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Newspaper
Washington Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
2
The December Ladies' Home Journal envisions wireless circuits linking the world within a hundred years. A husband at sea could converse with his wife in Chicago, and calls to China would be as easy as New York to Brooklyn. Automatic signals would connect circuits without hello girls.
A docket of property conveyances shows transfers including multiple lots in Crawfordsville and Brighton City, parcels in Wash and Eng River, and tracts in Iowa. Notable deeds include W B Wilde & Co to Frank Stewart for eight lots, and AE Spaulding to J A Turbott for two Ainsworth lots, with other lines naming Herman Ferrebee, Olive Ferrebee, Vocal Yansky, S P Gorpon, Mary Yockey, Laban Fleak, Floyd Swisher, J T Porter, Peter Witting, Eliza J Keker man, and Barab Porter among the grantees and grantors.
An excerpt from December Ladies' Home Journal features "An American Mother" arguing Americans exaggerated social hierarchies. It criticizes belief that wealth alone creates caste and notes how even small towns overly prize porches, houses, and pretended lineage. The piece highlights universal inclination to mock social pretensions.
Telegram reports the death of Frank Skinner of Pataskala Ohio, as Tuesday updates note. Other items mention John Long and typhoid fever affecting his wife and children, plus Geo Green visiting from St. Louis and Madison Pulver moving to Keota after leaving Dublin, purchasing Charley Conger's Sunny Side property.
Rufus Bennett plans to stay in Texas through spring and had hoped to return to Iowa this fall. Tom McKee traveled to Elkridge Kansas last week to seek a farm and may purchase if suitable. Carl Hanning of Illinois, brother in law to Pete Witting, bought Elmer Bennett farm where Frank Clossen resides, through George Alexander's agency. Hanning will move next spring.
The Advance notes Wellman expanding from pharmaceutical preparations to a new cutlery factory. The celebration speaks to local growth and pride as industry diversifies. Chas. Goodspeed called Monday.
After years away in the east and across the Union, Mr. Goodspeed revisits Lexington and Cedar. He recalls boyhood roots and notes the county’s black soil and prairies as unmatched for farming, despite his wide travels since Wellman’s early days.
A Milwaukee avenue inventor proposes a self acting rat trap that lures rats with tainted dinner. The device seals shut, opens to reveal a one way escape, then guides rats into a water can. In four nights 118 rats were captured and disposed of in a large clubhouse.
A Scientific American design attaches a scarifier to a traction engine or steam roller to scarify macadam roads. It distributes weight evenly, uses a swinging frame of chisels, and allows forward or backward operation with adjustable cutting depth. The device promises faster, more thorough work with material savings and safer, level surfaces.
Brawny and long haired athletes padded for safety, shields on chins and ears, proudly welcomed by cheers. The strong limbed players earn athletic fame and public tribute as they march to the field amid praise.
The article explains cellulith made by a purely mechanical heating of pulp over 40 to 150 hours to form a homogeneous mass with no fibers. Air is removed by two hours of heating, colors may be added, and the liquid drains through a perforated bottom. Water content near 69 percent yields a honeylike mass that dries to horn like density, usable as horn or ebonite. with sawdust and lampblack it becomes dark and polishable.
A simple procedure uses a fine point of shaved match dipped in carbolic acid to touch the mole without touching surrounding skin. Repeat every three or four days until the mole disappears and the area heals clean.
The report lists 4200 plants known to commerce with 420 allocated to perfume production, highlighting the scale of supply and allocation for fragrance manufacturing.
In Elmira New York Dr Frank H Fiood was elected mayor but faces a sensational forgery case. He defeated Frank E Bundy who confessed to a $80000 embezzlement and is serving seven years in Auburn prison. Bundy previously served as city chamberlain.
A Pioneer Press editorial argues no group, not even a political party, is free from corruption. It notes dust gathering on ships after a ninety seven day voyage and posits even space breezes carry grime, urging constant effort to sweep away corruption in conscience driven Republicans.
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