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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
6
Miss Jessie Anderson returns home to Crawfordsville after a short visit at Ainsworth. O D Fullerton and A A Hight announce arrival from Columbus City with a Percheron stallion bought from Johnston Bros and plan to bring the horse home later this week with further public notices.
Local notices list various city visitors and travel, births, visits to Ainsworth, and short ads. Farmers and residents and travelers are named, with mentions of Royal Market cheese and inked sales. A wolf bounty is noted after a hunter shot a wolf near L. H. O Loughlin farm.
An advertisement warns against mercury in remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally. It urges buying genuine Hall's products and notes testimonials free and price five cents per bottle.
Chicago Journal portrays John Merritte Driver as a man among men with broad knowledge and strong ideals. The piece praises his leadership, beauty of thought and speech, and magnetic eloquence, predicting a growing, thirsty following and a vision of goodness and beauty in life. Presented after a Graham event on April 20.
Miss Opa Rickey arrived from Ainsworth Saturday evening. Miss Keiser of Keota attended the funeral of William Hollingsworth yesterday. Miss Geneva Pratt returned home Saturday from Keota after a brief visit. Roy McGuire of Brighton, a medical student in Iowa City, visited friends in town Saturday evening between trains. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertised as a curative remedy available at Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
The Soap Bubblers led by Phil Thompson staged a festive winter event at Masonic Hall. Forty seven children created giant soap bubbles from cornucopias and rings, while kittens were safely contained inside bubbles. Leroy Kimball, the club’s youngest member, appeared inside a soap film house as the finale of a playful spectacle.
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