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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
8
About 40 Greek railroad workers at Rubio awoke to a daylight robbery at 4 am. A colored man and a white man took a gold watch $10 in cash and three checks but fled. They beat a man they captured, later released when deputies identified the wrong person. Local tension and fear followed the incident.
A budding novelist visits the editor about a manuscript. The editor confesses he began the latest effort but could not finish it, citing the difficulty of the task as the reason.
In Oklahoma a shift in banking sentiment emerges as Farmers State Bank of Oklahoma City converts to Farmers National Bank with a $100 000 capital. More than sixty Oklahoma banks resign their federal charters to form state associations amid concerns over the state guaranty law. The move follows Nebraska’s constitutional ruling and a pending U S Supreme Court test on Oklahoma’s statute.
The Iowa Supreme Court affirms that Leon F. Wescott and his sister Bernice hold a business building and Main Street property in Marshalltown valued at 25000 dollars. The Meeker estate may seek compensation for improvements and taxes as the case moves to determine occupancy rights.
At Bermondsey a suffragette shattered a bottle of corrosive acid at a ballot box in a protest against women’s right to vote. The attack burned election officers and led to her arrest. A second booth faced a similar but less damaging assault by another suffragette.
An advertise-like health notice urges readers to try Rexall 93 Hair Tonic for dandruff itching scalp and hair loss. It claims the product strengthens roots, stimulates circulation, and restores color, with a no-risk trial and prices of 50 cents and 1 dollar at Cook & Sherman The Rexall Store in Washington.
Louis Boon of Norway Michigan reports three bottles relieved a severe cough in his boy and a neighbor’s boy with doctors once given up. Lem nore Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug advertise Foley's Honey and Tar as safe and certain.
William Brown Meloney recounts Joseph Pulitzer’s plan to groom his son Ralph in politics through Brooklyn boss Pat McCarren. McCarren proposed moving Ralph to Brooklyn, joining his club, and paying around $25 000, plus political article guidance. Pulitzer did not move, and McCarren did not censor the World’s proofs.
Explosion in the Pabst brewery power house in Milwaukee killed one man and fatally injured another. Damage estimated at $25,000.
A brief remark notes that conceit often marks inexperience. It suggests that overconfidence may reflect limited practical knowledge and suggests humility as a corrective.
Washington patent attorneys Davis and Davis announce the week’s grants to Iowa residents. Patents include a fence post stay by P Arendt of Le Mars, a vacuum air wave device by C A Dunham of Marshalltown, a milking apparatus by E Cood of Waterloo, a wear strip for carts by J T Hamilton of Council Bluffs, a collapsible bucket by D M Orcutt of Council Bluffs, a spout and a sheet metal socket by L Watrous of Des Moines, among others.
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