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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
5
Local and personal items note visits and travel by residents and visitors including A. G. Snyder in Kalona, Winfield Smouse in Muscatine, H. E. Darbyshire from Lisle, and J. Mace from Allerton. Several Fashion and shop notices appear for The Fair and The Vienna with bakery goods, rugs, gas ovens, bird cages, and Wear-Ever products.
In Washington on October 4 Theodore Roosevelt presented letters to the Senate committee to counter an attack. The report notes local society items from Davenport Keota Monticello and Zion City as well as war memories and a Greek embassy summons. A British submarine loss is also reported.
A bedtime scene with a father and children Jack and Evelyn as a star peeps in through a window. They discuss dreaming of a flying machine, learning about stars with an opera glass, earth rotation, and the north star. The father encourages study of star worlds and mentions Longfellow amid reflections on celestial wonders.
The 1912 program for Marion Township Sunday School convention at Pleasant Hill Church lists long service led by Silas Caldwell, declamations by Cecil Caldwell and Theo Carr, addresses by A. B. Carr and Rev. Musselman, readings by Miss Eulalia Merchant, a quartet, secretary's reports and benediction.
The M. E. Sunday school will hold Rally Day exercises at 9 30 a m in the regular Sunday school hour. All scholars and friends are urged to attend and welcome to those not affiliated with any school. A good program will be rendered.
Mr and Mrs Charles Means had a close call while joy riding in their car near Haskins. A broken steering gear caused the vehicle to strike a bridge rail and slide down the embankment into a willow grove ten feet below. They escaped injury though the axle and one hub were damaged.
Announcement notes postpone the Ladies Social at the Presbyterian church to Friday October 11 1972. Regular meeting for Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M set for Friday evening October 4 1912 at 720 sharp with the young men in charge of the work.
The exchange centers on a witty line about a girl proposing marriage. He contends he would not dare marry a woman who dares to propose, highlighting sharp social humor from the Boston Transcript.
The Washington Baptist association closed its New Haven church convention with an evangelistic rally led by Dr. Henry Williams of Des Moines. Mrs. Daniel Shephardson gave a missionary address and oriental displays. A conference on church problems featured C. A. Knupp. The women’s section elected officers and Mrs. J. W. Bishop presided.
Paris burglars took all fashionable pannier dresses from a mistress's wardrobe and left old skirts. A Paris correspondent notes police suspect a fashion expert. The writer wonders if the husband staged the burglary to improve his wife's attire for a short period.
The Busy Big Quality Store Klein and Warren invites customers to visit and trade at the make good shop and engage in valued exchanges with the store.
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