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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1912
Page
5
Washington and surrounding towns feature a busy social scene with visits, returns home, and outings. Shoppers at The Fair highlight new glassware and dinnerware while residents buy furs, hides, and junk for markets. Local families visit Keota and Ainsworth, and a Halloween social is announced at the Al Fields home.
Mrs McAnulty traveled to Brigh ton and spent the day visiting relatives. White and Eldridge sewing machines at Caners, South Side. Mrs Lonnie Graham, recently staying with Ed Coffman in Fairfield, is mentioned among local happenings.
Reports from Vera Cruz say Felix Diaz and his entire staff have been captured by federal forces. A separate item notes a storm-sinking of the steamer Nicaragua off Padre Island with six drowned and others adrift. captain and twelve rescued by Port Aransas life savers. Washington testimony reveals a 57000 campaign fund alleged to Beveridge by Perkins McLean and Pinchot. An Illinois woman claims Foley’s Kidney Pills cured her kidney and bladder trouble and back pain. Lemmon’s Pharmacy advertisement.
In Iowa City on October 22 the State University of Iowa elections stirred campus life. Edna Allen of Kalona won the senior class recording secretary post amid a field of tickets named Independent Progressive Square Deal Popular Representative and All University. Posters and handbills pledged candidates to mergers finances and committees. Women's suffrage appeared as co ed voters favored female candidates for secretary or treasurer.
Funeral conducted by Rev. Thomas Rowe at the Jacob Hotle home in Dutch Creek township. The seven children and over fifty descendants attended. Pall bearers were six grandsons. Interment followed at New Haven cemetery with Valley choir providing music.
A little lad on the street cried bitterly over a broken heart. A kind stranger tried to cheer him by saying his father could mend it, but the boy replied that his father is a preacher and knows nothing about it.
A lofty visitor remarks on a venerable figure's long life of supposed useful deeds. The Skeedee tavern landlord replies with a wary, lightly pessimistic tone about past bragging and a cousin once suspected of Jesse James.
A chauffeur testified he could stop a car at forty mph within ten to twelve feet. The judge asked where the driver would stop, and an expert noted it depends on the driver’s life. Montreal Star report on the unusual courtroom exchange.
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