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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1907
Page
2
An advertiser urges choosing Dr Shoop’s Cough Cure over other cough medicines citing no poison marks on its labels. The pitch claims twenty years of safety and legal compliance, urging mothers to demand the product sold by J H Stewart and compare packages carefully.
A Vienna bakery announces new daily fresh rolls available every day. The shop emphasizes daily baking and warm cravings for customers seeking hot, flaky bread.
Andrew Ferguson traveled to Crawfordsville this morning to spend the day with relatives, planning time with family and returning later.
Threatening with rain or snow tonight and possibly south portion Friday. Not much change in temperature. Washington weather report notes Iowa forecast for today and tomorrow.
In Fred Long's blacksmith shop a new Idea Lawnmower Sharpener operates promising uniform bevels on blades. It claims to sharpen every edge evenly and restore mower performance. Bring cranky mowers to the Remedial Institute For Disabled Lawnmowers for a 10 cent cure and guaranteed results. We buy and repair old mowers.
Miss Florence Parrish arrived this morning from Winfield. Mrs. J. Emmons left for a Sunday visit with friends in Pleasant Plain. Mrs. Henry McCoy and baby came from Crawfordsville and changed cars for Wapello.
A 1890s United States notes misprint when a sheet was reversed produced two bills, one with a 50 dollar obverse and 100 dollar reverse and another with 2000 dollar reverse. The cashier noticed the mismatch after cashing a 50 dollar note. The 100/50 variant was sent to the treasury and a perfect note issued. A collector owns the other misprint worth thousands.
Dr Dod, a Cambridge area clergyman famed for sermons against drunkenness, is humorously persuaded to preach from a hollow tree. He delivers a lettered text from Matt, dissecting morals, allegory, literal meaning and theology, ending with a scathing portrait of the drunkard. He leaves the students humiliated and never disturbed again.
A mixed local item digest lists Train passengers including O. T. Smith on Branch and H. E. McCollum with A. W. McElwain on Rock Island while John Skipton rode the Milwaukee westbound. Also promotes Preventics cold tablets with Dr Shoop of Racine offering samples, plus various land transfers in Highland and Crawford townships and a 40 acre sale in Seventy Six township.
Transfers list several property deals including R. P. Bradford to J. F. Rhea for two lots and a tract in southwest Washington at 2000 dollars, John C. Little and wife and Sadie E. Little to J. C. Turner for three lots in south Washington at 300 dollars, and other deeds across town and Kalona with amounts ranging from 100 to 3500 dollars.
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