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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1908

Page

8

Scores On The Ball Fields In Early Baseball Card

Scores from multiple doubleheaders list New York Chicago Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Louis Boston and other teams. Hits errors and batteries noted for each game with players named and final tallies, reflecting a busy schedule across major venues.

New York Oleawo Chicago Pfister Kling Mathewson Bresnahan Brooklyn Pittebure Pittsburg Leifield Gibson Wilhelm Dunn Philadelphia Cincinnati Rowan McLean Covaleski Doom Boston St. Louis Raymond Moran Lindaman Graham Louis Trois Higgerbotham Bliss Flaherty Donovan Tphiladelphia Slater Lapp Smith and Sullivan Shaw Cleveland Chesbro Bil Nard Kleinow Sweeney Rhoades Bemis Washington Witherup Street Howell Spencer Detroit Young Criger Schmidt Cclub Daily Baseball National Cinecinnati American P.C Rhode

Fog Causes a Crash on Southwestern Traction Line

In Philadelphia fog a head-on collision on the Southwestern Traction line near Chester injured about fifty people, with several likely fatally. A car carrying seventy-two Baldwin Locomotive Co workers sped from Philadelphia and collided with a Chesterbound car on single track. Edward Smith and William Mullen were expected to die, while many others suffered broken arms and other injuries.

Philadelphia Poe Southwestern Traction Company Chester Philadlphia Baldwin Locomotive Company Edward Smith Wiliam Mullen

Beautiful Suffragette Visits New York

Mrs. Philip Snowden wife of Blackburn MP is the English suffrage advocate staying in New York with Rev. Dr. Charles F Aked and his wife at the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. Aked introduced her to public questions and she has devoted three years to suffrage propaganda in England and Scotland. Snowden has supported the cause with two notable Commons speeches.

New York Philip Snowden Blackburn Charles F. Aked Fifth Avenue Baptist Church Aked England Scothand Snowden

Work Resumes at Ames Toc! and Shove Works

Work resumes at the Ames Toc! and Shove works in Elwood Indiana with about 300 men employed. Management posts notices of continuous work through fall and winter, saying a large backlog of orders exists and politics will not affect the restart.

Pull Handen Elwood Ind

Local notes share church events and visits around town

Admission to the airdome and a Friday musicale at the Baptist church draw crowds. Visitors include W. O. Mullin from Brighton, Miss Lucy Miller of Perlee, Mrs. Will Marr and Roy of Ainsworth, and others from Red Cloud and Omaha. J. L. Brookhart reports land sales of 5 009 acres totaling 163 000 dollars on a Gulf Coast trip for the Geo H Paul Co. The Paul company plans more large tracts and another excursion on October 6.

Airdome Baptist Church W. O. Mullin Brighton Lucy Miller Perlee Will Marr Roy Ainsworth W. H. Butterfield J. L. Brookhart Gulf Coast Texas Geo. H. Paul Co E. R. Howard Paul Company Taft

How to Get Strong by P J Daly at 1247 W Congress St Chicago

P J Daly of 1247 West Congress Street Chicago relays his claim that his feeble mother has gained flesh insomnia eased and strength increased using Electric Bitters. The tonic improves stomach liver and kidney issues and is sold under guarantee at Lemmon's Pharmacy for 65 cents.

P. J. Daly Congress St Chicago Lemmon’s Pharmacy

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised

Leesburg Virginia resident Maude E. Forgie writes that after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she recovered from months of feminine ills and feels like a new woman. The ad-style letter touts decades of cures for displacements inflammation and related symptoms urging others to write for advice from Lynn Mass.

Maude E. Forgie Leesburg,Va Mrs. Pinkham Lydia E. Pinkham Silke

Serious Assault Leaves John Strouse Injured at Work

John Strouse, an employee of M. T. Anderson, is in serious condition after an assault by Thomas Turnipseed yesterday afternoon at the Anderson yards. Strouse sustained a broken jaw in two places and severe facial injuries. Turnipseed is jailed awaiting case developments. Strouse hopes to recover though speech is returning slowly.

John Strouse M. T. Anderson Thomas Turnipseed Anderson Yards Turnipseed Mr. Strouse

Card of Thanks from Herring Family

The family thanks friends neighbors and orders of insignia members for kindness and sympathy during the illness and at the death of our wife and mother J H Herring and children

J. H. Herring

Preaching Service Planned at Walnut Schoolhouse

A notice states that preaching will be held next Sunday afternoon at 3 30 at the Walnut schoolhouse with Rev W R Sawhill preaching and all are cordially invited.

Walnut Schoolhouse W. R. Sawhill

Skating Rink To Open Friday Evening

88-2b Mr and Mrs J A Montgomery of Mankato Kansas arrived last night and are visiting their son Harry in the city. They will travel on in a few days to Pittsburg for a visit there.

J. A. Montgomery Mankato Kan Harry Pittsburg

Word Squares Puzzle List Riddle Set

The Puzzler No 218 presents a multi part word square drill with clues ranging from a cupola and a place for baking to a Latin poet and an officer in the army. Each numbered section offers paired hints guiding to eight letter word solutions and related terms.

Decapitations puzzle shifts clues through letters

A wordplay riddle tracks letter drops to change meaning from intention to weed to a musical syllable. Each step removes a letter to reveal a new form: an intent gaze becomes a lesser word, then a worthless weed, then a musical syllable, and finally a vowel ring with another drop.

Puzzlersや Riddles and a Bad Boy Ruse

A puzzle page asks to name a bark without a noise a trunk without a lid and other riddle style questions. It also narrates Little Johnny Smith’s hard math sum disrupted by Billy Barnes who rubbed out most digits. The teacher offers a handsome story book as a reward if Johnny can reconstruct the missing number of figures to match the product.

Johnny Smith Billy Barnes Johnny Billy

Pyramid Riddle Leads to Fermented Liquor Clue

A historical puzzle line maps a right triangle to a fermented liquor as hypotenuse, with a warrior base and a headless nail as altitude. The left hypotenuse hints the plural of a small animal or a club winged.

Dissected Words Puzzle Clues Gratification

No 223 presents a riddle where the first is the past tense of posture, the second is the present singular of be, and the third is a manufactory. The three combined yield a word meaning a sense of gratification.

Miner Passes Noon Break In Dim Coal Mine

A miner ends his lunch as the noon whistle sounds and lights a small lamp to read. He glances at Tara papers by a flicker of flame, then resumes work with a cheerful note, the daily routine continuing in the gloomy aisle.

Tara

Exchange Heads and Tails. Exam Ple: A Humble Scene

The excerpt paints a rough scene at a corner store with a mountain white present all day. A mare stands beside a shabby man, a hollow fence line holds an old newspaper. The speaker yearns to force action, yet sympathizes with a hungry beast and a half nourished poor man. The man’s clothes are tattered and his breath carries moonshine, stinging the nostrils.

Key to the Puzzler and Added Puzzles No 214 217

A list of puzzle items including Insertion wordplay and puzzles No 212 218 214 215 216 217 with examples Aunt Mirandy shopping prices decoys and an Enigma about the letter N as featured in a historical puzzle page.

Mirandy

Gompers Answers Bucks Bereott Case Questioned

The Supreme Court of the District of Cobhembia orders action while President Gompers answers questions in the Bucks bereott case after previously refusing to speak. The International Congress on Tuberechosis sits in Philadelphia with eminent attendees. Heavy rains hinder forest work across Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan. Pittsburg Steamship orders 80 000 tons of steel plates from Steel Corporation. The Irish League in the United States closes its national convention in Boston. Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia elected national president. Nat Goodwin seeks divorce on grounds of desertion. John J. Chapman ex deputy postmaster Akron pleads guilty to embezzling over 9 000 from Akron post office.

Euprema Court of the District of Cobhembia Gompers Bucks United States Boston Michael J. Ryan Philadelphia Nat Goodwin John J. Chapman Akron Cleveland

Result of a college rush at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A clash between sophomore and freshman students on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute common left Emil Gran of West Wareham injured with a broken back and paralysis. About 200 participants were involved as Gran slipped, fell, and was trampled before rescuers found him. he was taken to the city hospital in a perilous condition.

Worcester Mass Aea Worcester Polytechnic Institute Emil Gran West Wareham City Hospital Gran

Chicago sanitary district seeks $1,250,000 tax reduction

Joliet Sept 24 Application filed with Will county authorities by the trustees of the sanitary district of Chicago for a reduction of 1,250,000 dollars in the tax valuation of its property.

Joliet, TL Will County Sanitary District of Chicago

Cruiser Yankee Runs Aground In Fog Near Newport

Newport R I Sept 24 The cruiser Yankee bound from Cutty to Newport for coal ran aground on Spindle rock in a thick fog. It struck a compartment letting in water but sea remains calm and she rests easy. Tugs have been dispatched to aid and afloat without major damage expected.

Newport R. J Yankee Cutty

Newsprint Sale Announced by NFPA Committee Chair

New York September 24 chairman John Norris of the paper committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association announced a sale of 10 000 tons of St Regis newsprint in the city on October 3 at 11 am Also scheduled is a Cheboyasur paper sale by Norris on September 30 at 12 50 pm

New York John Norris Committee On The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association St. Regis Paper Company Norris

Funeral for Jackson Allen in Coloma at Rockville

The funeral of Jackson Allen eighty two years old was held at Coloma in this county. He was the last of the Solomon Allen family and came to Rockville from Ohio in 1826. Fient of Time.

Rockville Ind Jackson Allen Coloma Allen Solomon Allen Ohio

Am I the only girl you ever loved

A brief New York American exchange quotes a shy romance snippet with a playful line about love and youth between two unnamed speakers, capturing a fragment of social sentiment from the period.

New York American

Siberia Clergy Salaries and Duties

Siberia’s clergy vary in pay from about 600 dollars a year for the best paid to poorer priests who often beg. They must conduct multiple services daily, bless births and deaths, and dedicate new buildings, schools, bridges, boats, and school terms. Continuous prayer is required during pestilence or peril.

Siberia

Belle-So Maude Meets Char Ley In Questionable Moment

Belle-So Maude accepted Char Ley. Lena asks if you would have accepted him in her place. Kelly notes she was in his lap at the time.

Belle Maude Charley Lena Kelly

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