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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1911
Page
5
Ottumwa resident Harry Huxley spent last evening in the city with friends. Visitors include Miss Winnie Elliott from Muscatine and Miss Byrdie Fletcher from Keokuk. The Lyman Twins promote The Speculators musical. Dr. Louis Jaggard and Miss Clara Coulter host guests. Various local trips, visits, and deliveries noted including farm sale adverts and bakery specials.
Fenton and Fenton Chiropractors will open a new office within days on the northwest corner of Square over Washington Co Savings Bank. The present location remains at 632 E Main St.
A father tells a honey story where bees and drones dispute honey rights in court. Judge Owl partitions two empty hives and declares the bees’ hive belongs to the honey makers. Drones pretend to work but never earn honey.
Advertisement lists bacon at 20 to 12 cents per pound and fresh pork picnic hams at 14 and 12 cents per pound.
Colonel Palmer recalls diary entries from March 1865 detailing a refugee mother Mrs Peters giving birth to a girl named Iowa near Lynch Creek, while the 25th Iowa Regiment moved toward Cheraw. The child, later transported north, has never been heard from and is sought for a reunion invitation. The birth was witnessed by surgeon Col Charley Marsh.
Local items note bakery sales at Vienna and a mixed list of visitors to the city including Mr and Mrs John Mathers from Haskins James OLoughlin of West Chester and I C Steel from Riverside among others Plus a health update on Mrs Milan Shields who is greatly improved at her home in north Washington
A Fliegende Blatter quote highlights an aviator who reportedly earns 80,000 marks yearly, countering claims that one cannot live on air. The remark underlines the era's view of air travel wealth and celebrity pilots.
A verse piece on success contrasting easy charm with relentless pursuit. It argues that triumph comes to those who actively seek and persist, camping on the trail and chasing it through hardship until victory. The tone blends wit with motivational philosophy.
Comic exchange notes Jones endures heat while his wife keeps him in hot water most of the time. The line suggests household spats and a humorous domestic dynamic.
A female witness stands firm in court saying she knows her rights and will not endure a rude cross examination. She rises, adjusts her hatpins, and insists on a polite, ladylike procedure before continuing.
A rugged narrator notes a "learned professor" who speaks Latin half the time. The speaker jokes the man is a "dead language" expert, implying the professor is old or out of touch since the language is described as dead. The exchange highlights a clash between casual disdain and scholarly aura.
The fragment reflects on life as a sequence of routines and desires including sleep, meals, social contact, work, thought, love, effort, and the ultimate end of death. It frames existence as a cycle culminating in mortality.
The article notes a shower of .45 of an inch beginning early Friday morning in Washington, followed by a brief sun. It complains Jupiter Pluvius has odd ideas about moisture in a dry town and remarks the rain did not affect the Toy and Dickson meetings at the tavern.
A young shipyard laborer from Sunderland had a dream he would be killed and stayed home. In the afternoon he went to bathe in the River Wear and drowned in deep water as rescuers could not reach him before the swift current.
A hare known for daily sea swims at Cley was nabbed by local fishermen who pursued it in a boat for about 300 yards. The exhausted animal was quickly captured.
Secretary of agriculture declares the Fnellish walnut tree would thrive in the United States. The tree spreads like an oak and features fine feathery foliage that perfumes the air.
A humorous reminiscence notes De Quiz winding up his talking routine with De Whiz. He reportedly stopped the patter after his marriage, a detail framed as a light anecdote about the couple and their circus days.
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