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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
4
N Livings, once a key figure at Chicago Portrait Co, has resigned to start his own studio with five solicitors already aboard. A January opening will employ artists at his space, promising employment for locals. Also note a fairy play’s second performance with new cast, special prices, and reserved seats for children.
The Major selected six soldiers from the ar ard on the field last Tuesday, including an Arkansas back of notable merit. He praised the native variety, spoke of future plans, and urged better pay clothes arms and food for the men, expressing love for the gray and the valor of the southerners.
The Graham Opera House hosted a joint Eighth and Nineteenth reunion campfire. Judge Ryan of Des Moines chaired as the audience heard Rev. Coates invoke, speeches by Comrade Hoffman of Muscatine and Asa Turner of Maxwell, and anecdotes from Josiah Patterson of Memphis and Major Earle Strom. The event celebrated reunions, stories, and memories of shared Civil War histories.
Thomas Thurgess, once a famed circus clown, will be sent to the Actors Home in Staten Island after currently being an inmate of a country infirmary. Reported fighting in Mitrovitsa between Turkish regulars and Albanians sparks protests as Venezuelans cut ocean cables to hinder rebel use. All New Orleans streetcar lines are tied up by a strike.
United States Minister Squiers sent to Secretary Hill the Cuban bill mandating that concessions require at least 80 percent Cuban labor. It forbids any public service grant without this essential clause and allows cancellation of concessions that breach the rule.
Porto Rico opened twelve hundred public schools yesterday with total attendance reported over 50,000. The development marks a major expansion in education across the island as communities adapt to the new system.
Miss Alice Hay secretary of state’s daughter and James Wadsworth of Geneseo N Y were married at the Pells Lake Stupaper summer home in Newbury N J in a very quiet ceremony conducted at 2 pm by Rev CL Hayden of Cleveland. Only thirty relatives and close friends attended. The couple wed yesterday in Newbury, New Jersey.
A garbled OCR line describes Flora Indiana with a detective from Young America, L Amos Studeba, being adjudged in a case involving an angry hero and insanity.
Personal reflection on cures claimed by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Testimony from a reader about overcoming weakness, irregularity, and related female ailments after using the remedy, including a Philadelphia visit and weight gain. Mentions accompanying Pleasant Pellets for complexion and breath.
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