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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
7
A biennial gathering of the League of Republican Clubs convened in New York to discuss party organization and policy priorities. Delegates from multiple chapters examined campaign strategies and coordinated efforts for upcoming elections.
In New York City on September 30 the National Republican League convenes to rally against a resurging Democratic challenge. President Taft is slated to deliver a major political banquet speech, outlining his policies as the high point of the league’s two year cycle with speakers including William B. McKinley and others. The gathering at Carnegie Hall signals broad cross state support, with delegates from Georgia Oklahoma South Carolina Texas and distant states attending. The league emphasizes party unity and nonpartisan action once candidates are set.
A compilation of light newspaper humor from the era, featuring a young wife frustrated by waiting for her husband, quips about aristocratic babies, road directors accused of graft, and a bricklayer’s practical joke. Includes a barber joke about neck shaving and a running thread of playful social observation.
Sale of household goods to be held at the northeast corner of the square on Saturday October 1 at 2:00. Location listed as 3213 Frank Macon. Auction details provided for attendees.
A Newark News fragment shows a barber joking about time while a customer reveals a twelve year gap before learning, and the pair discuss an upcoming wedding next month as a stenographer aims to become indispensable to her employer.
Watertown Wisconsin resident J A Swensen credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve with curing ten years of eczema that 15 doctors could not treat. The remedy is advertised as infallible for skin eruptions, eczema, salt rheum, boils, fever sores, burns, scalds, cuts and piles. Available 25e at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
An auction at the seller's farm five miles west and one mile south of Washington at Titus station begins Wednesday October 5 at 10 a m. Items include five horses two yearlings two brood mares and a road colt, four head of cattle sixty-one hogs corn oats hay and farm machinery. Terms: credit 12 months on sums over $10 with bankable note at 6 percent. cash under $10. Lunch on ground. Auctioneers Austin Sutherland and J P Stevenson.
Original notice in the District Court of Washington County Iowa October term 1910 names A J Peterson as plaintiff and numerous defendants including Burris Corbin Saunders Lasek and Woodburn in a land dispute over the north half of the southeast quarter of section sixteen township seventy six north range six west all in section sixteen with the deeded description and unknown claimants. Court actions to be served on all named defendants.
The petition filed in Washington County District Court claims the plaintiff is the absolute owner in fee simple of a described real estate. Unknown claimants may have interests through surviving spouses heirs devisees or other successors but are unnamed. The suit seeks to forever bar any such claims and to establish title in the plaintiff with an equitable relief. The notice directs appearance by October 18, 1910, and is published in the Evening Journal weekly for four weeks.
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