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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1901
Page
4
On October 29 in Auburn New York Leon Czolgosz was executed for the McKinley assassination. He declared I am not sorry for my crime and said he could not see his father before burial. The brain autopsy was normal and he was buried in the local cemetery guarded with quick lime.
A runaway near Ainsworth Iowa injures Mrs G A McPheron about 80 and her daughter Mrs J M Stone. McPheron sustains two scalp wounds and 16 stitches. daughter less injured. Mrs McPheron is reported improving after hospital care.
Mr and Mrs Douglas Page are happy parents of a newborn son born last night. Mr and Mrs B Hr Dillon and their Brighton visitor arrive in the city. Dillon is brother to Mrs Charlee Bennett of East Main street and she is sister to Mrs Roy Emry. Dr Milligan and Dr Leipziger of Burlington will read papers at the Medical Association meeting here in about two weeks with Spine diseases and a surgical case on the agenda. Miss Clara Coulter returns this morning from a visit in Ainsworth.
The High Rollers Extravaganza company arrives in Graham with a full car of scenery for their production. It features up to date songs dances and new vaudeville acts. Seats are on sale at Carris Pharmacy.
Five three seats available at Quirris Pharmacy for immediate purchase. Information copied from a damaged OCR item with limited readable details.
A pre social at McClelland School northeast of the city raised forty two dollars for the school library. The event featured selling of girls by shadows with pies priced 35 cents to 1 dollar 10 cents and a cake auction for the most popular girl. Beulah Stewart won most votes. sale total 30 dollars for the cake.
Forenoon sessions saw Milwaukee jurors inspect city property with no damage verdict announced yet. Two North Green street residence lots offered for sale by L. D. Higgins. Local social notes include Mrs. J. W. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. M. J. Adams visiting Keota. Rena Vincent McElroy and children guests of R. P. Lewis on the Heights. L. Ritchie and wife returning from Rock Island. Grace Anderson and daughter en route to Omaha for a couple of weeks.
A dry goods store owner tearing down his building caused a fire while moving stock to temporary quarters. He urged the fire chief to save the building, offering a $500 pension fund to the firefighters if the blaze stayed contained. The chief pressed on and the fire was checked with little loss to the structure.
The passage notes water bears and wheel animalcules endure desiccation, shrinking to desiccated masses yet rehydrating to resume movement. Paste and vinegar eels are mentioned as similarly resilient. A British museum desert snail reportedly remained inert for seven years before reappearing and crawling in its glass enclosure.
A child begins at the breaker picking slate then rises and falls through miner ranks from laborer to trainer's helper to full miner. Most climb only to lower positions while age and danger push others out, with few reaching foreman.
A quip about Columbus thinking he found the Indies and a joking remark on marriage revealing the speaker’s playful misfortune.
Three people were fatally burned in Pittsburg after a lamp was upset by a baby. A Schley club forms at Rich Hill Missouri led by Admiral Schley's Democratic admirers. Russian peasants turn toward atheism and agnosticism while factory workers follow. General Miles reports abolition of the canteen harmed the army. First snow of the season falls in Minneapolis. Typhus cases in Bochum total 1,329. European sugar production 5,928,264 tons, up 212,841. Ed B. Luciew, longtime theatrical manager, dies in Adrian Michigan. Havana annexation movement appears to have stalled.
In a Lanarkshire village a meeting to discuss building a bridge over a shallow creek becomes lively when a local character heckles the schoolmaster’s bridge proposal. He jokes he could cross it with a standing jump, prompting the chairman to call him out of order amid laughter.
A Washington Iowa letter dated Oct 28 1901 accuses the Keokuk Gate City of copying Muscatine Journal material and misrepresenting Tyndale's case against the Muscatine paper. The writer says the articles were sourced from a rival owned by Muscatine Journal counsel.
Notices list items found and rewards or inquiries. A key to a post office lock box is at this office with owner paying notice costs. A handkerchief and a M W A badge found with inquiries at this office. Ads include a new top buggy for sale, a furnished room for rent, a dining room girl and cook needed at the Columbian Hotel Keota Iowa, a pocketbook found between Poor Farm and Young America school house, and a room to top flat for rent on the west side of the Rookery.
A Scots regiment soldier at Omdurman narrowly escapes a bullet that flies to ground before him while firing lying down. Rising, a second bullet slides up his sleeve unharmed, suggesting the projectile had spent its force on impact and curved back.
Mr and Mrs William Cherry celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary with an informal dinner party for relatives and friends. The celebration featured Mrs Cherry in the original wedding dress and a social afternoon with a list of attendees and regional visits noted.
A simple method blends pigment with oil and turpentine, applied with a soft cloth and rubbed in. Use raw umber for light oak or burnt umber for dark oak. lighten very dark wood with a touch of lamp black. For mahogany mix burnt sienna chrome yellow and bismarck brown. for cherry use burnt sienna.
A humorous illustrated Bits item depicts a magistrate scene where a wife admits striking her husband with a mop after he failed to answer if he would always love her. The exchange highlights a lighthearted domestic quarrel.
An eminent artist explains a famous study titled Cows In the Clover. The Baltimore American notes the artist’s quip that the clover is gone because the cows ate it, sparking amusement.
A short dialogue depicts a professor asking why the earth moves and Hardup answering that it is due to inability to pay rent. The exchange conveys a humorous take on economic pressures influencing behavior.
Real estate note offers farms and improved farms at low prices. Agent can locate land across states and present a favorable list to buyers. Contact for viewing and arranging purchases.
Loans negotiated at lowest rate of interest. Insure your property with me in first class companies. If you have a farm or city property to rent list it with me. Leases made and rents collected.
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