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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
5
Local notices report the birth on Oct 31 with proud parents named. Other items mention visits, sales at The New York Store, and demonstrations by Iowa Gas and Electric Co. in a busy community column.
Special to the Evening Journal reports two autos colliding at high speed here injuring seven people with three expected to die. Explosions followed as gasoline tanks burned and jewels valued at three thousand dollars were recovered from the debris.
The Journal plans a Tuesday night special edition after election returns, distributing Wednesday by carrier and mail. It will include national state and county results with wire service coverage and may reveal the president for 1913 to 1917. Ads for the edition are due by Monday.
Washington reports Mexico has arrested the Belgian consul at Merida Yucatan. No motive given. If not freed, Belgium may seek an inquiry through its government with the possible involvement of the American consul at Merida and the U S state department.
Seven of twenty balloons in the Gordon Bennett cup international race have landed with thirteen still unreported. Balloons reached northeastern Germany, near Prague, and a stormy Helvetia landing near Danzig. The longest flight on record covered 472 miles.
St Louis November 1 Roger Bresnahan has received his unconditional release as manager from the St. Louis National league club. If no NL club makes a claim by November 7 he becomes a free agent. He plans no negotiations presently to honor his contract.
Twenty two prominent American architects are drawing plans for New York City’s civil courthouse to be built near the criminal court and the Tombs forming a civic center. The project exceeds thirty million dollars and aims to be the world’s finest of its kind with plan selections hoped by January 1.
Jacksonville Florida November 1 governor Gilchrist has ordered out the First and Second regiments about three thousand men in response to disorders and rioting connected with the street car strike. The four local companies began guarding early.
The text notes that 1 609 000 006 equals a thousand millions and calls it a billion in the United States and often in this country. It argues that etymologically a million millions would be a billion, a view deemed undoubtedly correct.
George G. Thompson the division freight agent of the Southern Railway was shot and killed in Blair's home by his former private secretary W. R. Blair whom he had discharged. The incident occurred in Greensboro North Carolina on October 30.
A Beecher quote on life compares a man’s purpose to a river born from many rills. It describes growth from mountain beginnings to a steady, unchanging flow toward the sea in adulthood.
A description notes every other tooth in a new circular saw for cutting tool steel is slightly longer than its neighbor. The long teeth center the cut while the thicker short teeth gouge the sides.
About fifty ladies attended a W C T U Day at Mrs. Martha Maxwell's home on East Second Street with portraits and a Proudfit address on drink effects. Halloween dancing at Eagle Hall featured jack o lanterns and music by Cuningham, Steck, and Pattison. A masked East Washington gathering ended with Five Hundred and lunch. Church events include a Baptist church engagement on November 8 and Bible and missionary society meetings upcoming in Pleasant Plain and Fort nightly club events.
At 2 30 p m a good attendance is desired. There will be a pie supper in A O U W hall Saturday evening. Each lady is requested to bring a pie. Everybody invited.
Two men and women identified as Miss Bessie Lambert and A. V. Menz were killed in a Philippine typhoon, per a cable to the bureau of insular affairs. Miss Lambert resided at Iloilo, while Menz was captain of a small vessel named the Consuelo.
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