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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1908
Page
7
Colonel Andrew R. Blakely proprietor of the St. Charles hotel and a leading hotel figure passes away in New Orleans. He served the Confederacy during the Civil War and was closely involved with the United Confederate Veterans in major movements.
New York April 11 refined sugar prices rise ten cents per hundred pounds across all grades. Market reports note the move as an industry-wide adjustment in response to demand.
A humorous fragment shows Ostrich Bride pleading over a self-made pie while Ostrich Groom confesses fear, suggesting they eat railroad spikes instead. The exchange mirrors playful domestic whimsy from Wo man's Home Companion.
The continental shelf of the north Atlantic is described as about 100 miles wide with an outer edge depth around 500 feet, after which the seabed shelves steeply to the ocean depths.
An advertisement asserts a lazy liver signals overall weakness and urges digestion first. It touts Golden Medical Discovery as a non secret glyceric extract aiding stomach function, liver relief, and cleansing poisons, claiming cures for appetite loss, bad taste, foul breath, and fatigue, while warning against unknown substitutes.
Washington dispatch notes debate in the House over four battleships at 10 million each. Speaker Cannon opposes four if it blocks a public building bill as Roosevelt advised. Reference to Maine recovery, naval funding, and political figures like Hobson and Swords. Hyomei advertised as a cure for colds with a Nebraskan testimonial.
Chicago Journal extols John Merritte Driver as a broad gifted leader with deep ideals and a warm, magnetic presence. The piece lauds his beauty of thought and speech, predicts a rising following among youth, and notes his preaching centers on life’s goodness and beauty rather than politics. Date noted as April 20.
Fred Shoemaker arrived home Saturday night from the west to spend a month with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shoemaker in south Washington. Cap is located at North Yakima Washington and is connected with the Northern Pacific railway as an operator. He looks hale and hearty and his appearance shows the wild and woolly west agrees with him.
New York April 14 Twenty years or longer Jacob L Hyland of Brooklyn lived with a piece of knife embedded in his right lung He died at St Luke s hospital Doctors at St Luke s found the blade during an autopsy The cause and entry of the blade remain a mystery It is thought to have entered when he was a boy and no wound was visible His first trouble began two years ago and doctors at Johns Hopkins and other leading hospitals treated him for tuberculosis
Worcester mass April 14 by a vote of 107 to 42 the New England Methodist conference adopted a memorial to the general conference requesting repeal of paragraph 248 in the discipline which forbids dancing board games and attendance at theatrical performances The conference rejected a memorial to restore the time limit.
Paso Robles Hot Springs California April 14 Rear Admiral Evans shows marked recovery after a brief knee pain setback. Surgeon McDonald reports the admiral had a good night and was stronger, fully rebounding from last Friday's recurrence.
Official forecast notes showers or increasing clouds across Illinois Indiana Iowa Lower Michigan and Wisconsin. Illinois likely showers while Indiana Iowa Michigan and Wisconsin expect increasing cloudiness with possible showers.
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show mixed moves across Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard and Short Ribs with May July and Sept positions. Cash sales and livestock bids at Chicago East Buffalo and Dunning & Stevens reflect steady to higher appetite for staple grains and prime cattle with hogs and sheep trading in narrow ranges.
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