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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1909
Page
8
The Rev. and Mrs. Ortis Hatfield of Lexington were calling in the city yesterday. Also seen were the Fair South Side The Fair featuring fresh butter scotch snaps and fruit sticks at the Vienna. G. H. Emberling of Galesburg Illinois, on a business trip here, has returned home this morning.
S. E. Sage and James Shrader traveled to Havre this morning to take on work assignments for the coming week, signaling a focused schedule ahead for the duo.
About eighty men attended the First Baptist church event titled Banquet for Men with four course supper and music. Speakers included Rev Myron W. Haynes D D on Men s Work for Men emphasizing rational engagement with attendees and a strong manhood ideal.
The advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for female ills after 30 years of use. It claims the medicine is made from roots and herbs and has thousands of cures, inviting women to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
Miss Margaret Doolittle promotes the Ideal vacuum cleaner as a household necessity. The device cleans carpets thoroughly and demonstrations are available for those interested. She invites inquiries to her for further details and to take up the matter.
Telegram informs Mrs. Martha A. Gray of Neva Gray death at age six from bronchitis. Youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Gray she leaves her parents and sisters Rosalie and Anda. Funeral will be held Friday in Fon-du-Lac.
J. M. Wilson and John McKeene left this morning for St. Louis Missouri for several days of business. Mr and Mrs W L Brinks of Columbus Junction recently visited the A A Brinks home and returned home. Mrs Belle Wynn of Dalton Ohio spent two weeks with the T J McElhinney home and departed this morning on the Rock Island line.
Riverside April 14 Friends and relatives gathered to surprise Capt. Frank Critz for his seventy years. Attending were his son Charles and family from Washington his daughter Mrs. Nettie Hahn of Belle Plaine and the Misses Etella Irma and Leo Critz. also sisters Mrs. Anna Shillig and Mrs. G F Weiland both aged around eighty.
A tall gaunt woman with rope colored hair storms into a West Virginia county clerk’s office seeking a specific marriage book. The clerk remains courteous and asks which book she wishes to view as tension mounts.
Records show a James Jones was licensed to wed Elizabeth Mott two years prior. The woman reveals she is Elizabeth and confirms the license, adding that Jim has escaped.
A Parisbred thoroughbred on an omnibus to a railway station grows impatient amid delays. A wagon collision causes further delay and prompts a French speaker to utter a sharp remark. A gentleman warns him to apologize before his wife, and the exchange ends with the man offering a polite apology saying he did not know the lady wished to swear first.
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