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Washington Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1902, Washington, Iowa Just escaped hanging or mended John Booths broken Mudd was a physician and it was to his House that Booth had Ridden on the night of his great crime there his broken leg had been set and there he had been secreted for one Day the doctor was an educated Man of refined and dignified manner he had never quite from his Surprise that any one should find fault Mth him for setting a broken Bone for a stranger he always asserted that he did not know Booth and was not aware at the time that Booth had committed a crime but Mudd had been an ardent secessionist lie was accordingly tended to imprisonment for life it was a hard Fate to be called upon for professional services by a wounded desperado an then to escape hailing for it the trial and sentence were a terrible blow for wifi Mudd never Icem ered he a devoted wife at Home in maraud and his mental sufferings that he seemed always of in sanity he had put to Woik with a having never done he was rapidly failing Tali combined physical and mental Strain for this John Mahin editor 50 years we Grace this Page with a capital picture of a very handsome and Good Man John of Iowa journalism who bad been in touch with the Muscatine journal 50 years on the 17th of july John is 69 years old but be keeps Bis Youthful Beauty by using a razor at Matins every morning no Snow therefore accumulates Ennis Cheeks or Chin we have read his evening paper for 36 years and like it and have the highest respect for Mahin for Bis fearlessness Fidelity to conviction of duty and rugged honesty he excelled As a paragraph or and in making terse telling selections or editing wisely with the shears be has never been excelled the Gate City Man comes nearest being a successful in the Fis Art of cat Birog just those spicy meaty interesting fun Tive things a sort of sibylline leaves that John always served up As thick As leaves in Val Lambrosa Printer Devil to Deal Art Wienir years old using Ink of hands and face instead of dynamited by the conscience less ene Mies that he made yet he never swerved Mabin has been a Good Man for his town Bis county his state tort tote great orators deep before two famous Daniel Webster was invited to Rich mond in the fifties he accepted the in vital Iii came to Richmond and went to tiie Exchange hotel he was invited by the state legislature to address them and the people of Richmond and a committee consisting of James Lyons of Richmond and Robert b Scott of Fauquier two of the most eminent lawyers in the state were sent Down to file hotel to escort him to the Capitol building they found or Webster in a state of Motovi cation in such degree that or Lyons said to or Scott this Man make a speech you must take his Scott replied no Man can Tuke the place of Daniel web after delay during which or web Ster improved i Hittle he was asked if he would go to the Capitol he replied with great difficulty messes Scott and Lyons supported and helped Drinker mci4lui strains r or this reason i directed that he Seftan Siefred to the prisoner Hospital prisoner Hospital As there he made himself useful and there he might have mailed had not his homesickness m an evil hour of nicome his judgment while a ship Lay a the wharf he contrived to get to Ovid and secrete himself m the Coal bunkers he was of course Dis covered and Theamie he did not know before that no ship was allowed to sail until it was ascertained that every prisoner was in his place he was immediately placed in solitary confinement where he remained sever Magazine to the Capitol when they reached the Rotunda near the Washington statue or Lyons said or Webster do you think you can speak if you will give me a drink of Brandy a messenger was sent Tea neighbor ing hotel and a bottle of Brandy farms farms farms the Man who owns a Good farm is Independent the Western land investment com Pany of Des Moines Iowa will sell you a farm on a contract for the Small Sura of so per year without interest and taxes you have been renting a farm and paying some one else the profits of your labor dont fail to take advantage of this Opportunity to get a farm of your own selection from among the farms owned by this company before it is too late i Wii buy brought or Webster poured out sue t Vul 13 two goblets full and drank straightened himself As a lion might Haye done steadily and directly to the position from hich he spoke on the South porch of the Capitol and in the presence of an of people which consisted of the intellectuality and Beauty of Richmond male and female celebrated octo Ber speech one of the greatest even of his be Edward that on the the Chance of a for a Young Man or a Man renting a farm for full particulars address or Call upon r h Walker dist 4t Washington Iowa 2sp02t of the Rohdt Tiosh of the citizens National Bant at fast Agton in tie state of Iowa at of baskets july 16th 1902 resources Loans dual discounts overdrafts secured and r time table when Carlyle and Tennyson were going thro the Lery looking it the Nota Bles the latter asked grim Thomas what he thought of All that he growled out that be admired none of it the men have no Noth ing can come of men who have no but look at Johns pictures theres jaw aplenty and it accounts for his firmness Pluck and general robustness of character Many More years to tree my Joe John and increasing Power to thy Elbow he issued a Good big Jubilee or Golden edition and later the journal Force gave him a solid Gold locket with Diamond setting and Sog raved with the words fifty years As editor july Harold j Mahin the Man Ager of the paper who has gone to the pellets of Snow Hove they Ellne and Diwan Adirondack Region on a Good Drift making Day m the Adirondacks the Snow comes not in the Star soaped flakes that look so pretty when portrayed on Page of the dictionary but m Small pellets these pellets Are in shape like tiny footballs usually and they come Roll ing and tumbling Down wind As if they had been for fan1 by the Liaf pack Gale and yet while they and bound they Tod and As the idler Rise gazes he the Chest of to f c the overdrafts secured and Day Webster replied to Hayne of South Carolina he walked with him to w secure of similar design engraved Best wishes journal Force july in fighting be has led a House was the Sellers Short bushels of of gov taft3 Mission to Rome to secure withdrawal of philippine friars and Purchase of Ibex Rylands temporarily failed be will leave for the Pope live till 1903 he will his Diamond Jubilee As a Bishop Bis Jubilee As a Cardinal and his Silver Jubilee Pope july Oats advanced to 65 cents Pat tens contracts believed to total 000 bushels and he already has put t3 r d ing Tro spend a million dollars a Day for several Days before coming to their senses Kansas proposes that Ber 300 state convicts shall make All the Binder twine needed there the pellets Way fit to other As Bucks would until the overhang is haps a fifth As great As the Wall and then marvelous am possible As it would Eust Omed observer a on Force with a locket Ger it farther and Faithf its shapes precisely the lip formed on a huge wave it Breaks on a Shoal water Beach that Are ten feet wide and hang Down three feet Clear of All though but six or eight inches thick they John the Chin of the wan Are not uncommon by what magic is it that these Frozen Oblong pellets that go bounding along As merrily As footballs form into such a shape As that of course if tie storm usually comes 1 Corn and the Price at which they will have to Settle is problematical there was Only s500 a Day in higher wages at stake in the Chicago strike were Carolina he walked with him to the Capitol that he seemed so badly pre pare that to and feared that he was not equal to the occasion that just before he drank a Goblet of then made his great speech m reply to Hayne which is an English classic such was the effect of the beverage on the great fonts to Xot study them for knowledge read them for Cal tire Toung men and Young women actually go to take a course in or Chaucer Dante or a fiends the course be a Mere knowledge course my acquaintance with Milton was an exercise in grammar we Paradise much of the College study of Shakespeare Upina Wall on f and higher grows the at first a vertical Wall this has sen inches it is the Gulch though round and better than parsing him the fails upon the text like hens a Bone m Winter no meaning Jpn phrase escapes them every line Ikhter Aljy picked to pieces but of we bushels and he already has put Deerea Fiere u s a Price 15i cents Over Bis former Corner of 8 costing 10 to 13c Cuba requested that its prison now a Mil Cuba requested that its Coaling Tai Ion in Havana Harbor be Given up gov Jen Wood already had turned Over title an Dequest will be granted Brig Gen Smith who ordered Samar tax saved s Nivea Over in Aad Are after the Trust lion and next year will that by three Minnesota Dakota have prison twine Kan Sas Farmers last y comes when the lips ire if off because of their great then no new lip forms the lost one the Snow Over into the Lee of the gradually fills the natives Over 10 years old killed and country burned retired from service by Roosevelt As under age limit regulations Pope apparently disconcerted by r Govi tafts suspension of philippine negotiations belief in Rome is that Church has missed Chance to Serene to in itself the u s saved King of Italy from probable assassination by furnishing information on Tonetti arrested at Bra Italy Patterson n anarchists had sent him to kill the King president Schwab estimated u s steel company total assets including Cash at 400 Mills 75 blast furnaces and acres of Coal land included Airship contest at st Louis exposition announced by committee will be for prizes offered for aeronaut Landing nearest Washino ton Monument at National capital Combine of wholesale groceries out Side of Chicago in Illinois Indiana Ohio Missouri and Michigan will be incorporated in new Jersey with capital n h Higginbotham Chicago to be president chicagoan representing a total wealth of bought 000 bushels of july Corn at an average Price of 65 cents a Bushel the people who sold have delivered so far about bushels and from the appear ances despite the break in the Price the result of Large deliveries there Are Many who think thai by the end of the month when the deliveries must be made not More than another 10 can be found this will leave Gates Corner in july Corn May still prove a failure financially by placed in Market yesterday and Corner still has bushels to sell gov Drake denies that he was in the Deal and made a million the shorts settled at about so cents his present profits placed at 000 but accumulation of contract Grain Gates is forced to take May result in loss the steel Trust has refused to raise prices though the extraordinary de Mand has it to do so in Manj instances contractors have offered much higher prices than asked for immediate deliveries the steel Trust claims that it has been consistent and when the demand decreases Large reductions in prices May looked for the Trust recently advanced the wages of its employees new York and Atlantic City at Sis for roundtrip via Nickel plate Road july 17th and 31st return limit 12 Days Stopover at Chautauqua Lake and Niagara Falls within final limit City ticket office 111 Adams st John y Calahan general agent tailed information All the strongest animals Are vege Tanana the elephant being the most powerful and the Rhinoceros next the swiftest the horse and the Ante Lope Are also vegetarians vegetarian animals also live much longer than Raea Teaters the Only River in the that flows for Miles without one tributary the Rose the Rose has enjoyed peas a sacred Flower tradition says that Wheir Jerusalem he refused Irine of the Temple Jav Lucthi erred into a till the Walls had been and purified with in Story is told of Sophia at constants from a Chris worship to a Mohanl the of the Rose moslem tradition 1s bit the blood of the Prophet sprang into new he in this glorious Crimson Flower to this Day when a Turk Rose lying of the ground he will raise it tenderly kiss it reverently an Del f posit the frail Blossom in some i k of a self of that which makes and nor an by know add not a origins of of the Beau in Wii you real you have in duet there stand Chaucer and Shakespeare read4them give your self 4fo them and master them if you Are Man enough the poets Are Nott to be Analysed enjoyed they Are nol to be but to be loved they Are but for Biance on appreciation of life and Mastery Over its elements a13 lie Mere facts about a poets work Are As chaff As com Jared with the Tom of one Fine line or Fine Why study a great poet at All of Teffre sni Anner of the dissecting comm his not rather seek to make the actual it Aace of his living soul and to its Burroughs in Century premiums on u s Bonds stocks securities Etc due from rational Banks Noth serve agents due from state Banks and banker l due from approved re serve Agento and other Cash notes of Otter National fractional paper currency Mcl vels lawful a Lone Reserve m Bank Viz Legal ten notes redemption fund with u b treas 5 per cent of liabilities capital Stock paid in surplus fund profits less expenses and taxes paid Nau Nat Bank notes out due to Otner rational Banks due to state Banks and go 00 4 1 253 02 667 59 is 00 00 due to Trust companies and savings Banks in Dinnal deposits Sao Jet to Check demand certificates ode Post 00 78 37 00 75000 7t 00 co s2 00 76 17 09 Fca is c r i p main line Godtz East going South West 1 if is Kanoh depart naps daily except sunday All other trains daily except sunday passengers Only to col june and to Des leave Here 0 25 p m at d m 10 4fl t m 0 40 a sir Here 1035 p by trains North i 0 00 p m Fri if 13 espre Sto 11 express f mail an to 9 freight to Knowledg cashier 1 Chas Bloeck i pm Keck i Stew it j Public Low rate excursions to Stew York and Swantie Cuy via Nickel plate Road at for the round trip july nth and Slat and August 7th and 14th return limit 12 Days Stopover at Chautauqua and Niagara palls within limit three through daily trains meals served in dining cars on Nickel plate Road of american club meal plans ranging in Price from 35cents to also a la Chicago debt Harrison st what Point of morals of Economy of philosophy taste the conduct of settled what mystery unified his knowledge or function or District he not remember has he not but Why did Yon name your bab1 after his most disreputable ancestor the surprised Friend asked the Young Mother you Seo i expect him to prove on the former bearer of name indeed he hardly can Feln f Rass very u by to Tae san ii babies hardly Ever Dowhen Thev Arl named for great personages As t often a often York press onners of of he not he not Sig iat of Sce is work what King As Talma iat Maiden has than her delicacy carte 3 f v ave City ticket office 111 Adams for particulars write John y Kalalian agent 6w3 outlived what oat seen what Gen As be not instructed in the Ess of his Wal Imerson Chicago capt Dickman eighth cavalry May get into trouble Over Kansas speech accusing foreign officials at Pekin of looting and calling japanese pompous and russians loafers the suggestion that the democrats Are Bunting for a Paramount Issue re iinds the Burlington Hawkeye of Mark trains refutation of the Rumor that be was dead Mark said the re port was what the democrats Are searching for is any kind of an says the Hawkeye express p1 Earleon n at artict Ati b q Fass pm a m m m ally state of Iowa Washington to c a Smith defendant x Oil and she Are husband and that about the 1900 m e Gobat you wife Ber and Ever since deserted absented Able or just y reason uni Emu Ulii i Able or just cause therefor said Petitioner prays that k Piang mat y0 she be divorced and for Federal equitable Relief f6r tbsp privileges of a Fetn sole and you and and u01fss you appear thereto and before noon of the second Dav f said District court entered 6w4 Elcher attorneys for plaintiff famous Bell Tower High fell and destroyed part Palace no ode Killea k Porto Ricos exports to foreign c0un pcs last year increased 54 per cent and to in s 48 per cent us make the capital Stock said the first promoter Uku Ause the ancestor was so very shr the second who was if l had named him after the most Dii the prospectus on the Type in gushed member of the family j a feed up to Naust it of hard to increase that Cap Ikea the first no indeed All i have to do is to it the key a few More american i Charlie youve seen some of the things Ive turned off d 4 i was thinking stories and it frequently happens that when n Man gets on office be finds it too Small for him but there All ailing to squeeze Constitution blood Poison infected with this awful Mandy rough handling the Parent Dawson is one of the most devoted fathers i Ever How so hers so proud of Bis wily say he often lies awake half the night trying to think up Clever things that he can credit them with land Plain dealer the to Venic Idun Willie do you know what happens to the bad Little boys v what Nve More fun thu the Good Post Jath some disease cures it even in dote for the x it o o o contain a Cul s

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