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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1912
Page
7
Years-Kate Cooley is sent to Mitchellville following a court adjournment on the Monday date in September. The report notes the adjournment and transfer to the correctional facility. Local court records indicate the action occurred in the usual procedural timeline.
Petit jury began reporting for opening day with criminal cases scheduled first and civil matters to follow. State of Iowa cases against multiple defendants set for Sept 23 and 24. Sam Carow pled guilty to stealing two horses. sentenced to up to five years. Kate Cooley committed to Mitchellville industrial school until age 21. John Ryan pleads guilty to keeping a gambling house. Numerous civil suit entries and dividers listed. Athletics notes include new Washington DC association and world rowing prospects. Baseball rumors, boxing signings, and boxing champions named. Football previews and coaching appointments noted for several colleges.
The court orders sales in the Jennie Marek vs George Marek and Bernice Dewees vs Thomas Dewees matters. John W. Teeter and Geo A. Egtin are named sale referees with bonds of 15000 and 14000 respectively. lands cannot be equitably divided and a sale is needed. leave to amend granted and service continued.
Managers at Havre de Grace race track in Maryland cancel Friday events due to superstition over the feared date. Track officials say safety and schedule concerns prompted the decision.
A Burlington wholesale dealers and manufacturers group plans a Trade Extension Trip September 24–26. Seventy five participants travel in a five-coach special train visiting 68 cities across Missouri Iowa Illinois and Washington with stops to renew ties with about two thousand merchants. Fischer's Burlington Band will perform at each stop.
A light exchange jokes about telling yachts from sailboats by pantry contents. Antoine Deloria, postmaster at Garden, Michigan, extols Foley Kidney Pills as a personal remedy for kidney trouble and notes his father’s cure along with many neighbors. Lemmon's Pharmacy sells Foley Kidney Pills.
Japan designates sake as the national alcoholic drink. It is brewed from rice with annual production around 210 million gallons. Beer gains popularity with several large breweries producing over 7 million gallons annually.
A pale, ailing man asks for a dyspepsia cure in a drugstore. The clerk touts Dubbs Dyspepsia Pills and others from Doctor Dubbs. The wan customer finally declares his true identity as Doctor Dubbs in a twist of irony.
A closing out sale announced for September 24, 1912 at the John Heaton farm six miles northwest of Washington Iowa and one mile south and one mile east of West Chester. Stock, machinery, and household goods valued with 12 month terms and 7 percent interest on notes over ten dollars. Officials L R Hough W S Boyer and D F Macon listed.
A collection of quirky winter and spring craft ideas includes piling furnace ashes on the lawn for future garden scenery, repurposing an old silk hat as a tool holder, making a pencil case from a kid glove, and crafting porous plasters from drugstore ingredients. Also notes a method to test egg freshness by a sharp tap.
A terse note describes women reacting to gasoline odor and a judge involved in an automobile matter. The snippet hints at social dynamics and legal proceedings surrounding car use and gas exposure. Names, dates, and places are not provided in the readable text.
Public sale to be held at the seller's West Chester home on Saturday September 21 at 2 o'clock. The goods include bay horse, jump seat buggy, harness, several furniture pieces, kitchen items, lamps, stove, and more with cash terms. Auctioneers Dp. F. Macon and Rev. W. F. Graham listed from Washington, Iowa.
A young man enters a ballroom in a foursack with a smile triggering the host’s fury as invitations demanded colonial attire. He explains the outfit is colonial 231 richt and a costume from the Philippines.
A witty exchange unfolds as a man complains a hat doesn’t fit while a milliner quips that hats for women fit their heads unlike men who develop fits when the bill arrives. The lighthearted banter highlights gendered humor over fashion and money.
Geo Hollinrake hosted a Wednesday hog sale at his farm with 48 purebred hogs selling at an average of 25.30 dollars a head. Hog cholera reduced prices overall. Hollinrake cites disease spread from local carelessness and plans annual sales with improving stock. Cols Duncan and Macon auctioneered the event.
Mrs. J. N. Hill of Homer Georgia says Foley's Honey and Tar Compound cures coughs and colds and prevents croup. She notes she uses it for five children and would not be without it, with Lemmon's Pharmacy as the supplier.
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