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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 24, 1905

Page

7

Unusually Low Western Travel Rates Advertised

Burlington offers half fare and reduced round trips to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and other West and Northwest destinations from May through September with various return limits. Includes Pacific Northwest Utah Yellowstone Park Black Hills and other side trips with numerous itineraries and dates. Descriptive literature available from J. E. Kunath agent.

Colorado Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Bere Utah Pacific Northwest Portland Seattle Tacoma Vancouver Billings Scenic Rockies St. Paul California The Northwest Yellowstone Park Park Gardiner Monida Scenic Colorado Cody Big Horn Basin Black Hills South Dakota Deadwood Hot Springs Lead and Custer Sheridan Wyo Burlington J. E. Kunath

Frog Outwits Boy In Slung Shot Tale

A boy named Bill deserts school to shoot frogs with a homemade slung shot. A giant frog confronts him, questions the cruelty, then swallows the shooter and vanishes. The tale ends with the boy telling his teacher of the strange event. In other notes, Ambassador Choate opens a Harvard memorial window in London and Swenson dines with Danish royalty.

Bill Cratch St. Louis Post-Dispatch Ambassador Choate John Harvard St. Saviour’s Church Southwark G. B United States Swenson King Christian Denmark

Chicago Markets: Wheat Corn Oats and Live Stock Prices

Chicago Board of Trade quotations show mixed grain prices with May wheat around 1.01 to 1.02, July corn about 0.48, oats near 0.29. Pork and lard futures steady to higher, live stock receipts large with hogs selling 5.00 to 6.00 and cattle around 5.95 to 6.30, sheep in a 4.75 to 6.60 range. Dunning Stevens East Buffalo reports steady cattle and rising hogs amid high prices.

Chicago Board of Trade Chicago Dunning & Stevens Live Stock Commission East Buffalo WN. Y

Death of Mrs Livermore in Melrose Mass

Mary A Livermore noted writer and reformer dies at her Melrose home from bronchitis and heart weakness. Born December 19 1830 in Boston she taught, married Henry J P Livermore, and worked in abolition temperance woman suffrage and convict reform. Funeral tomorrow cremation planned.

Melrose Mass Mary A. Livermore Hera Mary Ashton Livermore Boston Charlestown Massa Hen. J. P. Livermore Pen

Ohio Supreme Court upholds inheritance tax ruling

The Ohio Supreme Court affirms the Darke County ruling in Hostetter v. Ohio, holding the inheritance tax is not retroactive and does not apply to estates of decedents dying before the law’s passage. Separately in Indiana, two high school girls were thrown from a mule during Tyrolean initiation. one sprained her wrist, the other unharmed.

Columbus Ohio Supreme Court Darke County Elrcait Hostetter Va Ohio Supreme Court Muncie Ind Stacy Abshire Winifred Hartley Ies Abshire

Weather Forecast Afternoon Update for Midwest States

The official forecast through 8 pm shows Illinois and Indiana fair with northeast to east winds. Lower Michigan fair with variable winds. Wisconsin fair with easterly winds. Iowa generally fair with showers in the far west and south easterly winds.

Ilinois Indiana—Fair Michigan Wisconsin—Fair Whia Iowa

Tornado insurance urged as protection for property

A notice urges homeowners to review policies for tornado coverage and fire insurance. J W Morton, representing a large local agency in Temple building, is promoted to help secure policies for county residents. An ad segment mentions dynamite as a cure to fire spread and promotes Dr King s New Discovery for coughing and bronchitis with trial bottles offered.

J. W. Morton Temple Building T Gray Calhoun Dr. King J. H. Stewart

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