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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
3
Clarence Brown of Riverside was a business caller in the city yesterday. The T. J. McKibinney family moved into their new property recently purchased from D. H. Logan. Local merchants tout Kraut and quart sales with small price notes.
Local residents report rapid health improvements after using Root Juice. At Lemmon's Drug Store demonstrations, customers share stories of stomach, liver, and kidney relief and urge friends to try the remedy amid phone recommendations and descriptive circulars.
The Zetagathian Literary Society of the State University plans a complete history and roster of its 1200 former members. Theodore Vanerus leads the committee with Kenneth Colgrove and Dr. Benjamin F. Shambaugh advising. The volume will be printed on fine paper with bindings similar to Iowa State Historical Society books.
Ed Bowman returned Tuesday evening from a business trip to Chicago. Mrs. Ella Work of West Chester visited Mrs. Ella Kline yesterday. The Misses Nellie and Esther Bartholomew of north of the city shopped in town yesterday. Mrs. Frank Webb of Washington arrived Saturday for a short visit with her brother. Mrs. W. H. Mohr and Miss Sadie Mohr, lately in Washington, returned home. Miss Bessie Brinton of Brighton, a Marshalltown teacher, was in town with her father John Brinton and sister Cora. Telephone 59 for safe horses and clean turnouts or a cab ride around the city. M. R. Meek successor to Frank Webb.
A stream of visitors and residents in the city yesterday included H. A. Jeffrey of Ainsworth C. L. Beitel of Grace Hill Jim Wooley and H. D. Smith from Brighton Miss Eva Smith of West Chester Mrs A Wood of West Chester Wm McConnell of Haskins vicinity Mrs S K Statler of West Chester A E Wheeler of Ainsworth Mrs M D Work of West Chester Mrs A M Meade returns from Os kaloosa Miss Jenness Abbeys en route to Keota Mrs M D Yard and daughter Alice of Crawfordsville Mr and Mrs Samuel M McCleery return from Maine Mr and Mrs Anthon Wesley of Iowa City with son James Wesley Mrs Dora Vorhies of Lockridge arrives to visit then heads to Texas Ora Young of Douglas Wyo arrives from Knoxville and will stay with W W Cherry family Mrs John Shawhan of Sigourney departs after visit with A D Sanders Frank McConahey family depart for Spokane Wash.
An old advertisement touts Mi o na tablets as a cure for nervous prostration and indigestion claiming relief within hours and weeks. It asserts the medicine cures acid reflux belching heartburn and sour taste and offers a money back guarantee from Lemmon's pharmacy at 50 cents per large box.
The Congressional Directory for the Sixty first congress is out with seventy six new house members and thirteen new senators. It notes vacancies in the upper and lower houses and highlights President Taft and statehood aims for Arizona and New Mexico. It also surveys inauguration weather related illnesses and remarks on public reactions to Hobson’s vote and a Wu Ting Fang remark about the song Dixie.
Mrs. Ada Smith and Mrs. G. W. Nicholaus of Crawfordsville were in the city yesterday. D. M. Sullivan of Burlington called in yesterday. J. Wooley of Crawfordsville was here between trains last evening. W. R. Campbell of Des Moines passed through on his way to Crawfordsville to visit his sister, Mrs. Nancy Coe.
Rev Joseph H Fesperman of Salisbury North Carolina states he suffered years with kidney trouble and a severe winter pain confined to bed eight days. After starting Foley's Kidney Remedy the pain abated and ceased. He cheerfully recommends Foley's Kidney Remedy. Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
G Harkenews of Muscatine traveled here last evening on his way to Crawfordsville to conduct business. He plans to relocate with his family to a farm south of Havre within a few days.
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