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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1908
Page
6
The ad touts Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea as healthful medicine known to science. It claims gentle soothing for nerves, aids digestion, and brings sweet sleep. Available as tea or tablets at Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
The Washington en campment No 171 calls a regular meeting for Friday evening with a request for full attendance. A brief session is expected to address routine matters and member attendance. The message notes the date as Friday and emphasizes full participation.
In spring 1906 Jesse P Morris faced a severe pneumonia and dangerous cough that friends feared meant consumption. He credits Dr King s New Discovery with quick relief after using two and a half bottles, declaring it the best remedy for coughs and lung disease. Available at Lemmon s Pharmacy with a trial bottle free and prices 50c and 1.00.
Johnstown Pennsylvania hosts an after lecture reception where John Merritte Driver’s talk The Anglo Saxon and the Future Rulership of the World earns 102 Stars, a unique honor granted by the local Y M C A. Witty commentator James Clement Ambrose cites Driver among great preachers and lecturers. The Graham appearance occurred on April 20.
Sioux City reports Street Commissioner Tom Ford, who campaigned aggressively for Mayor W. G. Sears, is hospitalized with a mild smallpox attack. Ford has been in the city detention hospital since last Friday, a matter kept quiet within city hall circles.
A collage of short notices features Mrs. Dixie Strothers of Greensboro married three times all on Thursdays and each of her four children born that day. Agnes Messmore, a nurse in St. Louis, saved a burglar by leaping from bed without screaming. Aunt Lucy White-Purington, 92, recalls history vividly. Florence Nightingale receives London’s freedom of the city at age 88. Mary Woodman taught the late King Carlos of Portugal in multiple subjects and holds family memos promising nobility. Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Dudley once posed as French tourists at Eastnor Castle, with a housekeeper later recalling the Duchess de Montmorency label.
The derwentwater lake in England hosts a fish species called van dace that are never captured alive. They are believed to inhabit the lake’s deeper waters and are not found in nearby rivers. A small number of dead specimens found in the lake are kept as curiosities.
Farm guide from American Cultivator describes best practices for sap collection and sugar making. It covers locating taps on sunny tree sides, proper hole depth and direction, spout materials, pail choices, sun protection, covers, and handling of first drippings to avoid contamination.
Short notice outlines pasture seeding on fields where allowed. It details preparation steps, seed mixtures, timing, and grazing restrictions. Emphasizes soil testing, drainage checks, and rotation to prevent overgrazing while aiming for sturdy stand establishment.
Professor Zavitz recommends a pasture seeding mix of 24 pounds per acre including or chard grass meadow fescue tall cat grass timothy meadow foxtail lucerne clover alsike and white clover. Tanbark from Hemlock Oak Chestnut and other woods yields extract, with chestnut supplying more extract than all other domestic woods. Forest Service notes a little over a thousand barrels from palmetto roots.
R. W. Leader remarks that clouds present the hardest study for artists. Harry Arthur McArdie, famed for Dawn at the Alamo and The Battle of San Jacinto, dies in San Antonio. James Otis Kaler of South Portland, a prolific boys’ author, tests manuscripts with his friends before selecting a new one. Harris Merton Lyon, a noted magazine writer, plans marriage to Hyacinth Tawana, a Japanese woman saved from death in Nagasaki, who will visit San Francisco.
The Brooklyn Eagle outlines spring fashion focusing on empire waistlines, long straight skirts, and sashes. Evening gowns feature clinging silhouettes with folded hems and sheath fitting petticoats created by waist yokes or darts.
Flower and Tree notes shaded plants like primroses fuchsias lilies of the valley begonias Roman hyacinths and paper white narcissus thrive in northern or shaded windows. Herbarium sheets count 1109 tree species in the Philippines with expectations of 1600 to 1800. timber lands are government property under the bureau of forestry. The southern Appalachians including Alleghany ranges and westward plateaus to the Mississippi Ohio rivers remain the main source and market for white oak.
The text notes Oxford as the largest university globally with twenty one colleges and five halls. It mentions the London county cornell schools housing 721675 children and an average attendance of 88.2 percent. Abyssinian boys over twelve must attend school and the state funds education while building many schools. A University of Chicago salary boost of 25 percent adds 32000 dollars to the budget.
The piece notes Emperor William spent one million dollars on the Royal Box Opera last year and mentions his large free list. London reports the Prince of Wales will go to Quebec in August for the city’s 300th anniversary founding by the French. It also mentions Queen Wilhelmina’s chocolate fondness and milk dishes with a cream preference.
An old style small ad offers carpet cleaning services with drayage payment options and a stated price, referencing a phone contact and the firm name Carpet Cleaning Co. The ad includes a street address style line 46-46 and a vintage tone.
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