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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1912
Page
4
Special to Evening Journal from Newark on May 2 reports a sweeping Roosevelt victory in New Jersey primaries. Incomplete returns show Roosevelt carrying all Congressional Districts and all 28 delegates, with a preferential majority likely over ten thousand votes, while Governor Wilson won 24 delegates.
The French liner Hudson beach ed off Brooklyn after a collision with the steamer Berwind off Robbins Reef this morning. The Berwind suffered heavy damage but all passengers were landed safely and the Hudson raced to shore.
Mrs. G. W. Wallace hosted a noon dinner for relatives in honor of Mrs. J. H. Stewart’s 77th birthday at East Main Street. The Queen Father Circle elected officers. Miss Corinne Rothschild hosted a teachers’ dinner on South Marion Avenue. What-I-Cans held a rainy picnic at the church lecture room for Miss Vera Cole. Mrs. J. A. Guest and Miss Marion Stewart hosted a five hundred gathering on West Washington Street. A leap year dance at the Commercial Club drew thirty couples with guests from Maryville Kansas Fairfield Keosauqua and Muscatine.
A reflection on how history judges greatness through suffering and the curiously necessary autopsy deemed by historians. The quote suggests that true greatness is linked to extraordinary adversity and the inquiry it provokes.
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