Presbyterian Choir Rehearsal Cancelled This Week
No rehearsal for the Presbyterian choir this week. Letters of explanation will be sent to members of the choir.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
4
A Fatal Honeymoon Sailed From Atlantic City
Capt Andrews who twice crossed the Atlantic in a fifteen foot cockle shell was declared legally dead by Massachusetts courts. Letters of administration were granted to his son. Andrews sailed October 4 from Atlantic City with his bride in front of 1000 witnesses. The boat was sighted only once about a week after departure.
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Massachusetts
Atlantic City
Local notes from across the region mixed travel visits
Daily snippets report B Young of Pilateburg returning from the west. Mr and Mrs D Hamil visit Ft Madison for a few days. Harold Dye heads to Kansas City to rest before school. Miss Clara Bickford to Fairfield. Mrs Sam Berry to Oskaloosa after her sister’s husband William Brock died after brain illness. L E Spirklen of Chicago visits Rush Morris. Dr and Mrs J O W Coxe return to Knoxville. Father Jacobsmeier travels to Harper. A West Virginia maiden Partridge marries Robin then Sparrow and Quayle succeed. Family then lists Robins Sparrow Quayle and even a Swan and Jay, now bird of paradise, with Mildred McAtlin returning from Havre.
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Sam Berry
Oskaloosa
William Brock
L. E. Spirklen
Chicago
Rush Morris
J. O. W. Coxe
Knoxville
West Virginia
Partridge
Robin
Messrs
Sparrow and
Quayle
Sparrow
Quayles
Wedding at Grace Hill in Washington area
Miss Pearl Dunbar and Mr Charles Anderson were united in marriage last evening at the St Dunbar home south of Grace Hill. Rev Ingham officiated. Miss Nina Seenhart played the wedding march. The couple will reside on a farm north of Washington and were greeted with many gifts.
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Miss Pearl Dunbar
Mr Charles Anderson
Grace
Nina Seenhart
Washington
Fairfield trustees seek 125000 to keep Parsons College
Fairfield reports Parsons College trustees say it would take 125000 to put the institution on its feet and warn that without prompt broad support towns like Ottumwa and Washington may vie to remove the school. Washington is noted as a potential ideal town for the college.
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Fairfield
Ottumwa
Washington
Mr. Pleasant News
Carris Moves Seat Sale to New North Side Location
Carris Pharmacy relocates Saturday night seat sale to the north side shop. Seats offered include gallery balcony parquet circle with prices listed. Special note confirms the move to the new Carris location for the event.
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Seate
Carris Pharmacy
New Carris
Secretary Shaw Arrives in Washington on President's Train
Henry Town of Madison Wisconsin elected warden of Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Kink Oswear's yacht with Crown Princess Victoria aboard runs on rocks. Dr George L Seymour a prominent Louisville dentist died by self-inflicted act. President Leavitt Corning of St Paul telegraphs sympathy to the president.
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Shaw
Washington
Henry Town
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Waupun
Oswear
George L. Seymour
Louisville
Leavitt Corning
Roosevelt Campaign Club
St. Paul
Fragmented Scene Involving Hotel Bill Confusion
A man wearing a towel around his neck recalls dislocating a shoulder in spring. A doctor who treated him left before the visitor arrived. The guest plans to identify him by voice upon return. A landlord hails a watchful clerk about adding 10 cents to a lady’s bill as a glass of water is fetched.
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Ehaly
Jean
Fliewende
The Popular Length and Portrait Request
A brief Oddity notes an artist asking if a full length portrait should be painted and a customer replying to match the standard length typically purchased by clients. Obie State Journal records the odd exchange highlighting demand for standard sizes.
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Saphedde
Obie State Journal
Dilemma of a Doctor and Social Coin Tricks
A reflective piece contrasts a physician’s self doubt and high charges with a social coin lesson from the New York Herald. It then recounts an elderly minister’s double wedding miscue where he improvises to bless four people as “husband and wife.”
Lost and found notices and sale ads from early town column
A fragmented page item lists a tiny ad set offering a small collection of afflicted birds for sale at 628 West Main Street, plus a cheap buggy and harness for sale by Osilon or Clarence Coen at 2nd Street and 64. It also notes a lost pair of skeleton nose glasses on East Main Street or North Marion Avenue with a reward for return to an office.
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Clarence Coen
Stah
East Main Street
North Marion Avenue
Telegram summaries of wars politics and finance events
General DeWet receives telegrams announcing the death of his year old son. Macedonia reports rising insurrectionary activity. Russia estimates harvest by crop with vast poods figures. Venezuelans burn and salute a US flag during an attack on La Chuayra, prompting apology. A Boston and Albany president recalls a public inquiry misstep about freight costs. Historic forgeries by Old Patel at the Bank of England in 1784 are described with a Confidant.
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DeWet
Telecat Croik Booth
Macedonia
United States
la Chuayra
Bank of England
Patel
Historic punishments and crimes across ancient times
A survey covers early methods of punishment including hanging in prison and death by strangling, ancient Greek and Egyptian trials, Britons casting criminals into quagmires, and a 6000 year old law about paying corn for marriage to a slave. It also notes a Mexican miners superstition about the gold snake signaling metal-rich ledges.
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Amherst Papyri
Egypt
B.C
Hart Karl
Chakloa
Barber Revels In Revenge Apparent Satisfaction
A barber's apparent satisfaction follows a motive of revenge as onlookers note his pleased demeanor after an act. The incident underscores tensions surrounding rivalries in the town and hints at ongoing disputes pending further details.
Gambler’s extreme dice bet and odds discussed
A noted gambler offered to bet a fellow clubman that a die would show six ten times in a row. The opponent rolled six nine times, then failed on the tenth throw. A mathematician calculated the true odds as 60,406,175 to 1 against ten straight sixes, implying the bet would be about 600000 to 1 in cent terms. The article also notes daily water intake recommendations of two to four pints.
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Ohce
Pittsburg
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