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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
8
Farm, Field and Garden describes a method to mark and cut ice for packing. It covers making a marker frame from 2 by 6 boards, using a saw, iron runner, and wooden handle, plus pushing iron and tongs for moving ice. It advises drainage, sawdust packing, and air circulation to preserve ice in the icehouse.
Spagnacci at the Star tonight with fresh rhubarb pies and a special program. Fresh rolls offered twice daily at the Vienna. Numerous residents depart for Marengo, West Liberty, Linby, Des Moines, and Champaign on various business and education trips. Visitors return home from Iowa City and Richland as several residents resume studies and work.
New York Cornell Experiment Station details best soils deep loams for mangels and sugar beets and notes they require sunshine and moisture. Recommends crop rotation with oats, corn, clover, and heavy manuring before plowing, followed by deep fall plowing and spring disk harrowing. Provides precise fertilizer rates and lime recommendations to boost early growth and yield.
Over four years from 1903 to 1906, Kansas Experiment Station tested 112 corn varieties. Among the superior performers named are Hildreth Kansas Sunflower McAuley Forsythe Favorite Golden Row Hammett Learning U S B Selection No 77 Hogues Yellow Dent Sanders Improved White Salamander Red Cob White Dent White Injuan Legal Tender Warner Mammoth Golden Yellow Dyche Meinthardt and Hiawatha Yellow Dent.
The bitter principle in the pomelo is thought to have medicinal value, possibly due to quinine like taste, yet the true value of this bitter quality remains opinion-based rather than proven by experiments.
Water rents are now due and payable at the F L Stoke drug store on the west side square. Books will be left until May 15, and water consumers are requested to call prior to this date.
Jesse P. Morris of Skippers Virginia recalls a spring 1906 pneumonia scare and a violent cough that nearly suggested consumption. After using two and a half bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery he recovered fully, praising it as the best remedy for coughs and lung disease. Lemmon’s Pharmacy sold it under guarantee, 50c and 1.00, trial bottle free.
Chicago reports a second push for the local option question in Illinois elections set for tomorrow. About forty of nine state municipalities including Csiro Nashville Effinghar Tinckneyville and Altamont in the south seek an abolition of licenses. Counties under anti saloon influence reach thirty five with more hoped to join tomorrow.
Mount Vernon Indiana April 20 Henry Fisher aged about twenty six approached City Marshal Toliver and asked for help locating his parents who he says were hired in Love Angeles He cannot recall the last twelve years or where he has traveled while apparently unconscious He was found east of the city by a farmer who recalls Fisher gesturing with joy at regaining consciousness Fisher says his last memory is twelve years ago when he left Los Angeles for school and bid his mother goodbye
Washington April 20 tributes recalled the deaths of senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama who died last summer. The District of Columbia bill was reported and the consular and diplomatic bill passed as the House adjourned for a two week recess. Memorial services concluded yesterday in the House for Representative Reeve Smith of Ohio.
The Illinois state files seek an injunction to halt the Desplaines river dam project at Dresden Heights by the Economy Light and Power company. If restrained, the state would own the resulting water power and use earnings to cover canal construction costs.
Washington April 20 The ways and means committee reported a compromise bill increasing customs service pay across roles. Laborers to 850 a year inspectors to 5 a day deputy collectors assistant appraisers and examiners to 3500 a year deputy naval officers and deputy surveyors to 5000 a year and assistant weighers to 4 a day.
Frank Sherman of Washington won the national professional pool championship in Oicago after a week long tournament finishing with six victories and one defeat. Charles Weston of Kansas City came in second.
Lilith Ford eleven daughter of Mr and Mrs George A Ford died from acute poisoning after eating a quantity of potent breath candies. A postmortem was conducted by Coroner Hobbs with a thorough investigation to follow.
A locomotive spark started a prairie fire near Barnesville Minnesota on April 20 burning across Elkton Skree and Parke townships in Clay County. Eight of 200 hay stacks survived while no buildings were damaged.
Beell and Carkeek wrestled at the Auditorium in Omaha. Beell won in eight minutes when Carkeek's shoulder injury forced him to quit the bout.
The tire company will conduct another thorough test of its new alarm tomorrow Tuesday. The public is advised to ignore the alarm unless the water works whistle also sounds. The company believes the test will show the alarm is a great success.
Ticket holders for Mrs Booth may use the same this evening for John Merritte Driver. He is cited as one of the best lecturers in the United States. Any unused tickets may be used tonight.
The notice urges choosing Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds, claiming it cures obstinate racking coughs and expels the cold from the system. It states the product contains no harmful drugs and advocates Lemmon's Pharmacy as the provider.
Mrs A M Dana returned Friday from five months with relatives in Omaha Pleasanton and Miss Nellie Wilson leaves for Iowa City to resume university studies. Local notices tease new pictures at the Star and fresh vegetables at Royal market plus bakery goods at Vienna and Chick Feed claims.
A special report from Washington on April 20 provides Iowa weather outlooks for today and tomorrow. Expect general conditions for tonight and Tuesday with changes in temperature and possible precipitation.
A string of city visits and errands fill a Saturday in town as Mrs. Francis Swift visits relatives east of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rathmel shop nearby, Charles Jackson returns from a brief visit, and many residents are seen in the city for shopping and family visits.
Warning against mercury based catarrh ointments and promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Cure is taken internally and claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle with testimonials available. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The advertisement extols Minnesota Early Ohio potatoes as the best in town, claiming they are more productive and higher yielding than other seed potatoes. It emphasizes superior quality and that prices are not higher than rival Minnesota Early Ohios.
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