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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1909
Page
2
The piece surveys Easter hats with low crowns and wide shapes, heavy top-heavy crowns, and fruit and floral ornamentation. It notes Lord & Taylor displays, linen suitings, dress trends for young women, and colored embroidery on white fabrics for summer frocks. It closes with a lodge notice for E. N. James’s death in Washington, Iowa.
Mr and Mrs M DeMarce and son Rexwell attended the funeral of Mrs Ella White in Sigourney with Miss Flossie Peck accompanying them. Foley's Honey and Tar marketed by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co warns against counterfeits and extends sympathy from Des Moines Valley lodge No 348 to the bereaved family.
An advertisement urges readers with backache and urinary troubles to take Foley's Kidney Remedy to strengthen the kidneys. It claims the medicine helps kidneys act properly and warns that serious kidney trouble may develop if untreated.
Mrs. Geo. Black of Oskaloosa arrived Saturday evening and is staying at the T. T. Maxwell residence as a guest.
Miss Tice starts as a new clerk at Dave Flexner's. Harry Brooks and wife visit relatives in Iowa City. Mrs. J A Fry and Grace return from Oregon with Mrs. Engieman. Mrs. M Kern visits Mellinger home. O L Manatt and children spend Sunday at Montezuma with Charlie Hesseschwerdt. F H Kisor visits Iowa City. George Sauer travels to Moline. M E church nearing finishing carpentry. Rev Frank Seeds loses another horse this spring. John Stover visits Washington. Rex Louck returns from Ames to home county. Rev Seeds to lecture next Wednesday in Amish church. Frank McGuigan and family move from Oskaloosa to help at J E Miller harness shop.
April 3 notes twin boys born to Mr and Mrs Simpson with one twin dying and burial Friday. Emma Ziblman returned home from Fairtied Thursday. Wm Cochran moved his saw mill to Elias Park's timber. Oat sowing under way. Mrs Hattie Jones and Cleo visit Mrs Stacy. Donovan in Coppock. Faglaner runs a Sab Geo sawmill. Kern's log yard noted. Davison sale well attended for the season.
Fragmentary line from a humorous verse mentions Willie and Kate debating a swing on a No-Sag Gate with a numeric tag 37-6.
Mr and Mrs M DeMarce received word Saturday from Waterloo that Chas Johnson had died that morning. He was a brother in law of Mrs DeMarce and related to Mrs Frank Kephart. Kephart sister-in-law went to Waterloo Saturday evening to be with family. Mrs Martha A Gray rode to Keota Saturday evening to visit her sister Mrs J K Glover. A Hughes and son Eugene traveled to Gladwin Saturday evening for an overnight visit.
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