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Newspaper
Washington Washington Democrat
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
4
A jumble of bits recounts the Napoleonic tale of the Woman of Stenay who poisoned Austrian soldiers and cursed them with Vive la France, plus a note on Greenland as the birthplace of many icebergs. It also mentions August 14 township meeting notices in Veale township and other scattered items.
Residents report visitors from Petersburg Vincennes Evansville and Terre Haute. Travelers include Baker Hastings Tom, Miss Agnes Hammond, Captain J A Palmer, Miss Mary Crump, Miss Fern Paith, Judge Gardiner, Corinne Fenrad, Blanche Fenrad, J R Toston, C F Osborne, Miss Nellie Mills, Miss Birdie Perrumin, Miss Martha Hembree, Miss Laura Nimnicht, Miss Etta Phillips, and many more. People depart for Seymour Terre Haute Bloomington and Louisville for visits or business.
Telegram updates report a Vienna Austria Hungary Servia breach with a looming result of Nastich confession of a plot to incite Slavic uprisings. Other items note Raffalo shot in Blythe. Sing Sing case of Albert Patrick appeal. Austin Bank suspended. St Helena sailors clash with locals. New Orleans Public Belt Road tariff delay. arsenic linked to Henry Slemann death. Maurice S. Where dies in Atlantic City.
Notice announces a public sale of Ford school property in Washington Is on Monday August 17 1908 at 1 p.m. in Tenpoke Court building. Trustee WM L Brown sets terms of one year at five percent interest. Includes district No 17 ground known as the alexeniee aghaol. Souvenir offer for ladies at the Airdome tonight.
Dr and Mrs R M Mitchell plan a postwar nostalgia trip visiting Washington Philadelphia Atlantic City and New York City returning around August 45 A license was granted for Albert Colbert and Clara Hawkins to marry marking Colbert's third marriage and Hawkins' second Clerk Wallace tested Colbert on marriage dates. both offered imperfect recollections The couple will wed this evening.
Real estate aid loans offered with farms of various sizes and prices for sale or exchange. Terms include fair value forestry or other property trade interests. Farm loans at 6 percent interest with prepayment privileges. Room 20 Temuie Court. A. J. Biddinger.
Seaman Albert E. Heisel of the battleship Wisconsin is missing since July 31 after last being seen at 7 am. A board of inquiry linked melancholia to his disappearance and suspects suicide by jumping overboard. The Atlantic fleet was 1,017 miles from Auckland at 8 pm Tuesday.
The Daviess County Sunday School Association plans a county-wide convention at Bethel church Veale township next Sunday. Arthur Greenwood secretary and Rev John Welsh president will speak. The group seeks to grow Sunday schools through conventions and institutes and all township Sunday school members become members. A county convention is planned for September 15 with full township alignment hoped by then.
The county commissiones visit the orphans' home and inspect a few roads in a quiet, uneventful term. Desk work will occupy them for the rest of the period. The piece ends with a stray verse and an unrelated street scene from Houston.
White Swan Laundry offers finest work and prompt service at reasonable rates. Family washing four cents per batch pleated bosom shirts and shirts with cuffs attached ten cents barber coats ten cents.
A timid girl described ongoing street harassment by a man who followed her to her doorway and near the hall. She urged the hall boy to eject him but was told he lives on the third floor and has a right to be there. Nearby, ticket office workers note many gloves missing fingers as men buy railroad tickets in a curious habit.
A brief column notes a first magazine editor prospect named Signa of Precgocity and praises a youngster who shows talent for editing. The piece contrasts his decisive actions with the editor’s judgment and hints at future potential in publishing.
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