letter claiming a large Chicago packing firm seeks a suitable site and asks the local Commercial club to make a bid. The Morrell company was also approached as a potential partner or alternative.
A Des Moines man read of a proposed deal in the paper and contacted Mayor Scott after the Eddyville Commercial met for a special session. The group offered Ottumwa business 100 acres of land free from taxes on three lines of railway, attracting interest from the reader.
Chicago on May 11 reports Jonny Miller of 118 East Division Street has bought 1000 small drinking basins to place around the city. He says the basins will give dogs water, reduce thirst induced frenzy, and lessen mad dog scares.
At the Iowa letter carriers and post office clerks convention in Marshalltown on May 11, Dubuque was selected as the convention city for 1911.
James W Clarke of Cedar Rapids Iowa dies after being removed from a train in El Paso Texas on May 11. He is the son of Col Charles A Clarke.
Anton Von nahme and his wife from Mount Carmel were taken to Clarinda hospital after the wife suffered a mental breakdown. The strain reportedly drove the husband to a similar mental state.
The passage riffs on baseball as America's national sport and mocks foreign views. It portrays a crowded scene with players, a bat, a ball, and a dramatic miscue, ending with a chorus of cheers and the question why the spectacle inspires such emotion.
Washington reports that census director Durand says all estimates so far are premature and unreliable with final totals not expected until June. The piece notes the presidents and senators sparring over post office issues and Ballinger related testimony, and ends with Dr. Harvey Wiley interpreting the Lafayette statue symbol.
The piece explains a French tradesman customer service charm from Madame to Monsieur Jean and notes a New Idea Woman's Magazine tale about February losing days to January and March. It recounts a legend where February borrows days to secure money, leaving January and March with 31 days and February with 28 or 29.
The Pittsburg Dispatch recalls Thomas Platt's remark that he would have liked to be Charles Quay's office boy for six months or more to compare reputations with him. The anecdote sheds light on Platt's view of rival Republicans of his era.
A quip frames bankruptcy as a cautionary tale about money management. The joke contrasts a father's question about bankruptcy with a humorous image of tucking money away and losing one’s coat to creditors.
An advertisement lists catarrh symptoms and promotes Hyomel as a guaranteed cure for catarrh sore throat coughs colds bronchitis and related issues. The complete outfit sells for $1.00 with extra bottles at 50 cents. Druggists everywhere sell Hyomei. Lemmon's notices.
Miss Mayne declares she is engaged to Jack, preventing marriage with another woman. Miss Faire challenges the claim, prompting a tense exchange captured by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
John Robinsons Show earns praise for a high quality circus with well kept equipment and comfortable seating. The reviewer notes polite staff, bareback riding, and a genuine, family friendly atmosphere, praising honesty of advertising and predicting a Washington engagement on May 24th.
A census enumerator is challenged at a door by a small, polite man who asserts legal headship of the house but blurs with a blunt retort about brass tacks. The exchange reveals rural humor and sharp wit in a doorstep encounter.
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